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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | | 11:41 pm |
Oh, and before I forget
I also cut my fingernails for the first time in twenty years today. I have unbitten fingernails now. | | 3:26 pm |
Auntie Daniel, graphs and Antigo silt loam
Firstly, I love the word "pseudepigraphical" and don't get to use it often enough. Please, wrongly attribute works to me, then I can be pseudepigraphal too! So I was on my way to work yesterday when a young Polish lady from (or should I say via) Newcastle stopped me and asked for directions. Well, I couldn't help her but there were a couple of delivery men unloading stuff a little way back down the pavement, so I went and asked them, and they answered my question with the help of their road atlas. Polish Lady had in the mean time borrowed by mobile to try to ring her friend, although couldn't get through. She then asked me if I would give her advice. My heart sank. Our conversation progressed, and it became clear she was in a relationship with a lady from York who had been treating her rather badly. She had come down to York from Newcastle unannounced in the hopes of sorting things out with her. What should she do, she asked? Well, I didn't really feel qualified to comment, but I did say she probably shouldn't be with someone who had treated her cruelly. Anyway, that was an unexpected incident. I wonder how she fared after I rushed off to work. This item from the BBC is an interesting article on the presentation of data, especially when it comes to the huge numbers being thrown around when talking about government spending and debt and suchlike. The first image was particularly arresting: 
Here's a nice little song which may amuse those of my readers who are interested Antigo silt loam, the state soil of Wisconsin: | | Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | | 2:43 pm |
Auto "correct," eh? It's auto something, certainly.
Right, that's it. I'm going to have to do something about the Microsoft Works wordprocessor's autocorrect. It's been winding me up for ages, but it's just autocorrected "sephiroth" to "spirit." That makes no sense. I'm beginning to think it just doesn't like me using words with too many syllables. | | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 11:05 pm |
Berlin Wall
I think the fall of the Berlin Wall is the first thing I was ever aware of in terms of current affairs. I remember being told about it in school assembly at St. Malachy's, sitting cross legged on the hall floor. I didn't understand what it was about, but I was old enough (just) to realise it was a good thing because it meant people were being friends with one another when they hadn't been before. Well, I may have only been five at the time, but I don't think that's a bad summary. So Happy 20th Unniversary, Berlin Wall! I'm glad I (just about) remember. | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 11:12 am |
They know where I live
The telemarketers have my name and number now, I know not from where. I do not want to help them with their lifestyle survey, and nor am I interested in whatever they wanted to sell me for my computer. They'll be second against the wall when the revolution comes. | | Friday, October 30th, 2009 | | 4:53 pm |
Perplexity is what my hair causes
Earlier today, a little girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old, came to the counter with her dad to pay for something. She looked at me attentively for a moment before saying "are you a girl?" Honestly, she couldn't tell. Normally the beard helps these days. It was very cute, of course, and caused many a chuckle for both myself and her father, but it is, perhaps, time for a haircut. | | Monday, October 26th, 2009 | | 12:34 pm |
Not Catullus this time
Puella Rigensis ridebat Quam tigris in tergo vehebat; Externa profecta, Interna revecta, Sed risus cum tigre manebat. | | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 4:00 pm |
La belle dame sans merci
So, I have joined the choir at English Martyrs which has started up again in the run up to Christmas. The first rehersal was this morning before Mass, and it looks like we're singing some good stuff. We didn't get round to it this morning, but I even hear tell of "In the Bleak Midwinter" which is rather fab. And then, after Mass and the customary post-liturgical coffee, an unexpected (though not unprecidented) invitation to lunch with Mary and Joy, which was of course most pleasant. It has, in fact, been a good weekend, as my parents and two of their German friends, Thomas and Britta, came over along with Thomas and Britta's tiny person, Freida. Pizza, good times and recounting in the passive voice were had. | | Friday, October 16th, 2009 | | 10:51 pm |
| | Saturday, October 10th, 2009 | | 10:42 am |
Games Day Fermentation
So, we came back from Games Day a couple of weekends ago with some new rules and stuff like that. One of them is Blood on the Plains, a supplement for Warhammer Historical's Legends of the Old West. And now, of course, Dave wants a possee of 28mm Mormons. | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 9:01 pm |
| | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 10:16 pm |
| | Friday, September 18th, 2009 | | 9:01 am |
In knowing the teachings of Zerthimon I have become stronger
I didn't know that Mitch Pileggi, who plays assistant director Skinner from the X Files, also does the voice acting for Daakon from Planescape: Torment. My head asplode. Did you know this fact, Chris? IMDB also informs me that Dan Castellaneta voiced Nordom and John de Lancie voiced Trias the fallen angel. Huh. Looking at the voice acting credits makes me realised I'd never noticed how much better it is in Torment than in the vast majority of other games. One notices the hammy nonsense which prevails in the majority of computer games, but not that on Torment in the same way that one notices bad acting in any other medium, but not good. | | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | | 10:57 pm |
Hurrah for Guitar
I have, in a sense, had a productive evening. I think I'm getting the hang of strumming patterns on the guitar. I am approaching passable with strumming Hotel California, although I still have some issues with the barre chords. I'm relearning the House of the Rising Sun with better picking pattern. It is only a moderate exaggeration to say that I can unleash Puff the Magic Dragon at will. I picked up my first guitar in Netto for £9.99 on a whim in December. I'm now using my great uncle Stanley's, which is, unsurprisingly, somewhat superior. Learning the guitar has really helped me keep things together at times, and at other times to return things to a state of together. Also, wicked callouses. My only question is why didn't I take it up years ago? | | Monday, September 14th, 2009 | | 12:17 pm |
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Publishers certainly know a good gimmick when they see one - I'm glad to see that they've got out this accompaniment to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in time for the Christmas rush. | | Monday, September 7th, 2009 | | 10:43 pm |
| | Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | | 12:10 am |
A Survey from Sheepy, because I am not tired.
What is the make and model of your car? I have no car. I travel by Shanks' Pony, or by rail - the two civilized forms of transport. Have you ever lied to a teacher to get out of a deadline? Nope. Which genres of fiction do you read? When I read fiction, it is usually cheap and tacky sci-fi. What is your occupation? Bookseller / counter clerk. What is really creepy? The house creaking. Really. I switched on the heating last weekend for the first time this autumn and the noise of cracking timbers was quite alarming until I realised what it was. My bed, which has a wooden frame, was directy behind me and is against a radiator, so it was making quite a racket. Who is your celebrity crush? Hmm. I suppose that at least some of my current enthusiasm for NCIS is motivated by a slight fondness for Pauley Perette. What is your current fandom/obsession/addiction? Ha, possibly NCIS. But no, I think probably today it has been my guitar. More specifically, I have been trying to get the chords for Hotel California to sound nice and crisp. Barre chords :[ What are you listening to right now? Nothing. I was listening to Akhnaten by Philip Glass a little while ago, though. What did you eat for dinner? I fried up some butternut squash. I am aware that that does not constitute a meal... Which websites do you always visit when you go online? BBC New, Facebook, my email accounts, LJ, I Can Has Cheezburger, and Misfile if it's a week day and therefore has been updated. What was the last thing you bought? Chocolate, which also does not constitute a meal. Which season is your favourite? Autumn. It's nice and rainy, and I can wear my swooshy coat again. Hurrah! Does the weather affect your mood? Unless it's astonishingly hot, no. What did you want to be when you were growing up? My first career plan was to be an artist-builder-boy, but I was about five at the time. I'm still not sure what I want to be. Do you want to learn another language? I am, as always, trying to improve my Latin. I think, also, that next year, once I am free of some other commitments, I will start sign language classes as I promised myself some time ago. What are five things, not people, you can't live without? Well the most important things are mostly abstract concepts, but like Sheepy I will take "things" to mean physical objects. My organisational diary (as opposed to my other diary, which contains only angst, which I can live without), my laptop (he's called Wolfgang), my 'phone (not because I ever ring anybody, but because it tells me what time it is), my tea cupboard (I could call it a food cupboard, and that's what it's supposed to be, but it rarely has as much food in it as it does tea) and my trousers, obviously. What is the last thing you ate? Chocolate. What is something you would like to say to someone right now? Cheer up. Do you have to pee? I have just been, but thanks for asking. | | Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | | 8:33 pm |
Specsavers
First it was Edith Piaf, then it was Thunderbirds. Now Postman Pat. Is nothing sacred? | | Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | | 10:17 pm |
I hope Hardcastle doesn't mind...
But I'm stealing his idea for an Adeptus Mechanicus beekeeper. Maybe John Blanche needs to work such a thing into his art somewhere. | | Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | | 6:29 pm |
A Very Venerable Dreadnought
So, I have a rogue trader era dreadnought now. I think I'll post work in progress pics. Here it is, just as it came to me in the post from Mr. eBay...  Obviously, my first job is to remove the horrible gloopy blue and red paint job. |
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