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 wanted to play games
now during those years i never really procrastinated, thats actually coz i didnt do any work and so had nothing to put off.
this year is my first serious procrastination oppertunity, and i think i managed pretty good.
we are havin an 80s themed costume party/night out on saturday its going to be like totally awesome and i swear there will be some rediculously embarrising pictures online on sunday/monday (before the girls ask me to destroy them)
i got my 80s guy costume sorted on tuesday but the story is one of epic procrastination and 3 for 2 pigs
tuesday i had much reading to do, i also had a costume to sort out, so after a morning of reading i took a break for lunch and walked to matalan for costume bits, they had 2 out of 3 and as i was walking back the possiblity of an excursion to cribbs (the HUGE mall on the outskirts of town) occured to me. naturally havin work i resisted, no cant go all the way there, no take to long, reading to do, cannot go on some damn fool quest for this last thing.
the problem was the use of the word quest. second i thought that i had no choise and the quest began!
having searched every shop in cribbs (almost) i found them and my costume was complete, but i was pretty hungry - it was 6pm by then
so after a quick cheeseburger, then search M&S for some percy pigs coz im there and ill need reading fuel if i ever get home.
so im prowling the store muttering "pigs" over and over under my breath like the numbers guy in lost.
"pigs... pigs... pigs...pigs!".
and i see they had big 400g bags! great!
i got 2! - last longer
it was a 3 for 2 offer!
i got 3!
this is now a bag full of 1.2kg of pigs
i then decided to eat half a bag on the bus home
so i was bouncing round the flat in my 80s gear most of the night, before an extreme come down which left me with a serious stomach ache and 2 bags of pigs to tempt me.
i now have my picture of sarah telling me off bluetacked over the bags, making me feel guilty as well as ill with every piggy bite.
i curse tempation in all its pink swishy goodness.
i still have some reading to do.
ttfn
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Douglas is the internet
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 but a very expencive, very very slow internet connection.
examples? fine
douglas is email
wednesday im spell checking and grammer checking a document then i get sent to run a cd with 4mb of files over to a studio nearby (mine is not to reason why, mine is but to do and die). but this took me half an hour - quick calculations during my boring patches today (thats 1030am to 5pm) gives me a speed of 2.2 kbit/s - i think without broadband a modem runs around 56kbit/s - i am very slow
douglas is Google
today i was told to find the names and adresses and phone numbers and all kinds of other stuff for companies all over europe (think a website completely in german, thank god my language skill aint too bad - coz i was searching for high definition pre or post production facilities) still i didn't do bad to semi quote Google :
Results 1-10 of about 35 "Europian HD facilities". (3.5 hours)
then again i may be getting the hang of being a new hound:
"mr blank isnt at his desk right now, would you like to leave a message?"
"tell him doug kitson called and that i need ad copy in my inbox before the end of the day - my editors really breaking my balls on this one"
good god, some times im fabulous :)
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 but a very expencive, very very slow internet connection.
examples? fine
douglas is email
wednesday im spell checking and grammer checking a document then i get sent to run a cd with 4mb of files over to a studio nearby (mine is not to reason why, mine is but to do and die). but this took me half an hour - quick calculations during my boring patches today (thats 1030am to 5pm) gives me a speed of 2.2 kbit/s - i think without broadband a modem runs around 56kbit/s - i am very slow
douglas is Google
today i was told to find the names and adresses and phone numbers and all kinds of other stuff for companies all over europe (think a website completely in german, thank god my language skill aint too bad - coz i was searching for high definition pre or post production facilities) still i didn't do bad to semi quote Google :
Results 1-10 of about 35 "Europian HD facilities". (3.5 hours)
then again i may be getting the hang of being a new hound:
"mr blank isnt at his desk right now, would you like to leave a message?"
"tell him doug kitson called and that i need ad copy in my inbox before the end of the day - my editors really breaking my balls on this one"
good god, some times im fabulous :)
Sunday, January 14, 2007
you want posts i'm just fighting to stay concious
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 at the circus and ran round the science centre using my (fairly significant) size advantage to clear a path for myself thro the chitlins to the exhibits - there was a room that got smaller in the alice thro the looking glass bit that i loved even if i i did nearly face plant infront of a bunch o' families when i tripped on the way in and an infinite well that jim an i could see the bottom of. crantastic
then of course was the night out, or more acuratly, as we finished at 4, the afternoon/night out, that why i maybe fulfiling my promice to hayley by postin but frankly im straddling - like kieren and his singapore 'massuse' - the edge of concious, im on my way out so you must forgive that my photos will have to wait till the morning, ok, a more workable hour of the morning.
good night out tho even if some people were a little the worse for wear by the end of the afternoon - putting me in charge of your wellbeing may not be the best of plans (just for future reference)
i remember fun chunks, hugging kieren after he took us back to (bugger i dont remember the name) that place we went to last time with the holes in the walls, hugging him coz they played sweet child of mine - fookin love the 80's after that they played build me up buttercup (i did the official southam school dance routine and looked a pillock throught) and livin on a prayer, hell yeah.
also to facilitate memory i txted myself: 'a txt 4 me much drink and almost dancin best a luck rambo! c ya danni ice cube back aaa' im pretty sure this ment rambo was on tv and i missed it and i vividly remember an ice cube down the back from danni.
AND my camera makes my (frankly piss poor 'moustache') look more impressive yay!
to summerise a hilarious 3 days aimed at me the less mature science communicator, followed by some really fun chats with course mates that we may not remember tomorrow, followed by some extremely plutonic grinding of kieren and shirin.
photos to follow +1 moustache
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 at the circus and ran round the science centre using my (fairly significant) size advantage to clear a path for myself thro the chitlins to the exhibits - there was a room that got smaller in the alice thro the looking glass bit that i loved even if i i did nearly face plant infront of a bunch o' families when i tripped on the way in and an infinite well that jim an i could see the bottom of. crantastic
then of course was the night out, or more acuratly, as we finished at 4, the afternoon/night out, that why i maybe fulfiling my promice to hayley by postin but frankly im straddling - like kieren and his singapore 'massuse' - the edge of concious, im on my way out so you must forgive that my photos will have to wait till the morning, ok, a more workable hour of the morning.
good night out tho even if some people were a little the worse for wear by the end of the afternoon - putting me in charge of your wellbeing may not be the best of plans (just for future reference)
i remember fun chunks, hugging kieren after he took us back to (bugger i dont remember the name) that place we went to last time with the holes in the walls, hugging him coz they played sweet child of mine - fookin love the 80's after that they played build me up buttercup (i did the official southam school dance routine and looked a pillock throught) and livin on a prayer, hell yeah.
also to facilitate memory i txted myself: 'a txt 4 me much drink and almost dancin best a luck rambo! c ya danni ice cube back aaa' im pretty sure this ment rambo was on tv and i missed it and i vividly remember an ice cube down the back from danni.
AND my camera makes my (frankly piss poor 'moustache') look more impressive yay!
to summerise a hilarious 3 days aimed at me the less mature science communicator, followed by some really fun chats with course mates that we may not remember tomorrow, followed by some extremely plutonic grinding of kieren and shirin.
photos to follow +1 moustache
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
I have finished my reading!
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 huzzar
also i managed to get through most of the mammoth set readings for tomorrows return to lectures whew - slog and a bit that was
seemed like everytime i was settlin down to a speck of honest reading something far more entertaining or important popped up, so in addition to reading i have : imported all the music off my ipod so my computer and ipod are in sync
beaten alex at the towers game he found on the internet (level 75 w00t u r teh suck!!!1)
eaten my weight in chocolate digestives
already mentioned harry potter
also my window over looks a bunch of other blocks and more specifically their kitchens - how am i, an adimttedly week willed male, supposed to concentrate when the girls across from my window insist on excercising in their kitchen, or cleaning the windows? its just the universe being far more difficult than it needs to and im glad they stopped.
also in exciting new years doug related news ive been growing my magnum pi mustache, i was also watching the mask of zorro so i currently have a tiny bit o' fluff on my chin to. very dashing keep an eye on facebook as there will eventually be a moustache progress photo album hooray! (is it that obvious im single?) :)
oo speaking of movies the inaugural simucast of the funk and wagnells channel took place on monday (chris and i watched dead or alive and msn messengered throughout with semi hilarious conciquences, for any more details find the funk and wagnells facebook group).
long story short DOA is the movie for the 12 year old boy in all of us - holly valance, jamie pressly and more heart stoppingly good looking girls kung fu fighting. plot? do u really need one? it has everything: ninjas, girls in bikinis, bright colours, vollyball, girls in their underwear, fake lesbians and a complete lack of respect for every branch of science (bloodless sword fights, no bruising, movement recording nanobots, undownloading and the most incredable disregard for the conservation of momentum you will ever see) it really was 73 minutes of hilarious, gorgeous gorgousness and i enjoyed every single one of them. :)
well todays wednesday so normally id be off to the kitchen for our flats wine night watching oz and james' wine adventure then torchwood, but they've both finished so we'll have to play board games and drink instead
ill keep you informed
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 huzzar
also i managed to get through most of the mammoth set readings for tomorrows return to lectures whew - slog and a bit that was
seemed like everytime i was settlin down to a speck of honest reading something far more entertaining or important popped up, so in addition to reading i have : imported all the music off my ipod so my computer and ipod are in sync
beaten alex at the towers game he found on the internet (level 75 w00t u r teh suck!!!1)
eaten my weight in chocolate digestives
already mentioned harry potter
also my window over looks a bunch of other blocks and more specifically their kitchens - how am i, an adimttedly week willed male, supposed to concentrate when the girls across from my window insist on excercising in their kitchen, or cleaning the windows? its just the universe being far more difficult than it needs to and im glad they stopped.
also in exciting new years doug related news ive been growing my magnum pi mustache, i was also watching the mask of zorro so i currently have a tiny bit o' fluff on my chin to. very dashing keep an eye on facebook as there will eventually be a moustache progress photo album hooray! (is it that obvious im single?) :)
oo speaking of movies the inaugural simucast of the funk and wagnells channel took place on monday (chris and i watched dead or alive and msn messengered throughout with semi hilarious conciquences, for any more details find the funk and wagnells facebook group).
long story short DOA is the movie for the 12 year old boy in all of us - holly valance, jamie pressly and more heart stoppingly good looking girls kung fu fighting. plot? do u really need one? it has everything: ninjas, girls in bikinis, bright colours, vollyball, girls in their underwear, fake lesbians and a complete lack of respect for every branch of science (bloodless sword fights, no bruising, movement recording nanobots, undownloading and the most incredable disregard for the conservation of momentum you will ever see) it really was 73 minutes of hilarious, gorgeous gorgousness and i enjoyed every single one of them. :)
well todays wednesday so normally id be off to the kitchen for our flats wine night watching oz and james' wine adventure then torchwood, but they've both finished
ill keep you informed
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Why I havent been posting...
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 onto my forehead coz i had to wait for a download).
but im back an i have my mac back so all is good
and i have 'entertaining' christmas related stories, (read on if you dare...)
well there were hilarious chrsitmas presents, chris got me an insanity prawn boy tshirt that says anus! (thatll probly make more sence if you go to weebl stuff and watch on the moon ep 9). ive worn it in public a couple of times but missed out a perfect oppertunity to ruin polite conversation with it. alex an i were trying to help chris' little sis beth to straw-pedo a cup of squash and their mum asked how she'd breath with a straw up her nose, chris said eyes, alex said ears, i pulled open my jumper only to realise i was wearing my zelda t instead. damn
there was hilarious christmas dinner where one of my uncles conviced pete (my brother) to fill a party popper with cranberry sauce, we gave it to my cousin an told him to set it off at the grown ups table. pete, me and my uncle then spent half an hour on chairs cleaning cranberry sauce off the celing - if only he'd aimed at my grandad like i told him...
LRE work continued until last week (thank god they opened on jan 2 so i could get 3 whole days work in before i left) its tough but at least i can pester my co-workers to keep myself entertained, at theres plenty to read (being a library an all)
so im back at bristol,
its been raining,
an its bloody freezing,
my heater seems small and ineffective (any one draws similarities to my man parts will be in trouble)
but.. the second series on Quantum Leap was waiting here for me on DVD!
Theorizing one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator... and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping that each time his next leap would be the leap home.
god i love that programme
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 onto my forehead coz i had to wait for a download).
but im back an i have my mac back so all is good
and i have 'entertaining' christmas related stories, (read on if you dare...)
well there were hilarious chrsitmas presents, chris got me an insanity prawn boy tshirt that says anus! (thatll probly make more sence if you go to weebl stuff and watch on the moon ep 9). ive worn it in public a couple of times but missed out a perfect oppertunity to ruin polite conversation with it. alex an i were trying to help chris' little sis beth to straw-pedo a cup of squash and their mum asked how she'd breath with a straw up her nose, chris said eyes, alex said ears, i pulled open my jumper only to realise i was wearing my zelda t instead. damn
there was hilarious christmas dinner where one of my uncles conviced pete (my brother) to fill a party popper with cranberry sauce, we gave it to my cousin an told him to set it off at the grown ups table. pete, me and my uncle then spent half an hour on chairs cleaning cranberry sauce off the celing - if only he'd aimed at my grandad like i told him...
LRE work continued until last week (thank god they opened on jan 2 so i could get 3 whole days work in before i left) its tough but at least i can pester my co-workers to keep myself entertained, at theres plenty to read (being a library an all)
so im back at bristol,
its been raining,
an its bloody freezing,
my heater seems small and ineffective (any one draws similarities to my man parts will be in trouble)
but.. the second series on Quantum Leap was waiting here for me on DVD!
Theorizing one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator... and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping that each time his next leap would be the leap home.
god i love that programme
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
probably my last post before christmas
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 it just means ive been to busy to sit down with an argos catalogue and flick through the toy section (ok so i havent done that seriously for years) but i havnt really thought about what id like either
but ill tell you what i am excited about. Doctor Who. christmas special. yay
looks like crazy fun and i cant wait.
also torchwood ends around new year! something about time travel and meeting captian jack in the past. cant wait.
and dracula and ruby in the smoke. BBC TV fun! huzzah! huzzah!
i could bore you now with a list of every thing i have done since i last felt like blogging but its been mostly work and travel. im back in southam doing unexplainable things to boxes of books in northampton.
the nice thing about being back in southam is that i am back with my dvd collection -a week without them was to long, i went into lord of the rings withdrawl after the first couple of days. not that i need to watch them over and over, i just like having the option, but im back and im watching them now yay!
i also say yay to seeing my friends this christmas.
dont know if its my exciting new course, mountains of dosh or the fact that i may never spend another christmas with them but something makes me appriciate them more this year than for the last 4/5 years. (honestly that was meant with more love than it sounds, because i am happy to see them)
damn it another long blog.
ok ill end it fast (in a cheesy but very christmassy way) in my very high pitched muppet christmas carol tiny tim voice,
god bless us, every one.
but ill tell you what i am excited about. Doctor Who. christmas special. yay
looks like crazy fun and i cant wait.
also torchwood ends around new year! something about time travel and meeting captian jack in the past. cant wait.
and dracula and ruby in the smoke. BBC TV fun! huzzah! huzzah!
i could bore you now with a list of every thing i have done since i last felt like blogging but its been mostly work and travel. im back in southam doing unexplainable things to boxes of books in northampton.
the nice thing about being back in southam is that i am back with my dvd collection -a week without them was to long, i went into lord of the rings withdrawl after the first couple of days. not that i need to watch them over and over, i just like having the option, but im back and im watching them now yay!
i also say yay to seeing my friends this christmas.
dont know if its my exciting new course, mountains of dosh or the fact that i may never spend another christmas with them but something makes me appriciate them more this year than for the last 4/5 years. (honestly that was meant with more love than it sounds, because i am happy to see them)
damn it another long blog.
ok ill end it fast (in a cheesy but very christmassy way) in my very high pitched muppet christmas carol tiny tim voice,
god bless us, every one.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
May Contain Nuts
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 : 8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
still 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=halo3ad
so cool, sheilds, brutes hell yes, course if you are reading this bit ull probly of seen it so ill move on with the story
88888888888888888888888888888888888888888
that was less than i expected but oddly appropriate.
u see my perceptions of time are completely fried.
since breaking up for the christmas holidays i hav been working so hard its... unusual
when last i left you i had a cold. good news, im over it and i passed it on to joana - thats a two-fer
we had classes and our group chrimbo dinner - unfortunatly i look miserable in the photos, but thats only because i was doped up on painkillers and vitamin C, i had a really good time.
lennart an i worked our asses off on the doing science magazine, and wrote news article ranging from dull (it may be possible to store CO2 under the sea) to the ludicrasly exciting (0-60 in 4 seconds in an electric car) ok it doesnt sound ludicrasly exciting but wait till i force you to read it and stand there looking expectant. you will act impressed.
i got the cameras i mentioned. anyone reading my facebook status may have spotted my excitement
1 word NIGHT-VISION
ok so its a bit creepy walking round your flat in the dark with a video camera, but im fairly sure any stealthy leanings were lost every few seconds as i went duuuuuude in a hurley-like way
most noteably i am not home right now, not even at chris' on the way home. i am still in bristol! ARRRRRR!
we were all set up for max gameage it would of bin 10 kinds of awesome easily, but noOOoo. i get offered work at the producer magazine again for 5 days so im stuck here til next thursday (going home over the weekend for my Omi's birthday but getting the train back to an empty room) i was so looking forward to resting
problem is all this activity combined with a memory that makes a thing-full-of-holes look like a-thing-with-no-holes-in, is making me mix up days. i spent the morning telling my boss about yesterday before i realised it was the week before i was talking about. not good
also im a little confused as to the amount of trust people are showing me.
i have been given 2 pretty expencive cameras, been allowed to film in a school and today i was given someones house key to let myself in early tomorrow
as someone who uses duuuuuude in regular conversation im just not sure these are good ideas
not that id do bad things in any of these situations but im a danger to myself, others be warned
you want an example?
we had our kid brainstorming thing on wednesday (yesterday apparently) so we need space books. as a doug i naturally think of my firefly book, theres some cool pictures of spaceships in it. unfortunatly we were half way through filming when i remember it also contains creative swearing, nudie references and chopped up people, not really 9 year old fodder. oops
im only a small step away from mittens with string and a note pinned to my chest telling people where im supposed to be going.
oo an day 7 of my doctor who advent calender and ive got all the trivia questions right (but they actually were tough) had 4 tardis chocs 2 dalek chocs and a gold coin. i swear this is a calender designed by me for me. it is teh awesome
and yes fine my varsty trivia knowledge seems a little contradictory with my leeky brain pan but ask any one whos had to live with me and they can 'testify' (lennart) to both being very true.
im going to go start prepairing my pin on note for tomorrow, bus-work-swings-work-bus-home, if your interested
still 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=halo3ad
so cool, sheilds, brutes hell yes, course if you are reading this bit ull probly of seen it so ill move on with the story
88888888888888888888888888888888888888888
that was less than i expected but oddly appropriate.
u see my perceptions of time are completely fried.
since breaking up for the christmas holidays i hav been working so hard its... unusual
when last i left you i had a cold. good news, im over it and i passed it on to joana - thats a two-fer
we had classes and our group chrimbo dinner - unfortunatly i look miserable in the photos, but thats only because i was doped up on painkillers and vitamin C, i had a really good time.
lennart an i worked our asses off on the doing science magazine, and wrote news article ranging from dull (it may be possible to store CO2 under the sea) to the ludicrasly exciting (0-60 in 4 seconds in an electric car) ok it doesnt sound ludicrasly exciting but wait till i force you to read it and stand there looking expectant. you will act impressed.
i got the cameras i mentioned. anyone reading my facebook status may have spotted my excitement
1 word NIGHT-VISION
ok so its a bit creepy walking round your flat in the dark with a video camera, but im fairly sure any stealthy leanings were lost every few seconds as i went duuuuuude in a hurley-like way
most noteably i am not home right now, not even at chris' on the way home. i am still in bristol! ARRRRRR!
we were all set up for max gameage it would of bin 10 kinds of awesome easily, but noOOoo. i get offered work at the producer magazine again for 5 days so im stuck here til next thursday (going home over the weekend for my Omi's birthday but getting the train back to an empty room) i was so looking forward to resting
problem is all this activity combined with a memory that makes a thing-full-of-holes look like a-thing-with-no-holes-in, is making me mix up days. i spent the morning telling my boss about yesterday before i realised it was the week before i was talking about. not good
also im a little confused as to the amount of trust people are showing me.
i have been given 2 pretty expencive cameras, been allowed to film in a school and today i was given someones house key to let myself in early tomorrow
as someone who uses duuuuuude in regular conversation im just not sure these are good ideas
not that id do bad things in any of these situations but im a danger to myself, others be warned
you want an example?
we had our kid brainstorming thing on wednesday (yesterday apparently) so we need space books. as a doug i naturally think of my firefly book, theres some cool pictures of spaceships in it. unfortunatly we were half way through filming when i remember it also contains creative swearing, nudie references and chopped up people, not really 9 year old fodder. oops
im only a small step away from mittens with string and a note pinned to my chest telling people where im supposed to be going.
oo an day 7 of my doctor who advent calender and ive got all the trivia questions right (but they actually were tough) had 4 tardis chocs 2 dalek chocs and a gold coin. i swear this is a calender designed by me for me. it is teh awesome
and yes fine my varsty trivia knowledge seems a little contradictory with my leeky brain pan but ask any one whos had to live with me and they can 'testify' (lennart) to both being very true.
im going to go start prepairing my pin on note for tomorrow, bus-work-swings-work-bus-home, if your interested
Friday, December 01, 2006
Lucky socks, Lois Lane and Lesbians
i have a cold - its not fun but im being a man about it
thats right im whingeing constantly and making a big fuss
its karma you see, well twisted doug karma. ill explain:
this week has been hectic
after a weekend of stationary contemplation of the televised media, monday saw the beginning of the article prep
The Article is 4 pages of the magazine thats being made for writing science and has been the focal point of this week.
I am working on it with Joana (of course). Its very odd that we keep getting paired up, but shes probly reading this so i am glad that keeps happening i have absolutely no complaints :) honestly its getting helpful, we are starting to develop systems for working together, Clark Kent had Lois Lane, so having a female sidekick is helping my superman delusions and i need writing partner to complain in an amusing way. Plus shes a much faster typer than I am.
tuesday was 5 hours of sitting at my desk writing without a subject - surprisingly difficult, but i stung together 450 words into something useful - give an infinate number of monkeys an infinate number of typewriters and theyll write you the works of Shakespeare
but wednesday was a huge day
now i knew it was going to be tough so naturally i wore my lucky socks (they're hairy on the outside - gear)
it was an uber lucky day
we blagged our way past clare and the university by not saying anything (no clare we had no idea those short people in our brainstorming session were children)
we went down into the basement to book a good quality video camera, we listened to the keeper of the cameras give us a half hour list of suggestions for how to shoot a brainstorming focus group of short people in a library type setting, and then we left with a booking for 2 cameras, a tripod and an external mic - nice (we complained for the rest of the day about that but if we have to complain at least its about someone being too helpful)
they also just handed over a tape machine and tape for the interview later - so much easier than warwick where i had to get the girls in the group to start crying to get a tape machine out of the techies
then after lunch we interviewed Dr Darren Reynolds - what a cool interview subject. his stories were interesting and at the end science communication style quotes just fell out of him, and i made it throught the whole interview without making a fool of myself - very proud
4 swift hours later and we had the article done
then i got back found a 70 word article i thought id lost and sprinted to sainsburys to pick up wine for our flats james and oz's wine adventure session (they drive round france tasting wine while we sit in our flat realising our wine tastes of feet) but noooo ive missed the start - no not in these socks, in their final act of the day the program starts half an hour later and im eating dinner and drinking wine as they discuss which wines go best with food - lucky
then in a bonus act torchwood had lesbians in it. - all hail the power of my socks
now thats a full and well rounded day. covert dealings, deceit, surprise, lunch, fear, surprise, enjoyment, relaxation, torture, physical exertion, alcohol, lesbians
dear santa, this is how I'd like every day to be.
of course in my universe such a fantastic day is going to cost me big in the karma stakes
the universe maintains a balance, if im going to get a day like that im going to get a massive amount of not good to keep it stable. so naturally ive got a cold :( its sad but im not going to mention it that much.
i got a good day for it.
thats right im whingeing constantly and making a big fuss
its karma you see, well twisted doug karma. ill explain:
this week has been hectic
after a weekend of stationary contemplation of the televised media, monday saw the beginning of the article prep
The Article is 4 pages of the magazine thats being made for writing science and has been the focal point of this week.
I am working on it with Joana (of course). Its very odd that we keep getting paired up, but shes probly reading this so i am glad that keeps happening i have absolutely no complaints :) honestly its getting helpful, we are starting to develop systems for working together, Clark Kent had Lois Lane, so having a female sidekick is helping my superman delusions and i need writing partner to complain in an amusing way. Plus shes a much faster typer than I am.
tuesday was 5 hours of sitting at my desk writing without a subject - surprisingly difficult, but i stung together 450 words into something useful - give an infinate number of monkeys an infinate number of typewriters and theyll write you the works of Shakespeare
but wednesday was a huge day
now i knew it was going to be tough so naturally i wore my lucky socks (they're hairy on the outside - gear)
it was an uber lucky day
we blagged our way past clare and the university by not saying anything (no clare we had no idea those short people in our brainstorming session were children)
we went down into the basement to book a good quality video camera, we listened to the keeper of the cameras give us a half hour list of suggestions for how to shoot a brainstorming focus group of short people in a library type setting, and then we left with a booking for 2 cameras, a tripod and an external mic - nice (we complained for the rest of the day about that but if we have to complain at least its about someone being too helpful)
they also just handed over a tape machine and tape for the interview later - so much easier than warwick where i had to get the girls in the group to start crying to get a tape machine out of the techies
then after lunch we interviewed Dr Darren Reynolds - what a cool interview subject. his stories were interesting and at the end science communication style quotes just fell out of him, and i made it throught the whole interview without making a fool of myself - very proud
4 swift hours later and we had the article done
then i got back found a 70 word article i thought id lost and sprinted to sainsburys to pick up wine for our flats james and oz's wine adventure session (they drive round france tasting wine while we sit in our flat realising our wine tastes of feet) but noooo ive missed the start - no not in these socks, in their final act of the day the program starts half an hour later and im eating dinner and drinking wine as they discuss which wines go best with food - lucky
then in a bonus act torchwood had lesbians in it. - all hail the power of my socks
now thats a full and well rounded day. covert dealings, deceit, surprise, lunch, fear, surprise, enjoyment, relaxation, torture, physical exertion, alcohol, lesbians
dear santa, this is how I'd like every day to be.
of course in my universe such a fantastic day is going to cost me big in the karma stakes
the universe maintains a balance, if im going to get a day like that im going to get a massive amount of not good to keep it stable. so naturally ive got a cold :( its sad but im not going to mention it that much.
i got a good day for it.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Torturific
yeeshk
its 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 torture scene after one involving (according to the web) a nail remover (think fingernails). Ow
But Bond takes it like a man, well sort of, he's tough throughout which is all we could expect of him.
The funny thing is I've seen stuff on TV too - I was watching something this morning which is what got me thinking about this and the bad guys are electrocuting the good guys, but all the way through these scenes (Bond too) I'm thinking "I could handle that. Pfft I wouldnt crack."
I saw Pans Labyrinth yesterday. You see very little in the way of actual torture happening, but the bad guy in it is so very very very very very very upsetting that I cannot be completely sure of that because I had my eyes closed like a little girl.
It gets set up early on that he's not a nice guy (which he does very efficiently with the bottom of a wine bottle and a mans face, in squishy/crunchy detail). So by the time it gets to him capturing wounded rebels I'm pretty much telling them to shoot themselves, to avoid what he then does with a tiny hammer, a small pair of pliers and a little screwdriver. Nail remover my arse - the setup for that scene almost had me telling him everything I knew and I was only watching. Henceforth when faced with that kind of torture I shall be foregoing Captain Doug bravardo in favour of (Science Communication) Rosies approach - "What would you like to know?" "Is there anything else I can tell you?" "Can I get you cup of tea?"
Its a strange contrast from the world of action heroes where goodies take bullets and poisonings in their stride and a decent punch to a baddie can kill. In Pans Labyrinth they go round shooting the dead just to make sure, and Bad guys can take repeated stabbings, a half Joker-ing (if you saw the film you'd understand) and poison and are still on their feet.
It was a fantastic film - torture included. Pretty and Scary and very very Sad. Theres a lullaby in there so pretty i was humming it all the way home (humming coz i dont know the words). Im glad to have something other than You know my name stuck in my head
Oh and its all in Spainsh so theres subtitles. - I have nothing against them, I just wanted to prepare you.
If you like Strings (Chris Im looking at you) go see it. If you havnt seen Strings go see it, then go get Strings and see that too.
And if anyone goes in expecting to see David Bowie in a unitard, ill never speak to you again.
its 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 torture scene after one involving (according to the web) a nail remover (think fingernails). Ow
But Bond takes it like a man, well sort of, he's tough throughout which is all we could expect of him.
The funny thing is I've seen stuff on TV too - I was watching something this morning which is what got me thinking about this and the bad guys are electrocuting the good guys, but all the way through these scenes (Bond too) I'm thinking "I could handle that. Pfft I wouldnt crack."
I saw Pans Labyrinth yesterday. You see very little in the way of actual torture happening, but the bad guy in it is so very very very very very very upsetting that I cannot be completely sure of that because I had my eyes closed like a little girl.
It gets set up early on that he's not a nice guy (which he does very efficiently with the bottom of a wine bottle and a mans face, in squishy/crunchy detail). So by the time it gets to him capturing wounded rebels I'm pretty much telling them to shoot themselves, to avoid what he then does with a tiny hammer, a small pair of pliers and a little screwdriver. Nail remover my arse - the setup for that scene almost had me telling him everything I knew and I was only watching. Henceforth when faced with that kind of torture I shall be foregoing Captain Doug bravardo in favour of (Science Communication) Rosies approach - "What would you like to know?" "Is there anything else I can tell you?" "Can I get you cup of tea?"
Its a strange contrast from the world of action heroes where goodies take bullets and poisonings in their stride and a decent punch to a baddie can kill. In Pans Labyrinth they go round shooting the dead just to make sure, and Bad guys can take repeated stabbings, a half Joker-ing (if you saw the film you'd understand) and poison and are still on their feet.
It was a fantastic film - torture included. Pretty and Scary and very very Sad. Theres a lullaby in there so pretty i was humming it all the way home (humming coz i dont know the words). Im glad to have something other than You know my name stuck in my head
Oh and its all in Spainsh so theres subtitles. - I have nothing against them, I just wanted to prepare you.
If you like Strings (Chris Im looking at you) go see it. If you havnt seen Strings go see it, then go get Strings and see that too.
And if anyone goes in expecting to see David Bowie in a unitard, ill never speak to you again.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Audience Awareness
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 take much into consideration, but there are different types of people who read this which is an odd feeling. something to get over soon which is really what this note is in aid of.
whats irratating me is that im blogging in my head, everything i do comes with an inner monalogue like in Scrubs - ive even started to twist my head when its talking. then altering the blogs for the different audiences - is driving me crazy(er)
that and the new bond song. its going round and round in my head and i keep repeating it on my computer. its annoying only coz its repeating so much, i actually think its a really cool song.
got pirates of the caribbean today! yay. up at the crack of 10 an down sainsburys before lunch, great. but nothing important after that
it did strike me how odd it is to have my plans for the day read:
watch TV till i get hungry
eat
repeat til sleepy
sleep
hardly bettering mankind
still i never really expected much (its raining an im still a bit tired from the weekend)
well ive got a schedule to get back to
toodles
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 take much into consideration, but there are different types of people who read this which is an odd feeling. something to get over soon which is really what this note is in aid of.
whats irratating me is that im blogging in my head, everything i do comes with an inner monalogue like in Scrubs - ive even started to twist my head when its talking. then altering the blogs for the different audiences - is driving me crazy(er)
that and the new bond song. its going round and round in my head and i keep repeating it on my computer. its annoying only coz its repeating so much, i actually think its a really cool song.
got pirates of the caribbean today! yay. up at the crack of 10 an down sainsburys before lunch, great. but nothing important after that
it did strike me how odd it is to have my plans for the day read:
watch TV till i get hungry
eat
repeat til sleepy
sleep
hardly bettering mankind
still i never really expected much (its raining an im still a bit tired from the weekend)
well ive got a schedule to get back to
toodles
Friday, November 17, 2006
BAM!
my eyes!
so...
much...
facebook-age
im 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, i can hardly look at the screen, and pokes, and messages, and group requests, and birthday reminders.
when i stopped wimpering and crawled out of the corner it took me half an hour to appropriatly re-poke, re-ply and comment.
my life is hard in many unexpected ways
dadun daduuuuuuuuun dadooooown dow duda dow da dowdun (do do do do do)
it was great hooray! daniel craigs tough an a bit scary so hes not gonna get called names for being blond so thats nice
plenty of cool bond lines to try out in inappropriate situations
and excessively painful torture scenes that still make me pull faces and rock back and forth - and really made me wonder if bond should be "bumping and grinding" so soon after
still, great fun and a prefect excuse to wear a tuxedo tshirt to class today.
oh and sarah if you read this (ever) happy birthday!
so...
much...
facebook-age
im 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, i can hardly look at the screen, and pokes, and messages, and group requests, and birthday reminders.
when i stopped wimpering and crawled out of the corner it took me half an hour to appropriatly re-poke, re-ply and comment.
my life is hard in many unexpected ways
dadun daduuuuuuuuun dadooooown dow duda dow da dowdun (do do do do do)
it was great hooray! daniel craigs tough an a bit scary so hes not gonna get called names for being blond so thats nice
plenty of cool bond lines to try out in inappropriate situations
and excessively painful torture scenes that still make me pull faces and rock back and forth - and really made me wonder if bond should be "bumping and grinding" so soon after
still, great fun and a prefect excuse to wear a tuxedo tshirt to class today.
oh and sarah if you read this (ever) happy birthday!
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Caaaaaaaaaaaaandy Flooooooooooooss!
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 one would go with me, which is a bit sad. I gotta say how odd it is going to one of these things when theres no one you are trying to impress with your bravery, but it was nice not vomitting
oo an i got a big bag of candy floss, it may just be the greatest food stuff ever invented so soft an yummy an soft an crunchy an soft an sticky. BRILLIANT
fireworks were fun too, i spent most of the night pretending to be one we saw that was on fire at both ends an sorta whooshed in these great bend disc shapes (the impression is up there with my cylon base star impersination of sheer clarity)
an then we went to the pub.
top plan.
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 one would go with me, which is a bit sad. I gotta say how odd it is going to one of these things when theres no one you are trying to impress with your bravery, but it was nice not vomitting
oo an i got a big bag of candy floss, it may just be the greatest food stuff ever invented so soft an yummy an soft an crunchy an soft an sticky. BRILLIANT
fireworks were fun too, i spent most of the night pretending to be one we saw that was on fire at both ends an sorta whooshed in these great bend disc shapes (the impression is up there with my cylon base star impersination of sheer clarity)
an then we went to the pub.
top plan.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Cheese related difficulty
this is going to be a largely useless post about a lack of cheese. to all who dont care - you have been warned
i 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 all day
I have ran out of cheese
no big deal woke up late, breakfast no probs
but then start getting hungry by 1 now chris an alex can back me up on this i never have much on my shelves food wise, tonnes of herbs an spices and weird thingsa but no complete meal usually
so no cheese leaves me with a lunch problem
omlettes! - no cheese and cheese makes them good
toasty - needs cheese
thats all i can think of for lunch
AArh
so in the end a cheeseless omlette it is (an dull it was)
then for t i cant have a jacket potato!
will the horror never end
turns out im ruled by cheese or more specifically cows (without them id miss breakfast to an just die)
oo tv time
play safe
i 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 all day
I have ran out of cheese
no big deal woke up late, breakfast no probs
but then start getting hungry by 1 now chris an alex can back me up on this i never have much on my shelves food wise, tonnes of herbs an spices and weird thingsa but no complete meal usually
so no cheese leaves me with a lunch problem
omlettes! - no cheese and cheese makes them good
toasty - needs cheese
thats all i can think of for lunch
AArh
so in the end a cheeseless omlette it is (an dull it was)
then for t i cant have a jacket potato!
will the horror never end
turns out im ruled by cheese or more specifically cows (without them id miss breakfast to an just die)
oo tv time
play safe
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Good news everyone
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 zombies
i almost dressed up - i say almost coz i wore a shirt but with my mandana - hooray for that - so i was sorta a cowboy or a pirate or when they played livin on a prayer in the club and i wore it like a head band i was an 80s rocker and it was nice an warm round my neck when we left, i may have to wear it out normally.
altho, mandana aside its was a pretty good night out, some frightneningly short skirts but best of all was that they actually played some interesting music, imagine welcome to the black parade but at a club volume, when they got to the guitars in the middle, it was so loud everyones ears nearly exploded. awesome
anyone who noticed my facebook batdog got a halloween skeleton costume well done, all tho im sure the rest of ya dont care that much.
lectures start again in 15 days, its a hard life, but i do have homework to do (thanks to everyone who filled in my questionaire thingie)
let the work begin!
well halloween went well, even tho after shaun of the dead i was still concerned about zombies
i almost dressed up - i say almost coz i wore a shirt but with my mandana - hooray for that - so i was sorta a cowboy or a pirate or when they played livin on a prayer in the club and i wore it like a head band i was an 80s rocker and it was nice an warm round my neck when we left, i may have to wear it out normally.
altho, mandana aside its was a pretty good night out, some frightneningly short skirts but best of all was that they actually played some interesting music, imagine welcome to the black parade but at a club volume, when they got to the guitars in the middle, it was so loud everyones ears nearly exploded. awesome
anyone who noticed my facebook batdog got a halloween skeleton costume well done, all tho im sure the rest of ya dont care that much.
lectures start again in 15 days, its a hard life, but i do have homework to do (thanks to everyone who filled in my questionaire thingie)
let the work begin!
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Halloween oooOOOOooo
spooking goings on down in brisol
having sod all to do twixt now an 16th of november, i began halloween prep on the 30th with a "monster" movie-a-thon
Shrek - orges count damn it
Shrek 2 - same as above
King Kong - giant ape woo T-Rex fight is soooooooooo cool makes me jump round like an ape tho
Jurassic Park - classic movie shame i collapsed from tiredness part way thro
i was trying like crazy to link Jurassic park and Kong some way eventually i got this :
Kong - Andy Serkis - LOTR - Christopher Lee - Star Wars - Liam Neeson - Schindlers List - Speilburg - Jurassic Park
bargin!
but then having finally cracked it (no mean feat at midnight when you can barely stay awake) when they enter the gates of jurassic park an ian malcolm (jeff goldblum) says "what have they got in there, King Kong?"
b*llocks
On to halloween
being sleepy i started late
Night Watch (theatrical version with fancy subtitles) - absolute classic
then i fell asleep
Shaun of the dead - scared me
which made me come up with my finalised zombie plan - its a buite but i aint puttin it here or ull all do it
now coz im scared im watchin labyrinth - it makes me less scared but it still contains david bowie in tights which is still scary enough
having sod all to do twixt now an 16th of november, i began halloween prep on the 30th with a "monster" movie-a-thon
Shrek - orges count damn it
Shrek 2 - same as above
King Kong - giant ape woo T-Rex fight is soooooooooo cool makes me jump round like an ape tho
Jurassic Park - classic movie shame i collapsed from tiredness part way thro
i was trying like crazy to link Jurassic park and Kong some way eventually i got this :
Kong - Andy Serkis - LOTR - Christopher Lee - Star Wars - Liam Neeson - Schindlers List - Speilburg - Jurassic Park
bargin!
but then having finally cracked it (no mean feat at midnight when you can barely stay awake) when they enter the gates of jurassic park an ian malcolm (jeff goldblum) says "what have they got in there, King Kong?"
b*llocks
On to halloween
being sleepy i started late
Night Watch (theatrical version with fancy subtitles) - absolute classic
then i fell asleep
Shaun of the dead - scared me
which made me come up with my finalised zombie plan - its a buite but i aint puttin it here or ull all do it
now coz im scared im watchin labyrinth - it makes me less scared but it still contains david bowie in tights which is still scary enough
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Finding of my old blog
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 solid work in the last 10 which is balanced out by getting the next month off, lifes hard an all that
the accomidation here is terrorfying (spelling error dedicated to chris) the room is identical to the layout of tocil in warwick cept here i get a bath room ensuite (swit-swoo) tis slightly confusing but i definatly prefere this to tocil as the flat mates are more interesting, only one rice cooker so the fuses for the building arnt blown every sodding evening, still aint as much fun as tile hill tho coz it lacks halo uda thought with so many ppl gathered in one place we cud do massive haloage - i mean really really massive, snow level in halo 2 massive but no :(
im gonna have to start writin msgs on our kitchen window challenging everyone in the courtyard to a match
which brings me to whats currently written there:
NAKED MOLE RATS
but what is naked mole rats?
is this naked mole rats?
is this naked mole rats?
thanks to naked mole rats we now know that this is naked mole rats
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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 solid work in the last 10 which is balanced out by getting the next month off, lifes hard an all that
the accomidation here is terrorfying (spelling error dedicated to chris) the room is identical to the layout of tocil in warwick cept here i get a bath room ensuite (swit-swoo) tis slightly confusing but i definatly prefere this to tocil as the flat mates are more interesting, only one rice cooker so the fuses for the building arnt blown every sodding evening, still aint as much fun as tile hill tho coz it lacks halo uda thought with so many ppl gathered in one place we cud do massive haloage - i mean really really massive, snow level in halo 2 massive but no :(
im gonna have to start writin msgs on our kitchen window challenging everyone in the courtyard to a match
which brings me to whats currently written there:
NAKED MOLE RATS
but what is naked mole rats?
is this naked mole rats?
is this naked mole rats?
thanks to naked mole rats we now know that this is naked mole rats
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAA
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaA
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
APOLLO!
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 one
an i go into the shop in Cov and its all shifty like;
Me (in husky voice) : got any apollo bars?
Shop Keep : glances around shiftyly : whats the password?
Me : ###### #######
Shop Keep : Nope
Me : Damn
Half an hour later when I find the new one
Shop Keep : classic questioning look with raised arms et al.
Me : ##### ######
Shop Keep : Hooray!
It was great tho you may of had to be there to see the fun.
I think i need to be a private eye now - all stealth an danger (awesome)
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 one
an i go into the shop in Cov and its all shifty like;
Me (in husky voice) : got any apollo bars?
Shop Keep : glances around shiftyly : whats the password?
Me : ###### #######
Shop Keep : Nope
Me : Damn
Half an hour later when I find the new one
Shop Keep : classic questioning look with raised arms et al.
Me : ##### ######
Shop Keep : Hooray!
It was great tho you may of had to be there to see the fun.
I think i need to be a private eye now - all stealth an danger (awesome)
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
I am the last shreds of Dougs sanity
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 blake
APOLLO bars!!!! arrrghh!!!!1
will post more on saturday if i can get one - depend on how many lost experience geeks are in the coventry area. one to ponder that is
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 blake
APOLLO bars!!!! arrrghh!!!!1
will post more on saturday if i can get one - depend on how many lost experience geeks are in the coventry area. one to ponder that is
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Snakes On A Plane!!!
Its fantastic, thank god
i 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 uh-oh-ing when a guy unzips his fly as the snakes get loose (crotch shot).
i never claim to have a refined taste in movies (good taste, yes, but refined? nope) and i think what i really liked was the way you could actually see most of it coming, from the guy un-doing his fly (snakes are achieveing crotch domination) to the nasty british guy getting what he deserved. and the bits i didnt see where so hilarious i loved them too! dont want to spoil them but the steward... at the end... i was in tears it was so funny.
Sam Jackson was a whole barrel of awesomeness and i just know when things start frustraiting me im gonna be yelling "THAT IS IT, I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE M_________ING SNAKES ON THIS M_________ING PLANE!"
awesome,
awesome to the max
i 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 uh-oh-ing when a guy unzips his fly as the snakes get loose (crotch shot).
i never claim to have a refined taste in movies (good taste, yes, but refined? nope) and i think what i really liked was the way you could actually see most of it coming, from the guy un-doing his fly (snakes are achieveing crotch domination) to the nasty british guy getting what he deserved. and the bits i didnt see where so hilarious i loved them too! dont want to spoil them but the steward... at the end... i was in tears it was so funny.
Sam Jackson was a whole barrel of awesomeness and i just know when things start frustraiting me im gonna be yelling "THAT IS IT, I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE M_________ING SNAKES ON THIS M_________ING PLANE!"
awesome,
awesome to the max
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