Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Today Ian, George, Karis (god knows I probably spelt that wrong) and I attended the first comedy night at the Bullingdon Arms. Compering was the strangely-named and moderately funny “Silky”, who introduced each comedian and threw in some of his own jokes now and again.

The first guy, whose name I’ll no doubt never remember again, was energetic and foul-mouthed, but political. He played songs on his guitar insulting celebrities and politicians alike, and I really did enjoy him. Ah. His name was Steve Gribbin.

Next came some local guy named Joshua something-or-other. Part of the comedy night’s aims include allowing someone to try out the spotlight free, but unpaid, and test their routine out. By the time Joshua was making jokes about how he was the first Jewish gangsta rap artist and making fun of the previous act I knew it was all over for him. There were some laughs, it must be said, and I was occasionally amused, but it was honestly one of the most uncomfortable scenes I’ve witnessed as the guy just died onstage. He took it in his stride however, and it could’ve been much worse. I believe he served his primary function - to make the headlining act seem amazing by comparison.

Tonight’s headliner was Norman Lovett. You may remember Norm from a small cult hit from the last decade or two named “Red Dwarf”. It was truly an honour and a joy to see Norm up on stage. Though he was shorter than I expected. He did a segment on slugs, which delighted me to hear. Clearly I’m not alone in my obsession. After the thing ended, George got his ticket signed. for £6, it was a pretty good night, and I’d certainly go again if there were comedians there I wanted to see.

When I got home, Nikki informed me of the great news - Sam Bateman is back in Leamington. Amazing, really, considering it wasn’t 2 weeks ago that I had a stab at finding out what he was up to by searching online. When I go home this weekend, Me, Josh, Sam (Barton) and Paul are planning to convene with him. Though he doesn’t know this yet ;-)

Hopefully, I have finished my IS coursework now. I have to have a go at the AI stuff next before heading back home for the weekend on Friday. I’ve been doing a bit more tweaking with my page and again, if you go to http://www.jrhunt.co.uk/wip/ you’ll see again what the site will look like eventually. The design is pretty similar to what it is now, all the good stuff is beneath the surface where only geeks care to look. Cascading Style Sheets and XHTML are my new best friends. It’s even all done in notepad!

I find it disturbing, actually, that anyone could make a website without knowing this kind of stuff - in fact, I’m seriously inclined to offer out my services to companies in order to create compliant CSS and XHTML for them ;-) There’s really no excuse for a barrage of nested tables and ham-fisted spacing when you’re using XHTML.