plannersphere-beers

Last Wednesday night a bunch of planner-esque people with blogs all met up and drank beer in Shoreditch. Thanks to Faris for organising. The phrase which seems to fit best is "jolly good show" and I enjoyed meeting everyone and putting faces to URLs.

Anyway, this has given me an excuse to act on Russell's post about the science scout badges, which I loved. I've made an inaugural plannersphere beer badge - BeerSphere I, for all the attendees, whom I think are (sorry if I missed anyone):

Faris, Stuart, Caroline, Ed, Dan, Asi, Amelia, Nicola, David, Corporate Blawg, Rachel, Franjse and Izzy


(The background colour differences are just for different blogs. Click through to the images on flickr , and click the 'all sizes' button to get the code so you can proudly display them on your blog. Or not)

Which leaves questions:

1. What do you guys think? I personally like badges, but I grant they don't do much.

2. What other badges would anyone want? Powerpoint related ones? Maximum number of diagrams drawn to explain one strategy? "Metaphor III"? Post of the Month and APSotW I guess.

Let me know in the comments section and we can all get more badges. Also if you want the Photoshop file, I can email it to you - I certainly don't want to have a monopoly on badge construction.

my birthday party

I did a number of things for my birthday. It was a joint effort with my friends Cookie and Ash.

First up was a spoof protest pub crawl. Within about 10 minutes of meeting at Buckingham Palace we were surrounded by police with sub-machine guns, and in fact we were beisged by automaton-like minions of the system at every major landmark.

We also went to a bar - Shish in Old St - an alright place for meeting a bunch of people, and then to Bugged Out's warehouse party where 2manyDjs played to a crowd who hardly knew where they were. It was all in all a brilliant birthday ranging from good clean fun to absolute filth. Thanks to everyone who came.

Special props:

Simeon for the Energizer Bunny/Rave Monster Award - 3pm the next day finish

Ollie for most humourous slogan - "Say no to death: the biggest killer of all"

The 5 people who between them found all my clothes and bags around shoreditch and managed to get them to me.

Team Malden Arms for the Jim'll Fix It biscuit/medal thing







more pictures on Cookie's flickr site
and on Hal's