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[May. 18th, 2009|07:29 pm] |
A long time ago I used to do these things, but then I stopped, mainly because everyone who reads my LJ is more mature then I am. Also, you get bored answering the same questions over and over, but I havn't for a long time, so I think I will. But I'm lazy so I'm only going to answer the *interesting* questions. (stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lil_starry1
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I guess now I need to stop and do something useful with my evening. |
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| EEEE! BIKE!! |
[May. 17th, 2009|06:09 pm] |
Ok I *was* going to post a post about my bike, but I hadn't realised I hadn't finished my previous post about me dying. So this post is about me living my life to the max... again...
So recently I've been resiting buying a Mac Mini and a HDTV. Resisting quite well in fact, even through proximity of Apple stores etc etc, but this weekend was a slight dent in the "lets save LOTS" plan of life.
I might have bought http://www.boardmanbikes.com/road/road_team.html
For those of you wary about clicking links, heres a picture.
Yes its in my kitchen, yes it says CB or Chris Boardman, or Boardman 17 times over the entire bike, and yes, it moves like lightning. It also weighs less then my packed briefcase and I love it. NEEOOOWWNWN |
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| Theory of a Dead Man... or one thats going to be Part TWO |
[May. 17th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
Ok when I started writing this sequence I have to admit how this came about. I realised one night as I drifted off to sleep that I was moving in a seemingly never ending eastbound direction. The next day with a roughly drawn map of England on the whiteboard, I plotted some sample points and my theory was proved - I was definitely due to die because of drowning in the North Sea.
Unfortunately, the problem is I gauged the position of Manchester to be too far south (or did I mis-position Germany in respect to Norwich - the argument is mute - I was wrong). I now see the errors of my ways, and can now give more evidence to actually show the corrected information.
I will die in Dortmund.
The problem is, I can no longer give any reasoning behind the nature of my death. So I'm sorry to have you all worked up in part one for this quite disapointing second part. I wonder what goes on in Dortmund... |
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| Infallable Proof of My Death Part One |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
Ok so my previous post, each sentence out of context makes perfect sense - I had little time to post it for two reasons, one because I was cooking dinner, and two, because I am soon to move house. You will see why the second of these two statements is important in a moment. I know where I am going to die because I Know when I am going to die (well. Probably) and :. I can assume how.
Firstly, lets just remember the rules of the game.
1) Logic, is absolute. Infallible.
2) Maths (of which Logic is a subset of) is also absolute and infallible.
3) Combining Logic and Maths in anyway you like proves things.
4) You must obey the law. (Like Gravity (OBEY GRAVITY. ITS THE LAW).
Finally this leads us to tonights fun, which ironically gives away some information about me which you can a) find out on the internet already so its not that secret and b) allows you to kinda pretend that you're me when filling out important forms.
| What | Year | Long | Lat | | I was born in St Mary's Hospital in 1983. | 0 | -2.227027 | 53.46069 | | I moved to Yoxall in 1984 | 1 | -1.79163 | 52.769332 | | I moved to Bourne in 1990 | 7 | -0.385208 | 52.773901 | | I moved to UEA in 2001 | 18 | 1.244717 | 52.622956 | | I moved to Bowthorpe Rd in 2002 | 19 | 1.262655 | 52.633688 | | I moved to St Benedicts St in 2003 | 20 | 1.28819 | 52.631161 | | I moved to Southwell Rd in the same | 20 | 1.27892 | 52.619256 | | I moved to Kings Street in 2007 | 24 | 1.283298 | 52.626342 |
Ok, well I'm as sane as the next man (for various values of next) but you must be a FOOL if you can't see the PROOF in the NUMBERS. Its all CLEAR man CLEAR as DAYLIGHT in a *VERY SUNNY PLACE*. Ahem. Ok what we have here is a clear progression. (for those of you who don't believe, I have got a map here with a line on it so there can be no mistake in what I'm claiming.
Ok, I can't do all the maths this evening- I've got to change the sheets and do some laundry and stuff. But I will be back with MY DEATH... PART TWO... |
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| “Each man is the architect of his own fate.” |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
I am running out of time to post this, so this is just a very quick post.
I know when, and where, and, I can make some assumptions on the nature of my death.
In other news, we should have our mortgage all sorted now, so moving house is ON YEAH BABY YEAH! |
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[Apr. 5th, 2009|02:31 pm] |
Ok, for those of you who know me, you'll know about the fact that I don't really cook "very well" that is I cook a few dishes a lot and those that I do are very random. So this week, JN at work convinced me to try for the real Roast Chicken. A REal one, not half one and not one already cooked.
See! I did it! (Thanks to Jamie Olivers cookbook. Officially Suitable for cooking morons) |
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| Student Loans |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
Its ridiculous. I was in full time employment BEFORE I graduated from University. I've not had a day of unemployment during that time. I've been in work for longer then I was at uni, and for all but 6 months of that time, I have been earning more then the minimum repayment levels.So when, on the 4th of April this tax year comes to an end, FIVE YEARS LATER how come that it is that I still owe six grand?
This is ridiculous (not to mention the fact that the SLC lost more then £800 of my repayments in the previous tax year that they then had to find. |
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| Novel |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|09:36 pm] |
Ok so some of you are aware that I'm writing a Novel, and some of you are aware of the slightly annoying news recently that if I want to sell it for charity I have to rewrite massive chunks of it, but I've actually made massive progress over the past two three days on basically what would be a prelude book, if any of them had been released. But they havn't so basically I'm writing book one. I'm aprox 6.5k words into it, and loving the changes that I've had to make.
I now have a war mad elvish magi who flies a steam punk Zeppelin, dropping Orcish assassins onto human forts, not to mention the taurenic warrior race that seeks harmony in the universe.
This Will Be Cool |
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| HOUSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|10:11 pm] |
Ok I must be turning into the worlds most annoying person to know. More links about our house, to answer the questions that where posted before: Lets start with why we arn't moving in yet...
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Ok this is *our* house, see no walls. Not good |  | Bits of the Master Bedroom
To answer about the "loft" thing, this is bits of the master bedroom. Theres a walk-in-wardrobe (and I am tempted to build a wardrobe robot to pass clothes out. This, obviously *isnt* our house but the show room. We are thinking about putting our bed against this wall on the right so we can look up, through the skylight to the stars.... awwww | z | Bits of the master bedroom
showing showerroom door. The alcove there is where the foot of the bed would be and I'm probably going to have to make a chest of drawers ... DIY!! OOH I CAN DO DIY ooooh ooh.. oooh.
ooh |  | The showerroom
showing a sink... mmm interesting. And sinky. |
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| I Can has house? |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|09:52 am] |
So Saturday was slightly expensive, but we now kinda own a share in a house. That is a 0.5% share of a home. Soon to be bigger and better. Not a lot of photo's at the moment, but here are some of the fateful moment:
 | Kaz and Mum outside our new house
House at this point is for sale!!! |  | Kaz Reserving House
Not anymore mwhahahaha |  | Its this one
The house |
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| Mortgages and Life |
[Mar. 1st, 2009|07:45 pm] |
I've been working very hard over the past two days on a spreadsheet which emulates the 1988/1989 interest rate change, and with a couple of handy excel/google spreadsheet functions I managed it. I now have a model for repayments of a mortgage that is a fixed-rate for five years which then exits straight into May 1988 (@7.5%) The pattern then increases till the mortgage reaches 15% (which is an unrealistic level again) within a year and drops back down.
What's interesting is that we could still afford it (for the target amount).
( For People who are interested in the technology )
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| When I was young... |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|11:09 pm] |
When I was young, I used to have a book or a poem or something which started like this:
"Deep in the dark green Congo
Where the sun hardly goes
There lived a whistful Pongo
who sang softly though his nose"
Now, if this isn't enough to make you go down and get a copy of this book - it gets better. He becomes a pirate on a pirate sloop and everything.
But I can't for the life of me find it on Google and I really want to know what it is. |
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| Cooking for Noobs. That is, me |
[Feb. 11th, 2009|05:48 pm] |
I hate cooking rice. Its really difficult! I can do the entire rice-in-a-bag cooking, but Kaz dosn't like it, instead, I should be making fried rice, which is actually a whole other level. Let's just consider this for a moment. You have to cook it not once, but twice. Why is this? What was wrong with the just boiling it but NO you have to fry it first. Plus I'm a clumsy fool so I usually get the entire oil amount wrong and everything begins to go wrong.
Anyways. I'm cooking for her tonight a thing in a tin foil tray which is from Morrisons, so that just goes in the oven for 20 min, and the rice. It might be pasta by the time I've finished with it. |
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| ITS A HAPPY POST |
[Feb. 4th, 2009|10:04 am] |
So I don't get to write here very often, and as previously stated I would provide a happy post for everyone to see that my life really isn't that bad. Ok....
erm...
hrm...
No seriously, everything is going perfectly fine. I'm working hard on a top secret project. Secret plan 7001 I suspect - I haven't had many secret plans since I hit 7000, so that's pretty unusual for me, and also unusual for me, I actually feel that my job means something.
For those of you who know about it, the WoW guild is going well. VoA and OS are basically on farm, Nax is proving a little more interesting. I've become more and more annoyed with other guilds and players though - the latest advertising one which got to me was:
myRandomGuild is a new non-hardcore raiding guild which is looking for new fun members. only apply if well geared and have full raid experience. All content on farm (10 man only). Raids 3/4 nights a week.
How many issues can you see in there? Its just another raid guild who are elitist and demand gear over personalities. After the stew got back together, I'm still amazed at how many people came back, and how many who come back to WoW go "wow, can I get back in". Its kinda nice that is - not because we're aweseome (we are) but because its a nice place to be.
This weekend promises to be rushed and lack of rest - We're meeting with the Vicar and Kaz has trying on session in the afternoon, that and dinners with both parents (mine sat, hers sun) and then lots of driving on either side is just exactly what I need after a week of work.
I've also started on django/python this week - why? See secret plan 7001. Now everyone can stop having a moan at me about my perfectly rational fear of languages beginning with the letter P. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2008|07:30 pm] |
Paris is beutiful. I was told that in ww2 the French didn't resist in Paris so the Germans wouldn't destroy the city, and if this is true then we should be thankful. I walked between the two hotels one evening and there was a light fog. The search lights on top of the Eiffel tower where in full swing, beaming their light across the city and up from the museum of orsay, through a statue, the sillouette of a statue was projected into the sky. I didn't have charge in my phone to photo this, and I was, like so many of my British heros, in love with Paris. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 8th, 2008|07:30 pm] |
Paris is beutiful. I was told that in ww2 the French didn't resist in Paris so the Germans wouldn't destroy the city, and if this is true then we should be thankful. I walked between the two hotels one evening and there was a light fog. The search lights on top of the Eiffel tower where in full swing, beaming their light across the city and up from the museum of orsay, through a statue, the sillouette of a statue was projected into the sky. I didn't have charge in my phone to photo this, and I was, like so many of my British heros, in love with Paris. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| Gwen has died |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|08:59 am] |
So I am making this journal depressing by writing really depressing posts, and I promise to write the next post which *isn't* depressing, in any way shape or form. Unfortunately, I have to inform you guys that Gwen died last week. My Little Monster. Much sadness etc.
I'm really wary of a column I once read (and believe it or not, I think it was in an FHM) which was titled "Why I hate Bloggers". This article is one of two which really changed the way that I blog. It was very simple article - it was an extract from a blog in the UK, and an extract from a letter from a soldier in Iraq. The UK blog read something like "Waaah! my life sucks, nobody loves me, waah!" in true Emo-kid style (which I hope I never blogged like). The letter was more serious, it was about a soldier telling his mum how he had seen mortars hit his convoy, and how scared he had been at the time. About civilian casualties and everything.
I think the thing is, that these blogs are personal. So I try to write about things which are personal, and relevant to other people who read this. A lot of people seem to find it funny that I took her death so seriously - I think the difference is that Gwen was *my* gerbil, not my kids pet or anything like that.
I still miss her. |
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| What does Dark Knight and Howls Moving Castle have in common? |
[Aug. 6th, 2008|11:43 pm] |
Ok, so we went to see Dark Knight this evening, and let me tell you, it was absolutely awesome. Talk about tense! Bloody good film. My only comment would be it shouldn't be a 12a (well, we all know that I don't even think 12a should be a rating anyway). This should defiantly be a 15 if not even an 18.
And the other film that I love (and happened to see today) was Howls Moving Castle. This is an another awesome film, absolutely fantastic, really gets me all geared up wanting to build a walking castle and have tons of cool stuff in it, especially a court yard and a shop front. Most importantly, lots of valleys for it to roam around in.
Anyway, what links the two?
Christian Bale
How random is that (Voice of Howl, and of course, Batman). |
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| Active Smart Posters |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|12:09 am] |
 The Glue4 Team, lots of cool, froody people.
So I know I'm not supposed to be posting techincal junk in this blog, but hey, every now and then I have to remind you norm's that I'm imba. Imba to the point of uber, and then add on a bit of imba on top and then sprinkle with a little bit of genius and more imba. Don't forget theres uber inside like jam in a jam cake.
Ok, So what the hell is this? This is the a prototype active-smart-poster and yes yes, I know some of you guys can't work out *why* this is a great idea, and I know a lot of you are saying "ooh but I can do this through another mechanism" like bluetooth or blah blah blah. But that's like saying Post-it notes will never take off, just because sellotape and paper existed before hand "why would you want a bit of paper which was allready glued? That isn't as flexible as selling bits of paper AND glue seperatly you fool". Well... I'll show you.... just you wait.
p.s. Yes I know the movie is a little naff, and looks like a 1980's training movie, but I had a really crap computer doing the manipulation. |
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