*grins*

ello?

my shoulder is achy again, i need a holiday :P

perhaps this will tempt the jimbly back?

lindy needs a shoulder massage

Jimbly, we do love you, come back!

Woohoo! Furniture porn is back online (R**) :)

Indeed. Wrinkly shortarses, perversely, have often made quite successful ballad singers - take Sir Cliff for example.

BTW, Jimmy, all is forgiven here - I've now heard the actual reason for your non attendance and I can appreciate why.

Yoda and the Yodettes ... singing love songs in squeaky voices with piano accompaniment in reverse polish notation...

... tracing of swallow on snow-crested ground ...

And where, pray, was the Jimmy last night? Only 12 out of the 80 guests actually arrived to Rachel's do - she was quite upset.

mmm...trifle :D

... it flourished and honked and made a noise like a goose in oestrus ...

Oh honestly, you and your fetishes :P

One of these, filled with this, anyone? ;)

everyone who isn't toby: apologies if that was TMI :P

Toby: pin-stripe suit? :P I know i was teasing you yesterday, but i think i find it a turn-on just wearing it ;)

could always roleplay an interview situation. Arrive in a room with one (if not more) official looking guys in suits waiting for you. As the interview progresses the questions gradually become more sexual until all paperwork is thrown off the desk in a moment of intense lustful passion...have i said too much? ;) :P

Nah, if you're going for pine then this would probably be more practical - there are no sharp corners and the chairs look pretty sturdy. Mind you, if we're doing furniture porn (<- site appears to be down ATM), we must cater for the likes of Jimmy too ;)

mmm... PINE :D

lol! indeed :P

Not at that price it isn't - it'd be cheaper to buy the sheep, have them professionally skinned, then fly to the Mediterranean and pay local tailors to make one to fit :P

hehehe! :P

and if anyone has any problems with friday, phone rachel :P

no-one's bringing anyone unexpected are they? rachel would like to know roughly who's turning up

She has only met rob about once, so i'm guessing he's not.
Rachel has said she doesn't mind jeans, but she wants some attempt at smartness - she was contemplating wearing a dress which should give you some indication. Jeans and a casual shirt possibly? Probly best to contact rachel if you need greater clarification :P you know rachel though, she likes to do things 'properly' :P

Linda: Ugh. We have to be smart? I'm not sure I have anything smart. And how smart is smart? I thought Rach was hiring it, wasn't she? In which case they can't exactly stop her guests coming in - besides which, I've been in there before in combats and trainers and no-one commented. A little clarification might be useful here.

(Yes, I know you're not Rachel, and I shouldn't shoot the messenger etc. etc. but I'd rather argue with you than Rachel :P)

Is Rob supposed to be coming?

can't be arsed to photoshop

PS. Linda, I don't have any shirts. I think I had a "smart" shirt once, but it was a winter one and would have looked silly. Either way, I certainly don't have anything here in Soton (other than my denim shirt with the ink stain on the pocket, which I only wear when it gets cold).

Nah, I was minding a PJ. There was no-one else around and PJ needed to be at the Burgess Road library to catch a coach home at some ridiculous time this morning (8 something or other), hence he stayed over here.

I dunno when, exactly, I'm going to get time to go home. It's a bit late to go home today - Dave's back this evening for one day, so I'd have about 10mins at home before I had to turn round and come back. Then, of course, I see you on Wednesday, so Thursday looks to be the earliest I can go. Late mother's day cards methinks :P

Anyway, I have to put some of this damn washing out and hope some of it dries before I run out of clean underpants. I also need to do emergency shopping, since we're out of things like bread, crisps, chips and beef (oops, my bad ;) ).

if anyone makes a comment about 'intelligent clothing' they may get a slap on friday :P

Jimmy & Toby: Don't forget Rachel's event on friday - 7:30 at the Hog's Head (near ann summers). smart dress please - i'll re-phrase that - smart clothes please (shirt, not t-shirt) ;)

I could make a good substitute for holidays if given the chance ;)

didn't you go home for mother's day then?

lol, I pine for toby, toby pines for labs ;P mmm.... PINE! :D

*huggles* toby

And yes, Jimmy, I do know that should have been "PJ's" not "PJs". Tough :P

Hmm... Methinks I may be getting a little eccentric these days - especially when left alone in a house for most of the day, preceded and followed by a night of PJs company.
So far today I have:

• Completely ignored the fact that I have loads of clean washing, but haven't hung any of it out, so none of it is dry (and probably needs rinsing again),
• Cleaned the kitchen surfaces and washed up twice, but completely neglected to dry up or do the floor (navigating the kitchen in bare feet is not recommended unless you walk on the work surfaces),
• Eaten one meal that was (even taking the side salad and bread into account) over 80% pure cow (ASDA "lean" mince makes lethal burgers), while the other meal consisted of what was missing from the first meal... namely vegetables, carbohydrate, dairy produce and fish,
• Coded for nigh on 4 hours straight, produced nothing useful, yet haven't been too bothered,
• Removed my fingernails (again) as a result of impending holidays.

Methinks holidays are bad for my health - I need less of them. Labs would make a good replacement - I haven't done a good set of labs in ages.

*Sits and pines for decent lab work*

Mud wrestling and sheep? My, my, I have been missing out ;)

Anyway, custard is the way forward, not mud, when it comes to sports. Apparently far safer than existing surfacing materials and has many added benefits.

ooo, nearly 1pm :) lunch time!

lol, fair enough :P and how are you still awake? :P

I was vector calculating. Rob was removing foliage+paper.

Thankyou LINDATRON!.

SHEEP! :D (R*)

5:32am??? what have you two been doing all night? :P

lol, don't panic jimbly, it's next friday at the hog's head, 7:30. You'll have to arrange your own transport btw as i'm staying at rachel's that night.

LINDA LINDA WHEN AM I SUPPOSED TO BE AT THIS RACHEL THING????

Also plese be caerful/nice. rob and jimmy have had no sleep all nigh.t

no no not like that.

That looks cold.

now now children, play nicely or we'll have to settle this a different way :P (R*)

lol @ toby's handbag (R** - but you may not want to follow links off this page away from home)

He did have some ability.

*snigger*

Well, I suppose it's an ability of sorts, anyway.

<handbags at dawn> He may well possess a doctorate and hence, technically, have the title Doctor. Unfortunately the term "Doctor" has a nasty habit of conveying the image of competency - a quality that is conspicuous by its absence with the individual in question. </handbags>

<pedantpedantpedant> isn't that Dr. Bubel? </pedantpedantpedant>

Heh - you think you have a problem with weeknights... I'm going out practically every night this week. I would worry about my bank balance, but I'm too knackered to add up :P

BTW, I got 100% on the easy quiz and 40% on the hardest quiz they do. I must actually have been awake for some of Mr. Bubel's chemical meanderings. Either that or I spent one too many textbook exercise sessions playing "lets make amusing words using only the chemical element symbols" and learnt some of it by mistake ;)

tired lindy, I really shouldn't go out drinking on a week night :P

I am so bored :P (R*)

oh dear :P (R*)

/me wonders what toby was doing to the comment to make it come ;) :P

Toby: aww *snuggles* you've got a dentist appointment tomorrow haven't you? :X

How did I know that comment was coming :P

My tooth hurts - lots - and has done for the past two days :(

yay! lindy want :)

a book (Warning: R **)

poor toby and jimbly *hugs*

why does no-one feel my pain?(!) I held chocolate but couldn't eat it!! :P:P:P

Actually...

THEY MADE YOU DO GROUP WORK?

You poor thing. I feel your pain. The last time I did group work... well, let's not go there, ok?

Today I have taught myself the entirety of not one week of my Differential Equations course, but four. (Our lecturer is incompetent, and could not do so.) I'm at least somewhere in the same region as you.

And: a pedantic BIG muppet. Meep.

Who's being a pedantic little muppet now, hmm?

Besides, I have just spent a whole day in labs preparing for, then delivering a 20min group presentation. We went from next to no content to a passable presentation, complete with working GUI demonstrations in the space of a day. I have far more cause to be tetchy with people than you, methinks.

draw-er.

NOT DRAW.

Sorry.

most wanted song/most unwanted song (R*)

We had the same thing with Creme Eggs on the last day of the admissions days. DO NOT eat more than one Creme Egg in a row.

cool :)

They were giving away mini lion bars outside the library. It started to rain so they decided to just give handfulls to get rid of them :P We have a stash of them in our draw now :P I wish i hadn't given up chocolate :(

oh, and, *waves at lidny*

requires quicktime (R*)

*waves randomly* :)

Rob: Maybe I should have posted the mirror (R*) last night after all. Isn't slashdot a wonderful thing?

I believe it got slashdotted at some point. Wouldn't you need reconstruction if the entirety of slashdot fell on you suddenly and violently?

No, I have no problem with slashdot. Why do you ask?

70 words left to write on this bloody essay....

Your link, sir, is a bit of a "dead zone". It seems the page no longer exists and the site is under reconstruction, due to be back in May (apparently). Whether this means this coming May or several Mays ago, I know not. 'Tiz nevertheless a bit borken.

Furthermore, the BBC should not, under any circumstances, have reported that frog to the world at large. We shall now be forced to endure an epidemic of Frenchmen invading our nursery schools with little nets and camouflaged berets, hunting for that elusive triple-serving appetizer.

motorcycling in the chernobyl "dead zone" (R*) - mirror (R*)

WFT? (R*)

We have to wear WHAT? (R*)

Yeah, um, there's about 300 of these things. Which is why I haven't just bunged them all on DOS floppies already.

Rob: "Twinkle, twinkle, B-star tree,
Wangle, munge,
Woohoo! Ext-three!"

Jimmy: Disc (Acorn spelling for ADFS discs) images are a pain in the bottom to make from ADFS discs, especially the 4D or Armaxess copy-protect jobbies. You might try Arcimage V1.2, but I haven't had a chance to play with that myself as yet.

Please take note of the instructions on that page - 800K format on HD disks may prove iffy on PCs, so studious use of sticky tape is required to make such floppies behave. Furthermore Arcimage doesn't like NT-based Dozes at all, so a copy of FreeDOS or Doze 95/98 might be needed.

All in all, floppy images are more trouble than they're worth. It'd probably be quicker to hack the copy protection out of a program than try to copy the image. Since RedSquirrel emulations have a HostFS filing system, I simply ArcFS archive all the programs I want on Acorn hardware, bung 'em on DOS 1.44Mb floppies (using !Split if necessary on big archives) and dearc them under emulation using the read only edition of ArcFS.

Can someone help me please?

Dan can't get ADFS floppy images working. He was muttering something about not liking the disk geometry and block size and stuff. (I think he was using RAWRITE as you suggested, Toby). Is there something easy and simple that I can do, either on windows or linux, to get images of these disks?

the history of the penguin game (R*) featuring the indescribably gory version (R**).

"Twinkle, twinkle, AVL
Rotate, rotate,
Bloody hell!"

random :P (R**)

i am so happy, I may cry

(Edit: if you don't know who he is)

wow. see, they were reminiscing as much as they liked about lenin, making a proud political statement... but the last line just blew me away. I mean, jabba the hutt?! I know jabba wasn't pretty, and, you know, he was pretty mean to leia and luke's friends, but... does he really deserve to rank alongside hitler? and, you know, he's fictional and all...

You have no idea.

Woah. Blogger even works fine in Lynx (R*), so that's pretty damn bad.

Linda: don't worry. :P

hmm... I pity anyone who annoys me today, i have a very short temper :P

what link/file is this? i'm confused!

Jimmy: oops :P thank you, only another 42 days without chocolate! :P

Just to inform you all that Pocket IE is a piece of shite ;)

And if you don't like what it's done to your css, jimmy (I'd post a screeny, but I doubt it can ;) ), you should see what it did to blogger...

Linda: There, there.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT get bored and make a new file with this (R**) in on your Uni PC.

Nasty little dialog boxes start coming up. Apparently the uni recon it's a virus. I mustn't get bored in future.

I WANT CHOCOLATE! :(

no - over there! yeah, there! NO DON'T LOOK! oh you stupid... he hasn't seen us, has he?

which america hating minority are you? (R*)