Author Archives: Jon Bounds

Writer, honest. Currently working on Pier Review “a journey to the outcrops of a dying culture”.

Used to do Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Dirty Bristow, 11-11-11, Twitpanto et al.

Tweets for Today

17:59 @paulbradshaw not sure @peteashton thought so. Maybe it was bad luck for us. # 19:58 the spotted dog is rocking with blues fans singing along to The Queen is Dead # 23:25 @twm_driver can you make tues night for brum bloggers meet?. It’s very much all the tweeters and shakers ;) # 11:58 @twm_driver […]

Tweets for Today

17:41 @podnosh you old silver surfer, you ;) # 19:42 gone björking # 20:09 @davebriggs mine was a bit confused between WPA and WEP # 20:13 trendy wine bar next to Civic Hall has its own cat! FTW!!!1! # 22:55 björk : störming # 23:14 Telly Savalas Looks At Brum. radio four 10.30am tomorrow. Will […]

A Map of Where I’ve Been

A Map of Where I’ve Been Originally uploaded by bounder I stitched together this map of Birmingham – and then rubbed out everywhere I hadn’t been. Original map is roughly this area. You’ll need to view this one large…

Tweets for Today

18:55 popping to the haresndhounds for a swift half or two with @probablydrunk and @catnip # 21:08 @BhamPostJoanna @podnosh "is the fastest to catch on" # 22:01 why do they have both newses at ten on at the same time? # 09:04 on the bus, seems to be a school trip on here too. # […]

bless you

Sneezecount is one man’s attempt to count and document each sneeze he, er, sneezes. He’s been doing it since July 2007.

Tweets for Today

09:16 @bluemilkshake bookrolled? # 09:24 @sixball having #hashbrows? KGC is very nice, full English is probably cheaper at The York Cafe over the road – I doubt you’d get wifi tho # 10:02 #georgelamb hits the airwaves and suddenly the benefits of timeshifting radio become even more clear # 13:19 @dubber a sort of "Cory […]

tree cozy

aww. (via)

Tweets for Today

18:00 @TomScotney that’s very very #middleclass ;) (and I suspect you meant it to sound so) # 18:04 are flickr RSS feeds down for anyone else? # 18:27 It’s #Flickr ‘upload by email’ that’s down. (although I haven’t seen a new cat in my ‘all photos tagged cat’ RSS feed for a while either) # […]

Tweets for Today

20:06 @dubber a "roll" surely? # 08:31 twittervision.com/local/unitedkingdom is nice, twittervision.com/local/birmingham would be nicer (they’ve got london) # 09:31 tech has taken over my brain, just saw an articile about cats at the vatican – read paypal instead of papal # 12:22 Last Shadow Puppets album is a northern Scott Walker album – and as […]

difference engine unboxing

You often see blog posts with photos of unboxing Apple’s latest gizmo, or other posh hardware you just can’t afford. Well you can’t afford this either – it’s California’s Computer History Museum’s unboxing of a replica of Charles Babbage’s difference engine. (via).