Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

"Due to an incident at Piccadily Circus this train will be held here for approximately one hour..."

Some one must have left their bag behind...

[Posted on the road using hblogger on my Treo]

To lunch today at Foliage in the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge, a rather posh if eclectic restaurant.

The food was excellent, if a little strangely presented (imagine quail egg-sized pea and new potato hash browns, and smoked eel croquettes). But I had the strangest food I have ever eaten as part of the amuse-bouche...

It wasn't the food per se, more the mix of cultures that inspired it...

Curried frog's leg in a light batter.

Or is that perhaps best thought of as a frog pakora?

(Cue Pythonesque policeman and a dollop of lark's vomit)

While buying comics at FP today I signed my credit card chit using the proffered pen. It was a "floating action" pen, an updated version of those 50s and 60s advertising and souvenir tat pens where the rear is liquid filled, and a picture slides over a backdrop as you tilt the pen.

This was a Stingray pen. And it was a very strange pen, one that I found strangely obscene, in a way that only a geek would notice...

Am I alone^* in thinking that there is something pornographic in Marina sliding into Troy Tempest's ear?

^* along with the chaps on the till in FP who were amused by my discovery

I have just learnt that there is a Darjeeling Nouveau 2004...