Is the internet back yet ?

The internet came back half an hour after I left for the office but the water was gone by the time I got home again. Got a few hours kip, woke up this "morning" and my wife was gone. Got a slice of toast, the peanut butter was gone. Tried asking you but I don't think you were reddi yet.

But I keep coming back to the same old questions:

When you get right down to it, what've you got, right, down, up a bit, more, There, aaaah, ... ?
Why do my socks have big holes when I always compost them at the first tear ?
Why has my retirement-fund halved the fees today, if banks are in such shit ?
Why does the screen always go black at the start of writing a new program ?
Why am I so much better at sorting this list than most algorithms I know ?
   Wow ! That line was typed in at the best guess place, before I knew ...
How many visitors do you need to see what's going on outside the prison ?
Which of these questions will you take as the subject line of an email ?
Who is converging on The Palace of Culture, panting and slobbering ?
How do you design a brain when all you've got control of is genes ?
How many Ministers for Energy does it take to change a light bulb ?
Why is Natural Language mischaracterized as inherently ambiguous ?
How can you expect to be taken seriously (Extended Danse Mix) ?
Why do men need nipples, is it some kind of memento matris ?
When you get down to the wood today, what will you saw ?
Why is petrol back down to less than 1 euro per litre ?
How many Big Macs does it take to sink an empire ?
How does it work when you program in English ?
How can one live well in a badly-run world ?
When do the floor-cleaning robots arrive ?
Whatever will become of the likely lads ?
How many angels can be fit into a PIN ?
Where have all the children gone ?
Which are the magical languages ?
What were we wanting without W ?
Who would you like to beat (up) ? 
Does my thumb look big in text ?
Who are you talking to, inside ?
How much do you miss the goal ?
Sorry, what were you saying ?
What do you do, in the bath ? 
But I'm mumbling again't I ?
How much do I stink by now ?
Why do crocodiles crawl ?
How to get rich, slowly ?
What was I looking for ?
Have a dream on me !
Onde está o Oisín ?
Where's the craic ?
You want it when ?
Why am I here ?
Why coo ?
WTF ?

Why bye instead of buy ?

Went along to Amazon tonight, as is my wont when I need a little retail therapy.

Jeff and I: we go way back, he's been minding my cards and filling my shelves for over a decade now. Ever since he threw in some free post-its into his first parcel (with "The End Of Science" and "The Art Of War" !! No, seriously, I just checked.) I've been hooked.

I especially like the recommendations, and have not minded telling them all the other albums / books I have, because the recommendations are bettered by that. I used to go to Amazon to get specific books that were not available here. But now I go to browse, starting with "Recommended for you". Of course, that was before Jeff found the place where the sun don't shine, and contrived to stick his head up there.

As I was saying before the context squeezed in - went along to Amazon tonight, and their first recommendation was Pet Shop Boy's "Bilingual". Strange, they know I own that (at least twice, nearly sure I have three different editions), don't tell me the Boys have re-packaged it again! Oh well, let's have a look.

Fish on a bicycle ! What a collection of "everything you ever wanted to know about this album, except info about the album itself".

My immediate (over?) reaction was to take their invite to write a review - but wrote about the page, not the CD. If they allowed it's publication the review is here. If they didn't, I'd like to mention: "Amapedia" ? Ha, Ha, WTF !

Either way, I just lost a lotta respect for Jeff, not that I ever had as much for him as I did for his big river. And I'm in the market for a new book-seller.