I should be doing work... but...

So - are we doing anything social between now and our LOTR-ROTK trip?

This post might be a very, very subtle nag. :p

Goodness!

It's a "Vicky's dad is nice and is buying a house so myself, Vicky (who you've met) and Laura (who you haven't) can rent it" thing. The year after Laura is swapping with Ian, who you haven't met either.

The whole connecting to the actual internet over SOWN thing pisses me off, as I'll be the only one who uses the net, so I'll have to pay for whatever connection we get myself, so I'll probably end up paying £20-£25 a month (or more, by the looks of things) on ISP bills, which doesn't sound appealing. And of course, were I an ECS student, I'd be able to get it for the cost of one wireless card and a spare computer.

And I don't know *where* i'll actually be, as we actually have to find a house for Vicky's dad to buy first. Either way, I'll be moving nearer Southampton, as we all seem to be - it's like there's some giant hand, moving things into place...

(Edit: hopefully that's fixed the BRs AGAIN)

Rob: Perhaps not the wisdom, but yes, more of me :) It's got quite boring now I've actually got some time to do degree work.

Still, came 4th in Leeds Trampolining compy yesterday. Yay! And one of our team came 1st in Intermediate. More Yoj!

Click here for somewhere where there'll be a picture of me with a melon in my mouth (slice of melon, I should say).

Hehe - bingles nice fast SOWN connection ;) Methinks ECS/SOWN are the only ones with enough technical knowhow to put up wireless services ATM. Apparently ISS were going to start a wireless roll-out policy, but SOWN are busy beating them to it by bunging up nodes everywhere before ISS even get started. We don't really want shonky ISS gubbins in the way, slowing down SOWN :P

<vicious rumor> Just as an interesting aside, I think the Faraday node, once it goes up, will have a wired link to ISS, providing the node-to-node connection. I know full well that ISS have a RAS VPN server sitting around somewhere (I seem to remember connecting to it once, just to see what happened), so there may be hope for non-ECS members yet... </vicious rumor>

Anyway, so roughly where's the Jimbly being located? Renting with anyone we know, or is this just a "move into random house and put up with whoever else moves in" kinda thing? (a la Boris)

And yes, it occurs to me that perhaps wanting one of those suits means I've been to one too many a fur meet.

WHY OH WHY WON'T ECS LET ME USE THEIR NICE CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET VIA SOWN

If you haven't already guessed, I'm going to be living in Soton next year.

Jimbly: Wow. All-over velvety feel - fluffyness :)

I really want one of these suits. (Image itself is safe for viewing at work/school/uni/etc; it is from a fetish site though, so make up your own mind whether to click)

Anyone know where I can obtain plastic apples (ideally cheap ones, they don't need to be good)? Ideally wholesale?

Woot keith - does this mean we'll be seeing more of your wisdom from now on?

Linda: 'Tiz not the subway that does it, but the late nights and caffeine. The sub merely compounds the issue by settling like lead - most oversized bread/pastry products have a habit of doing that (cf. pasty, pie, etc.).

Ooh look, I posteth! Yoj! :)

*waves hello to rob*

I should go home since I've forgotten my lunch, which is still in the fridge. I should also at some point do some 'degree' related work.

As for Buffy... I too wondered if Andrew would be the next slayer. Bit of a twist, eh?

It would at least save us from those criminal 'English' accents. They must've gone to the Dick Van Dyke school of enunciation.

I think maybe i should stop having late nights followed by subway and coffee for breakfast, it's really not good for the digestion :P

hmm... i wish they could hook me up to a drip of caffeine and sugar :P

I missed buffy :( the urge for retail therapy was too strong :P

Narf. I keep falling asleeptpntpiotkongroinwg4uiw iogggggggggggg

That plural is very unpleasant.

Try opening that animation when you've got dance music on... er... maybe I should be less bored.

Heheh. Buffy! Andrew is, like, SO COOL. I wish they'd killed off Buffy Summers, and just had Andrew instead. Would be so cool! Especially if it turns out that all along he was a potential slayer... and then he could KICK DEMON ARSE.

[ani?]

wait, wait. does this mean those things I've been clicking on at the side of the window are anuses?

<Don Hertzfelt>
	My scroll button is crunchy...
	Yay! Yay!
	My scroll button is crunchy!
	Yay! Woo Hoo! Yay!
	For the love of God! My scroll button is crunchy!
		</Don Hertzfelt>

... Or maybe it's just me that finds the feeling of operating rocker switches with minute bits of grit under them unpleasant ...

Willow is such a tw@t. I wish they'd killed her instead of Tara.

I was aware that it was the D*infinity that was causing the layout problem; as was, at the time, the "MY EATING UTENSIL" problem. I corrected both, but the DDDDDDDDDDDDs keep on reappearing every time that I sorted them. I haven't worked out why yet. Pehaps your CRAZY HYPHENATION PLAN will work better than my ADD SPACES EVERYWHERE plan .

Editor's note: #87's cranberry-induced post caused the reformatting problem - I have taken the liberty of hyphenating the offending line.

Jimmy: I showed your dream post to a second-year psychology student. She just rolled her eyes and made the comment "ohhh kay...". Methinks you're at least semi-officially nuts ;)

hmm... so far this morning i've had a large cup of coffee and 500ml of lucozade 'hydroactive'... i can just about function now... I might need more caffeine later though :P

The only drawback is i think i'm gonna need the loo at really inconvenient moments throughout the day today :P

hehe :) yay! :)

Next time we have a gathering, we should just give ben cranberry juice and watch. It'd be far more fun than going to the cinema.

hmm... the posts on Perkin Warbeck are appearing underneath the black bar thingy that has the PW logo on it, rather than beside it, is it just my computer or is it the same 4 everyone else?

Less then 3 hours until i see toby *huge grin*

ummmmmmm....... ok then :P

spot the voltron reference.
jesus christ, I am never drinking cranberry juice again.

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."

- INTERLUDE -


GORDON BROWN! YOU ARE DESTROYING MY RAILWAY AND FOR THAT YOU WILL PAY!



and now, TRANVESTITE MELODRAMA

ROGER/MANDY: Take me, Geo-Patricia! I'm yours!
GEO-PATRICIA: NEIN! DIE HEIKES SCHEELPENSCHRIFT!
stabs him
ROGER/MANDY: !!1
GEO-PATRICIA: casting off his disguise EINKEN HAUF EIN KEINEL, SEVEN YEAR REICH!
geo-patricia is really Yamomomoto, famous japanese who can eat Brussels!
ROGER/MANDY: not so - splutter/dies
VOLTRON: DIE!!!!!!!111
laser beams/stabbing
GEO-PATRICIA: !!!!1
ROGER/MANDY descends
GEO-PATRICIA: Pesky kids! I would be rich now if it weren't for
stabs him.
ANGUS: Decens!
angus descends

*<<**angus_of evil**>> has descended to secret lair
*<<**angus_of evil**>> has got the suitcase!
*<<**angus_of evil**>> has declared seven-year reich
*<<**angus_of evil**>> has been telefragged!
*voltron_fucker wins!

VOLTRON: I WIN THIS TIME AMERICAN GAME! NOW WHO HAS THE ULTIMATE SOCIO/MACROECONOMIC FIELD ADVANTAGE?!?!! I RULE INTER-WEBNET WITH AN IRON FIST!!!1

SUPER HAPPY CHASE SCENE!!!!!!!!!!111 *

THOM YORKE: NOT SO FAST VOLTRON!!!!!
VOLTRON: OH NO IT IS TOM YORK!!!!!
thom yorke stabs voltron... with a guitar!

THOM YORKE: CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!!!!

THE ENDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD-
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

*this should be below the voltron/yorke dialogue

Maths/science/computers replacing your need for children?

That 'baby' looks like a molecular structure. Worrying

shit. I guess that trumps my dream about Frasier Crane turning into rambo and stalking Terry Wogan whilst simulteneously making hilarious satirical jokes about his estranged wife. [seriously, that did happen. the dream, that is.]

Very oracular... very prophetic.

*adds to the list of Why Never To Have Children*

It's very difficult to describe the dream I had last night; it's more that I dreamt emotions rather than events, more shapes and ideas than images.

I do however remember the bit with the baby. The baby had a head; below that, the neck joined to three other necks with heads on, all four evenly spaced to form a regular shape. (I tried to work out how it would have looked when I woke up.) Next in the dream was it's birth. It was by caesarian. They pulled it out through the hole, but it had no head at all, it was just a pillow shaped bag of skin, and through the skin you could clearly see the organs - I remember the lower intestine almost looked dead, it was a sort of blackish blue - and there were a load of hugely oversized black computer chips floating inside, each with six gold contacts on it.

Anyone with insight into what this means, please tell me. I have no idea at all, and really, it worries me.

You folks do realise that one of our repeated searches is people searching for "Angry Ticks Fire Out Of My Nipples"?

Now, I'm fine with that myself, but with these archives, if anyone ever feels like setting up a porn site on this address...

... just think ...

... NO, actually, DON'T ...

... of the content ...

"Yes, I know what a parking meters are!"

Oh well, at least i have a Subway meal for lunch :) I need caffeine....

*hugs*

*tries to calm down* she has this way of making you want to take her head and beat it repeatedly against the nearest wall, whilst other people jab her with forks!

I just had a visit from the super bitch from hell matrix demon student..... KILL KILL KILL!!

Damn you, that's my line.

(angus descends)

or rather, this morning.
or rather, alfred.

amusing and poetic?! say it aint so!
christ, I'm cranky tonight.

An amusing and poetic diversion

i saw a skull
in the sand
at the beach
at midnight
while it was raining

it was black
like my soul
and my heart
which is also black

blood
in my eyes
BLACK BLOOD

epic poetry, I choose you!

(fights the urge to post BARTSE).

In the words of Weebl, "How rare."

I would mirror the page, but unfortunately it's a University course page, and the professor who wrote it has bunged a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. I'm a little reluctant to mirror obviously copyrighted pages :P

It may not be broken there, but it's getting a "page cannot be displayed" here. Which is rather odd? It upsets me too, as I'm missing "random crystallography" by the sounds of things.

My link may be "irregular", but it ain't broken - simply scroll down a bit on the page for enlightenment (clue: it's the bottom sample photo in the classification section). I don't always post image links, 'cause that's boring. 'Tiz much more fun to keep you on your toes with random crystallography pages and the like ;)

Oh, and your "irregular" link is broken.

Unless that was intentional?

The annoying thing is there's actually some quite interesting stuff on there; generative heavy metal, anyone? (Having tried to use the program it's made with, I can say this guy probably is a minor genius...)

Ow! Jimbly hurts eyeses! Why d'you have to go and link to an epileptic fit waiting to happen? Mind you, at least he had the decency to use a foreground colour that (at a push) could be read over that background, unlike some sites I've seen.

"I am your badger, your fluffy little badger, who will not let go until the bone goes crunch." (or something like that) - Rigmor from The Kingdom II

[scary badger] is much better than the original, don't you think?

Wow, a full posse of irregular nutcases ;)

Remember: Wikification progresses rapidly from being a useful annotation of text to a veritable deluge of completely pointless hyperlinks. The former is designed for ease of use, the latter is intended for ease of entertainment.

BTW, scary badgers are a useful substitute for commercial badgers.

MOTHERRRRRR


back.

Paris Hilton is actually a racoon, anyway....

This whole Paris Hilton thing has unpleasant hotel overtones in my mind... I mean there are fetishes and then there are dubious acts involving multiple tons of masonry...

I've got my first dedicated gaming machine! It's a P133, with no graphics card at all, and Windows 95! I've been planning this machine for months so I can finally play the games I want!

Isn't that AMAZING?

Oh, and I quite liked "Paris Hilton shagging depose telescoped" as a spam subject line. That did amuse me quite a lot.

Small things, eh?

"inconspicuously milling around near clubs": <metafilter>is that something you'd have to leave the house to know about?</metafilter>

Not going to the Ram was a good thing. I wouldn't have been comprehensible most of the evening in the mood I was in :P

{ 'you !misbl \writing } !just #2 \try

I, on the other hand, have not been following Buffy, due to lack of time and inclination - I've missed so much of it (whole series') that it isn't really worth starting now, much though I'd like to participate in the current topic.

As you might have gathered, there was no Ramming after all. This was due to insomnia caused by the sudden realization that I had 4 courseworks on the trot and no idea as to what order they had to be handed in, or even the timescales involved. Thankfully the crisis was alleviated by Dave's intervention, forcibly "timetabling" me into a sensible state of mind :P

Jimmy: That problem usually occurs in students at clubs under the influence of five or six "too many". The art of inconspicuously milling around near clubs, deriving amusement from watching said drunk punters trying to walk off with the wrong partner is apparently worth a try if you're really bored.

Thought for the moment: Why is it, the more "inventive algorithmics" I perform, the more verbose my vocabulary and sentence structure becomes?

I'm sure that problem happens to a lot of people, anyway...

Oops. I was wrong. It's not the same girl. Ah well.

Linda: Thinking about it - you know in the first episode, you said those three kids at Sunnydale looked like the Scoobies? Looks like you were right. (If that is the same girl.) Just everything is the wrong way round to how you expected.

Have checked; yes, the First cannot touch anything. And they know that too, as Buffy knew that in series 3 when she first met the First.

Joyce definitely doesn't communicate with the real world, or indeed anything resembling it... ;)

I am right in thinking that the conditions on the first taking the form of people are that:

a) the person must be dead
b) the First cannot take on physical form; ie. the dead people it impersonates can't be touched

aren't I? (I'm going to check this with Vicky tomorrow morning.)

In which case, Giles certainly hasn't touched anyone yet. I've been watching very closely for that one :P This of course does bring up the question - if the First can't be touched, why don't they go around checking if everyone can be physically touched? " helping her out of the hole would have been a nice gesture" - yes - and he did look rather weird indeed when you saw him against the sunset. Giles seemed pretty killed in that England scene as well - I'd be very suprised if Giles was not stone cold dead. (Sorry!)

"Bufffy's mum said..." - You are of course assuming that the visions of Joyce (Buffy's mum) have been that of some other force apart from the First; I agree with you on that, but who exactly do you suggest the thing that looks like Joyce is, and how is it communicating with the real world (which we haven't actually seen happen before)?

Ah well. All will be revealed in time, I suppose...

Ah, nasm...

Marketing slogan: "Welcome to a World of Pain"

;)

Buffy, Yay! Giles is back! :) "I think we may have a slight apocalypse on our hands." hehe :)

Is Giles really there? He didn't look particularly concerned about buffy having just been beaten up by the supervamp thing in the cavern - helping her out of the hole would have been a nice gesture :P Actually - he suggested she go there. Also, the potential slayer that ran away led her to the supervamp again.

Bufffy's mum said that Buffy would have to make a choice and wouldn't chose Dawn, perhaps Buffy has to choose between Giles and Dawn if Dawn finds out the truth?

OK, I've been thinking about this way too much - makes a change from techie talk though :P

Toby: Late night last night was it then dear? :P [ Wed Nov 19, 02:52:56 AM | Toby Hunt ]

/me is good at amassing redundant files - I call them CM213 lecture notes ;)

I'll think about the problem of how best to ship the RPC off the island later. ATM I'm armpit deep in courseworks - four of them to be precise, with a fifth turning up within the next couple of weeks. I've spent most of the day coding in a mixture of ANSI C and real-mode x86 assembler... I'm NASM'd out :P

org 100h
ret

Toby: My RISC PC is on the island at the moment I think, which is a bit of a pain. If you can convince someone coming up to bring it with them, then go for it, you're welcome to. You'll need to tell them to take the loose HDD out, it's just loose and can be taken out of the (unblanked) 5 1/2" drive bay. It ought to work ;). Oh, and it's a different 80+ meg file, on a different server ;).

Jimmy: The 80meg file on files. is redundant, if I'd not already said. The 120+meg one on cappy is not.

I'm leaving all organisation to other people :P

That's kinda unlikely seeing as it's a file I put there, I know exactly what it is, and it's on "files." which isn't on Cappy anyway :P

Does this mean that PW is actually going to be up for longer than 3 days at a time?

If someone is organizing something CAN THEY PLEASE PHONE ME! I asked around last night and neither Alex, Benji or I had any idea what was going on. Thanks.

Right, I have made a unilateral decision - we are indeed Ramming on Friday :)

Jimmy: AFAICR, that huge file is a stop-gap fix by Rob to avoid a probable HD glitch in that sector of the disk... I have not a clue whether it's an actual glitch, but apparently the drive didn't like a sector or two around there under RedHat. I should leave the file put for the time being :P

Tech announcement: I think, after reading up on the relavent docs it might be possible to put a 200W Mini-ITX PSU in Cappy, thus solving all the power issues. Rob: I'm gonna need your RPC to do the MB tests on - where is it ATM?

Toby: Are we all still going to the Ram on Fri? My parents are fine with it, i just would like to know what's happening so i can organise myself :P

ello people :) I've finished doing the illness thing now (sort of :P) so back to numerous postings!!

Jimmy: Pirates of the Carribbean is supposedly out on the 1st December :)

ok... very random picture! :P

How utterly...

... terrifying.

Proles For Modernism has three main aims:

1. to prevent the demolition of the Tricorn Shop Centre in Portsmouth ('UK')
2. to realise placeless proletarian communism
3. to undermine the aesthetics of consumption by consuming aesthetics

It is obsessed with leylines and Stonehenge and mythology and the Tricorn Shopping Centre. It's also really, really creepy. I'm sure it's meant to be funny, but it's not. It's just weird, weird and creepy.

Rob - Do we want that lather rarge (80+mb) file sitting around on files.?

Rob - remind me to send you CARP.MP3. I have been meaning to for about half a year now.

'Twas not Cappy, 'twas the Rat that went splat :P

Fixed, with the aid of a sister and a power switch.

I think I jinxed it.

Just last night I was thinking - "ooh, cappy's been up a long time"

Oh well.

To which I can say only

BUFFY! yay.

When was it that Pirates came out on DVD, Linda? I'd like to watch it again, especially to try and work out exactly how morally odd it is. (Somehow a film saying PIRATES=GOOD is a little odd to me.)

Ah, but what a price of silence to pay for a Yes/No...

Hang on - did I just get a straight yes/no answer without asking from Warbeckers?

(faints)

Anyways, coolio. I'd just been doing HTML as an escape from reality again (which isn't a good habit) and wondered what people thought of it...

There are some problems with this current design (the usernames are easily confused with the posts, the posts themselves occasionally "disappear", visited links are difficult to read), so there might be a small amount of titting around on here when I finally get around to sorting them :P

At some time I'll get round to doing link rel="alternate"s or something, it's much neater than a seperate "skins" page, if significantly less funny. If anyone has any suggestions, perhaps we should move to somewhere a little more quiet?

I rather like the "skin" we've got ATM, ta.

Feel free to add new skins as seperate files, just don't tit about with the front page too much... please? Special event skins, such as the Warbeck Revolutions make-over are forgiveable, but random front page redesigns for no apparent reason just get on my nerves :P

Rant over :)

Yes.

Skins For Your Warbeck! - a kind of horrible combination of web-based publishing, fur fetish, and disgruntled llamas...

Anyone like this? I got bored again.

Warbeck Revolutions. Oh, and don't forget that Mobil is an anagram of Limbo.

Lol. ALEX TEH BOY WONDER. And I am also relieved you are not pregenent. I am not a PRWAN.

Scary. That implies that lab equipment is required for said bending...

i asked Jeeves how you bend perkin, this was the response...

http://www.sintrexcorporation.com/labglass.htm

BOO! i know you're ther Rob, i can see you, i know where you live, i'm watching you!

I don't even remotely want to know how you got from bending the perkin to dreams of pregnancy...

And as the Brarner Wothers' logo fades out, we see an ostrich filmed in wobbly green. The scene cuts to the inside of a room, where rows of small green images of sparrows, quails, and other handily bite-sized birds falling symbolically down the texture space...

... if you listen carefully, you can just hear their little squeaks of impending doom ...

I dreamt i was pregnant last night. You have no idea how relieved i was when i woke up! :P

Remeber, it is not the perkin that bends...

[ew]

I love the way perkin warbeck looks at the moment!!

that was wierd, i just got an image in my head of Jimmy and Rob dressed as Batman and Robin, running down southampton highstreet in the evening, with appropriate batman music :P

Jimmy: are you batman then? does that make alex Robin? :P

Toby: Please don't mention porn in relation to yourself on here, i have to work, i don't think they want a horny library assistant :P mmm.... toby porn... too late!

We are all prawns in the mind of Buffy...

HUH?

We're #4 on FIREBIRD SHOCKWAVE XP at the moment.

Yet more evidence that Google really is broken...

Rob: posting at 2AM is bad for you.

Anyone who doesn't like WARBECK REVOLUTIONS: it'll all be gone soon. All gone.

Rob: posting at 2AM is bad for you.

Anyone who doesn't like WARBECK REVOLUTIONS: it'll all be gone soon. All gone.

"coolant d's concert conservatism describe illimitable claw projector ratify alia compact knurl disparate woodwind benz aureomycin bishopric abbot cufflink redshank elmsford nih contractor oilmen"

Spam? Spam? That's poetry!

"What do you want with me?"

The evil genius turned up the taps on the pressurised tanks of dry ice, and stalked towards the superhero in a cloud of chilly drama.

"I want.... the batcave."

My MSN seems to be broken. Don't know why. In the meantime, I am online, and can be contacted on this thing. Edit: looks like Yahoo is still working... Edit (2): perhasp not. (/me returns to the Batcave. Lovely batcave. Lalalalala)

Yay! I've always wanted an amp with "Treble boost", "Bass boost" and "Architecture destruction boost" ;) How about a precision subwoofer for sculpting purposes?

Anyway, I'm not a pawn in anybody's mind. Porn in some people's minds, but never a pawn :P

(PS: I'm slightly "off topic" in the brain ATM, due to London Pride before tea)

*must fight urge to turn amplifier up to masonry-destroying levels and put on Black Dice*

We are all pawns in the mind of Buffy...

Again - you've been watching Buffy too much. It's not your imagination, it's Buffy's. It's all Buffy's little hallucination.

Am going to sit down tomorrow night and watch The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. I need to be properly up-to-date on my Matrix storyline, as I cannot remember half of the stupid thing.

perhaps i have been, perhaps they keep me sedated and my whole existance is in my twisted imagination :P

Perhaps you miss Giles a little... too much...

and me, section me, please please! :P

the new buffy is cool, but i miss Giles!

Oh, please section me...

Of course caffeine is all those things. Insanity monster of course, Argus... That's why it's good. You don't believe in the Real World™ do you?

*slurps down coffee and edits the general universe*

Caffine is NOT very good. Caffine is bad. Caffiene is very bad. Caffiene is the seventeen-eyed insanity monster. Caffiene is hundreds of pretty fairies... so pretty... so pretty. Caffine is imagination and rocking backwards and forwards and twitching and Boards Of Canada and WHY ARE THERE Lemmings(tm) EVERYWHERE?

What's sad? Please don't say you're actually in two minds, so we have to section you, too...

EDIT: Stop editing! You're confusing me and making my posts make no sense!

That's... sad, actually. (The Tertiary Phase) I'm in two minds about it.

Caffeine is very good. So much so that I'm just off to feed the coffee machine again.

The getting used to caffiene is a good thing though. Then you don't make silly mistakes like me. And drink a third of a small bottle of cola and end up running up and down the maths block stairs yelling "I'm losing it... I'm losing it" at people...

Oh, and, isn't the new buffy SO cool! I've been spending a lot of time thinking about possible storylines they might possibly be going to do in the remaining episodes. My favorite one would definitely be if they brought Tara back as a zombie, and the Scoobys had to fight her...

I do remember the name, but I can't actually remember who she was. (I didn't really have much to do with that lot, as you probably know... in fact, I didn't really have much to do with anyone at all at Swanmore, but that's another story :P) I'll have a look at the yearbook tonight and will probably know who you're talking about.

And anyone who hasn't heard yet should read the news about the Tertiary Phase being made with (almost) the original cast...

yay! fireworks tonight :) loud ones and sparkly ones in the back garden, yay! :D I'm such a big kid!

Yay! a second hour in short loan today!

Anyone remember jenny hipsey? (friends with lottie newall-smith and meredith lee) i just saw her in the library, looks like we're going for a drink (coffee or tea) after work.

It's probly only jimmy that is likely to know her, toby should know who i mean though.
This is wear i fish 4 information, without giving too much of my own life away :P

Toby: i know i said i couldn't see you tonight, but i'm only seeing her for about half an hour - the bus is normally that late anyway!! :P I want to find out what they're all doing now. Phone me tomorrow when you get into town, i have to go down to argos tomorrow but as uni link is slow i should have done that b4 you arrive :P

perhaps i need stronger coffee... :P

I'm either incredibly tired or my body is getting used to caffeine.... i've had coffee and tea today, i should be hyper by now, but i'm not :P

The second bracket should also read "scaring them shitless".

Lindy - If I haven't already spoken to you by the time you read this - I finish uni at lunchtime, so I'll probably go into town for the afternoon, so I'm not fussed about time. (If you want me to be picked up by my own parents, it would help if it's earlier). If anyone else is likely to have the afternoon free and wants to hang around with me, that would be nice... also, eating sounds very nice, but where? (The first person to say "pizza hut" will have all three members of the Fast Food Rockers inserted somewhere nasty).

Nicky has a car? I may have to stop using pavements. Or roads. And not go anywhere near Winchester...

Male with female... ??? Perhasps the sectioning is for the best, dear...

I was thinking - perhaps we should have dark side (negative) and light side (positive) points - one for when there's more of you than them (ie. scaring people shitless) and one for where there's more of them than you - (ie. making people stare)?

right, Friday....

Do people want me to book tickets 4 the 6pm, 7:15pm or 8pm showing. The film lasts 2hrs 8min. do we want to grab food first? I'll be available to meet people about 5:30.
Jimmy: i'll text your old number later tonight regarding a lift back coz i need to talk to parents first, but you'll have to make your own way into town as i'll already be in soton.

I know, decisions, decisions, but i'd really like to book this tomorrow so it would be useful to know what is happening :P

oh, and so far, it looks like toby, jimmy, alex (may require dragging away from work) and myself who are going. nicky texted me earlier. she has a car now :) I think i might invite her as well.

....or sectioned

I've decided that i should be classified as "male with female hormones" do u think they'd mind if i put that on the next form i fill in?? :P:P:P:P Ah... another way to get a strange look :P

different categories of looks could be fun eg. curiosity (how many people you can get to look at a specific point on the ceiling by pointing at it), disgust, cunfused, etc

amount of points could depend on a rough age group/class of people (eg, townies)

could get more points for official, uniformed people (and possibly arrested :P)

Size of the group that's now cutting you dead divided by the number of people in your group?

Hello Idea Factory! You want to help me - I want to develop a game based around the principle of getting points for the amount of weird looks you get from passers by - I was wondering if you had any ideas? I expect between us all, we've got a fair amount of experience of getting odd, puzzled, bemused or scared looks - what's the best point scoring system for them?

We had to disconnect her, she was only getting 300 baud...

That post really makes it sound like Lidna is dead. It's quite creepy. It almost makes me uncomfortable.

Had some quite fun dreams last night - the one where I had these parasitic worms all over me, and they had green/yellow stripey earthwire type patterns all over them, and I was trying to persuade people that it was all normal and that it wasn't parasites, it was just part of me that had grown overnight, and then people were saying "but jimmy parts of you don't grow outside your clothes", and then panic

I think it was a connection issue.

Poor lidna.

*hides* i'm having a very bad day!! the computer system we use to issue and return books decided to stop working. this was fine for most people because they reverted back to the system they used quite happily b4 the current one. Only problem was, i've never used the old system, hence STRESSED LINDY! someone should tell the computers to behave when i'm hormonal! :P Must not kill...!

Is this intentionally broken, or are we still having problems?

I'm glad my hands have stopped shaking enough that I can actually type...

Have a Robert Moog, anyway.

"Now I lay me down to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see in infra-red
How I hate the night..."
- Marvin the Paranoid Android

I'm such a student.

"Where's the kaboom? There was meant to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" - Marvin the Martian

WTF is this? Self-mailing Anonymous?

"Hi, I'm Mike, and I haven't sent myself letterbombs for three months"

I sent, erm, a remote location, to my home address some time ago... I forgot I sent it and was rather surprised to find out quite how much excess postage they wanted from me for air mailing Luxembourg across Europe...