Fire truck in Seaport Village (Marriott in background), originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Shiny.

20Q machine

Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

After A G showed me his one of these last year, I decided to ask for one as part of my birthday this year. It’s so frustratingly smart….

Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

I just renewed my passport, and there’s an RFID tag inside.
Agghh! Tin-foil hat time!
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Dracula’s kebabs, Kraków

Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Looks like The Count, no?

One Zloty, ha ha ha.

Two Zlotys, ha ha ha.

etc. etc.

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Towels are the most useful thing it is possible to have handy in a crisis. One of the first things that Ford Prefect did for Arthur Dent after the demolition [...] (…)

Originally uploaded by mmack.

This is what Glasgow looked like last night. It was an incredible storm.
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Originally uploaded by JMaloney.

Los Angeles’ DayWithoutAnImmigrant (1st May 2006).
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Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Just a Flickr test post. But a cool car nonetheless.
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Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Ah, essay season…
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Originally uploaded by petantik.

Very creative, Ousman!
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Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

Part of my astonishingly large back-catalogue of odd photographs.
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Originally uploaded by BigRedBall.

This is a pic I took today on my mobile during a tour of the Saltire Centre at GCU. Despite it not being finished, it was easy to tell that it’s a really well thought-out building, and it’s going to be beautiful.
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Had a nice time at the NME awards tour gig at the Carling Academy, especially headliners The Killers. The only sore point was that despite smuggling my camera in I only managed to get half-decent shots of the support bands, not the Killers themselves. The image you see here is only sharp because it’s been scaled down by a factor of 10…

The ‘support’ bands were pretty good too. First up were the Kaiser Chiefs, then it was time for Bloc Party and finally The Futureheads. I wasn’t too taken with The Futureheads and thought they really should have been on second, but they’re from Sunderland and have cool accents – so you can’t really fault them. I listened to some of their stuff on the iTunes store earlier today and I’m more open to them now, but if a band don’t impress you live, when are they going to impress you? Bloc Party are, however, I think, a band to watch in 2005. They have been getting a great deal of airtime on the radio and on MTV2, so it’s a fair bet that they’ll do well.

The Metro continues to surprise and delight me. After I left my bus pass on a bus in Glasgow, they printed my ‘thank you’ letter after some kind person posted it back to me (the letters page in the Glasgow/Edinburgh Metro has evolved into a forum for hilarious debate on such surreal topics as the likely winner of an imaginary fight to the death between a shark and an alligator) – but they’ve surpassed themselves this time. I noticed an ad in yesterday’s Metro offering tickets to today’s NME Tour date (the 2nd night) just by phoning in or texting (grammar pedants please resist) your contact details before 3pm. I let my friend Lynn know, and she got a call an hour later to let her know she’d won the tickets.