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Sweatiest. Day. Ever.

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I went to Laura’s this weekend, having not seen each other for weeks — since we finish university actually. Happiness definitely ensued. Chris came too, and Bryan lives right next to Laura so the gang was almost complete! ‘cept for Luke who just didn’t put any effort in.

High points included:

  • More pizza than was really necessary
  • Discovering they do Southern Comfort in a can
  • Rediscovering lemon slices
  • Making that egg in bread thing in frying pans that were clearly too small
  • Being enraged by Dr Robotnic!
  • Getting zeros for the first few sets of bowling, and then half strike it all the way home (and still losing)
  • Being able to tick off Clockwork Orange from my list of films to see — fucked. up.
  • Chris kicking a hedgehog so hard even the RSPCA would be impressed
  • Finding out Dagny Taggart likes it rough
  • Deciding to want to become a professional laser tag player, and becoming very hot whilst deciding.
  • Meeting Charlie!
  • Battling with Laura to keep her clothes on
  • Being yelled at in a forest, and fleeing for our lives

Good times. :D

Freudian slip

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(23:29:39) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: my mates leant me a 40K book and basically gone “give it a chance”
(23:29:54) Shane: Whaaaaaaat?
(23:30:04) Shane: As if I’m being blown off due to war hammer
(23:30:24) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: no – your being blown off becuase i want to clamber into my pit and begin to read a book
(23:30:33) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: so that if the first chapter is shit he can have it back 2morrow
(23:30:42) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: and id blow you off for bits of plastic anyday
(23:30:45) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: wait.
(23:30:46) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: no.
(23:30:47) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: DOH!
(23:30:52) Shane: :D
(23:30:59) ***Shane finds some plastic
(23:31:02) Luke ~ Mr. Funk: ¬¬¬”

Compatibility checklist

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I was planning on watching Digg’s Townhall, but I saw the topics they talk about and they’re all the same. Mostly power users and duplicate content. In response to those Jay and Kevin will just say “Yeah, we’re working on those. You’ll see changes in the coming weeks.” Ad infinitum.

My Firefox seems to be getting laggy. Extensive JavaScript and Flash ads make my iTunes jump. I know it’s nothing to do with Firefox, and is probably more to do with my laptop being in near constant use for the last year without ever having much maintenance upon it. So, I’m thinking maybe it’s time to start afresh. Not just with a new Windows XP reinstall, but with a whole new operating system.

I think I’m going to be switching to Debian, before I do though, I want to make sure I won’t lose any programs that’re vital to me. I thought here would be a good place to go through them and check for alternatives.

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Catch up

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I’ve not done a personal update here in a while, which is odd for someone that comes from LiveJournal where it’s common practice to note down everything you’ve done since your last update, a few hours ago. I actually have a lot of drafts for computing articles piling up that I should really finish up soon. Recently though, I’ve just not had the time.

Luke and Laura are now fairly frequent guests, so over the past week or so I’ve not been alone much. I love that, really. I’m definitely a person that likes to be around other people. When I’m not for a period of time (especially if I’m just sitting at my computer all night) I get mildly depressed. I’m not sure when that change happened in me though. I used to remember loving having so much time to myself, and if I were with people for too long I’d get angsty. It’s the opposite now really.

Although, I could totally do with more “alone time,” if you get me.

I’d been playing around with polysleeping for a while, sleeping more than once a day, but in short bursts. You can generally save around two hours sleeping a day and not suffer any sleep debt. Since Luke and Laura have been around though that’s totally gone out of the window; I slept from about two till twelve today.

People being around you all the time also means you don’t really get time to do chores. Today, I actually ran out of clothes to wear (that came faster than expected due to the snow) and two days ago I resorted to eating a meal out of a Tupperware container. So, today will definitely be a tidying up day.

Against Nik’s advice, I’ve decided to try and start reading Twilight. I got to the first page an immediately regretted watching the film first. It’s exactly the same. I find it hard to read a book which has no mystery. I don’t earn anything by reading those pages, and so it seems like a dull chore to me. I doubt I’ll actually finish the book, but I’ll try before the next film comes out.

There’s new TED content out which will definitely give me a few hours of things to think about and watch. TED’s always freaking amazing, and I’m constantly blown away with how awesome each of the speakers are, and how innovative their ideas are. I really hope that I create something that I can be that passionate about.