rant-filled morning

well, i'm at home so i'm guessing the angel's not a happening :S

i've just had a chat with a gq editor, they've re-used an article that was published in the november wired without giving credit to the artist, dropping a section, and switching the points in the last section and attributing it to someone else. that seems mighty suspicious to me.

she said she'd look into it. i have no faith. so far my opinion of the magazine is that it's for assholes.

in other news, i hate telkom. i've always hated them, but even knowing about their internet caps doesn't make it easier to deal with them patiently. setting up dsl in south africa feels like turning around and spreading.

call-a-pizza was awesome last night, as usual. i had the bacon and mushroom, and although my lactose intolerance caused my eyes to stutter (i get really exhausted for a while after consuming dairy), it was well worth it. the accompanying music was to die for :)

we decided to play pool, but stones in sea point has disappeared - not a trace remains of the ballroom, what used to be the hangout of our sea point youth - and the heartache & vine doesn't have a table anymore (although the quality seediness is identical to what i remember).
we ended up in zulas, where the music wasn't completely awful and the atmosphere is always... authentic.

we played pool for over an hour, it cost us R3 and was a whole lot of fun!
that's the incentive for playing properly, and it drives me demented that in israel you're not only being charged by the frikkin' hour, but you don't get to challenge other people: this creates a serious lack of variety and reduces the social element to whoever you walked in with.

my burn seems to have deepened throughout the evening, and i'm really tender down one side of my body. i dropped my mom off at work this morning, taught her how to use bittorrent to download the episode she missed, and have been reduced to spending my morning lying on the couch and sitting online: maybe i'll go do something random.