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Post by legios on Feb 9, 2012 20:09:59 GMT
Is it Thursday night already? Good grief, my plans for my free time seem to have somewhat evaporated over the course of this week. One or two things I meant to get done in the house have simply been postponed so far that they are regrouping to ambush me next week. Ah well, on the brightside I seem to have pretty much done a weeks work so far this week, and I still have Friday to tie-up loose ends. I'll call that a fairly successful week all told.
Off to the cinema to see The Muppets tomorrow evening I suspect. Could do with a Muppetational experience this weekend.
(Got one of Akira Kurosawa's rare forays into contemporary-set drama to watch this weekend as well. Looking forward to putting my feet up in front of that at some point).
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 10, 2012 20:58:55 GMT
At work today my chumb and I were 'Air-Lightsaber Fighting'. It was fun. I still got the moves, although the contest was a stalemate in the end.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 10, 2012 21:05:54 GMT
Just back from Liverpool where I met my lovely week-year-old niece.
Martin
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Post by Hero on Feb 10, 2012 21:41:15 GMT
Your niece RULES. Enjoy being an uncle Martin.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2012 0:23:53 GMT
Long week at work.
Looking forward to taking some things to the recycling centre this weekend and doing a lot of drawing and some long walks with Susie.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2012 0:37:56 GMT
Boring week at work. Saw Muppets. It was bad. Had a few pints. Drank some water until tipsyness reversed, thankfully.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2012 15:30:21 GMT
Your niece RULES. Enjoy being an uncle Martin. Thanks, Ken. She does indeed, and I am. I'm patronising various Cardiff entertainment venues today. Began with live storytelling on the Millennium Centre foyer stage (Taffy Thomas, the UK's first laureate of storytelling, who also has an MBE for services to storytelling from the Queen - he's pretty good), then across the road to the Odeon for The Muppets followed by a brisk walk back into town to the central library from where I type this. At 5pm I'll be in Cineworld for a live cinema broadcast of Gotterdammerung, the last opera in Wagner's Ring cycle. Bit of an experiment for me, but I figure if I'm going to enjoy any opera, this one stands the best chance. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2012 16:00:27 GMT
Signed off on the release for my interview for the short promo film for work that was done last week. Apparently it can be used "anywhere in the Universe" and for "any media currently existing or not yet invented". Those are direct quotes. Um. Er. Yes. -Ralph Saw the 5-min rough cut yesterday. Shockingly, I pop up three thrilling times (I am the first thing on screen!) and do get to say the word 'needle' before the scene switches to, er, 'homeless-cam' vision. Management now have to look through the three hours of extent footage (!) to see if they want any changes made so there is still a chance I may not make the final cut or have my materialisations reduced! -Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 11, 2012 23:15:03 GMT
Just back from Liverpool where I met my lovely week-year-old niece. Martin Wonderful! I bet you're going to be one of the those uncles who fills 'em up with sugar, gets 'em all giddy, and then sends 'em back to their parents all crazied up!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2012 23:34:17 GMT
I bet you're going to be one of the those uncles who fills 'em up with sugar, gets 'em all giddy, and then sends 'em back to their parents all crazied up! I do plan to exercise to the full uncle's prerogative (as I have been exercising godfather's prerogative for the last three years) to do all the stuff that makes you associate them with fun while leaving the parents to exercise the necessary discipline. Martin
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Post by legios on Feb 12, 2012 18:37:18 GMT
The ducks on the canal here appear to be having a few problems with their landings, mostly due to runway icing... Despite the several nights above zero the ice that developed on the canal during the very cold weather a couple of weeks ago remains mostly intact, just sunk a little below the waterline. Resulting the surprised ducks finding themselves skating along on their feet as they come into land and not quite being in contact with the water's surface to the degree they expected. Cue a very strang skittering noise and some surprised and outraged quacking as their landing roll turns out to be significantly longer than they anticipated.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 12, 2012 19:10:27 GMT
after a fine perofrmance by the legs in church this morning (at one stage I was running about with the roving mic while the elders were otherwise engaged) the legs have had their revenge with two nasty falls tonight.
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Post by legios on Feb 12, 2012 19:45:51 GMT
From the department of technological irony.... The mouse on my computer finally packed up this evening (it has been going for a while so it was only a matter of time). Fortunately I believe in having spare equipment to hand so I plugged in the mouse from the semi-retired laptop and continued. End result, a second-hand Mac running with a Microsoft mouse... I wonder what other foreign device I can kludge in to create a proper FrankenTech device.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 12, 2012 20:10:36 GMT
Have had a lingering sense of nausea for most of the weekend, so alas did not get done what I wanted to do. But I did at least get to vegetate in the flea-pit this morning.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 12, 2012 22:34:23 GMT
I feel your pain Karl. Glad you had the spare mouse kicking about.
My monitor has been playing up oddly the last few days. It's started taking several minutes to realise it's been turned on. The PC boots up as normal but the monitor just sits there, refusing instruction from the on/off button and remaining dark for longer and longer (it was nearly ten minutes before it sprang to life today), then flashing the power light on and off for a while, then suddenly coming on as if to say "Only kidding! You don't really have to blow £150 on a new monitor! Had you going there, didn't I?"
-Nick
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2012 5:54:56 GMT
Glad you had the spare mouse kicking about. I misread this and thought you were involved in something around animal cruelty. Martin
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