tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325779832011-08-08T15:25:42.792ZCaptain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.comBlogger791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-10956339705469483732010-11-10T16:02:00.003Z2010-11-10T16:57:39.935Z

It's still autumn, and I recently remembered something cool ("cool") and autumnal that I found out last year that I could share.Last October I was writing a news story about the breakdown of chlorophyll in bananas. The link to the digital mag is here if you want to check it out. It turns out the areas around the brown spots on bananas glow blue under UV light (Apparently; I'm yet to get hold of a

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-5827257292264110542010-10-29T15:13:00.004Z2010-10-29T16:01:42.504Z

We're moving offices at work. Our floor gets it doubly bad because we have to move upstairs for a week before the full move, so I am currently 2 metres higher and 5m closer to our final destination.I've been tidying up in preparation of this for the past month, but I still ended up being the last one carrying piles of junk upstairs. This has also provided all sorts of opportunities to find

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-63294749246843049352010-10-05T19:23:00.005Z2010-10-05T20:18:32.701Z

So I'm blogging again. Professionally. As part of my job. My boss told me to think of it as like a commission, but there's a chance he was trying to convince me to do something he didn't think I'd want to.This, in case you hadn't guessed, is not the real blog; that goes out fortnightly, but probably the other fortnight to this one. Or the alternate. I'm not to clear on the terminology, but I do

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-6233110563938117172009-01-27T20:35:00.003Z2009-01-27T20:36:34.612Z

I have moved to http://www.f-a-w.net/wordpress/Captain_Doug/If there is any one actually interested in my continuing adventures that's the site to visit.

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-65019012940030753792009-01-17T13:56:00.002Z2009-01-17T14:10:55.571Z

It's cold in Wales, still.But I've been wearing my gloves (a number of girls with powerful maternal instincts will be pleased).The thing is my coat has farely tight and long sleaves and this leads to my gloves getting pushed down my hands, not off exactly but to the point that my fingers arn't always in the glove fingers.I call the phenomena Muppet Hands, coz I spend most of the time wiggling my

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-33559985256714688202009-01-15T12:59:00.000Z2009-01-15T13:08:04.302Z

I arrived at work today in a unusually chipper mood. All this coz they played Dolly Parton 9–5 on Radio 2 this morning. Some hilarious singing along ensued.Got me thinking for the umpteenth time about what songs I need to get available on Rockband/Guitar Hero. (The “band” that I am part of is full of chickens so I have to sing - which is fun but also painful after too long (8 hours is a long gig

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-47223802464135365742009-01-10T09:52:00.002Z2009-01-10T10:07:58.306Z

And I'm back online!So I've moved to North Wales now that I have a job in Chester. It's a nice place (even if I dislike the huge signs everywhere in English AND Welsh). I knackered my back putting up my Ikea bed which was vastly unpleasent and my mac refuses to go wi-fi which means I shouldnt be able to get the internet. However, I am a sneaky bugger and so I've shleped the machine downstairs to

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-85536930400211853412008-11-04T09:59:00.003Z2008-11-04T10:02:56.124Z

My future is forking.That is to say that I will find out soon if I have got a new job, but I just wanted to remark upon the diverce futures I have in front of me.Most days you know roughly what will happen and the jist of what tomorrow will be, but today I get to be excited by the fact that I have no idea which tomorrow I'm getting but will shortly find out.Tension and the Unknown, Huzzah!

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-30105088253382934102008-10-30T17:14:00.002Z2008-10-30T17:18:56.505Z

When making plum crumble (or any of the various fruity crumbles and dishes that need a bowl greasing) DO NOT use butter to grease the dish and then go to the fridge to get ingredients out. This leads to low friction fridg-crobatics with bottles flying out of hands and into carefully arranged jars.I learnt my lesson the hard way so you don't have to.

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-7057046706879627792008-09-30T10:57:00.003Z2008-09-30T11:28:50.178Z

First off I feel slightly guilty about only having dreams that are worth mentioning (vs an actual life to write about) but until I get my job sorted there's nothing going on.That said, my dreams can be pretty entertaining. Also, chock full of famous people.For those of you that don't know that's Supergirl from Smallville. Any way she was there which may make some sence, but so were these guys,

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-19012710111030090072008-09-21T15:35:00.002Z2008-09-21T15:41:02.525Z

I have made pie!I imagine this now allows me to achieve the title of piemaker, which is probably a good thing.A list of things that have recently mentioned pie:Pushing DaisiesDr Horrible's Sing Along BlogThe West WingWaitressI think it was Pushing Daisies that made me want to make pie the most, and now I have, so yay.Pie plans for the future (Pie in the sky ideas):Eat PieThink of more Pie

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-12210963367898160302008-09-19T16:26:00.002Z2008-09-19T16:41:48.959Z

Is it wrong I was totally amazed that riding a bike is just like riding a bike? (in the, once you've learnt you never forget, sence) Anyway I took a car to be MOT'ed and rode back from the garage on a bike I'd crammed in the boot/back seats/passenger seat. And despite a bit of wobbling to begin with I managed it. Hooray! (Well I was excited)So excited in fact that I almost considered it more

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-17918588706560897892008-09-02T10:26:00.002Z2008-09-02T10:41:14.961Z

I was watching a program about dreams recently, it said that you dream with the left side of your brain and that you read with your right. This means that you cannot read things in your dreams.However, last night I was being I.D.ed by a Colonel while shopping (I am not responcible for the complete lunacy of the dream situation) and when I got my I.D. back I clearly saw that the surname on it was

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-84848963502397178812008-08-23T23:20:00.003Z2008-08-23T23:31:55.942Z

You know what's amazing?Toothpaste.I was running out so I went and bought more (this, to clarify, is not the amazing part), there were like billions of choices, but I managed a decision and got the replacement tube home and waited for the apparently empty tube to finally die.That was weeks ago.This tube is hanging on like a crazy thing.I am getting to be quite amazed.It must be like the tardis in

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-59938770480805713402008-08-19T17:40:00.002Z2008-08-19T17:49:59.166Z

I'm back baby!There was nothing, but now there's me! Hooray!I've been working in a library this week, which would be dull, but because I'm doing something other than wandering around Cambridge or watching TV, it means I have been dreaming again (when I sleep) which is great!Course the contents were gibberish - fireworks, Montmartre and more running than an episode of Doctor Who - but it's the

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-63126139456871146942008-06-28T12:31:00.002Z2008-06-28T12:55:28.079Z

Well, I now have more free time.The people at work figured out that, despite being a fine writer, good looking, charming, etc, etc, I'm not terribly good at writing health and safety news. Also my massive lack of determination, motivation and the other one (perspiration?), meant I'm now looking for a new job.Well, among other things of course.I have been dog-sitting, which involves a great deal

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-41766078604835237712008-06-09T20:18:00.002Z2008-06-09T20:27:21.827Z

Well, I've got the latest in the long line of unpleasent things that my basement flat does.I could not figure out why all of my food was going off so fast when I was keeping it refridgerated and has absolutely no idea why my beef was going very strange colours (the colour of jerky is ont what you expect after two days in the fridge)Anyway, there's this toy in the States, possibly here (i'm not

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-44240616158390209562008-06-08T16:09:00.002Z2008-06-08T16:58:22.696Z

What's the hottest you've ever felt? (temperature-wise obviously)It was sunny today and I was doing my laundry and sitting by the driers reading was pretty boiling, but I'm sure that I've felt hotter. It's kind of odd that you can remember images and smells and tastes and things from those obvious sences, but that you get nothing from temperature or the other sneaky sences.My bathroom's started

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-88059304524662380922008-05-30T20:06:00.002Z2008-05-30T20:18:40.096Z

I was going to post something about my not being jobless and the common unprobability of my continued survival.Also (maybe unfortunatly), the almost certaintude of my continuing at this job (barring any sudden HUGE drop in skill) for quite sometime as the other news and feature writer is leaving and I would imagine that keeping me around rather than making themsleves 100% writer free is the

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-82229141030310965542008-05-26T19:46:00.000Z2008-05-26T19:47:04.496Z

How do you know things about what you do?How do you know if it's right for you or wrong for you?I guess it's guess you just have to know one way or the other.But even then you don't have to act on thatOne of the (many) things I like to see myself as is Wile E. Coyote, not because of cunning or relentlessness or the many other fine qualities; I'm the foot stuck in a loop of rope dragged behind the

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-13181297275428899532008-05-10T15:44:00.002Z2008-05-10T16:00:25.502Z

You know what I haven't done in a long time?Odds are that every answer you came up with is correct.I have done very little besides work and sleep for a good long while now, and it looks like that's going to continue or a while longer.But not to despair!It may be the darkest hour or many hours before the darkest hour, but Captain Doug does not despair.It's going to take some growth before I'm a

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-61088989003033012522008-04-17T11:26:00.003Z2008-04-17T11:51:20.059Z

Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.I don't have the internets at home yet so here I am, face full of philly and roast veg sammage, frantically typing during my lunch break.I have been called into action by Hayley and, never one to not do what a lady tells me to do, to action I shall spring.She wants to transmit a meme (a cultural element passed on by imitation, which is

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-51723166199701399552008-03-31T16:45:00.002Z2008-03-31T17:23:47.105Z

Well, this is the end of my not being at work.As of tomorrow I start working and that's a very exciting thing.I will have a place in Cambridge, but it's going to be ready next weekend so there's going to be a week of relying on the kindness of others before that. My place is small, it's cheap and I'll go into more detail when I'm there.So I'm currently being very excited about work - lots of

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-6459288716586801662008-03-19T14:46:00.002Z2008-03-19T15:10:29.623Z

Do you have a victory song?You know, when the hero finally succeeds, there's a song that blasts out and everything's ok?I hadn't really thought about it, so it came as bit of a surpirse when I got some good news and this blasted out inside my head:I guess if you know my tendencies towards the bizzare that odd choice isn't too big a surprise, but I thought I'd share it and see what you thought.So

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-22794742624937632202008-03-06T19:13:00.003Z2008-03-06T19:48:27.914Z

Yay! I've got an interview! It's really nice to have something to be heading towards, rather than the aimless existing that I've been doing lately.So, yay me and yay them, for they are about to experience a interview that will pierce the heavens.But the really important reason for this is my remebering the dream that came after my Torchwood dream. So without further adu, I present;The "Traveling

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-74842869427740359752008-03-04T19:27:00.002Z2008-03-04T20:06:28.151Z

Still no job.Starting to try to look at temping, but no work from there yet either.But that's just me keeping you up to date on the hunt rather than whining (coz I'm no whiner).But with no work and very few tasks or quests to do what can I possibly write about?Well, just because my conscious mind is doing bugger all, doesn't mean my unconscious isn't busy. Busy with some really weird dreams. So

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-9194333819493573582008-02-18T19:11:00.003Z2008-02-18T19:29:46.779Z

I'm getting pretty tired of not having a job. Actually I'm tired of many many things, but in general these are traced back in a long chain to me needing a job. There's been plenty of applications but almost as many regections and a huge dollop of sod all.Who wants to get turned down for jobs like, *rifles through files (unsucessfully)* something writer and whatchamacallit assistant. If I'm

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-87242081525574396182008-01-16T19:01:00.000Z2008-01-16T19:15:50.649Z

So, i've been gone a while.Busy doing exciting things so numberous this post will be weighty and interesting?No, not really.Looking for a job mostly and sitting around the house waiting for that to pan out.It's fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.Though I may be getting closer to a job (got an interview) so I'm full of beans again and ready to write and show anyone who asks just how enthusiastic

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-88206002298224884692007-11-29T19:56:00.000Z2007-11-29T20:09:07.430Z

So my dissertation is gone.But still I can't sleep.No idea why.However, I using all this extra awake time to do something useful - well one burst of extra awake time, the rest is for reading Harry Potter.I was lying awake staring at the ceiling, then the wall, then the other wall - not really one for lying still when i can't sleep - and i start coming up with limericks to amuse my still active

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-17054782063588037672007-11-12T20:32:00.000Z2007-11-12T21:18:17.578Z

I'm feeling a little spookified at the moment.Turns out I've been having an unintentional David Duchovny day.Loads of Californication. Watching him be a heavy drinking, womanising, writer; it really gives me something to aspire to, you know?I had a bunch of episodes stored up and as I had little else to do today, (more on that later probably), I decided to watch my way through them.Then after tea

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-37738554380017668042007-10-25T19:55:00.001Z2007-10-25T20:34:52.741Z

I've just been watching the two episodes of studio 60 that i recorded last night (theres a fancy box under the tv that does it for me automatically - aint that exciting?)anyway i loves me some studio 60 and it makes me feel pretty smart and it made me realise i havent written anything non science/sci comm related for ages and im just itching to be odd for a bit.but first, or second i guess coz

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-54313926189422502042007-10-13T21:08:00.000Z2007-10-13T21:33:23.068Z

I'm feeling manly, if slightly foolish right now. My "COME ON!!" roar that usually accompanies an exceptional drive in rugby (viewing not playing, obviously) does sound good, but as it's quite a bit louder than most of my hiding behind a cushion type usualness, it does make me feel a bit silly, especially when done in polite company. Clearly this is the key advantage to being down the pub - any

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-34446827952459486152007-10-06T21:07:00.000Z2007-10-06T21:31:49.978Z

Yep, it's getting to the pointy end of my dissertation.I'm not surprisingly underprepared, but that's only because i was obviously not preparing.What's managed to bother me recently is the attempts by my brain to calm itself. When other people start worrying that they havn't written much, i normally say "Ha, don't worry, i've written much less." Problem is this does not make me feel better when i

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-50587792062098755702007-09-22T20:00:00.000Z2007-09-22T20:24:09.903Z

One thing that is quite sad (boo hoo sad, not doug you're really pretty sad arn't you? sad) about spending as much time as i do reading movie news and being excited about movies is that i'm always excited around the time it's announced and then have to wait like a year for it to be made and come out.well a nice thing is that i have just seen the trailer for a film called Stardust and it's got me

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-66516868742092535452007-09-09T19:16:00.000Z2007-09-09T19:50:20.598Z

Clearly my dissertation work needs to be done.You can tell i must be planning on doing some actual work because this is the second time in a week that i've written anything. oo, it smacks of avoidance.hmm. havent used smacks in that context for a while - feeling smart now. also pleased i used yonks as a unit of time this evening.you will be glad to know no doubt, that despite getting a small bag

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-33466980531014237712007-09-04T19:43:00.001Z2007-09-04T20:11:40.553Z

I'm having a funny old time at the moment debating the capitalization of the title. Ok so not funny ha ha, but curiously doug-like. clearly giant crabs looks cooler with capitals to begin them. Space also seems more dramatic with a bigger S, then 'from beyond' are dwarfed. any way i figured i'd throw grammatical accuracy to the wind and just capitalise all of them. woo hoo, life on the

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-43606343650778888852007-08-18T20:02:00.000Z2007-08-18T20:34:49.923Z

I'm feeling pretty happy at the moment.Yes, im reading a fairly depressing book with vampires in it, the weather is nothing to smile about and there's a great deal of effort involved in making my parentals new house properly liveable, but i'm a sad boy and so apparently all this can be over ridden by some nice things happening in the sims.Captain Doug's children have grown up to be very

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-74210353641278295032007-08-06T15:44:00.000Z2007-08-06T16:15:24.285Z

Bloody Harry Potter.Don't get me wrong, i loved the seventh book. i don't know if it was the long periods of staying awake to read it - i managed to stretch it over the weekend, but it sitting there not finished kept me awake for most of the saturday and then the need to keep going kept me up late on the sunday - but by the end i was totally drained, because it was so sad, also my room's quite

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-66623063753847336692007-07-12T07:54:00.001Z2007-07-12T08:01:59.326Z

Well, this will be brief. The computer is being hauled away as i type but naturally i screwed up my face and stamped my feet till i was allowed to quickly check facebook, and email, and EmpireOnline and write a note.So i Leave Southam soon, currently surrounded by boxes - i finally manage to get my room clear of junk all over the floor to get more than a square metre of standing room and the

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-46317980797974920832007-06-28T19:18:00.000Z2007-06-28T19:52:53.173Z

So I have returned to Southam.and after one evening of rest i got to work finding money (having spent the last £50 in my account on a computer game).thus the next day i was down the employment centre and by Monday i had a job sorted in a reprographics place near leam. not science communication, but i need beer money.Four days of standing around has naturally addled my brain some, fortunately i

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-36862545348638937002007-06-18T12:26:00.000Z2007-06-18T12:59:16.643Z

Well i leave for good tomorrow, carrying a bag i can comfortably fit inside, on a train route that i've never taken, through unknown stations.Assuming i make it to Leamington without getting lost or collapsing with fatigue, i will return to Southam and that'll be the end of living in Bristol.It's kinda sad, but i moved most of my stuff (TV and the majority of my DVDS) back last weekend, then

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-77861195319353048182007-06-11T20:16:00.001Z2007-06-11T20:56:28.736Z

You know what i'd hate?A boring life.Right now i'm absolutly knackered, uncomfortably dehydrated and unsurprisingly in all kinds of unusual pain (is there ever going to be a post of mine that doesnt describe the new and painful things that my body is doing? i sincerly doubt it) but at least i'm entertained.The last few days have been hectic.Thursday was the deadline for our projects proposals and

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-83770873093695301582007-05-21T20:21:00.000Z2007-05-21T20:54:19.544Z

I am completely in love with this week.Were it physically possible me and this week would settle down some place in the country and raise a family of little weeks, just so i could enjoy this week for ever and ever.Why the rush to commit my life so completely to a period of time you ask?this may just be the most exciting week the world has ever offered me and frankly im not intirely sure if my

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-29844020698476352492007-05-10T00:20:00.000Z2007-05-10T00:47:49.421Z

I swears imbalanced is the right word for it because i'm currently suffering an imbalance of the humors.I have finally dragged myself to the end of my proposal for my course, which is (a direct quote): "It is a love story set in 1847, following two people (puppets) brought together at the Royal Society through mutual interest in science then ultimately separated by the changes in the Society,

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-58541800227403977882007-05-03T20:10:00.000Z2007-05-03T20:46:28.118Z

i had a beast of a title for this post, naturally i've forgotten it.it's been like a week and a bit since i last wrote a decent sized post, thats crazy. Time was i'd be writing something hilarious every couple of days, but this last few weeks all our deadlines have appeared simultainously and i just cant bear the thought of sitting and writing - until it's too late and i have something more

Captain Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16400140557398825987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577983.post-45291937316062205112007-04-22T15:47:00.000Z2007-04-22T15:51:36.472Z

you'll be glad to know the trip back to southam wasnt a total waste of time (ignoring the lure of shiny coins that got me back to the library in the first place)while there wasnt huge chucks of fun, as alex was skiing AGAIN, chris and i made it to the cinema. woo - curse of the golden flowerits one of those crouching tiger hidden dragon type films - very pretty but also very complex and seriously

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Well, it's been a while. i have had many small things to do but nothing urgently post-worthy and from the combination of factors that are; various slow computers and work, my note making has taken a hiatus.lots of things happened that i thought, in the run up, would be massively postable but everythings just been pottering along as things tend to do.work is work: who wouldn't want to carry boxes

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ok i'll admit it, my life is ruled by TV, well sort of, TV and movies. but really its more like if theres a perticular TV program i enjoy, thats the one ruling me.Justice League Unlimited turned up on DVD a couple of days ago. for the majority of you who will have no idea what justice league is i'll briefly explain.the justice league is the cartoon with superman and batman and wonder woman and

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yesyes it isi have spent the last 3 days in the post grad room (just a computer room and no where near as fun as the actual grad which is/was a pub atop warwick SU)3 days of health and safety and im going mildly crazy - i giggle randomly, spout lengthy monologues against the system and forget the day, week, date, time, im very much free of the application of meaning to a specific instanceoo an im

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Breaker breaker, this is the captain, come back, overi got more dvds, smokey and the bandit, so awesome and it got me thinkingi figure manlyness is like a circle (stay with me it'll make sence eventually)you have unmanly at one side (pink things, bridget jones' diary and sarah brooks over here) then you get more and more (hetrosexually) manly as you go round, finally you reach smokey and the

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its weird, ok?it is definatly fantastic for them, exciting and grown up and all part of moving on and up with their lives and this is in no way saying any thing bad about them. seriously its a problem with me.realistically i am a bit of a coward, definatly not grown up and as for moving on and up thats just not something i have learnt to do yeti just aint extremely comfortable right now with

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Just so you know there were alternative titles for this one, for a couple of minutes looking at everyone else's valentines day potential: boyfriends, girlfriends and hopefuls, I got pretty sad and you nearly got:A depressing, grumpy and resentful valentines day,or Happy valentines day muthaf***asbut in true it's a wonderful life style i got turned round on it, and so this story may actually be

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so, my project has began, this is the big, many percents of my final mark project i hav til november, which sounded like ages but then we got told we need to put in 600 hours work, so if im not doing 2 hours a day im fallin behind.for reference im doing teacher resourses for a chemistry comic book - sounds fun but theyre gonna make me work with kids again damn itan it's 7500-10,000 words! TEN

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Scared the crap outta me. Absolutly scared the crap outta me.You know those ads down the side of facebook, theres one for downloadable smileys they have new 'valentines day ones'.i need to take you back in time 45 mins. I watched a creepy episode of justice league (its a cartoon with batman and superman in) there was the joker and he had this girl with him and she, (say this in your creepyist

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So the reason i aint posted in ages (sorta ages), is that i have been busy working hard.lectures, assignments, leggy blondes, feature articles and background reading (ok ones a lie but aint saying which)now back in coventry, alex was the crowned king of procrastination, he would spend all day on an article and we'd go check on him in the evening and he'd of just about got dressed. annoying if we

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why am i back to work? bugger. i really was hoping for week free to work on some stuff for my writing science module but nooooooo, im working 9-5.Still im saving up cash for the nintendo wii - oooOOoo zelda! ooOOoo nunchuks! its so me!thing is that dispite the journalistic trials one might expect from in a job writing in a magizine, this job also includes certain tasks that really make me nothing

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i apologise for poor spelling (more that usual)u see i've just finished a 3 day chunk of lectures and as usual after that comes the 1 night of heavy heavy drinkin to forget all of it.this weeks 3 days were good tho, we had a circus and puppets and a trip to the science centre, tho i did feel my slight age disadvantage showing as i giggled at the pervy puppets when others scoffed, ooed and aaahed

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hurrah!it may of ment staying up into the wee small hours last night but i finally finished the reading that i have been doing most of the christmas hols. yep Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix huzzaralso i managed to get through most of the mammoth set readings for tomorrows return to lectures whew - slog and a bit that wasseemed like everytime i was settlin down to a speck of honest

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ok so if im at uni ur forced to put up with semi-weekly 'doug updates' of varied levels of hilarity, those of you paying attention may of noticed a 3/4 week break in this, those of you with nothing better to do may actually of wandered why.well home only has dial up so the connection is so slow it actually hurts (this is true, theres a very amusing story envolving a suction cup bruising a ring

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when i say last post before christmas i really mean my last post before the christmas doctor who - for im a big boy now, not terribly excited about presents, santa got no list from me this year and when pushed the best i could come up with was a couple of suggestions. im hoping the fact that material posessions arnt the most important things for me, shows that im growing as a person, but really

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im going to get a bit geeky now so if you really couldnt give a monkeys about computer games like halo skip to the point where you next see these : 8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888still reading? on our own head be it. im talking about how awesome the halo trailer was (for a few lines)Clickedy : http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=halo3adso cool, sheilds, brutes hell

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i have a cold - its not fun but im being a man about itthats right im whingeing constantly and making a big fussits karma you see, well twisted doug karma. ill explain:this week has been hecticafter a weekend of stationary contemplation of the televised media, monday saw the beginning of the article prepThe Article is 4 pages of the magazine thats being made for writing science and has been the

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yeeshkits like buses (apparently - never really noticed this myself) but I see loads of movies with barely any/pretty painless torture in and then two come along at once. (Im not including Horror porn like Saw or Hostel because Im just not into that sort of thing)The first is of course Casino Royale and the leg crossingly uncomfortable scene in that, which Chris claims as his second nastiest

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this is difficult.i am exceptionally ... something. not confused, i suppose self aware is what youd call it.you see a couple of days ago i had more lectures, bringing me up to 12 days this term (3 to go), but i found out that people actually read this - people other than chris and alex who, though technically people who read this, dont count.really when you hav an audience of two you dont have to

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my eyes!so...much...facebook-ageim back to work more lectures, more twilight tasking and last night i went to see Casino Royale (cool as, but more on that later) and so yesterday i didnt get a chance to check facebook or my email. PAH i thought, nothing ever happens its nothing to care about, so i didnt care. but finally get a chance to squeeze it in an BLAM! so much updateing from chris and alex

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Well that was an impressive fireworks night.as a hick from Southam im used to a small display an tiny pile of wood down the cricket club, but we went to the big thing over in Clifton Downs (or something) point was it was impressive tonnes of fireworks, huge pile of wood and a funfair!ok so it was smaller than the mop (southams annual october fair-majig) and i didnt get to go on any rides, coz no

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this is going to be a largely useless post about a lack of cheese. to all who dont care - you have been warnedi only have a few minutes till the state within starts on bbc1 (when something is described as somewhere between spooks and 24 you know i gotta see it) but i have lot of free time til my lectures start up again an i want to take you all (he says optimistically) thro whats been on my mind

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yes i do mean everyone because i may have linked this thro to facebook (scurge of crashs existance, but constant source of amusement for the rest of us) which means my blog is now going to bother a great deal more ppl. err... hooray?well halloween went well, even tho after shaun of the dead i was still concerned about zombiesi almost dressed up - i say almost coz i wore a shirt but with my

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spooking goings on down in brisolhaving sod all to do twixt now an 16th of november, i began halloween prep on the 30th with a "monster" movie-a-thonShrek - orges count damn itShrek 2 - same as aboveKing Kong - giant ape woo T-Rex fight is soooooooooo cool makes me jump round like an ape thoJurassic Park - classic movie shame i collapsed from tiredness part way throi was trying like crazy to link

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yes ok so i forgot about this blog completely for a great deal of time, but thats a good thing, for now i have many important things to mention.err...UNI!ah ha im at uni again, an i shall bore yall with related info.UWE, yep good ol' the university of the west of the england (snappy no?)some days a week of lectures (9:30 to 4:30) ranging from 0 to 3 days depending on the date.i have had 6 days

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AAAAAAAAAAH the worlds have imploded and judgement is about to rain down upon thee, prepare your umbrellas, for plagues of frogs await!by which i mean, look :APOLLO! from lost!do do do do do do do do! (twilight zone do-dos)got it from forbidden planet (anyone who thought i made it myself has a unnecessaryly low opinion of me)you need a password to get onean i go into the shop in Cov and its all

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a combination of mind (and butt) numbing work and "alternate" reality games are bringing me to the edge of crazy.i got 8 hours a day of repetative form filling and box checking visit the red box apperciation society on facebook for more info.but then i get the lost experience email from rachel blakeAPOLLO bars!!!! arrrghh!!!!1will post more on saturday if i can get one - depend on how many lost

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Its fantastic, thank godi was concerned it would suck after all the excitement leading up to it but i absolutely loved it.at the cinema i normally prefer to sit silently an let the film get on with it but our entire group felt the need to join in with the movie this time, warning people on the screen to watch out for the snakes by their feet, in their bags and under their clothes, and loadly

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I have solved it!yes yes yes yes the question that has plagued me for the last year or so has finally been solvednot fermats last theorem, world peace or cold fusion,no its "which episode of something or film is it where some girl has a rule book an when she leaves at the end she gives the boy a copy of it?"this question of course being swiftly followed by chris and alexs question of "what is

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ok so i forgot exactly what the point of my firefly blog was. never mind MORE BLOGGINGover here in the uk im used to not getting all the cool tv related stuff that the yanks get not a problem ive come to terms with it and if i really wanted it id figure a way out some how.but ive been keeping up with the lost experience (the online lost world thats really breaking down my seperation between

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Yep I'm a Browncoat.was a bit of a trekky (not dress as a Klingon, "err in episode 86 when you routed tachions through the phasers using the deflector wouldnt that desroy the warp engines?" kinda trekky. more a "ah the one where they all become monkeys, i like this one" kinda trekkybut then last year, i got the firefly boxset and after a couple of episodes i got hooked, loved the movie (even went

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First up in the important que...oh yesThats the pirates three teaser poster they had at Comic-Conand if your me thats very excitingso it makes it here as my first POST OF INTERESTmore at comingsoon.net

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yes its new, my new blog.Having given up on myspace as i dont have broadband here i have swiched to this which Chris suggested.Brought on by boredom and Chris' lack of updates i bring you this blog, which i shall now forget to update.The whole audience may only be Chris and Alex but hey, that makes me no less enthusiastic about it.I will blog significant movie news/links (significant to us so

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