DISCOMOLE

Everyone is blogging about it at the moment and it does look like a really cool site / application but frustratingly I haven’t had time to get into it yet.  As far as I can make out, it’s all about playing your playlists ‘publically’ (they call it Djing), listening to others, getting feedback on your tunes and giving each other ‘props’ for your selections.  A bit like being in a club, just without loads of p**sed twats knocking into the decks and asking you for some Robbie Williams : )  brilliant.

From NY Times.  Nice way of showing medal tallies at the Olympics since it began. Medal tally and a countries economic or political strength often to go arm in arm, like Germany being so dominant in 1936.

Every day I commute across London. All the way across. Takes me a good hour on the same route; 94 bus to Goldhawk road then the Hammersmith and City line to Liverpool street. It’s far too far and the more you endure a route like that, the more you develop coping strategies to make life that little bit easier, like ways of ensuring you get a seat or that you can get out of the station quickest. Everyone has their own thing. Some of you are probably not aware that you have them at all, but trust me, you do. Without them you’d go mad.

Hammersmith and city line to Liverpool street. If you get on the fourth carriage from the front of the train at Goldhawk road you can get out right opposite the exit at Liverpool street avoiding the crush as everyone piles for the exit.

The two seat configuration at the end of each carriage is the best place to sit as you are near the window (and air) on a hot day. The seat right at the end has a little bit of extra width so you are not squashed in if some lard arse sits next to you.

Liverpool street to Hammersmith. You always get on the first train going west, no matter what line. if it is a nice day, you can get out at Barbican and enjoy the sun whilst waiting for the Hammersmith and city line. If not, you get off at King Cross. This is because a load of people coming from the city get off here too, so when you get back on you are more likely to get a seat. If you are getting on a Hammersmith and city line train you need to be right at the front so you are nearest the gate at Hammersmith BUT the Hammersmith and city line trains are not as long as the circle or Metropolitan so if you get off at Kings Cross and are waiting right up the end of the platform the train won’t make it up that far and you’ll end up having to run back, be last into the front carriage and suffer the ignomy of staring into someones arm pit for rest of the journey whilst constantly causing the train to bunny hop as you lean on the door….