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by Nicholas Jones

Member since 2002 · Posted 22 Oct 2003 · 15 comments

World Service at night: insomnia leads me into global awareness

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[9] nentwined 22-Oct-03/6:50 AM Reply

I'm particularly fond of that ... particular time.

This is very cute.

[n/a] Nicholas Jones › nentwined 22-Oct-03/6:57 AM Reply

So what time is it where you are? Although poemranker claims I posted this at 6.30am, it actually almost three o'clock in the afternoon now.

[9] nentwined › Nicholas Jones 22-Oct-03/7:19 AM Reply

I am where the ranker is. so now it's 7:17am.

[9] nentwined › nentwined 22-Oct-03/7:19 AM Reply

give or take. ;)

[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › nentwined 22-Oct-03/8:03 AM Reply

How do you feel about adding an option to set a cookie or something for timezone so the times appear correctly to people who don't live next to you?

[9] nentwined › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 22-Oct-03/8:06 AM Reply

plausible. certainly plausible.

pain in the ass, but plausible.

I'll put it on my todo list.

[6] god'swife 22-Oct-03/10:43 AM Reply

More please.

[9] PoeticXTC › god'swife 10-Jan-06/12:58 PM Reply

It's a Haiku. Genius

[9] horus8 22-Oct-03/11:39 AM Reply

That or thinner thighs.

[10] ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 22-Oct-03/3:53 PM Reply

I once knew a person who used to make rubbish .ST3 files on his computer. One of his "tewns" was called "Bored," and then one night he made a remix of it called "Bored 3am." I don't really know why. Anyway, I though this might be of interest to you.

I assume this is the BBC World Service? Do you live in Botswana or something?

[n/a] Nicholas Jones › ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 23-Oct-03/4:55 AM Reply

I don't live in Botswana. I live in Wales. You can listen to the BBC world service at night after Radio 4 shuts down. I listen to it when I have bouts of insomnia. On a particularly restless night I might hear the news headlines four or five times. So I learn a lot about world affairs. Though once I woke up convinced I'd heard that Yasser Arafat had been assasinated, but it turned out to be a dream.

Also, I love making crap music on my PC. It's such a democratic medium - anyone with a computer and some cheap software can sample away to their hearts content.

[n/a] fuzzylogicisagimp › Nicholas Jones 23-Oct-03/5:24 AM Reply

I once wrote a song called "3am Eternal".

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[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Nicholas Jones 23-Oct-03/8:53 AM Reply

Perhaps you had been unconciously listening to an episode of On The Hour. I seem to recall one particular spoof headline that read:

ARAFAT ABLAZE IN KEROSENE OYSTER HELL

[9] richa 23-Oct-03/7:47 AM Reply

Not much to add to that, very good observation

[9] PoeticXTC 10-Jan-06/12:57 PM Reply

nice, lol.