Peter: John?
John: Peter! I wasn't expecting to see you here!
Peter: Yes... mix-up with the groups, I think. I'm over here for the next week.
John: Oh?
(awkward pause)
John: Well, it's nice to be have you around here again.
Peter: Yeah. Good to see you again, John.
John: Yeah...

here's a good indicator of my skill.

minus fifty three meters.

oh and, can anyone get better than 1213m on the penguin hitting game?

 

hardly politically correct, but beautiful in it's own right.

Oh well, for all you bored people, here's another little gem(Removed) (R no stars, despite the URL) (courtesy of Dave).

I just scored 87 on that snowball game - it is so quiet in short loan! :P

ooo, and i've started someone else on Asda Smartprice biscuits :P :D

one of my collegues doesn't think i look like a Linda so he's decided to call me Frankie :P oh well :P

Yeah... that's... often the excuse I use too.

hehe :) (R*) I'm sorry, i was bored, you find these things when you're bored :P

I love llamas :D (R*)

I think i've thawed now, just :P the bus was 4o minutes late and then took over an hour to get to southampton :P

*throws a snow ball at everyone* :P

actually... that film's not actually out officially until the 6th. Saturday's showing are advance screenings

looks like it'll have to be next week then, coz i'm not free tomorrow

gah. the bloody Amnesiac and the song associated therewith are stuck in my head. gah.

(please tell me there's no second meaning to that)

Hm. We seem to have joined the "snow club".

Don't know about Saturday, I'm supposed to be having my piano lesson at 5.30. Any time this week APART from that is fine though. :p

School of Rock is showing at Leisure World at 3:00pm on saturday if anyone's interested :) we could have a meal as well - definately nowhere near the Quayside pub though - for their safety more than anything - i may not be responsible for my actions if i go there again :P

We had snow!! well, ok, more like someone had lightly dusted our garden with icing sugar, but it was still snow!!! and the clouds are moving in now :) *bounces* i'm never going to grow up - being a kid is so much more fun ;)

love you guys really ;)

I'm not sure, probly should give her about a week's notice to be fair though. I'm hoping you'll turn up, or it could be toby, rachel and me, which could get awkward on valentine's day :P
If only i turn up, than rachel and i will just get drunk and declare hatred of all men ;P

No, you see, Blogger for some reason thinks that between the end of the post and the last thing I write, that there's a line break. When there isn't. Which is very annoying, because you can't delete a line break that isn't "there" to delete.

But anyway. I look forward to them... the ducks...

Pictures of depressed ducks wandering on frozen lake coming soon, when I get the film developed.

Errm, Jimbly, the <br>s are prolly there because the Blogger options for this site are set to auto include line breaks. I can't help it if Blogger's line-break function is dumb, but I don't suggest you turn it off - writing <br> all the time ain't exactly my idea of user friendly bogging :P

BTW, I quite like JamezBond - it's far less offensive and has a catchy Japanese soundtrack ;)

just for ben, then:

1, 2, 3. (Pictures of the Actor Dylan Moran's Face, so probably an R*)

Okay, okay, maybe for me too.

and, WHY OH WHY does blogger insist on putting a <BR> at the end of this?

yeah, see, here's the thing; I fancy him, and I'm not gay.

Oh, and it has him (R**) in it too...

Is there any time Rach would like to know whether we're/who is coming by, or is it just a "anyone at all show up on the day" thing?

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's new (well, first) film, Shaun of the Dead (R*) is out April 9th. I'm going, whether or not any of the rest of you are. That one's a while off though...

School of Rock seems to be getting reviews along the lines of "fairly mindless but actually funny", as far as I can see. Sounds ok. Someone would have to actually organise it, though...

or just a pub meet or something?

school of rock? out on sat

you forget jimbly, everyone here needs help - being insane makes life so much more interesting though :D :P

We have to do something, if i don't go out soon, i'm going to only exist in the basement tidying books to perfection, shouting at anyone who dares touch the books, the tidy books, my own, my preciousss... :P

hear ye, hear ye: Rachel invites you to her house for a gathering on february 14th. You may all sleep over if you wish. There will be no brother present!

Function results can't be ignored.
SHUT UP! WILL YOU? WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP?! WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!

I can only suggest you need, er, help.

Stuck On You looks like it's amusing to 13-yr olds, IMHO, and Scary Movie 3 would probably only be funny if I'd either seen the prequels, or any of the modern teenage horror films (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer etc.) the series is spoofing.

So, in summary... um... that leaves nothing. Ah well, that means I get to sit at home in the dark. Yay!

I just typed "System.out.println(s)" with my nose. I don't know how. Suggestions?

mmm... not so hungry lindy :)

nearly lunchtime... nearly lunchtime... nearly lunchtime! hungry lindy

...or scary movie 3

hehe, no, cut off fingers thing not good.
sowwy jimbly, i saw it on sat. 'stuck on you' looks amusing though

Just a suggestion: if everyone still hasn't seen Paycheck yet, and Linda still wants to see it; I want to do something post exams to "celebrate" (apparently I can't do the "cut off fingers, scream 'AAAAA' " thing). Yes/no? This does of course depend on when the Toby/Toby Lot finish exams. (I finish Wed morning.)

Blogger seem to have decided to start putting an XML syndication feed here. If it's anything like last time, it'll get a higher google ranking than we do. If anyone can find a feed reader that can interpret it properly, I'll be impressed.

When it comes to incomprehensible flash though, I still can't beat JamezBond (R***), which I ran into last year. What does it mean? Is it homophobic? Anti-memetic? Anti-japanese? Anti-french? Pro-war?

And no way is that R****, otherwise we definitely need an R*****... :P

Jimbly, that is possibly the single most politically incorrect media file I have seen in over a year. I'm not quite sure whether to censor or congratulate you :P

BTW, simply on the grounds of bad taste, I think that ranks as our first R****.

fresh new flash thingey. (R***, noisy)

shant.

It's got to that horrible, horrible point where I've realised I've got enough 2 Unlimited mp3s that I might as well just download the whole Greatest Hits album.

Pity me...

umm... yes dear, ok... :P

thanks jimbly :)

SELECT morals FROM users JOIN russian_federation ON wednesdays WHERE the_sky IS "blue" HAVING a="clue" ORDER BY sexual_preference;

*gibbers darkly in SQL*

(mumble)i was listening to the darkness a year before anyone else(/mumble)

The way to do links is:

1. type: <A href="
   
2. type in the address of the page you want to link to
   
3. type: ">
   
4. type in the words you want to have the link on
   
5. type </A>
   

All done. So an example would be:

<A href="http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/

cranberryjuice.jpg">click this</A>

which would give you:
click this

You can speed this up by using the "insert link" button in blogger, which writes out some of the HTML for you, and you just have to bung step 4 in the middle of it.

Oh, and Ben, if you do drink cranberry, or eat lots of Smarties, you shouldn't really be suprised.

or tena lady http://www.tena.co.uk :P:P

I wish i knew how to post links so you can just click on the word

Are you trying to tell us something Ben? you could always try wearing nappies :P :P :P

hehe! yay for cranberry juice and smarties and whatever other legal substances that get people high :P :)

I've just bought 'The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love' Yay! *bounces discretely* :P 'Lucozade hydroactive' is good :-D

ok...

some children wet the bed. it's not uncommon.

It's crazy crazy fun time! (R**)

Announcement is fixed. I was a bit distracted, you see, by exams. :P

BTW, if anyone else wants to make one of those announcements, put an "announcement.php" with your announcement in it in www.pw.com/html/. (Rob's idea)

No-one lets Ben near the cranberry juice; the cranberry juice lets itself be near Ben. It wants to feel dirty.

Jimmy: I think the general announcement can be removed now ;) :P

I missed the bus this morning, then it started to rain. I then had to catch two busses to work. the second bus got caught in traffic between eastleigh and southampton. The day can only get better, can't it? :P Luckily i have half an hour of flexitime in the morning so no-one was bothered coz i can do the shelving this afternoon instead.

I am so hungry! :P i've not eaten all day :P

:P ok, well perhaps just warn if it's too dodgy to look at while at work, uni, etc then :P

who let Ben near the cranberry juice again? :P

anal russian amputee incest. with goats.



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2XX | || | i gotcha |
l | | | | vitriolis.ne right here | $$$>>$$$$$$$$
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x ONCE UPON A TIME IT WAS AN ASCII GOAT x

That'd just turn into a competition to see who could get a R**** ("Definitely Only If You're Blind")

hehe :)

hmm... can we perhaps have caution ratings or something when we post links?

suggestion -

R* suitable for work, parents, etc

R** ok, but probly best not to have people looking over your shoulder

R*** definately home only

feel free to suggest something better, it's just i'm never sure whether to click on links or not

perkinslashbeck.org is absolute comedy genius. (Made with the rather nice Mixmaster page.)

I'm almost afraid to look :P

hehe. Nice swift editing there, lindy :P

Um, at least it's not ORGASMIC MALFUNCTION. (snigger).

and what does organic malfunction mean? is that a polite way of saying you're nuts? :P

oh dear... I frequently dream that i can't stand up coz my legs just won't work. I decided to have a look online for a possible meaning...

Paralysis
Generally, this disability in a dream, whether your own or someone else's, suggests an emotional conflict or sexual inhibition. If the paralysis was total, it is likely that you are fighting your conscience over something you want to do and feel you shouldn't; if the paralysis was only partial, it indicates a fear of frigidity, impotence, or latent homosexuality. Alternatively this dream could arise from a repressed desire for freedom from responsibility or from an organic malfunction. In any case, medical or psychological advice would be beneficial.

hehe... In any case, medical or psychological advice would be beneficial :)

Oh, transport definately isn't happening tomorrow, the car broke down last night :P so unless i can scrounge lifts (and my mother's ok) i won't be able to make it.

But on a brighter note: i had a ride home in an RAC van last night!! :-D It had an orange flashing light and everything! :P

i know! i can't spell! :P

his hair was burning as he fell like a shooting star. like a comet.

coma n

1. Astronomy. The nebulous luminescent cloud containing the nucleus and constituting the major portion of the head of a comet.


2. ...

(from the Greek, kome)

with his hair

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I want to go see Paycheck! Ben Afflick :) it looks like a good movie, out on fri :) oh well... off to do shelving i guess...

:) I'll ask toby tonight :)

Bishopstoke. Transport MAY be possible to arrange.

Is Toby coming? :P

hehe :) which alex's is the gathering happening at on fri - bishopstoke or southampton? I may b able to come, not sure, transport could b tricky for one thing :P

Why thankyou Linda. I try my best.

Jimbly, that toes thing is disturbing! :P

Toby, are you coming on Friday?

I really don't know what to say.

TWAS BRILLIG AND YOUR SHINEY SHINEY TOES
WERE VARNISHED. THREADING WITH FINE WIRE
THE TOENIALS ARE HARD TO PUNCTURE

mmm... hat AND a whip.... :D

lindyana jones.

happy lindy - I love working here :)

i'm not sure if i'll be able to make it *hides* please don't hurt me :P my mum is having a biopsy (test thingy) the end of this week and i want to be around to be helpful and supportive. Love me! :P

The gathering is on Friday at Alex's. Any time after 6. Come, or I eat your little tiny toes. :P

hey hey! did you know, if you nail a kittens feet to the floor it can't move and it will eventually starve to death?! how amusing!

sorry jimbly, only found the missed calls as i was about to go to bed - don't you have my home number?

I'm not sure if i'll be able to make it at all, beginning of next week may possibly be ok, not sure yet

Can people please, please post when they're free so that I can get jimmy to stop nagging me about socialisation ;)

right, can people check my logic here? I found this on the back of my Penguin bar today:

 "Funny Fact 7: If you place a drop of alcohol on a scorpion...
 (under flap)
 ...it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death."

Now maybe it's just me, but that ISN'T funny. In fact, it's pretty much like saying "if you nail a kittens feet to the floor it can't move and it will eventually starve to death! How amusing"

Which IS NOT funny. Especially the little "meeew" sounds they make, people aren't amused by that at all.

The idea was that as Rob won't be in BW for long, it'd be a good idea to do a social thing fairly soon (next week or two). However, I certainly have exams in less than a fortnight, and I'd imagine the other uni-ey people will have the same situation, so we could be in for some considerable organizational difficulties, which is why I am moaning at people LOTS and NOW :P

Please if people are going to post links with link text like "rotund masculinity", could they indicate whether or not they're suitable for clicking at work/uni :P I still haven't been able to click them yet

I went out with rachel yesterday after work - at least i'm in the right place for the hangover :P

if rob's meant to be organising a gathering, does that mean he's in bishops waltham? Rob? where are you? :P
I shall poke my parents to see whether/when a lift is convenient

*looks confused*

Number eighty-seven, I have but one reply: Rotund Masculinity. I rest my case.

toby has no clue. I have clue-do.
CONCH:

..nthe devil is in the details: armadillo.? /aharmoureddildo?

Searched the web for armoured dildo. Results 1 - 10 of about 393. Search took 0.16 seconds.

Did you mean: armored dildo


yes yes i did now go get it

right, Rob can't be trusted to organize anything himself:

When is everyone free over the next two weeks?
Please give me a useful answer. If you have no idea, please HIT ROB instead.
Thankyou :) fnord

serpentine serpentine serpentine serpentine serpentine!

hang on , I think I just missed something...

did you just write in pink?

But yeah, hugz and stuff.

In an attempt to motivate him: Rob - when's this social happening then :P

[insert [insertion point for [insert]] here]

<contemplation>




Or something equally abstract and indigestion-provoking.

* huggles * Linda :)

[insert witty comment here]

*huggles* everyone
I'm sure it can't be good to spend the day faking confidence :-/ oh well, it works :P :)

Hello people :) i'm back! back at work means regular ramblings from me again :P
I'd almost forgotten what daylight was! :P

Mouse has appeared. Charger still AWOL.

um, we're going to be top result for that next month now?

Searched the web for COCKMUNCHERS. Results 1 - 10 of about 37. Search took 0.23 seconds.

Did you mean: COCK MUNCHERS


giggle. no matter how many times I do it, it never gets any less entertaining.

Rob: could you check to see if you have my mouse and/or my mobile phone charger, please? I'm fairly sure I didn't pack them, and I can't find here. I don't urgently need them back, as I have backups for both, it'd just be nice to know where they were. Thanks.

Anyone spoken to Linda recently? She's not posted on here for a while...

It makes serfect pense /

Ah. Another example of people saying "we'll change it so it makes less sense because it's easier for us to write programs for" then?

(If you really want to get me to rant, ask me why I think they shouldn't be using BR there at all, with or without a slash...)

a. zogu self styled/.cog? n

?b.ore.d/bor'd - drill'd - inep't

Woot! I've just written another set of lyrics about stalking people...

... oh dear.

Errm, Jimbly, the "<br />" incantation comes from the current crazy "standard" that W3C are trying to push, namely XHTML.

Explanation (long and tedious) follows:

The theory is that XML is a HTML-like language (SGML derivative) which is nice and neat and conceptually easy to parse, regardless of the content it's supposed to convey. XML content is quickly becoming the portable data format of choice amongst web-junkies. HTML has not, historically, been nice and easy to parse, due to being cobbled together over the years rather than designed.

W3C, in their infinite wisdom and virtually non-existent position of power, decided XML was a good thing and HTML was messy, bad and wrong. Accordingly, "the next revision of the HTML standard" is called XHTML and is perfect XML while still keeping all the tags from HTML.

Now, the only low-level syntax difference between HTML and XML is that XML has to have matching start and end tags. This means (theoretically) in XML you'd have to write "<br></br>" instead of just plain "<br>", which is just painful. Fortunately XML introduced a shorthand for this - tags with no content may be opened and closed within the same pair of angle brackets, eg. "<br />". This has been adopted for XHTML, resulting in a lot of very confused web-designers, a rash of updates and patches for older browsers and a sudden increase in the number of slashes in web-page sources without any discernible effect :P

Wishing you hadn't asked now? ;)

when I die, will I see the credits roll up?

oh dear god. I think I spent about half a minute pretty much being in g&a20c.

which was weird, but I saw no harlequins, crows, faces on threads, dead gods, living gods, suicides, puppet armies, doppelgangers, dead policemen tied to chairs in sewers, rusting bridges spanning oceans, numbers in stone; just a grey moth.

I guess I'm kind of committed to writing this now. it's strange, the crows and the moths lived in opposition and harmony way beyond and before anything else I thought of. john doe and the harlequin will live yet.

in the meantime: PERKIN WARBECK AND LAMBERT SIMNEL WILL RETURN TO CRUSADE AGAINST MARGARET OF BURGUNDY, KING ZOG AND THE ZEALOTS

sooooo bored (Dodgy, but not quite porn)

Ugh. WHY OH WHY can't Blogger work out for itself that if I type a block-level element into the posting box, then it AUTOMATICALLY gets a <BR> in all modern browsers and doesn't need blogger to add their annoying <br /> to it.

And since when has adding an extra / to the BR tag been correct HTML, anyway?

Award for the most sickening weblog post of 2004, even though it's only just begun, must go to Batman Doesn't Love Me Anymore:

 "28. What did you want and get?
 Lucy."

In which he also reveals he drove off a cliff on New Year's Eve...

haha you said poop.

I've missed this place :P

(sits down and wonders HOW I am going to sort Rob's music collection into mine...)

<rant>

Right. It's official folks - tuxracer is a big pile of donkey poop. It doesn't compile. Ever. Under any conditions, as far as I can tell.

Furthermore, I've just managed to corrupt my OpenGL install as a result of trying to get it to work. I give up - I'll just reformat the HD when I get back to Uni and start again. This time I'm using the unstable "current" branch of Slackware - if it doesn't compile on that, it really is borken.

</rant>

LOL @ Evilplanner.

I'm back on the net (and, indeed, on the mainland...)
Phew.
Don't tell me you hadn't noticed I was gone...

Happy New year guys and girls alike, sorry I haven't been around college has been catching up on me.

Should hopefully try and chat (so to speak) on here a little more.

a "metahaddock", if you will.

Woot!
Or more accurately, "su".

I am currently writing this from ToastRack - the spare lappy. What is slightly more interesting is that I'm running Mozilla under KDE on Slackware 9.1 :)

This was not a trivial install. ToastRack, for those who don't know, has no CDROM drive, so all installing had to be done via the network. This would be fine if Slackware supported install over HTTP or even TFTP... but it doesn't. The only net install it can do is via NFS. The NFS server I used is sitting to my right - my Windows XP box... extreme hackery, the NT socket layer and Cygwin later and it runs sshd, nfsd, mountd, portmap and a whole host of other things it shouldn't.

Oh, and just to top it all off, I even got ALSA sound support working, so streaming MP3s off Dankeffluent with XMMS works luverly:D