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Wednesday 30 July 2014

Can you be a minimalist hoarder?


I hope you can because I want to be one. I have to say I’m not driven to have a lot of stuff or live in a big house most of the time I find it hard to spend money and will spend time trying to find an alternative. In the past year or so I have found myself driven to reduce the amount of stuff I do have. A new laptop meant I could remove the gargantuan cathode ray tube monitor from my desk. I also took the opportunity to remove the unwatched unloved TV from the same desk the next obvious target was the temple to outdated formats which was my stereo With it caste deck cd player and AM/FM radio it clear that this device fines itself like so many other usurped by the computer. My phone is now my full time alarm clock. 
But If you read ianbyfordart.blogspot you know I am endlessly piking stuff up in the street. I just can’t let something I see as an interesting object go to west. Well it’s about time I tried to bring these two conflicting urges in to harmony. 

But how?...


Monday 16 January 2012

fabled manifesto: manifesto

it seams clear to me that politicians don't have a clue and so I'm starting the fabled manifesto with my ideas on how to get the country if not the world running better and I'm starting my manifesto with a new law about manifestos

when a political party rights it's manifesto it should set a target for each department (along with how the target is to be measured) to be achieved by 6 months before the end of there term and if they fail to achieve a target the party gets a fine to be added to the budget of the department they let down

this should make manifestos more realistic and clearer to the voting public.

Saturday 7 January 2012

fabled apocalypse


so not long to go now till the apocalypse which all the best scientific minds agree will happen at midnight 31 of December i don't know in what time zone that is. also no one rely agree on what type of  apocalypse we are facing
we beater start prepping for our new post-apocalyptic lives
so here my if i had £2000 to prep prepare for life after the apocalypse
first thing first we should do some research now you but i can't find any post-apocalyptic survival guides on amazon ( i am actually shocked by this) so we are going to have to make do by watching post-apocalyptic movies

Mad Max Trilogy 7.99 important lessons to learn from this STAY AWAY FROM TINA TURUER
Tank Girl 2.99 important lessons to learn from this try and find a tank
Waterworld 4.19 important lessons to learn from if the world is flooded get a boat instead of a tank
now let tool up
Celestron Skymaster 25X70 Porro Prism Binocular 84.99
Gelert Global 80+15L Rucksack 69.99
Leatherman MUT EOD Military Utility Tool179.99 (can you tell i've started to think i set the budget to high)
Mil-Tec US Jungle Hammock Mosquito Net Camping Olive 41.99
Mountain Hardwear Sleeping Bag 679.99 (that should cut the budget down to size)
Kookaburra Blade 750 Cricket Bat 49.99 the proper english tool of killing mutants, gang members and mutants gang members.
Roughneck 65636 Sledge Hammer 16lb 45.14 who has time to pick locks
Makita ZMAK-DCS9010-74 740mm/ 30-inch 90cc 2 Stroke Petrol Chainsaw 681.07  because if your hand get cut off you need something to replace it with
S Style Green Jerry Can Metal Construction 20 Litre 21.65
Draper 43904 Fuel Transfer Syphon Pump 8.92
Fly London Men's Sheen Boot 110.27 because they have Buckles
CyberloxShop Cyber Goggles Metallic Silver £9.49 just because everyone is dead don't mean you can't still look cool

Monday 26 December 2011

z is for fabled zeitgeist

z is for zeitgeist.  i think the word zeitgeist sometimes get misused as meaning fashionable or popular where zeitgeist means "the spirit of the times" fashion is something people try to keep up with but it is more important to stay open to the zeitgeist rather than mindlessly following fashion.

i know that today post was a bit short and a bit philosophical but this is what happen if i try to wright about something  beginning with z

now go by a fabled mug i guaranty there not fashionable

Sunday 25 December 2011

Y is for fabled Yule-time

Y is for Yule-time aka Christmas aka blogmas aka today
HAPPY BLOGMAS EVERYONE 
 now because I'm lazy heres some Christmas stuff other people have posted on you tube




Saturday 24 December 2011

x is for fabled x-factor

x is for x-factor well it had to be really because i don't have much to say about x-rays.

i don't think i will surprise you when a say i don't like this show or any of this generation of "talent" show that have spawned from Popstars
the first reason i don't like these shows is the lack of song writing I'm assuming that even if a singer song writer did turn up for the x-factor auditions they wood still be made to regurgitate the songs of others instead of  showing off  the full rang of there talent
at this point i feel the need to bring up MobileAct unsigned/Orange unsignedAct which did have real bands on who wrote songs and played instruments (including some friends of my brother hence why i watched the first series) but the show was a bit shit and if i remember right did evan show the full songs

the second reason i don't like these shows is judges who get paid (probably an obscene amount) to pull faces and make rued comments while unpaid contestants provide most of the shows contents

i could probably come up with more if i watch these shows but i don't so i'll move on to the main i hate x-factor. you can't avoid it ,i don't watch but i still know what happens on it because for some reason it gets reported on the news as well as repotting on every detail of the contestants lives and emergency  news flashes whenever simon cowell farts