Todays Roast is brought to you by a Cas typing on a fresh install of OSX and without the aid of her little fingers. Yes, the RSI is back with a vengeance in both wrists right now and, for some reason, it is knocking out both of my little fingers. You would not believe how often you use the shift key in typing till you can no longer use your little fingers. Each and every time I want to use the shift (or arrow) keys I have to stop, remind myself, and use a different finger. It really slows down my typing from what the EDLO calls “freakish” to just “rather speedy”. This is one of those times that having touch typing ingrained in your brain is not a good thing! My body is also being very perverse. At home, my back is fine but my fingers and wrists are playing up, making the fun computing I do not so fun. At work, my back is the problem, but my wrists and fingers are fine, meaning I have no excuse not to do my work. Silly body.

Other than the seeming never ending list of body parts that are breaking on a regular basis, this week has been made supreme by our office move. Everything is nearly sorted now. Everyone has a desk, working computers, and access to the majority of our filing. All that is left is to get shelves put in the filing cabinets (we have the cabinets, but no shelves in them so we can’t use them. D’oh!) and to get the damn printers working reliably. All things considered, it could have gone worse and the new office has more space, so it worked out rather well I think.

What have we to look forward to in this Roast? Well, you’ll just have to read it to find out, won’t you?

Told you penguins were evil – they are being used by AOL to explain ad targeting

How thick do you have to be?

Are you the funny gal down the pub? Ever watched a comedy show and thought ‘I could do better’? Well, now you can. The BBC have set up a comedy college to find new writers. Why not give it a go?

When I was growing up, both my brother and I had music lessons. It was non negotiable. We started on the piano and then went on to other instruments of our choosing. I finally persuaded the Aged P’s that the piano wasn’t for me when I was 12. I now regret this decision because I think it would be nice to sit and play the piano to relax of an evening, so I have toyed with the idea of taking up lessons again. The one problem with this is that I live in a small flat. On the third floor. With someone who really doesn’t deserve to listen to me endlessly massacre practice scales and arpeggios. Clearly what I need is one of these beauties which I can plug into some headphones…

Want a way to waste your Sunday afternoon? Play the Indian Jones lego game (I killed Indy!)

Mittens and Snowdrop are back!!!!! I can smell your brains…

I am so glad I am not the only one is seduced by pretty covers

People are always sending me interesting links via email these days (keep ‘em coming!) which is amazing as I love to think of Roasts as being more of a community effort. Rarely though has a link intrigued me so much as this one for First Person Theatre. From their “about us” page:

We use portable mp3 players and headphones to create interactive theatrical forms. Each participant experiencing a First Person Theatre work will hear a voice through headphones and receive a set of instructions, suggestions and encouragements. The headphones guide participants on their own personal journeys through a place or space, prompting encounters with others.

I’m too chicken to try one because I think the potential for embarrassment is just too high to contemplate sober, but what an amazing idea!

Missed SXSW this year? grab the podcasts here

Who do you friend on assorted social media sites? For me, I know who I will and won’t friend. I don’t willy-nilly just add everyone and anyone, and I even go on semi-regular purges of my assorted friend lists to see if the people on there still need to be or not. At the same time, I am not so silly as to think my words on the net can’t be read by lots of people I have no knowledge of or control over. My dad and boss read Bright Meadow for example! So I always slightly self-sensor what I say. My restriction on Facebook in particular is if you have/I would be comfortable with you having my mobile number. If I am comfortable with that, then I add you on Facebook. If not? There are gazillions of other ways you can stalk me!

someecards.com – the anecdote to all those cheesy e-cards from Hallmark

Farscape might be back!!!!!

You can now use Skitch to twitter an image. Anyone know if there’s a simple way to twitter a flickr image?

Ever dreamed of flying?

Notes from the Underground is a great looking freesheet that, from the list, I should also be able to get in Southampton. Sweet

And let us finish with two little trailers:
Surfwise – just… Jaw-dropping when you think on the life those kids had
Wall-E – so cute!!!!!