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| Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 8:18 am |
On the events in Iran...
As far as I can tell, most first person accounts are being lifted from twitter - including many being used by the mainstream media. For those interested, here's a tweetgrid someone put together that's been useful. There's a lot of noise, but some nuggets in there. Also useful - if not entirely definitive - is Tatsuma's summaries of the events on Fark. Latest on is currently here. In general, it seems to be in-line with the first-hand reports I've been seeing and that have been in some ways corroborated. Damnit. Why do I have to work today? I've got actual /useful/ things I could be doing instead! | | Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 | | 10:54 am |
What do you do?
What do you do if you have a bucket load of obselete hardware? Say, an Atari 800XL, a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, an 8-inch (yes 8-inch) floppy disk drive, and an ald HP Scanjet 3C... Well, there's only one answer. Edit: but if the embedding ain't working... here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4 | | Sunday, April 5th, 2009 | | 7:15 pm |
All shiny spanky new FMA!
The first episode of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (or FMA2 or whatever) has finally been aired in Japan. The first anime series seriously diverged from the manga at about volume 8 / episode 28 IIRC. This new series is meant to follow the manga, but I don't know whether they're starting from the beginning or starting at a later point. I'll find out as soon as I get to see the first episode. Ah, the first episode of a whole years run of 52. I'm happy already. :) Damned you T'Intertubes! Download faster! Faster! I need to see it... (Edit: be nice if my brain thought and what I actually typed were the same thing... Fixed episode and volume numbers.) | | 6:00 pm |
Just been randomly surfing and stumbled across this:  I miss the Liverpool Go Club. *sigh* I need someone to play in real life. It's just not the same playing online. | | Friday, September 5th, 2008 | | 12:05 am |
| | Sunday, May 25th, 2008 | | 6:12 am |
I have acquired a thing of beauty
The Fab is now closed, but some of it's memorabilia still lives on in Liverpool. I have acquired a single item, the only item to be saved before being sent to the other franchises (in Manchester and Leeds). I have (what appears to be) an original 1967 "Barbarella" poster! Jane Fonda, at her best (or worst depending how you look at it) all buxom and lascivious! I may have been conned, but the material at the bottom of the poster at least implies that it's an original. The reproductions don't seem to have this stuff... but it's not easy to confirm! Does anyone know of someone who can confirm or deny that this is an original? ( Photos! ) Current Mood:  jubilant | | Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | | 4:14 pm |
| | Monday, April 14th, 2008 | | 11:30 pm |
Wanted: driving school/instructor advice!
Meh. Learning to drive. About time I did so. The provisional license is in the post, my schedule is virtually entirely free until June, and there's no way in hell I'm dong a 4 hour round trip to Manchester every day when I get back to work. So... any recommended driving schools/instructors around the central liddley-pud area? | | Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | | 1:25 pm |
A belated response...
At a time long ago, in a galaxy very very near to this one... ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) juliafdiva asked: What can never fail to make you smile?General silliness, whether it's off-ball comedy or unexpected ad-lib done in person (like standing on Hardman Street eating fried chicken whilst your friend accosts passers by to critique some art he's made out of the discarded bones). The more unexpected, the more amusing I find it. Nothing beats unexpectedly odd silliness. Probably the paragon of this is being sat on the train grinning to myself and occasionally chuckling weirdly whilst (re)reading the Dirk Gently books on the train. I get some odd looks. | | 12:24 pm |
All the magic smoke keeps leaving critical components of my computer....
Sorry for the LONG delay... I've been doing two things: 1. Trying to get around to fixing my machine, after the big capacitors in my last one decided that they'd let all of the magic smoke out. It made kind of a mess... so... some time, a new power supply and a soldering job to replace a couple of fuses motherboard (since, these also went *pop* when the PSU let go) and it now works again. For now. 2. Working like a madman before I can go on holiday. Gah... The good news is... I'm not in work until June. So I can actually DO some stuff... I actually have TIME. Ah well, catching up time. | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | | 10:38 am |
By request...
cbr_paul says:
Post about what you'd like to do to smart-arsed Scouse girly-men if left alone in a sound-proofed room with them...! :P
Well, little chum, that's quite a leading question. I'd hate to ruin your imagination. Personally I'd shoot them. It'd be like a scouse-girly-men-goth themed reality TV show where even less sane people than the contestants get to vote on who stays and who goes. Challenges include: 1. See how long you can stay still whilst Depeche Mode is being played... 2. The makeup challenge - to see who can do their own makeup the best. Sponsored by Maybelline. 3. The out-in-the-street challenge. Whoever gets "GOTH!" shouted at them the most times in a single hour wins. Sponsored by Lacoste. 4. The goths-don't-smile challenge. Contestants have to sit through an hour set by Omid Djalili in a packed venue and whoever shows their teeth (i.e. by not smiling or laughing) the least wins. Sponsored by the private dentists association. 5. The choose-something-to-drink challenge. Contestants are split into teams of four and depositted into a well stocked alcohol warehouse. They can choose any variety and style of alcohol they like within an hour. Groups are scored out of ten in the following categories: decisiveness, quality of product procured, number of random passers by amused and overall team-work. Any groups failing to make any decisions in the hour automatically lose. Sponsored by some faux-Irish cider company nobody'd heard of until last year. And then I'd sell the format to Channel 4 or BBC 3. Afterall, it's hardly worse than any of the crap they have on nowadays. posthuman_angel says:
Post anything, it'd make a welcome change ;-p
Okay. Here goes. Anything. It'd make a welcome change. (Ah, it's an old gag but it still works... Thank you Abrams and Zucker!) | | Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | | 9:16 pm |
Bandwagonning!
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal if you are so inclined In my case, it's more of a case of "I don't post much. Make me post about stuff!" :) | | Thursday, January 10th, 2008 | | 9:49 pm |
| | Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | | 1:48 am |
Question for some arty types
I can't draw... but I can't 'alf do maths. I got me something that looks a bit like this:
Now, fractals like this are really a plot of a continuous mathematical function. Between the points which are "colouring" each pixel are an infinite number of other points, so it can be generated at any resolution at all.
Question is, anyone know a good printing place where I could get something like this printed quite big (A0 size or more!) in full-colour and high resolution? Maybe on something "exotic" like canvas?
| | Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 | | 1:09 am |
What do you get the man who has everything?
(Snip - got rid of erroneously public double post... especially since it's not the sort of thing I'd want future employers to see.). Ho ho ho! I've drunkenly double posted. That's what impatience and clicking again does for you! | | Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | | 10:28 pm |
Crikey! Those fireworks were loud!
Nice light show. Lots of fireworks... and freeking LOUD! If I'd have known that both displays were going to be completely visible from my balcony, I'd have had a few people around for it. Ah well, happy 800th Liverpool. | | Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | | 1:25 am |
Only 6 months to go 'till Christmas, so the shops will be filling up soon and that Mr. Smith will be planning his layout of 4 Megawatts of festive lighting to outshine his neighbourgh Mr. Jones. Time for a Christmas video then, to get us all in the mood. DEFINATELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK (unless they'll find it hilarious funny rather than sack you for violation of the computer use policy)! You have been warned!! Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | | 12:37 am |
A nice long whinge!
It's about time I had one of these. I've been back from London for a few weeks, finally unpacked all my gear and got back into 4 hours of travelling everyday for work. Work's a bit stressful, it's all an uphill struggle at the moment with many difficult requests, annoying mistakes (other engineer: "Oh, that's easy to do..." (two days later) "It's impossible.") and all under close scrutiny of the client. I'm currently working in a very swan-like way: everything on the surface looks calm and gracefully done... under the surface the legs are kicking like mad to get any kind of headway! (Incidentally, writing software is a bit like peeing. They both easy to do when you're on your own, but as soon as someone's watching...) I've not properly unwound for quite a while. Haven't been out. Haven't played Go. Haven't done much other than work and basic survival activities. I'm running are far below my best: in work I feel like I'm thinking through treacle, and outside of it I'm restless and unable to properly disengage from my work problems. It's easy in this state to get pissed off at the general state of my life. I don't seem to have actually got anywhere in so many years, and it's like I've got boundaries I've set up that I'm unwilling to get over. It's all the same old shit, different day. A couple more weeks of this and it'll either be over or I'll have fallen into some kind of narcicistic state as a sanity protection measure. Hopefully, once I've recovered I'll actually *care* enough to actually *do* some things: Buying new clothes (which I hate doing, but need to do), sort out this flat, look into moving into a place of my own, renegotiating my working conditions, trim my Brian Blessed-like facial fuzz... blah blah. Generally, stuff to get me out of my little comfort-zoned life as a weird cross between a student, a slob, a workaholic and a reclusive bookworm. Ah well, whinge over. Time for bed before I need to be up for another day in work. | | Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 | | 12:16 am |
How NOT to recruit a "hacker". :)
This is amusing (for me anyway). Let's say you're working for a US Congressman's press office, but your college grades weren't too good. Do you: a) Live with it? Climb up the ladder using experience. Afterall, nobody cares about your school grades once you're past 22. b) Attend further education and "boost" the perception of the quality of your education by getting some more? c) Contact a random security website administrator and ask them to hack into the college and alter the grades. After choosing option (c)... well... *giggle* it didn't *grin* work out so well. | | Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 | | 8:19 pm |
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