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November 28th, 2009

elyaeru @ 11:41 pm: Brit needed for sentence phrasing...
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terrificwriter @ 03:20 pm: AWESOME!
http://www.urlesque.com/2009/11/25/awesomest-things/

aldabra @ 03:14 pm: Cambridge PSA:

Borders has 20% off all books, and 50% off gardening, law, medicine and politics (all top floor).

Notice, though, that Waterstones is doing a 3-for-2 on everything this weekend, which trumps 20% off in most cases, and probably doesn't have the hideous queues.

redqueenmeg @ 10:10 am: I DON'T CARE
I DON'T CARE ABOUT FOOTBALL.

THE ONLY THING I CARE ABOUT REGARDING FOOTBALL IS NOT HAVING TO HEAR IT OR HEAR ABOUT IT.

AAAAAAAH!


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November 27th, 2009

terrificwriter @ 07:51 pm: Pencil Case Fail
I thought that making a pencil case for Jenny's Christmas present would be a fairly easy project for me to do. But unfortunately I got carried away, and the whole exercise ended up being a lot more complicated than I imagined. I assumed that it would take me no more than a month or two to complete the whole thing; yet here I am four months later and I have only just completed one of three component panels. With just under a month left to go before Christmas, there is no way I am going to finish the rest of the pencil case. So I have decided to cut my losses. I am going to take what I have done so far, put it in a nice frame and send that to Jenny for her Christmas present. I hope she won't be too disappointed. I know that I am very disappointed in myself. It would have been such a cool pencil case:
Failure Cut )

oof_suits_you, posting in rocksoc @ 02:04 pm: Important information about the Rocksoc gig this Sunday!
Important gig information!!

Unfortunately, Godsized have had to pull out of the gig this coming Sunday. Rest assured though, there is no bad blood here and they will return with a vengeance in 2010!! From the ashes, a replacement has risen in the form of Abadden!

In the words of our Events Officer:

"Abadden descend on Cambridge as mighty replacements for Godsized. One foot firmly in the old-school of Thrash, and the other firmly in the new-school, these guys will no doubt tear it up and leave you stricken with awe and amazement! Think you know your Thrash? Then step up to the plate!!!"

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terrificwriter @ 07:38 am: Thanks

Myspace Comments, Thanksgiving Comments at WishAFriend.com

aldabra @ 10:10 am:

faithinfire @ 09:45 am: Techie input, please, anyone?
Okay, so my Dad needs a new satnav, and since I have the power of the internet at my fingertips, he asked me to find him some recommendations. Now, reading online reviews until my eyes cross is not my intellectual strong suit - however, I know a bunch of you lovely people drive and many of those who do, use satnavs!

So, if you wouldn't mind taking two minutes out of your day, please could you let me know what you all use, and if you'd recommend it to someone else? Specifically, he's after something which will tell him where the speed cameras are, if he's going over the limit (Dad drives long-distance private hire, so not accidentally speeding and getting busted is very important!) and that can manage to be reasonably intelligent about things like "getting through strange cities in the middle of rush hour".

So if anyone has, or knows of, anything that fits that bill, could they please namecheck it so I can look it up? Thanks guys!

Cheers,
Rath

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November 26th, 2009

terrificwriter @ 11:04 pm: Something Something Something Darkside


potix, posting in starwars @ 09:41 pm: Preview



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mersipan @ 03:11 pm: and one from me
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone :) Hope your day is full of good friends, good family time, and good food - particularly pie.

Mmm, pie.

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feanelwa @ 11:27 am: Aww, look at this! This guy collects construction materials that are going to landfill, designs houses around what he's got, takes on apprentices to build them and then sells them to people in housing trouble for much less than they would otherwise pay. Can I be him when I grow up?
(Link is to a site with a video on it; content is in the video but it only starts playing when you click on it.)

http://www.happynews.com/news/11242009/one-man-trash-man-house.htm

November 25th, 2009

ironlord @ 11:56 pm: A Culinary Tour Of Europe
(Worth crossposting this to [info]dorky_hotties, I reckon.)

[info]castratikron's application on [info]metal_community has sparked off something of a mealtime discussion. She mentioned goulash, completely out of the blue, and I retaliated with one of the pictures you see below. Her response?

AHHHHHHHHHHH **flails furiously at computer screen to get goulash**

A most amusing scenario, I thought. [info]hakucho_cygnus then threw down a challenge:

One day you're going to have to do a foodie tour of all of Europe and make it rival your Iceland saga, my friend.

That tour is well underway and has been for years, as I will now prove. [info]castratikron, if you ever find this post, prepare to flail so hard that your arms fall off..

Are you all ready?

Achtung! There are almost as many pictures under here as there are on the Iceland review. Anyone still on dial-up? Don't look! Any vegans out there? REALLY don't look! )

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tiggymalvern @ 01:16 pm: Screw the Governator. Go California!
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terrificwriter @ 08:18 pm: NOOOOO!!!!
The Pussycat Dolls split up????
http://entertainment.stv.tv/music/139919-have-the-pussycat-dolls-split-up/



terrificwriter @ 08:05 pm: It's the end of another long day....
I think I deserve
THIS. )

wildeabandon @ 02:29 pm: House!
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sleeperwaking @ 12:42 am: Slightly incoherent ramblings
I have gone 280posts back on my friends page. It won't let me go any further back. Maybe I've neglected this a little bit. Sorry for not commenting, I've not been the most awake/organised person recently. In news:

Depot placement has started. Over the past two weeks I have done earlies (get up at 4:30a.m. for 7a.m. at Tyseley) and nights (leave Derby at 8:30p.m., get back at 7:30a.m.) during which period any time I've had not at the depot has been spent sleeping, cooking, eating or wandering around in a zombie like daze. Phil & Barry have been very nice to me though with emergency cooking help.

I've very nearly bought my bungalow! An obscene amount of money has gone to the solicitor and a much less obscene but still sizeable amount to Direct Line for insurance. I now feel very poor, especially as Gladys broke a front suspension spring the other week that required even more money shelling out. Oh, and I'm already paying tax, although I'm only just over half the personal allowance limit. Need to ask Dad about that as the tax website is too confusing for this time of night. *grumble* Unfortunately I'm sure there's a really sensible reason for that. :( Anyway, I pick up keys tomorrow. SO EXCITING! :D

Really am looking forward to having my own place. Hate the bathroom here - no proper shower, stand alone bath with no shower curtain, mirror in the most awkward place possible bar the ceiling. I'm always cold and having to put on more clothes - Phil & Barry, whilst lovely people, have a much lower optimum temperature than me and I don't think the radiator in my room works. Washing clothes takes a lot of advance planning. If I slack off slightly, my room immediately becomes a complete tip as there's almost no space. Parking is a right nuisance. But for all that it's made life a lot easier the past couple of months. Just... very ready to move out now, not that it'll happen for another couple of weeks at least.

Last but never least, I miss [info]mansunite terribly during the week and treasure the time we get at weekends. Last weekend was fantastic, stayed with him in Oxford and didn't have to share him with parents or friends at all! *is selfish*

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November 24th, 2009

terrificwriter @ 08:57 pm: I see a little silhouetto of a Gonzo


aldabra @ 07:50 pm: Here's Dmitry Orlov on what sea level rise is going to look like, with particular reference to Boston, East Anglia, and the Netherlands:

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/11/oceans-are-coming-part-ii-living-on.html

redqueenmeg @ 09:43 am: EVE's feet
So the other night I tried to roll over on the bed and realized EVE was right there. This is not unusual. She prefers to sleep under the covers in between me and Will.

However, I guess she got a little warm that night because she was stretched out as long as she could be and her little hind feet were on my pillow, crossed in repose. I poked her foot and she started purring.

Ridiculous cat. :)

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terrificwriter @ 01:58 pm: Reporting for duty
I would like to introduce Captain Felicity Bliss, commander of the fearless Space Vixens:

At present I am awaiting the arrival of the tactical officer, Tatiana Rocketov, who is due to arrive some time next year (exact time and date are classified).

Deployment of the remaining three crew members has yet to be confirmed:
COMUNICATIONS: VELVET CRUSH
ENGINEER: DOMINIQUE D'AMOUR
SPECIAL OPS: SHEER CARNELL

Their identities are being kept secret for now.

terrificwriter @ 11:37 am: Yawn
You know what? I'm bored with with looking at pictures of Natalie Portman, so these will be the last ones I will ever post:





i_am_marky, posting in rocksoc @ 09:04 am: Metal!
The band formely known as Perish in the Flames and now known as a name we haven't decided yet but will sound far less scene and shite would like to share with you a new demo track of ours. It only has guitar and drums currently and the drums are electronic due to NO DRUMMER WOE! But here it is Nameless 3. SO if you know anyone who can play that style of double bass heavy drumming then please hurl them our way.

faithinfire @ 04:18 am: I want to live in a simpler age.
I am awake. It is after 4am. I did not get enough/any sleep last night. Why am I awake? Because I have a downstairs neighbour. He was, at least when I checked last at gone 2am after spending two hours trying to sleep, STILL playing pop radio AND SINGING ALONG TO IT. On a Monday night. WHY?

Meanwhile, hanging on my wall above my bed? There is a battleaxe.

You cannot know what I would give right now to live in a society where it was acceptable for the above statements to be presented in a "problem/solution" format.

*GRRRRRRRRR*,
Rath

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redqueenmeg @ 06:46 pm: HOLY CRAP
I JUST REALIZED IT'S A CYLON.

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aldabra @ 09:50 pm: This evening we did converting doors into rabbit bedding. And it was good.

redqueenmeg @ 04:28 pm: New baby is apparently a Transformer
I passed my glucose test on Friday at the obstetrician, which means I do not have gestational diabetes (that's good). It would have been a surprise if I had had it because I didn't with Len and I'm not prediabetic or particularly at risk for it when I'm not pregnant. It still was possible of course, but fortunately I don't have it.

What I do have, despite religiously taking my prenatal vitamin every day, is anemia.

ANEMIA.

Which I do normally have a mild case of even when I'm not pregnant, but now they want me to take EXTRA iron every evening while continuing to take my normal dose in the vitamin every morning.

New baby needs iron and is stealing mine. He is obviously a giant alien robot.

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faithinfire @ 05:30 pm: [WWF/E] Something cute.
I was going to post this on [info]de_generationx but for some reason it seems the comm's not having any of it, so I'll stick it on here instead until I figure out what's up over there. We have here... original broadcast footage of Triple H and HBK's legendary European Championship match from the 1997 RAW is War Christmas special! This clip includes the whole match, plus the promos and speeches either side.

Possibly the most emotionally and physically gruelling match in WWF/E history... right? >.>



... ^_^

Laters,
Rath

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redqueenmeg @ 10:02 am: Knitting progress?
I'm making sure to knit one row and purl one row every night to make sure the techniques get put in my long-term memory rather than short-term, but my knitting still looks awful. I don't know if I'll ever get it even.

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aldabra @ 10:31 am: Wow. Borders UK doesn't have enough cash to stay open until Christmas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8373806.stm

faithinfire @ 02:13 am: [Reviews] WWE Smackdown/ECW, Nottingham Trent FM Arena 08/11/09; WWE Raw, London O2 11/11/09
[*pant pant* Here we are, I promised I'd have it done by the end of the week, [info]panthology! *waves*]

*flops*

*looks at official programme, at various train tickets, at nearly a hundred quid's worth of event ticket stubs, at frantically scribbled lists of match results... and finally at pair of now-innocently-defunct official DX Army glowsticks*

...y'know, you guys, it's just possible I'm a tiny bit of a mark. >.> But at least that means you all get to read about it for free, right?

Before I get into serious listing of who kicked whose ass and all that good stuff, I want to do something more important - list the shining moments. The moments that made me go I am so fucking glad I was part of that, because those are what make every damn penny I spend on these ridiculous adventures worthwhile.

So! The roll of honour!

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Edited highlights. )

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So those were the moments... now here are your full-length reviews and results, with varying degrees of colour commentary!

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Smackdown/ECW )

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Raw )

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Laters,
Rath

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redqueenmeg @ 12:00 pm: Happy Birthday to Will!
HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY, WILL!

Thanks, everyone!

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November 22nd, 2009

altariel @ 11:04 pm: CUSFS
Just come back from a smashing evening with the brilliant folks at CUSFS, who gave me a slap-up dinner, and then I gave them a talk about reading SF, and writing fanfic, and writing profic, and loving B7. Then lots of fun discussion about new Who and old Trek. I was a member of CUSFS *cough* nineteen years ago, so it was lovely to be asked to go and talk to them.

The room where I gave the talk was at my old college, so I took ten minutes beforehand to dash up to my old room where I had a chat with a couple of young women now living there, who rather sweetly didn't mind having a complete stranger pop into their kitchen on a Sunday evening and blather about living there nearly two decades ago.

feanelwa @ 09:12 pm: Weekend, woo. I read things (mainly work), cooked things, knitted things, watched things, made trouser legs shorter. BORED. I also looked for things to join to stop having this problem where the only person in Sheffield I appear to have anything in common with is the person I live with. Need more people. Going out of tiny mind.

Anyway, my findings:
-Local tai chi - there is no taoist tai chi here, there is another tai chi group but I asked them and they do touching-people exercises, and, er, no.
-Things to volunteer at - do I want to teach teenagers to play football? Not really. Teach people English? Hm, maybe, but I'm currently intimidated by social interactions as complicated as buying a sandwich, and have no idea where to even begin teaching somebody a language.
-Rotary club - that's a better idea. Strength in numbers. Mondays.
-Toastmasters - this is an organisation where you go to meetings and give little talks on things you like, in front of other people who are terrified of talking in front of people. In other words, exactly the thing I need. Every other Wednesday.

Unfortunately this week I'm busy on both Monday and Wednesday evening. But later I should get involved with some of these things.

Some of the academics on the project that we are working in are coming to Sheffield for a meeting this week, which should be quite fun. ZOMG people I know. I might faint in excitement.

terrificwriter @ 08:59 pm: A question that often keeps me awake at night


totnesmartin @ 05:50 pm: Buffers
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aldabra @ 05:29 pm: I did a search on Amazon for "extraordinary chicken calendar".

The 2010 calendar is £6.96. The 2009 calendar is £7.99. Who pays more for this year's calendar than next year's, in the middle of November?

But there's more. 2005's calendar is £27.72. In fact there's a definite, but not perfect, correlation between out-of-dateness and price. I *knew* I shouldn't be letting people talk me into throwing away old calendars.

Except that 2011's is £8.69. That had me checking the date on my computer in case I'd forgotten which year it is.

But they don't show you the pictures inside the calendar. So how are you meant to decide which one you want?

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