Well, I checked into X-net (Exeter university forums) after about 6 months not bothering (last september it told me).
I find a sticky at the top of Random Silliness author=RaVensWyrD (and I know I’ve got the capitals in the wrong place).
http://xnet.ex.ac.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8206
So very, very strange. I like having Laurence modding the forums, stuff gets done.
So, I’ve heard it’s open, closed, closing, or completely still open.
I was planning on driving up, but if it’s not on that would be pointless.
From what I heard, there should be no problems as only the upstairs flat was raided, not the pub or club, and the licensees are not implicated in anything. But that’s just another of the runours.
Does anyone know anything concrete one way or the other? Staff are apparently booked to be working.
For some reason, I’ve barely touched the PC at home for over 2 weeks. The longer I left turning it on, the less inclined I was to do so. Cold turkey vs addiction effect?
I was actually quite busy, combining work, social stuff, going to friends and going out. I also slept for the whole of last Sunday (despite plans to do otherwise).
Went to see Team America: World Police; the guys from GW were going and, well, it was cheap. I actually loved it, very funny, the sex scene was surreal and the pisstaking of overblown American idiocy was hilarious; the opening scene has them there trying to stop the terrorists from blowing up the Louvre. They succeed in killing all the “bad guys”, the last one is killed by an air to ground rocket that also destroys, um, the Louvre. Chalk one up tot he good guys. Not normally my sort of humour at all (not a fan of South Park for a start), but I loved it.
Shame the same can’t be said about Electra, which
Still, Synthetic Culture last weekend was cool, met up with many people and took the piss a lot. The bubble wrapping was amusing; a decent use for the annoying stuff. Huge queue; glad I missed it by getting there before the pubs kicked out. Thanks for putting up with me Mike.
Work’s ok, getting into random chance territory though, visit host family, turns out she’s a good friend of the father of an old school friend, they run my old scout unit together. Weird.
Well, slept most of the day (again, really have to stop sleeping in on Saturdays, it messes my bodyclock something chronic even though I mostly am exhausted). So went to OtherCon late, played a bit, then decided to go to the Bunker. Completely unplanned, got there about half 10.
Talked Dot and Beadle (although he tells me that’s not how is name is spelt) into going as well, both enjoyed it.
It was actually a pretty good night;Anne-Marie jumped me as I got to the bar, fortunately Chris pulled her off; good to see they’re still happy together (especially good to just see her happy). Felt old again, but gotta get over that; just because her father’s a pretty good friend…
Finally met (Lyrical) Nikki from RocSoc; she’s even prettier in reality, boyfriend 
We bitched about how crap most of the committee are; I think she might make a good President, hope she runs. Also introduced her to Dot, who also wants to sort things out. So some progress.
Emma and Matty were down from London as well, so Tara, Louise et al were out in force; always good to see the mad bunch. In fact, I saw more people there I liked than people I didn’t know, which is unusual for that place. Will is growing a mohican, wonder how silly it’ll look.
Am glad Alice rang me to find out where I was, and also very glad to make the (late) decision to go out afterwards; Dot is fun, and Beadle seems a decent bloke as well. Overall, me in a good mood. Now all I need to do is get some sleep and wake up on time tomorrow…
Barry/Rox; am in Exeter on campus tomorrow from 12, no idea if oyu’re doing much, but might get time to do at least come say hello; unlikely but I’ll text at some point either way.
There’s nothing wrong witht he code that caused the last post to mess up completely, at least not that I can see. Ah well, deleted the offending meme.
Meh, on the subject, the show-off intellectual in me wants to know, without looking it up, how many people actually know
a) what a meme actually is
and
b) who created the term.
PaulJ and I used to talk about the theory incessently while we lived in Exeter, now everyone’s using the word and I’m curious. Did oyu know the theory before you started using it in LJ, do you know it now, is meme just another cool word you ue without knowledge?
None of this matters, of course, but, y’know…
Haven’t done any for ages, and have spent most of the week offline (see “meetings”, below), so decided to click on all the interesting ones on my friends list today and do the lot.
Including the fairy one, before anyone starts…
Bastard LJ won’t let me post the “what age are you” meme, which is a shame, as it tells me I’m 30, not used to teh damn things being accurate…
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You scored as Gandalf. You are Gandalf! This wise, old mage is loyal and brave. He is known for his counsel and advice to his friends and allies during tough times. “All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you.”
Which LOTR character are you? |
Same as Mike. Meh, I’m an old fart who can’t actually die.
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You scored as Loner.
What’s Your High School Stereotype? |
Pretty accurate actually, unusual for a quizfarm thing.
Um, is this supposed to show who’s strip I liked? Dr Ben had better change his gender sometime soon then…
Hmmm. I have no idea what they’re talking about. I think that’s a good thing, right?
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You scored as Twilight Mistress Fairy. Peering over the balcony ledge of your castle, you stare into the twilight, dreaming of love. Your love will come. Night is coming, and it\’s time to dream.
Which Firefly-Path Fairy are you? |
She purty, so I care not if it’s accurate…
So, that was an interesting diversion.
In other news, I have an Ottakers. Good thing considering what Waterstones have done for absolutely nothing said on a blog.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1388249,00.html
Hope everyone’s ok out there…
So… many… meetings…
All day yesterday (2) one today that overran by 4 hours, one last Monday, one previous Friday, 2 more tomorrow (that overlap). Then the writing up of the “action plans” and making sure the right work is done by the right people.
The joys of management. Still yesterday afternoon’s meeting got me out of the office and up to Exeter, but I was so knackered at the end that I forgot to ring people see if they were free
I’m crap. Otoh, ganked from
*****If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.*****
Time to go home; Steve leant me La Femme Nikita series 1 and the original Luc Besson film. Gotta be worth a watch, I’m in the mood for brain dead violence 
but…
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In the year 2005 I resolve to: |
Yanked from
For those not a ‘friend’ of http://www.angryrooster.co.uk/index.php
http://www.taktix.org/test.php
What’s so good about that you ask? It hasn’t got anything new and the links don’t all work.
Simple says I. Look at the domain name carefully. It’s PHP generated! Yippe ki yay! I’ve taught myself php
test.php has 8 lines of code total, but it inserts 7 separate elements, each of which is independently updateable.
That means there’s a small chance I may get around to doing more to the site from now on.
Oh yeah, my old monitor flickered and started smoking late last night (if it hadn’t I’d have done this post yesterday before bed), so I went to Staples on a mission and am now the proud owner of a flat screen. I considered buying a new laptop, but have decided to teach myself how to build a system from scratch instead. Too much megatokyo perchance?
Um, anyone out there that knows how to build PCs, feel free to tell me where to, um, start. I’m not really much of a techie…