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[05 Aug 2005|08:57am] So long and see you later to: akatheesia, boydonegood, cyber_child, delfifield, gadgeeuropa, tarnished_satyr, tornandtwisted - nice meeting y'all, but you live hundreds of miles away and have no interest in me. cyberkitty, dita_dolly, ghoulish, just_linzi, klokwise - I have good memories of all of you, but haven't actually communicated with you for months or years. This leaves me with a grand total of four people on my list. This is a general shutdown with exceptions, then, rather than an issue with any of you. I think you all have my email address, write if you need me. fireydrake, ladybirdintheuk, shimari, sepheri - friend since 6, friend since 16, sister, occult housewife. 13 comments|post comment

[21 May 2004|01:05pm] to those recently culled... hi there... no, none of you have offended me in the slightest. i don't know you particularly well, and so i feel slightly inappropriate either reading your journal or you reading mine, probably the former. i really do want to meet all of you again, though. it's fairly standard on lj to cull every now and then, and really doesn't mean anything. as greeba pointed out, my sister is one of those culled... it's partly just a tidiness thing! post comment

[20 May 2004|03:52pm] well, as no one felt sufficiently insecure to justify themselves to me, i think a few of you can accept an lj-wave. goodbye to boydonegood, greeba, mr_targ, simon_bretonnia and sleazygoth. please take no offense at this, i just hate you. expect pointy sticks to be hidden behind my broad smile next time i see you, and i do hope to see all of you again. 4 comments|post comment

seph's comment [15 Apr 2004|01:37pm] ( i kind of got carried away... ) post comment

[15 Apr 2004|12:37am] been reading jeanettewinterson.com. apparently she tees a lot of people off, but she seems mostly ok by me. the fact that she hosts, and is therefore presumably proud of, an interview in which she is not portrayed kindly - if not cruelly either - demonstrates admirable resolution. one of her beliefs that i strongly agree with is that art is not a luxury. we are less happy, less efficient, less beautiful, without exposure to beauty. ( this is rather a heavy entry. fair warning. ) i oughtn't try and be clever when i'm tired. paranoia - it's in your hair, it's on your shoes, it's crawling up your neck and inside your jeans. 1 comment|post comment

[18 Dec 2003|08:13pm] ( a l'il meme.. ) 1 comment|post comment

[07 Dec 2003|07:17pm] this made me laugh so hard i nearly cried. it's huge, but incredibly funny. now, this wasn't meant to be amusing, but i find it to be so. "so there were these two vampires, right. one of them turns to the other and says 'see this glass of blood? is it half empty, or half full?'. the other turns to him, looks at the glass and responds 'all empty you idiot. you're hanging upside down'." and have a look at this one. that's quite clearly my arm and hair on the left. it looks peculiarly as though i have a rather odd skirt, large quantities of exposed leg and rather peculiar boots on. quite an amusing effect really. whatever these are, i want some. i expect the actuality might be rather a disappointment, but wouldn't those just be awesome poi/whip/things? kind of pink fur, on fire. mm. and the last pic of me looks terrible. so i'm not going to link to it. nope. oh go on. hee hee. turned into a pretty slow day. shas was at her parent's for lunch, dan wasn't in, john was busy and i got sleepy. basically i'm just trying to stay up until a reasonable bedtime to iron out my sleep a bit. putting all my music on at once turned out to be a fantastic idea, i thought it'd really annoy me but i've heard some stuff i'd never usually get around to playing. argh. only seven o'clock - i wanted to lithomorph two hours ago. the stupid robinson's website won't let you use the proper search engine unless you're a member - which requires you to buy stuff! all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely fools. 3 comments|post comment

[03 Dec 2003|12:12am] hello lurkers, i know you're out there! those of you i know, you're quite welcome to an lj code so you can start your own lj or even just so you can see mine. i'm going to be doing friends-only entries from now on, so leave a comment if you want to be able to read them! 3 comments|post comment

[02 Dec 2003|08:38am] ( quizness ) post comment

[30 Nov 2003|09:34pm] [ mood | exhausted ] quiz thing! go on, for me... every question has an answer worth ten points, so if you get one hundred you got everything right! second-best will only net you around seventyish points tho, at a guess... ( the short version: travel was s*, notts was fun, i almost died from sleep dep ) i could go on forever, actually. i very nearly have. suffice to say i wasn't bored, and of late that's been the main thing. that, and stopping myself from visiting shas. it actually aches, not having seen her for so long. i'm running short on supplies, as is dean, but i think if possible i'll wait until next weekend to test the waters. it'll have been two weekends, sort of three, which is respectable. if you don't look too closely at the mess i've been recently. morgan made progression through enochian ethers sound *very* tempting. i want something spiritual to play with. but i'm fairly convinced i don't have the willpower to train myself until i could open the first one, after which point i think i'd soar through them. he described the first as very base and materialistic. which sounds really rather appealing actually: as purple emma said, "i'm deep on weekdays!". being shallow and sensual is *fun*. although, supposedly, the whole point of my visits is to see kathy, we managed to spend an astonishingly small amount of time together. it doesn't matter though, it is precisely just seeing her that matters. personal contact. for a tech type person, i value face to face communication a great deal. letters, email, phones, blah blah, they don't do it for me. and we both got what we wanted out of the weekend - i got a teensy bit of sleep and much amusement (it's such a *useful* word! i spend vast amounts of time being amused), while kathy got to see her friends enough and still get lots of work done. and *fantastic* dreads. damn her. ça suffit. en een heleboel meer. post comment

[28 Nov 2003|12:55pm] ( amusingness of sysadmin course ) off to join the nottgoths tonight. no idea when the trains are or when i'll arrive, so i'm good aren't i. ah well. i still have no christmas or birthday list. and i haven't phoned anyone, and i was up until half four this morning hacking and playing halo with mike. getting up was *painful*. lunchness 2 comments|post comment

[23 Nov 2003|07:57pm] a couple of gems from a forward i received ('gcse metaphors'): Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on 31p-a-pint night. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature British beef. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall. how, perchance, does one accidentally staple one's tongue to the wall? i could have written the second one myself though - dry sarcasm at the repetitive nature of school essays was often the only way to make them bearable. i've spent the entire day in bed. i was awake, in bed, doing online things and playing with my server until six, then i woke up around six and decided to check my mail. i appear to be weekend-nocturnal. that's not unusual, really, but somehow i am also weekday diurnal! wtf i'm doing to my body like this, i have no idea. i was also really hungry last night and kept munching alice's food (did i say we played talisman? it's *fantastic*), but having not eaten for around seventeen hours, i'm not hungry anymore! silly body. it's no use. i'm going to have to get a drink. post comment

[23 Nov 2003|04:57am] i'm *very* impressed by the response to the question-thing. it's a 24-hour, binary clock! the lowest lights are, naturally, the lowest bits (rightmost) and it reads left to right. so if i remember correctly, it's showing 10:24:58 or something like that. i can't see the picture right now, which is why i don't know properly. ( question and answer thang ) wouldn't it be amazing (and equally, terrible) to have perfect recall? i have a server now. for some weird reason, mozilla won't read it, but sdf/wget will. zen. you can poke it for yourself if you want to, it's here. this is why i was crap to alice and turned up two hours late! sometimes the tech in me just turns into a drooling monstrosity. we played talisman though, which is *fantastic*! i was a goblin fanatic, and ended up beating the dragon king (strength 12) from strength 24. huzzah for me, didn't overkill there at all. it's a new version but it's good, i'm going to have to buy it i think just in case i ever have people to inflict it on. hursley gamesoc, for example... muahahahaa! it's easier i think. although two people died and one was continually maimed! it's almost five am. why do i do this to myself? i only didn't go straight to bed because i wanted a smoke! post comment

[21 Nov 2003|05:17pm] ( very silly quiz ) i caught about two hours sleep last night. quite miraculous i'm still alive, and the fact that i more or less stayed awake through my course (which, thank god, we finished in time for late lunch) is utterly inconceivable ('i do not think that word means what you think it means...'). on the plus side, i have a debian server! woo! still need to sort out the nat port forwarding to get it visible outside the house intranet, but hey, one step at a time. the new debian installer rocks, although the partitioner (cfdisk) lets it down and i wish it could configure x automagically. me want, me want! oh i need dns as well. but hey, it'll keep me busy! not much happening this weekend, if anyone fancies saying hi feel free. nightmare beats next weekend tho, wahey! maybe i'll give del n sarah a call, i was wondering at the time why they pressed their phone number on me so vigorously and it's taken this long for the notion to percolate into my consciousness that they might have wanted me to call them. i'm not very good with phones. ps. well. i've had a *very* interesting evening (*kof*), organising my archive of past work and important files. far more of the former than the latter, needless to say... still, there are some *ancient* bits in there. m68k assembler, for instance... my unboundedly complicated fraction class (c++, need i say any more?)... and some java awt classes which draw bar charts, that might actually be rather useful! post comment

[21 Nov 2003|12:39am] what are these? i know, can you figure it out? as a little hint - i want one! answers on a postcard please, i like getting postcards! but comments are good too. nope, didn't get around to stealing adsl boxes yet. nor even sticking the batteries in my mouse. tbg intervened... for a game that only runs a turn every mon/wed/fri, it takes up hideous amounts of time! oh and ladybird! look here! 11 comments|post comment

[20 Nov 2003|10:34pm] clouds with noses! or rather vicious yibble-ish pompoms. frankie had a mad desire for pompoms... weekend before last? so we cut cardboard circles (two each, so you can cut around afterwards) and proceeded to wind wool. for a long time. upon completing my first circle (shas not yet having mentioned we could do more than one strand at a time... doh!), i said "so, what now?". and was told that, now, we would continue to wind wool until the hole was full. at which point i gawped. looked at my distinctly far-from-full circle. and put it down. frankie, on the other hand, continued to wind wool for *ten hours*. all credit to her however, she now has a delightful, really rather large pompom. called gary - seth's idea. it looks rather handsome in a woolly hat and tie. the butterfly eye cushion was what really set it all off, however. these are Mad People. ( current affairs ) post comment

[19 Nov 2003|02:55am] You are Jesse Custer. Jesse is as tough as they come and always willing to prove it. He'll kick your ass for being a jackass. Or back you up if you prove that you're a man. An actual good guy, Jesse's word and honor is without reproach. What Gritty No Nonsense Comic Book Character are You? brought to you by Quizilla roleplaying was cancelled today, yay! yay since we did xboxness instead with about five of us (four at once due to lack of controllers). much, much fun with halo. then got home and stupidly started playing starcraft, hence me being online now. doh. course was good today, except i snored! just once, but *really* loudly. argh. good job i don't embarass easily. no drawing on my face, you remember what happened to ross. matrixage is not happening tomorrow, it appears. again. shas is useless sometimes - i went there on monday to sort it out and she was in a mad bad mood. one day, perhaps. i don't really like that we hug all the time any more - it devalues it. plus leo and i hugged, and that went poo. on the other hand, i miss having someone to hug. really i want an electrically-heated, really big teddy bear. hmm... or a hot water bear would do just fine! anyway, sleep or i shall be in no fit state tomorrow. and we're doing sessions, which could be mildly interesting. it's been a pretty good course actually, and the trainer has barely irritated me at all so far! unprecedented. i loath being unjustly patronised, but this guy has actually asked me questions about things in the class. real questions, not tests. tza. brain not working properly. ps. i'm *so* stupid! it's really lucky this post came through, cos i clicked the browser close right after i submitted the form. tza! (pronounced duhzah, btw) i am a gooseberry flavour dairy dessert. now, let's try not to do that again... post comment

[18 Nov 2003|01:24am] this may be an odd post. i'm in the middle of a meme btw... "hmm... red or purple! aagh... orange!". sometimes i confuse even me. ( hompompom ) as per usual... i so should have been asleep two hours ago. probably three. this is what happens when i lose internet all weekend! gah. post comment

[13 Nov 2003|03:27pm] raa! i just found my pink and purple bracelets! now even more people will think i'm gay! raa anyway! my manager came in to help me access a notes database, and ended up backing out of the room clutching my 'foundation in testing' folder and promising to go on the course. hee hee. completely talked his ear off about it and it was most satisfying. oh and i've just remembered i do actually have work to do. damn. it should be a good thing, but the work in question implies reading the incredibly thick and tedious user manual. nevermind, got to take the shit with the torture. watched kate and leopold last night. cute squishy film with meg ryan. oh and on a multidimensional perpendicular, i have a cvs repository on sdf now. yay! this will mean i can feel even more guilty for not writing code. huzzah. right. music, manual. ps. isn't this wonderful! "please press 1 if you do not wish to listen to music while on hold". ibm gets it right! and it's classical not earmangling shania twain or some such horror. and they tell you what your queue position is! mind you, i've been left at #2 in a queue for over an hour by the uea sports centre line... they felt that phone enquiries could wait until there weren't any customers in person. at all. obviously, this was never actually the case. but i must say, this is one of the least irritating lines i've ever been on. i think "press 2 to hear the woman who repeatedly tells you everyone can't be assed to deal with you mown down by machine gun fire" should be an option, however. perhaps 3 could let you hear her be diced into knuckle-size pieces. the preceding paragraph contained verbose scenes of violence and should not have been read by small children or those with fragile minds. 4 comments|post comment

[13 Nov 2003|01:52am] another day of tv. grr. shas irritated me yesterday so i'm ignoring her until she calls me (which has never happened) or i become weak, needy and pathetic. about sunday, then. unfortunately this means i miss matrix night, but my nose ain't that great. with luck they'll be crap, it won't happen and i'll shame myself (but get to see double bill matrix) next week. the good in today has included sugababes and 'kate and leopold' on sky movies. oh and two cheese and jam sandwiches. s'bout it. post comment

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