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Monthly Archives June 2004

Taxi drivers

Shout out to the two taxi drivers who ran through the red light at the crossing while I was crossing the road. Particularly to the second one, who not only came within inches of killing me but angrily honked his horn at me afterwards.
I wish you only the messiest and most unpleasant of deaths.

Posted 24 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Bah!

Why is it that in a place where there are no fewer than five Starbucks outlets within ten minutes' walk of where I work, I can't find a single shop which will sell me an ordinary sugared ring doughnut?

I've looked, believe me. The in-store bakeries of Tesco and Waitrose. All of the little food shops [...]

Posted 24 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Lunch

Slightly bizarre lunch today at “Scu-Zi” - mexican-style calzone. That is, chili beef and tomatoes and cheese, in a folded pizza base thing, served with guacamole, tomatoes, and sour cream. A bit odd.
Nice, though.

Posted 23 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Yarr!

There be a mighty wind a-blowin' about the Wharf today.

Posted 23 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Rotary engines are cool.

Aaaand, they were doing on-the-spot test drives for the RX-8 at the expo this week, and there just happened to be a slot available right at the time I was there, so, what the hell, off I went.
Bonus feature - the free slot was for the less powerful of the two versions, but the guy [...]

Posted 18 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

More shininess

I found and photographed more lovely shiny cars. Yesterday, in fact. Here are the results.

Mercedes SLR McLaren: Lovely car. Gullwing doors, engine the size of Tokyo, anything you could want in three hundred grand's worth of motorised transportation.

TVR T400R Le Mans race car: Fresh from the circuit this week. You can tell it's a real [...]

Posted 16 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

SLRrrrrrrr…

Today the Mercedes SLR McLaren had the lid open. I have driven entire cars which are smaller than that engine.

Posted 16 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Shiny!

Apparently this week sees the “Daily Telegraph MotorExpo” in Canary Wharf - not that you could tell from their web site.
I therefore spent some time wandering around all of the shiny cars and taking pictures with my phone, several of which I have now inserted into this post.
You may, of course, not care one [...]

Posted 14 June 2004 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °