Duke attempts the Impossible

[duke3016]

So my annual rant is about to begin, yes I am talking about the Turner prize. Contemporary art ? Don’t start me…..

This year’s intrepid shortlist.

Spartacus Chetwynd made her name by staging recreations that have a home-made aesthetic and often involves an element of audience participation. (That's right get others to do the work)

Luke Fowler creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. (So he strings together old clips and gets paid for it)

Paul Noble explores society through drawings of a fictional town called Nobson Newtown and his drawings depict a dysfunctional dystopian landscape. Oh and his nominated work is called “Public Toilet” (Really!!)

Elizabeth Price creates video installations that incorporate moving images, text and music. (So another one who strings together old clips and gets paid for it)

Now have I the will to character assassinate the Judges.

[duke3016]

Taking a long weekend 5 days off. Relaxing and digging through dvd’s and suchlike because daytime TV is so bad it is embarrassing. I mean hundreds of fecking channels and not a watchable program among them. Resorting to watching Strike it Rich, my life is a social whirl…….

[gerry5421]

if you are that bored feel free to come onlin eand help me solve some of this.

An Idle RQ retransmission scheme is used over a communications system
with a propagation time of 1μs and a transmission rate of 100Mbps. If the
frame size is 1000B and the BER is 5×10-7, what is (a) the maximum utilisation
of this system in the absence of errors; and (b) the frame error rate?

Daytime TV looks a winner in comparison  

[duke3016]

OK I ordered my new phone to be delivered today. I got up so as not to miss the courier and have been waiting patiently. Then I get an email that does not bode well for my future relationship with my new provider.

Hello

We have been made aware this morning that some deliveries that were
expected for today have been delayed due an error in our warehouse.

Unfortunately your order has been affected and won't be delivered until
tomorrow.

We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused

if you need to contact us for any further information please call us on
0844 xxx xxxx -

Kind Regards

[Des]

OK I ordered my new phone to be delivered today. I got up so as not to miss the courier and have been waiting patiently. Then I get an email that does not bode well for my future relationship with my new provider.

Hello

We have been made aware this morning that some deliveries that were
expected for today have been delayed due an error in our warehouse.

Unfortunately your order has been affected and won't be delivered until
tomorrow.

We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused

if you need to contact us for any further information please call us on
0844 xxx xxxx -

Kind Regards

...you might suggest they print out the contract details....

[duke3016]

That will inevitably come later in our relationship.

[AJDUK]

...
Others big sales in recent history are

No 5, by Jackson Pollock for $140,000,000

Ever realise you are in the wrong job? Time to do something with all the spare emulsion in the garage methinks!

[duke3016]

Best pre competition song ever - fact  

I think we may have lost the ability to imbed youtube clips  

so here is the direct link YOUTUBE

Poland and the Ukraine are you ready for us......

[Des]

Best pre competition song ever - fact  

I think we may have lost the ability to imbed youtube clips  

so here is the direct link YOUTUBE

Poland and the Ukraine are you ready for us......

Oops, switched that mod back on so you should be able to embed now Ger.

Great video, love the song....you'll never beat the Irish....unless you're Croatian I guess....or maybe Italian....not even going to question the global football rights of the Spanish....sigh on the random draw front. 

I know one thing, we'll be loud, colourful and good humoured however the ball rolls.

Can't wait.

[sharplea]

Pretty good!

[mouth146]

So my annual rant is about to begin, yes I am talking about the Turner prize. Contemporary art ? Don’t start me…..


Spartacus Chetwynd made her name by staging recreations that have a home-made aesthetic and often involves an element of audience participation. (That's right get others to do the work)

Actually, Spartacus Chetwynd changed her name by deed poll, so really did make her name, literally. She says it annoys people, as does her art, and once her name no longer annoys people she will change it again. No chance of her art ever losing the ability to annoy unfortunately.

[Des]

Westport Festival in July....if ever an excuse was needed for a non poker weekend, this would be it for me.

http://www.westportfestival.com

Festival Line Up

Saturday 23rd of June

Ray Davies
The Waterboys
Nick Lowe
Horslips
The Dubliners
Damien Dempsey
Beth Orton
Eric Bibb
Lloyd Cole
Wallis Bird
Royseven
The Minutes
The Undertones
Ryan Sheridan
Bipolar Empire
David Kitt
The Riptide Movement
Colin Devlin
Rocco DeLuca
The Walls
Sam Amidon
The Kanyu Tree
Rhob Cunningham
The Lost Brothers
Rainy Boy Sleep
Touchwood

Sunday 24th of June

Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Imelda May
Seasick Steve
Macy Gray
Alison Moyet
The Chieftains
Tom Baxter
Hothouse Flowers
Mundy
Duke Special
Eddi Reader
Jerry Fish
The Four of Us (acoustic)
The Plea
Kopek
Eoin Glackin
Cars Love Girls
Red Empire
Liz Lawrence
Bronagh Gallagher
Electric Penguins
Katie Kim
The Strypes
Briana Corrigan

[duke3016]

Cracking line up - you going to return to the city from whence you were dragged kicking and screaming all those years ago?

[duke3016]

Last night I ventured into the domain of the lesser known Maghullittes (not to be confused with those ‘other’ people in Harry Potter) for a team challenge and had a good night. Finally got to meet the one and only Caroiline (Mouth146) and apart from being as mad as a bag of spanners she was exceptional company both off and on the table (She departed from the competition when her AA was cracked by the mighty A2). Carl ran like a man whose lottery tickets had every winning combination and not only won the individual prize but ably assisted by his team mates (Bill & Suzy) they took the team prize as well.

My night was full of shiite cards and I departed when a mistimed shove ran into Andy Kingan’s QQ. Played a very funny cash game later on, which Steve & Caroline were owning and had a very pleasant evening.

Good night, good people, priceless……

Tonight will be much of the same when I hit the aquarium…..

[Des]

Cracking line up - you going to return to the city from whence you were dragged kicking and screaming all those years ago?

Would really love to, but I suspect I'm going to have my hands full in July.  I've got Hard Rock Calling tickets for London in mid July also and tbh, not even sure whether I'll be able to make that atm either.  However, all for a very good reason.

I noticed Duke Special on the Sunday roster in Westport.  You and jnr teaming up?