Is everywhere.
I just ordered 4 tickets for the Reduced Shakespeare company at the Criterion Theater ( all his plays in 2 hours, bloody fantastic, an hysterical, poignant political masterpiece 😉
Every box office I phoned in the search of a show was run by tickemaster. Is it too late to buy shares?
Welcome to the Collective! Resistance is futile!!!
I be you all though that Star Trek and the Borg was some pipe dream. Well not any more.
I am sure people are wondering why anyone would want to wear such a contraption but surely we would have said that about what is now the humble mobile phone earpiece just a few years ago. Its coming:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!!!
Blog Shares
I seen the blog shares website several months ago before I had a blog and wondered what it was all about. I have just noticed that I have an entry on it
Mad. So what makes my blog worth more money then 😉 ?
bOb7waRe b0b7waRe
I got a text message today from someone and the phone number was displayed as
bob7ware or b0b7ware
weird. I can only assume it’s spam.
I have been receiving some spam from some dodgy company with a text message saying that someone close to me fancies me dial this number. Why does our government tolerate this type of nonsense. Its harrassment on a global scale and now that its working its way onto the mobile phone we are not going to be able to get away from the crap.
M203 Exam
Is over. Thank god I have that out of the way. I now have 3 months before it all starts again and my scheduling is back at the mercy of the Open University.
I am not too sure how I did in the exam. I missed a couple of small bits out and I think I really botched one of the last ten point questions. I know what I needed to do for it but the notation completely escaped me, bollix.
We will see just how I did in a few months time. Now I need to figure out what would be the most beneficial thing to do with all this free time.
Folding@home Plico Update
We broke the 2000 barrier today and we seem to have gained a new member today MarkF.
We seemed to have gained a little speed just recently which is good because we are now getting close to the more active teams which is were I can see our progress slowing down. What we really need are a few more processors to give us that extra boost so if you would like to joining a friendly bunch of folders then
look no further
Raising Arizona
I have just watched Raising Arizona for about the 3rd time and its still as funny as ever. All of the following are brilliant in it……
Nicolas Cage …. H.I. McDunnough
Holly Hunter …. Edwina ‘Ed’ McDonnough
Trey Wilson …. Nathan Arizona (Huffhines) Sr.
John Goodman …. Gale
William Forsythe …. Evelle
Sam McMurray …. Glen
Frances McDormand …. Dot
and of course.
Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb …. Leonard Smalls
More RSS Job feeds
We have now 19 rss jobs feeds in the UKlug database and I want more. Ideally I would like to get as many feeds as possible into the database but without screen scraping this might be difficult. If you know of a feed that I don’t already have then please email me the details.
TrackBacks and blog things
What the hell is a trackback?
Sorry, maybe I should rephrase that question a little. How do I use a trackback, I know what it is in theory, so how do I get a digest of someones writing on my site
which I can comment on. I have seen it on other blogs and was just wondering how it is done.
I don’t read that many blogs and for the most part the ones I have read are almost as bad as mine. This means that I rarely feel strongly enough to comment on what I find and when I do it is normally about a topic I refuse to discuss due to the amount of freaks out there who like to talk shit and give it a fancy label.
Book
Due to a severe case of blog block as mentioned earlier I cannot remember if I have mentioned this before somewhere but I thought to myself what the hell, no one reads this crap anyway so I can practice my touch typing if nothing else.
I started reading when I was 14. I can hear people gasp in horror at this thinking that I learned to read when I was 14. Read it again.
My cousin was a very keen reader and it was him that introduced me to the novel. This sounds odd but up until then I had never really thought about sitting down and actually reading a book, thats what nerds did where I came from or at least this was my perception.
The first Novel I was introduced to was probably not particularly healthy reading for a boy of 14 Gor (John Norman). Even to this day I am not sure if it was the thought of all these naked slave woman that kept me interested or if I just liked reading. One things for sure I was soon hooked on reading.
I was staying at my cousins for a couple of weeks and managed to read 4 books and I came home with a whole pile of them. I think they didn’t like the Gor books but for me it was great. I was able to escape into this fantasy world where everything always worked out. I made short work of the Gor books and began visiting a local second hand bookshop and buying pretty much anything remotely fantasy related. It was also around this time that I encountered Tolkein and munched my way throught the Hobbit then the trilogy.
I also digressed into Horror for a short period but this was short lived. I read some King, Koontz, Masterton, Herbert etc etc. Most of the populars that hit the second hand book shelf got some attention.
It was around this time 16 that I stared writing a book at home. I got as far as 20000 words before I lost interest. This was due to me knowing I was a crap writer with little skills in english let alone how to write a book. We moved house around then and I still think that the pages I wrote are in the house we left because I had hidden them in the attic.
Since then I have been writing the book in my head or at least that is what I think I have been doing. Having never written anything longer than a few thousand words I have no idea how you go about such a task.
I have built up about 20 characters with lots of short stories that focus on each character. These stories are not necessarily part of the book they are just things I know about the characters and their history etc. Some of the stories feature in the book in various formats ie character B recounting a story about character C to character A etc or the character reminicing about something etc.
I have also the general idea for a plot which so far has been the hardest thing for me to think about. For some reason the characters come easily to me but the plots a lot harder.
I have enough managed to get enough of a book formulated that it took me 3 hours to recount the main part of it to Jenny on a long trip in the car (not sure if she was asleep or not 😉
This is just another of those things that I have got to do.