Moving on

I should have said this before. Now that I've relocated from California to London, I do most of my blogging on www.playlondon.wordpress.com. Or you can find me on Twitter (@danwalkersmith).

Drop by and say hello.

Tigers

I love this:





He's a white Bengal tiger at Six Flags in Vallejo, near San Francisco. More pictures of him here.

Reading lists

Since getting back to the UK, I'm totally distracted. I keep taking books out of the library only to get bored by them within a few pages. Perhaps this site (which I came across on Dan Germain's blog) will help remedy that.

The Northern Slopes of my Face

Got a job interview tomorrow so I'm shaving off my beard. Obviously I'm doing a strategic shave and leaving the 'tasche for a bit, which startled my dad and assembled company when they Skyped me midst-shave. My dad (who I think may have had a glass or two) basically spent the next 15 minutes hooting in laughter at my upper lip.

I think I look like Errol Flynn - the assembled company disagreed. 

Googling myself

I'm a member of two Ning social networks: A rather sober group that examines innovation in business and is mainly populated by besuited entrepreneurs, and an improv group that organises flashmobs and operates under the title 'Urban Prankster'. 

Guess which one crops up when you google my name?

Stupid internet

Gaargg! I don't think anything drives me more insane than random wi-fi connections that cut out suddenly just as I'm about to post a rather lengthy blog post. 

It's another half-hour of my life down the tubes and it makes me bloody mad! This, slow-walking people, and chickenshit bureaucracy will send me to an early grave.

(Apologies if you were expecting a sunnier post about play or something like that; this technological equivalent of dropping my toast onto the doormat has miffed me more than I expected - I'll get back to the good stuff soon).

Nietzsche quote

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Nietzsche

(nabbed from @creativedc on Twitter)