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[Oct. 11th, 2007|09:36 pm] |
Clicky
Cracking find on google maps just down the road from a friend. |
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[Aug. 22nd, 2007|11:21 pm] |
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I have a passion for books which for the most part from an outsiders point of view could actually be classed as OCD. I do not borrow or use a library for books that I read. I like to buy them and hoard them. I have a full early print hardback set of swallows and amazons. My most valuable book that I know the value of is £500. I've got a miniature bible format of the tale of two cities, an early hardback of Heidi, an over 100 year old hardback of the three musketeers. My oldest book is a first edition of The Rajah of Dah which was published in 1891 and it is in immaculate condition. I am currently reading Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, a 1000 plus page book printed at 8 point font. I'm almost half way through and the spine was showing no marks of ever being read. That was until tonight, whilst waiting at the station talking to a friend a rather unintelligent drunk decided to prove to his friends that he was intelligent. Jovially taking the book from my gasp asking if it was a good book and then proceeding to open it in the middle and snap the spine. Now I may exaggerate as I managed to verbally accost the moron before he broke the spine but he did leave a crease. A crease that for the duration of my reading will remind me of his track suited unintelligent, uncaring self. I am ever so slightly annoyed about this and it is part of the reason why I never lend or borrow books. I can see on the shelf behind me the remnants of a book that I loaned someone and I wish that I had never received it back because it is in a sorry and ragged state. Even books that I have read time and time again are not even half as badly damaged as the one just referred to. Anyway, I feel much better for ranting about my love for books and hope that I can go to bed and forget the persons face who just creased my current loves spine. |
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[Dec. 24th, 2006|05:02 pm] |
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Is it wrong to buy lemsip, headache tablets, lockets and 4 pint bottles of budvar and happily announce to the cashier that its a cure for xmas? :D |
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| Woohoo! |
[Dec. 22nd, 2006|12:54 pm] |
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Only 3 more sleeps until Dr Who! |
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| Music downloading |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|05:25 pm] |
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| | Interlock- This Waking Moment from Crisis/Reinvention (plug) | ] |
An interesting article recently got brought to my attention with regards to music downloading.
This article and artists comments can be read here.
I feel that anyone who gives a damn about small bands, making music or music in general go and have look. |
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| Guitar help |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|04:31 pm] |
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| | Some jingly jangly shit | ] |
Can anyone recommend a good guitar shop?
I'm looking to buy an Epiphone Dot in Cherry Red and a small amp to learn on. I will be replacing the pickups on it at a later date to more expencive ones. Mainly I want to look at the colour before I buy as I've found it quite cheap online. I'm going for an electric semi as I already have a Japanese Squire Strat full electric at home. I profess its not mine but it may as well be as the owner hasn't attempted to pick it up from my flat in the last 4 years.
Looking for one in West End, Soho or Camden area. |
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| Black Celebration |
[Oct. 30th, 2006|12:20 pm] |
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For those that I spoke to last night that are still without tickets you can buy them from here. |
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| Sony 1 step too far |
[Oct. 24th, 2006|06:29 pm] |
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Those corporate bastards at Sony have finally managed to destroy something useful with the on going rubbish that grey importing PSPs and PS3s to Europe broke EU law. The companies shipping grey imports made it perfectly clear that you were buying a foreign device and also usually supplied the relevant EU standard chargers/powerpacks. Anyway Lik-Sang is no more.
( Details under cut.... )
Lik-Sang were an amazing company that people all over the world used to order their devices and peripherals from. They provided a very good service and quality products. As stated above retailers are going to be rubbing their hands in glee as they continue to charge inflated prices for products of inferior quality. Game and HMV being the prime targets of my accusation. Both of which sell their own "branded" extras for multiple consoles the quality of which is poor in comparison to the quality products shipped by Lik-Sang. Lik-Sang in no way had exclusive supply deals on these products but could not be listed under the "ship shit for high profit" banner.
I hope they pull back and continue trading. This is a sorry day for the gaming industry worldwide and a big "FUCK YOU" to the consumers of Europe. |
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| A write pain |
[Oct. 10th, 2006|02:52 pm] |
This started with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scorpionuk and others have guessed stuff as well....
Now maybe someone else wants to be driven insane for a while.....
Funny Farm
EDIT: Updated link |
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| Dr Who fans... |
[Oct. 7th, 2006|08:49 pm] |
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Something is coming |
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| Buy this..... |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|12:13 am] |
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| | Deathboy - Slip (Mastered) | ] |
Deathboy: End of an Error
.....bitches.
This is actually a pre-order for the new Deathboy album which you can purchase for £10 or pay £18 and also recieve your very own limited run Black Celebration 8 ticket. Come on folks its a bargin! Also playing at Black Celebration: Suicide Commando, XPQ-21, Chaos Engine and many more! |
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| Sys Admin Day |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|01:11 pm] |
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The nutters in the office have seen fit to make a card and do a mini collection to wish me a happy Sys Admin Day. I was presented with a card addressed to "our darling SysAdmin..." and given gifts in a jiffy envelope monikered with a pink heart and dressed in silver parcel tape. I was slightly embarrassed but it has made my day.
List of gifts:
- A rose broach
- A paper clip bracelet
- A shatter proof ruler
- Two party horns one labelled "I'm a special SysAdmin"
- A set of juggling balls
- An orange
- A multigrain maple cereal bar
- A very disturbing brain on a safety pin
- A blue network cable with both clips attached (a rare and sought after item)
- A bottle of perfume
- A Gregg's bakery pen
- A pair of nail clippers
- A modem cable unfortunately with a broken clip (Christ knows where they found that!)
- A 118888 mobile phone deck chair
- 37 pence in copper coins
- A 100 Franc note
Picture 1, Picture 2 Photography copyright David G
Happy Sys Admin Day to you all. |
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[Jul. 24th, 2006|06:46 pm] |
Today sucked more cock than a japanese anime nymphomaniac schoolgirl in a tentacle rape movie.
Example ;D
We had a bit of a poweroutage/spike on Sunday afternoon in the office. Blew a few machines at some point and I've spent today fixing them. Servers are ok, Studio 1 was a blown powerpack, we had 1 blown netcard, 1 crashed HD and 1 trashed CMOS.
Still everything is now wor |
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| Font rage. |
[Jul. 15th, 2006|03:26 pm] |
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| | Dresden Dolls - Glass Slipper | ] |
There is so much people need to learn about the internet and the distribution of information. I have just been looking or rather attempting to find out information about an upcoming event and have been totally put off by the usage of a font which is frankly unreadable and the fact it is entirely made from images. I don't want to spend an hour decoding something to find out information. Oh and whilst on the subject I'm going to have a bitch about serifs as well. I hate them. With a passion. An amazing way to make a font down right ugly when over used. That curly g is horrible as well. Anyway back to my point. The internet is a source of masses of information but a substantial amount is made generally unusable by shoddy web design, poor user journeys or use of far too many images. Yes this may be the age of broadband but there still is no excuse. People access the web not using broadband or with a text reader in the the case of the blind and they are part of your audience.
I would just like to point out that I didn't get out of bed on the wrong side this morning but sometimes things build to a boiling point and need to be vented. |
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| gamery geekery |
[Jul. 5th, 2006|11:08 pm] |
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There was a time when myself and a close friend argued over which was the better console. What I came to realise is that I should keep my own console but also own the one that he owned. I never did buy one of the other consoles though. One day I may. Said console was the Nintendo GameCube. A few years on and Sony and Nintendo started a full on war for the handheld market. As a PS2 fan the power of the PSP had me slain. A portable PS2? Oh my god wow. What I now realise is that I like m,any other people had hold of the wrong end of the stick. Sony released a portable PS2 but the problem is I already have a PS2 with the same games on it why would I want a portable version just to repurchase the games? With myself and I suspect many others that was Sony's initial downfall. Then they tried the Grand Theft Auto card. Heh everyone you can buy a rehash of GTA3 on the PSP and its exclusive. Many fools went out and bought the PSP for the GTA experience(mission pack). I was stead fast and held my ground waiting to see if the PSP was actually worth the money or if the advanced GameBoy Advance(Nintendo DS) really was that good. Nintendo released NinchavDogs and the Daily Mail world goes mental. They all want a dog like Paris Hilton so buy the console and the game in droves. Sausage Dog, SHIT Sue, Spotty mental fucker and blonde gun dog. They ate it. Ninteno being savvy were aiming at a market that generally did not buy a console never mind games for it. Following on from this they stumped up Brain Training - how old is your brain? Mine is a 34 year old drunk gamers brain who will kick your ass when it comes to Quake like 3rd person shooter games or anything that requires reactions primary to skill and thought. I'm proud of that fact. I can take "the braking test" and hit the brakes 0.27 seconds after the brake lights ahead of me have come on. Fuck you I've been gaming since I was a wee little bastard. So after a paragraph of wobbly grammer and punctuation the point I was trying to get at was as follows. Tonight I went out with work mates for the first time in a week and a bit. We were out watching the France vs Portuscum world cup match. The match started slow so I got out my NDS and fired up Mario 64 DS. Mario 64 DS has lots of silly little mini games. I didn't see my NDS until the end of the match as my collegues were competing against each other to get the highest score either on the Mario trampolene, turtle curling or the bomb id level. I realised during this evening that there is no way a PSP could hold so many non gamers attention for so long. We are talking about a game that was thrown in for free and it captured them all and resulted in a drinking competition for those that lost.
So Nintendo, well done. I look forward to the release of the Wii. I suspect that I may also buy one. Fun wins out over flashiness. |
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| The world just got thinner |
[Jun. 12th, 2006|11:56 pm] |
I crested the rise, the trees parting in front of me to be greeted by the face of a large red moon. Not the gargantuan moon of spring dripping in blood but a moon of enormous proportion tainted with that lovely glow of life. Not many people these days seem to notice the portents within the sky and prefer the portents held within the pages of a news paper. Today your life will be shit because venus is in uranus. Strange some people enjoy a good venus with her false prophet in their anus. Still I digress, the moon. Like an eye hung perfectly in proportion and at my own eye level as I crested the hill. I actually stumbled to a stop. Something so powerful I was not expecting after such an awful day. Did anyone else notice? I doubt. Do I now go back out with a camera to take evidence? No, for the moment has now past. A friend noticed how the world seemed surreal this morning. Myself blinded by the sun I didn't notice. Now as the day finally draws to a close I totally agree.
Love.
X
EDIT: to correct the worst of the retarded speeling mistooks and grandma errors.
EDIT EDIT: I just looked up northern and southern hemisphere moons and discovered something that was obvious whihc I actually feel kind of stupid for missing in the first place. The reason the northern and southern hemisphere moons look different is because one hemisphere is looking at the moon up-side-down. Doh! |
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| Book meme |
[May. 31st, 2006|05:42 pm] |
I generally don't do meme's as they annoy me but this one actually piqued my interest.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you
"A cold hand reached out and seized Susannahs's wrist. 'Who is it? Is it the nasty-talking one? If it is, banish her. She scares me.'"
This is actually the 5th paragraph as the 5th sentence was just 3 words; Susannah didn't know. |
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| HELP! |
[May. 8th, 2006|12:33 pm] |
Can anyone translate this company name?
I think its Swedish.
Umeå Försäljningsorganisation Aktiebolag
Thanks |
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| More Silent Hill movie blatherings.... |
[Jan. 23rd, 2006|04:32 pm] |
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I looked through the trailer frame by frame to get a better look at the CGI on the monsters and found something that I'd missed. Pyramid Head the executioner from the 2nd game is in the movie! Pyramid Head was a creature that stalked you throughout the duration of the game. A vicious thing that never hurried and dragged a huge clever along the floor behind it. You knew when it was coming and you knew to run like fuck.
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