mark
norman
francis
.com
Archives:
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Entries for 2014
January
2nd 12:55
Checked in at The Chandos
4th 11:18
Buffy, slayer of the vampires
4th 12:44
Celery, onion, peppers — the holy trinity
4th 19:39
When @fatbusinessman names a city, he names a city
8th 10:34
Training we are
9th 10:04
Watch how I soar
12th 16:08
Cole & Mason mills, in need of a good home
14th 10:02
First of three new GTA tees — Burger Shot
15th 16:00
Second of three new GTA tshirts — Ammu-nation
16th 10:27
Last of the new GTA tees — Trevor Philips Enterprises
16th 17:34
Checked in at Hercules Pillars
16th 18:39
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
17th 12:45
Eggs piglet (pulled pork)
17th 15:04
The Day The Bunting Came Down
17th 16:44
The Day The Whiteboards Died
17th 18:39
Tomorrow
17th 18:42
Mushroom Cloud
18th 07:35
Unhelpful salt delivery from Ocado
18th 15:44
Checked in at Long Bar
18th 17:22
Checked in at Latium Ristorante
18th 20:41
Checked in at Duke of York's Theatre
20th 11:43
Boozecase
21st 10:08
The Impractical Confluence of Standups
21st 10:31
Rant token
21st 17:28
Checked in at The Diner
21st 21:27
Trying my new Whitelines Link notebook — normal picture
21st 21:28
Trying my new Whitelines Link notebook — app capture, even liked the grey ink
22nd 13:56
Checked in at Royal College of Surgeons of England
24th 08:40
Key lime pie
25th 10:27
What a can smacked by a falling bookcase looks like
28th 12:25
Checked in at Patty & Bun
28th 17:05
Finally
30th 09:57
Interoffice communication "Hi Mains Tream"
30th 14:42
Old skool code review
31st 08:55
The strategy is moar coffee
31st 12:33
Checked in at Becks Cafe
31st 14:50
Badge — now in Transport
31st 15:30
Too little, too late Edd
31st 15:47
Now even Transformation are getting in on the action
31st 21:11
Rando Cardrissian wins again
31st 21:48
A new role play I want to try tonight
February
3rd 22:08
Hello boys
4th 09:59
There must be a more efficient form of communication
4th 10:45
Elements
4th 12:37
Edd's response
4th 23:26
By Jove, this may have worked
5th 10:35
First of my two Worn by Heroes — Armistice Station, Human–Cylon relations
5th 11:05
Hello GDS
5th 12:54
Checked in at Princess Louise
6th 12:12
The other new Worn by Heroes — Sallah Excavations
6th 13:57
Checked in at HELIX Restaurant
6th 14:03
Top of The Gherkin
6th 14:05
Tower of London and Tower Bridge from the top of The Gherkin
6th 14:06
The Shard and 20 Fenchurch St from the top of The Gherkin
7th 15:17
Someone doesn't understand type sizing and distance
7th 17:11
Checked in at Hercules Pillars
8th 05:10
Checked in at North Terminal
8th 10:03
Checked in at Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport (BCN) (Aeropuerto Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat)
8th 10:20
Checked in at Caffè di Fiore
8th 10:22
Barcelona (probably)
8th 10:23
Coming in to land
8th 10:28
Looks strangely familiar
8th 13:20
The Widowmaker
8th 13:23
Checked in at Big Al's Burger Bar
8th 18:41
Checked in at Big Al's Burger Bar
8th 18:47
"Fort" beer
10th 07:41
Bye Sitges
10th 08:35
Checked in at Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport (BCN) (Aeropuerto Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat)
10th 16:49
Totes direccions
11th 23:11
My disk naming scheme goes a bit awry at the end there
12th 15:44
Spitfire, found via @jaggeree
13th 18:51
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
14th 09:26
The most expensive whiteboard magnets I have bought so far
14th 09:31
Using the #whitelines whiteboard magnets
14th 13:34
Checked in at Vue for The Lego Movie
14th 15:43
Checked in at Byron
17th 09:24
Broadband upgraded
18th 09:10
Bus stop top art?
18th 10:02
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #1 — Inspector Spacetime
19th 10:10
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #2 — The Kestrel
20th 08:58
Another day, another transfer ticket
20th 10:19
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #3 — Pirate
20th 13:05
Checked in at Shake Shack Covent Garden
20th 15:07
Drury Lane Jam concrete
20th 19:46
Checked in at Rugby Tavern
21st 09:22
Checked in at Royal College of Surgeons of England
21st 12:46
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #4 — Hello, Sweetie
21st 18:37
"Hooray! Your @stickygram cover has arrived. We hope you like it." That's a big YES.
22nd 07:42
Checked in at London Euston Railway Station (EUS)
22nd 11:59
Checked in at Panchos Salsa Bistro Bar
23rd 16:36
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #5 — Invader Spiff
23rd 16:44
Another quality devfort idea
23rd 16:45
Brainstorming
24th 10:23
(Almost) A week of new tshirts #6 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24th 10:51
Guiding principles
24th 13:07
Not hosted by us
25th 16:33
Page layout
25th 22:55
Opposable thumbs
25th 23:01
Rando wins again
27th 10:08
RUM
28th 13:15
Sausage and roast veg
March
1st 11:56
Checked in at Panchos Salsa Bistro Bar
1st 13:41
Checked in at Carlisle Railway Station (CAR)
5th 12:19
Checked in at Sophie's Steakhouse & Bar
6th 12:46
Checked in at Cybercandy
6th 17:07
Checked in at All Creatures
7th 13:24
Checked in at Trunk
9th 13:41
Camouflage
9th 13:42
Patiently waiting
9th 14:26
Checked in at The Roundhouse
10th 11:46
I might die from cake poisoning
10th 14:16
Ssh! You're not supposed to tell everyone!
12th 09:20
Ouch
12th 12:59
For tomorrow
12th 17:14
I give good retrospective
13th 08:39
DONE
13th 08:41
Flickr socks in honour of
13th 12:16
Checked in at Bloomsbury Tavern
13th 14:00
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
14th 08:45
Woke up to a pile of money, was momentarily confused as to why
15th 13:43
Rounded it up a little
16th 09:37
About to sugru some magnets to motion sensor nightlights
16th 15:35
Vanilla malt
16th 16:19
There might be a store in Southside selling US stuff now
17th 07:54
Step one went smoothly
17th 14:05
Foursquare clearly did not expect multiple new people to visit a location
18th 18:51
Checked in at Cafe Pacifico
19th 12:47
Checked in at FreeState Coffee
22nd 10:30
Goodbye my friend
22nd 12:05
Step two, magnets onto the wall (carefully shielded by sandwich bag)
24th 19:50
Seconds after being told "Sorry, we couldn't get you a cab"
25th 17:12
Checked in at The Crown
26th 09:16
Mike and Porter
26th 15:08
MGM logo
26th 15:09
2001
27th 09:42
Time for the sequel
27th 12:51
Checked in at Apple Covent Garden
27th 13:25
Checked in at Hawksmoor Seven Dials
27th 17:02
Checked in at Princess Louise
28th 16:01
Checked in at Lincoln's Inn Fields
28th 16:15
Checked in at Old Nick
28th 18:08
My leaving present from GDS … they know me so well
31st 12:07
Checked in at London King's Cross Railway Station (KGX)
31st 14:38
sadface
31st 19:58
Checked in at The Green
31st 20:44
Having a pint in a nice quiet pub. Quiet. A little too quiet.
31st 22:58
Foggy night
April
2nd 11:49
Checked in at Newcastle Central Railway Station (NCL)
3rd 16:10
Window
3rd 17:07
Checked in at Hawksmoor Air Street
3rd 19:11
Checked in at Gielgud Theatre
4th 17:15
The best welcome present from my new employer
4th 17:34
Checked in at The Albany
4th 21:33
Cupcake decoration time with @bovinemoo
4th 22:07
Cupcakes by @bovinemoo
5th 08:43
Good cop, bad cop, bad cop, good cop
5th 08:47
"He's getting eaten by a shark"
5th 08:55
Business coffee mug
5th 16:16
Tomorrow
8th 09:54
Checked in at myHealthPal
8th 12:27
Checked in at African Kitchen Gallery
9th 09:34
Checked in at Apple Regent Street
9th 18:39
One of these is not right
11th 11:43
Warner Bros logo like I've never seen it before
11th 12:00
"Did he fire six shots or only five?"
12th 20:07
North by Northwest
13th 16:31
Magnum Force
16th 11:39
Wrong
16th 17:51
Checked in at Byron
16th 19:00
Checked in at Harold Pinter Theatre
17th 16:22
Schwing!
17th 17:24
Todo: rip and encode 42 DVDs of Babylon 5. Good job I wrote some software for this.
19th 20:42
Bester
20th 10:00
Wet whetstone
20th 17:10
Rando wins again
20th 17:12
Rando on form
20th 17:31
One for @fatbusinessman
20th 17:38
Seriously you guys, Rando is wiping the floor with us
20th 17:41
Okay, this is just embarrassing how good Rando is
20th 17:51
Rando … again
25th 13:47
Homemade (well, printed by @sticky9) fiduciary marker magnets
27th 16:26
Ribs attempt #2, pre-oven
27th 18:00
Ribs? Done.
27th 18:08
Supper
30th 09:21
"Some more" fiducial markers, this time as stickers
May
1st 12:19
Food market thisaway
1st 12:21
Food market
1st 18:23
Checked in at The Euston Tap
2nd 11:48
Bap & Pickle
2nd 15:24
Checked in at Apple Regent Street
4th 09:29
This will be pulled pork in eight hours
4th 19:07
Pulled pork and barbecue sauce buns
5th 09:35
Created GitHub repository dogsbody
6th 17:21
Low profile DVD mounting
7th 09:32
Checked in at Apple Regent Street
7th 14:38
Stationery porn
9th 13:04
Any suggestions for how to decorate these?
10th 16:33
Improvised second screen action
10th 22:08
Tools of the trade
13th 11:13
Fractured BT tower reflection
13th 12:13
Condiments and tulips
15th 16:42
Towering over my desk
15th 18:46
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
16th 17:07
Two of my favourite instagrams on acrylic from Inkifi
17th 09:15
When @sticky9 apologises, I end up with ALL THE MAGNETS
17th 15:41
When not on the shelf, it looks like a lot of booze
17th 16:00
"some" Monin syrups
18th 09:12
Primarily gin, vodka, whiskey and rum
18th 09:13
Cachaça, tequila, miscellaneous and weird things
18th 09:14
Tools
18th 09:15
Pitiful bitters collection
19th 10:39
Last little backlighting flourish
20th 11:18
Created GitHub repository forksupper
21st 17:44
There will be no bargain. I will not give up my favourite decoration.
22nd 13:03
Essential office supplies
22nd 16:41
No idea why I bought this. Maybe I was hungover.
22nd 16:53
Done.
31st 13:06
Todo list — 1 of 6
June
2nd 13:31
First of a week of Hello Kitty mashup tees — Hello Tiger
3rd 10:02
Second of a week of Hello Kitty mashup tees — Hello… Squirrel!
3rd 19:00
Checked in at Vue for X-Men: Days of Future Past
6th 09:15
Fifth and last of a week of Hello Kitty mashup tees — Hello Clarice
7th 12:00
Lego Ghostbusters
7th 12:02
Lego unlicensed nuclear accelerator
7th 12:02
Lego Ecto 1
7th 12:05
Lego 21108
7th 18:56
30 years ago today
7th 19:13
Stay Puft and eggs
7th 20:33
Onion head
8th 13:34
"Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand."
9th 08:55
I feel like I'm being judged
9th 19:24
"Flash by name, Flash by nature!"
9th 19:39
"How disgusting, a Bosche on the sole of my boot!"
11th 09:40
Reaching for the sunbeam
11th 17:37
Checked in at The Green Man
13th 11:34
Got a delivery
13th 11:45
The rarest words inside are adjacency, debugger and asynchronously
13th 17:46
Beverly Hills Cop
14th 11:20
Paper Later not so good with code
16th 08:31
This is new … and asks invasive questions
19th 11:23
Swedish meatballs
19th 12:16
Checked in at Covent Garden Market
19th 18:08
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
19th 20:26
Backups
20th 12:17
Checked in at The Four Lanterns
22nd 16:01
Current status
23rd 09:16
Caged
23rd 09:46
Checked in at All Creatures
26th 11:01
9 days without posting to social media
26th 11:57
Obligatory #legobusstop picture
28th 15:21
Created GitHub repository osx_settings
28th 20:29
Snooze
July
1st 10:56
Shadow Moses Nuclear Facility
1st 12:49
Checked in at Wahaca
1st 14:15
Created GitHub repository duplicates
1st 18:43
Added a bit of life to my laptop bag
2nd 10:50
FOXHOUND Special Forces
2nd 12:20
Checked in at The Queen Charlotte
3rd 10:10
Eating crisps, @pkqk style
3rd 10:58
Sugar and splice
4th 11:21
"Think of it as prison food" says @geek_manager
5th 11:58
Coming to America
5th 16:01
Again
5th 18:32
Jumpin' Jack Flash
5th 20:18
Relaxing on the sofa
6th 15:10
Published GIF “Go Sports Team!”
6th 15:22
Josie and the Pussycats
6th 16:38
Created GitHub repository gifs.cackhanded.net
6th 17:25
Published GIF “What a lady!”
6th 18:00
Published GIF “Pile up”
7th 09:36
That's not what "with stock" means, Homebase
7th 11:45
Café Calavera
7th 13:30
Published GIF “No more Mr Nice Guy”
7th 18:42
Bowl of gumbo — good end to a pretty meh day
8th 06:52
Pure DNA only
9th 09:15
Published GIF “Quotations”
9th 17:00
Published GIF “High thirty-five”
10th 06:59
My crossbones, just need a skull
10th 12:20
Published GIF “Not now son”
11th 09:43
Created GitHub repository osx_scripts
11th 11:49
Checked in at Honey & Co
11th 11:50
Strawberry splif
11th 14:00
Published GIF “First try!”
11th 17:14
Checked in at London
11th 17:20
Checked in at Crown and Anchor
12th 15:40
Published GIF “Hit the hyperdrive!”
13th 17:20
Published GIF “That's okay”
13th 20:40
Created GitHub repository audio-tools
14th 11:08
Meat Leader meat leadering
14th 17:48
Some protesting outside the Science Museum
16th 13:10
Published GIF “Letting the oxygen out”
17th 15:00
Published GIF “No spaceship”
18th 13:33
My "but I'm not in my own office" survival kit
18th 13:54
Audio accessories box — probably could do with a sort out
18th 14:12
Found my childhood copies of The Tripods Trilogy!
18th 22:32
Cat shadow
19th 13:03
Current status
19th 18:47
Summer School
19th 20:24
Prepare for take off
20th 07:49
Created GitHub repository snapmatic
20th 10:29
For sale, foreclosure
20th 10:39
Texting
20th 13:54
Emerge
20th 13:56
Fruit vendor
20th 14:10
Officer down
20th 16:11
Selfies with your kills are the rage, right?
20th 16:26
Outside sofa
20th 17:37
Before and after
21st 11:20
Nice, but not as strongly flavoured as other Jarritos
21st 20:53
Cab fares
22nd 08:14
"I protest, I am not a merry man."
22nd 14:20
Checked in at 10 Eastbourne Terrace
22nd 21:42
"He's gonna buy a dinghy, gonna call her Dignity."
23rd 17:55
Checked in at Tinseltown
24th 19:56
Welcome to Sandy Shores "We have liquor"
24th 19:58
Prison Area — Do not pick up hitchhikers
24th 20:54
Gas self-serve
24th 20:55
Fishing
25th 19:18
Currently charging…
27th 14:04
Now I just need to learn to draw
27th 18:29
Current status
28th 13:53
Low opinion
28th 16:51
Desire line
29th 08:26
Nope
29th 21:19
Drive upstate on Route 68
29th 21:22
Ammunation 1-999-WEAPONS
30th 11:27
Mayor approved busking
30th 17:21
Shootout at the motel
30th 17:25
Let's get fracking!
30th 21:34
Drink Pißwasser, it makes her pretty again
31st 20:54
Checked in at Fleming Court
August
1st 16:08
Probably my favourite food content warning ever
1st 20:47
Two churches
2nd 14:06
Current status
3rd 15:59
Refilling the cajun spice jar
4th 13:57
Probably not a realistic option
4th 16:46
Sennheiser didn't make any Bluetooth headphones I liked the look of, so I made my own
5th 12:26
"no" by @pixeldiva
5th 16:05
Desire line
8th 16:44
My name is Norm and I am addicted to whiteboard accessories
8th 17:16
Yep, I definitely have a problem
8th 20:20
Sorted by colour for @hadleybeeman and @fatbusinessman
10th 16:25
Sunset over Los Santos
10th 16:26
Visit Paleto Point
10th 16:28
Pumpjack head
11th 11:00
Haters gonna hate
11th 15:49
All bent out of shape
12th 10:01
Greendale alumni
13th 12:18
Checked in at Dudley Arms
14th 17:25
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
15th 11:52
Leaking internally
16th 12:12
Current status: not bad, just drawn that way
18th 12:33
Soffrito (minus carrot)
18th 12:52
Tomato soup and sourdough
19th 12:45
Checked in at The Savannah
20th 08:42
A little cracked
20th 08:46
Very cracked
20th 08:49
Still works though
20th 18:01
Checked in at Hawksmoor Air Street
20th 18:18
Lobster
20th 19:50
Checked in at Criterion Theatre
22nd 21:31
The advantage to each of your names being a given name is that you can totally do this…
23rd 10:36
After teplacing an orange cartridge with black
23rd 14:42
Kaboom
25th 15:17
Current status
25th 18:03
Current status
25th 19:22
One of my favourite action sequences
25th 20:16
Last one
26th 08:41
Created GitHub repository imap-tools
27th 12:13
Checked in at Il Gusto
29th 18:50
Current status
30th 19:39
Created GitHub repository p5-Net-IMAP-Client-patch
September
1st 07:18
Kensington Palace
1st 07:20
The Broad Walk
1st 07:23
Round Pond
1st 08:44
Cake green screen (postit note)
1st 21:39
Probably awful
2nd 14:16
Monitor humping ferret
3rd 18:33
Home delivered Jarritos FTW
3rd 18:50
Should keep me going for a couple of days
9th 09:00
That one pen is upside down and one is a different type makes @pixeldiva twitch
15th 12:29
Checked in at Byron
18th 08:35
Quality weather reports in iOS 8
18th 18:09
Checked in at Bricklayers Arms
21st 15:53
Ex Wardrobe
27th 08:56
This device might be a couple of years old
28th 12:23
Some game dishes may contain shot
28th 13:00
Checked in at Powder Keg Diplomacy
29th 18:44
Not really something you want delivered with your takeaway
30th 08:46
What "innovation" means for M&S
30th 15:44
Desire line
October
3rd 08:00
Published GIF “Adrift in the sheltered harbour”
10th 08:07
Ordered some physically manifested music
15th 16:46
The restaurant's view is okay I guess
15th 17:38
Checked in at Skylon
15th 18:24
Tonight's entertainment
15th 19:22
Checked in at Royal Festival Hall
21st 10:30
Published GIF “Monstrosity”
21st 10:30
Published GIF “New job.”
21st 10:30
Published GIF “Not guilty”
21st 10:30
Published GIF “So naughty”
25th 20:07
Chicken pies
26th 20:28
Current status: observing the 30th anniversary
28th 14:00
Published GIF “Something inside ”
29th 08:17
A bin with a view
29th 12:39
Philly cheesesteak
November
1st 12:12
Top soda gifts from @geek_manager
1st 16:01
Casual pose
3rd 16:49
Poppy pin and poppy cuff links
5th 12:48
Is this really a helpful visualisation of the concept "ready to eat"?
8th 13:09
Finally caved
8th 14:04
Another service where I have to hack my name into the boxes to have it be correct
8th 20:56
Sleeping cat, human pose
11th 19:39
Just realised I've had this tshirts for two decades, but I don't think of it as "old" (unlike some)
12th 11:59
Southpaw
12th 17:21
Checked in at Sophie's Steakhouse & Bar
12th 19:16
Checked in at Duchess Theatre
13th 12:06
upcoming.org (kickstarter backer edition)
14th 11:56
Jessica
14th 12:32
Checked in at Byron
15th 13:02
Heroku
16th 12:11
wearing my twitter shirt
16th 19:09
Current status (aaaaaaaah)
17th 12:11
Red Five
18th 17:40
Calavera malt whiskey
19th 19:23
Waynestock
20th 13:18
Ceiling unikitty is watching you…
20th 17:50
You didn't tick the "no meta texts" preference, so we're cool right?
21st 12:48
Checked in at No. 65 & King
21st 13:22
Intimidating burger presentation
23rd 10:15
"Norm," you ask, "what does 235 tshirts hanging up together look like?"
24th 09:36
Cleansing blue
24th 15:01
Talking about how to style the beta message
29th 20:06
Current status
December
2nd 10:23
As yet unspoiled
3rd 16:51
Posted in Japan
4th 19:06
Homemade chilli dog
6th 16:58
Current status, by Grabthar's Hammer
8th 10:08
Big mug needs big milk
12th 19:26
Cleaned my whiteboard today
12th 19:32
… then I filled it with a list of all my side projects. Depressingly many, all ignored.
14th 14:06
Birthday lunch
14th 17:24
Birthday present clock (and mince pies for scale)
15th 13:32
Checked in at Nando's
16th 21:58
Thomas is being very patient as I indulge in some singing therapy
17th 17:52
My drink is pink
20th 08:06
Accidental extra booze in my Ocado shop, how terrible
20th 09:36
Classic Black Tuxedo
20th 09:37
Late Night Tux
22nd 10:04
Looks a bit sketchy to me
22nd 13:13
(not) wearing my (framed) twitter shirt
23rd 15:46
Our traditional Christmas Marvin the Martian
25th 11:27
Christmas table
25th 13:50
Current status
25th 15:27
Best. Christmas movie. Ever.
25th 17:12
Second best. Christmas movie. Ever.
27th 17:24
Checked in at Sophie's Steakhouse & Bar
28th 13:39
Windowsill
29th 08:49
Making a big batch of cajun mix
29th 14:23
"Fuck white in its smug camely face"
29th 14:56
Twin Pines Mall
30th 11:57
Lone Pine Mall
31st 08:56
Rewards
31st 12:49
The Sedgewick Hotel
31st 13:59
Checked in at wagamama
31st 14:54
Checked in at Vue for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies