Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

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Listening – Youthquake

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This week I am listening to “Youthquake” by Dead Or Alive

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Suzanne Vega

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This week I am listening to “Suzanne Vega” by Suzanne Vega

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Here’s to Future Days

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This week I am listening to “Here’s to Future Days” by Thompson Twins

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Meat is Murder

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This week I am listening to “Meat is Murder” by The Smiths

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Fear me!

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No matter how busy I am, I refuse to ever eat lunch at my desk just because the project manager is pushing to hit a deadline.

No, just no.

This is the start of the slippery slope to losing all semblance of good work-life balance.

I’ve done it when I was younger and I have to admit, I was incredibly naïve and stupid.

Any project manager who is going to chastise me for not being a team player because I insisted on taking my lunch break is not a project manager I want to work for.

Never live in fear of losing your job.

Make everyone else live in fear that you will quit your job.

And if they don’t live in fear of you quitting…

You’re in the wrong job and you aren’t trying hard enough.

Listening – Strength

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This week I am listening to “Strength” by The Alarm

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Be Yourself Tonight

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This week I am listening to “Be Yourself Tonight” by Eurythmics

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Book banning service

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I have just been banned from my library.

And the reason cited is “I am checking out too many books per month which is highly suspicious.”

As in, I check out three books at once (the maximum I am allowed), I read them during the week, and I return them the following week.

Rinse and repeat.

This is, by all accounts, a highly suspicious activity and the librarian wants to talk to my parents as she believes I am up to no good.

I have been banned for three months.

Listening – Bad Moon Rising

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This week I am listening to “Bad Moon Rising” by Sonic Youth

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

I heard it on the radioooo!

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People say “It’s all natural” like that is a good thing.

“Try this, it’s all natural!”

Yeah, so is radium but I try really hard not to ingest any of it.

Listening – The Head on the Door

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This week I am listening to “The Head on the Door” by The Cure

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Never want anything else

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I’ve always thought that creating products for my users of tomorrow is the best way for me to say to other people “This is what the future will look like.”

My users of today want what they already got.

Listening – A Secret Wish

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This week I am listening to “A Secret Wish” by Propaganda

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

What’s the opposite of misogyny?

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Had a deep and meaningful discussion with my girlfriend about gender equality.

She won’t budge on the idea that she doesn’t want a man babysitting her (hypothetical) child because men don’t make good babysitters and she wouldn’t trust a strange man around her child.

I am offended by this.

“Get over it” I am told “it’s not sexist, it’s just reality. Men aren’t trustworthy.”

Uh… what?

Listening – Big Lizard in My Backyard

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This week I am listening to “Big Lizard in My Backyard” by The Dead Milkmen

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Studying – Management accounts

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This month I am studying “Management accounts”

6 months part-time. This is the 6th month. Which I guess make it the final month too.

It wasn’t especially interesting, but I feel I learnt a lot. And I truly believe this skill set will stand me in good stead throughout my entire career from this point forward.

Listening – Frankenchrist

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This week I am listening to “Frankenchrist” by Dead Kennedys

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – The Power Station

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This week I am listening to “The Power Station” by The Power Station

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Dream into Action

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This week I am listening to “Dream into Action” by Howard Jones

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Steve McQueen

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This week I am listening to “Steve McQueen” by Prefab Sprout

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Spleen and Ideal

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This week I am listening to “Spleen and Ideal” by Dead Can Dance

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Dead on arrival

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When we eventually get cars that are self-driving and self-navigating at what point do we start having people who died en-route and arrive at their destinations D.O.A. as it were?

“Oh look everyone! Uncle Jeremy’s car just pulled up in the driveway. Let the children rush out to greet him first because they haven’t seen him in so long.”

Cue children screaming when they find Uncle Jeremy dead in the “driver’s” seat, having had a massive coronary and expired en route to family dinner.

Listening – Fine Young Cannibals

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This week I am listening to “Fine Young Cannibals” by Fine Young Cannibals

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Boys and Girls

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This week I am listening to “Boys and Girls” by Bryan Ferry

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

Listening – Night Time

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This week I am listening to “Night Time” by Killing Joke

Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.

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