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12/09/2002 Entry: “Nothing is Changing”

So, I wrote this once before, but then Phoenix crashed.

And yes, it is the current version.

So, I was looking at the disused underground site, and apart from being struck by what a sad little geekling I am (well, I am aren’t I), I was also struck by another thought (ought to duck more). Would they build the underground now? No. I don’t think they would. I think the expense is to great and the return on the investment too long.

Major engineering projects like this just wouldn’t happen now. Which I think is sad…..

Mind you, given how long it takes them to build a tram system now….perhaps it’s for the best!

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They built a whole section of Jubilee line a couple of years back, so it is still feasible. They are working on making the existing stuff better now tho I think. When they made the jubilee longer they didnt have enough trains to keep to schedule (or so it seemed when I lived there)

Posted by Lauren @ 12/15/2002 04:37 PM GMT

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12/08/2002 Entry: “Underground, Overground, Wombling free.”

I’m a sad little geekling, but I find this interesting.

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you have lured us here under false pretences!!! We believed this was a site dedicated to the general splendiosity of the legend that are the wombles of wimbledon common. you big poo I happen to be Great Uncle Bulgaria’s lover. And you wave this underground train palarva in our faces you fiend you fiend!!! Shame on you.

Posted by Great Antie Bulgaria @ 03/03/2003 12:17 PM GMT

you have lured us here under false pretences!!! We believed this was a site dedicated to the general splendiosity of the legend that are the wombles of wimbledon common. you big poo I happen to be Great Uncle Bulgaria’s lover. And you wave this underground train palarva in our faces you fiend you fiend!!! Shame on you.

Posted by Great Antie Bulgaria @ 03/03/2003 12:19 PM GMT

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12/06/2002 Entry: “We have moved!”

We have moved! Please, if you link to me, update your links to point to
www.pyoor.org
(Yes, I really do, finally have my own domain!)

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12/04/2002 Archived Entry: “No! Stop the cruelty to Moolings!”

So, I’m standing in this queue, and the girl in front turns around to me….

….and she says…

“I’d let you go in front, but I’m buying some milk and that’s precious”…

I was a bit puzzled, but I let it go…..then….

“It’s wrong to steal milk from cows isn’t it. They make the milk to give to their calves and we steal it”.

Seeing as she was holding 4 pints of milk in her hand I wasn’t quite sure how to react to this…. but I was saved because she continued….

“And cow’s is an insulting name to call them isn’t it. Moolings. They should be called Moolings”

She went on to repeat it to the woman at the counter who looked “a bit confused”.

Have wednesdays always been like this and I’ve been too busy to notice?

In other news, you might notice that my machine is back up – and serving webpages incredibly rapidly. That’s because it’s shiny and new. Shiny, new and here. And after Jasmine spent all night and most of yesterday evening patching and writing patches to make a completely custom KT400 kernel it runs. Working around bugs in the bleeding edge motherboard. Feh.

Still, she’s done a stellar job, my machine is now fast and shiny, even if when I got back she said “Is it still up” and seemed suprised when I indicated that it was all fine…. Anyway, I’m now a little unsure what to do with it – we’ve managed to avoid having to do a reinstall (which I’ve been expecting to do) because, well, SuSE 8.1 doesn’t support this board anyway….

So…err. Yes. Feh.

So anyway, webcam is back, unless it causes crashage.

And in other news, I went to the Rocky Horror Show….we actually went to see Bowling for Colombine and err, well, ended up trying to get in on the opening day without prebooking. Funnily enough it was sold out. But in the process of going there we encountered a whole bundle of Rocky goers….

So Jas rang up and found out that they had tickets….so we got four for the next day (well, the last four seats, actually) and went! And err, yes, there’s a video of it. Yes. So there we go.

Was excellent fun. Although the audience were a bit quiet, think we need to go again, to a later showing :-)

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Actually, given that a calf can drink about a pint of milk a day, and that a Guernsey produces about eight pints at each milking (and there are two milkings a day), if we didn’t steal mooling-juice, they’d all die of mastitis. Don’t you just love selective breeding?

Posted by Jas the Farmer @ 12/05/2002 12:02 PM GMT

mmmm, yes, sounds like a very sensible person. Moo!

Posted by Aisling the shortly arriving @ 12/05/2002 09:36 AM GMT

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11/30/2002 Archived Entry: “Extra, Extra!”

I forgot to mention Daisy. How I could do this terrible thing escapes me. Anyway, we took Daisy to the vet to get a lump checked out and I’m pleased to inform all those interested that Daisy is in fact okay. The lump is nothing serious and she is being her usual neurotic strange self around the house. Daisy, incidentally, was the star of my webcam before my machine became nothing more than a webserver and err, flakey X server.

And in final other news, before I head to bed cursing CD printers, is that I’ve added the old ‘reviews’ to the top of the page. What? You’d noticed already? Well….see…it’s getting to that time of year when I start going “oh holy fuck, where’d the year go?” – which is when I start writing my ‘Reviews’. So. Yes. Thought they ought to make a reappearance. They’re all shiny and modernised too now[1] :-)

So there y’go.

[1]Well, sorta. They are if you go to them from here. I need (so much) to write something that goes through and err, well, tweaks all the old pages to say….oh oooh. Hrm. yes. Erm. Yeah, to point to the new ones or to be in new format and automagically linked. Yes. Hrm. Ahha.

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11/22/2002 Archived Entry: “Shit.”

I take it back. It’s actually my machine that’s dead, possibly also the 848 card didn’t help, but I think my motherboard is passing the way of the dodo.

So I’ve ordered the bits for a new machine.

*sigh*

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11/21/2002 Archived Entry: “Fiffle”

For this survey you can blame hippo

Past
1) First grade teacher’s name: Mrs Wall
2) Last word you said: them
3) Last song you sang: Pyrotechnician
4) Last person you hugged: Jasmine
6) Last time you said ‘I love you’: Yesterday
7) Last time you cried: A couple of weeks back, I think.

Present:
8) What’s in your cd player: Nothing at the moment, although the Sultans of Ping CD is in my Portable one.
9) What colour socks are you wearing: None!
10) What’s under your bed: The first processor board my dad designed, and some other bits like that. A bunch of gramaphone records, shoes and a Xebec Video Mastertape.
11) What time did you wake up today: 5:30am
12) Current taste: coffee
13) Current hair: ponytail, loose it gets to somewhere below my shoulderblades
14) Current clothes: grey leggings, white ‘synopsis’ teeshirt.
15) Current annoyance: not having something to edit video on handy
16) Current longing: Aisling’s presence.
17) Current desktop picture: One of the Windomaker ones
18) Current worry: My dad, when Aisling will get a job.
19) Current hate: CD Duplicating
20) Story behind your LJ username: Err, lack of imagination.
21) Current favorite article of clothing: My newish black teeshirt with the funky purple drawing on it.
22) Favorite physical feature of the opposite sex: Generally? Personality.
23) Last cd that you bought: Christy Moore
24) Favorite place to be: Ireland
25) Least favorite place: Meh, erm, in bed, ill.
26) Time you wake up in the morning: 8ish, naturally.
27) If you could play any instrument, what would it be: Piano (and I used to, and will again)
28) Favorite color: Blue.
29) Do you believe in an afterlife?: Nope
30) How tall are you?: 5’6″ ish.
31) Current favourite word/saying: Alabaster
32) Favorite book: Elephants Don’t Sit On Cars.
33) Favorite season: Spring
34) One person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: Me, about 15 years ago.
35) Favorite day: Days don’t really affect me anymore, apart from sunday which is a pain in the arse

Future:
36) Where do you want to go: Ireland (again), Norway, Scotland (again), Sri-Lanka, Japan, America, Australia.
37) What is your career going to be: Whatever it turns out to be.
38) How many kids do you want: One, maybe. Depends on my mood.
39) What kind of car will you have: Morris Minor

Random
40) Type a line you remember from any book: “There seemed to be a dead bird stuck up the exhaust” (although I know that’s not exactly what the quote was)
41) A random lyric: Everybody knows I love you
42) Identify some things surrounding your computer: wooden pigs, BNFL fluffie, iPaq, phone, bike speedo.
43) What’s up: Doc.

So, that’s that.

And in other news, I bought Flashback on DVD, They Live on Laserdisc (so I bloody better fix the laserdisc player!)……

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And incidentally, I know that “Personality” isn’t a physical feature

Posted by Kate E @ 11/21/2002 05:22 PM GMT

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11/21/2002 Archived Entry: “Gone”

It’s gone. The webcam has gone. Ceased. Ended.

The BT848 card managed to crash my machine twice in about an hour, on one occasion when it was in the middle of installing a patch. So that’s it. End. Goodbye.

Unless anyone wants to donate to the Get Kate a New Machine fund, in which case I’ll put the BT848 back into a rather cut-down-this machine, and that’ll be the webcam server.

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10/13/2002 Archived Entry: “I come from another planet baby”

So I went to my parents for the weekend. *sigh*. It feels like my dad is just giving up. I hope I’m wrong. I hope it’s the chemo making him tired, but he does just seem to be quietly fading away.

I dunno.

So. Yeah. That was that. Then I drove back through hideous weather, which is I suspect why I’m so tired at the moment – it was hacking down in the sort of 200meter visability kind of way. Which was really pleasant. And my windscreen wipers were just going “you’re taking the piss aintcha?”.

Then I got back to Brizzle and had some tosser in a Ford E-scrote try and write his car off on the front of mine. Yuh, going from the right hand lane and turning *left* at a set of lights is *really wise*. In the pissing rain. Yeah. ‘cos Morris Minors are *reknown* for their excellent brakes (well, mine has insane brakes, but that’s me). Anyway. So.

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10/13/2002 Archived Entry: “They suffocate at night”

I forgot to say. I practiced the piano a bit (played Song of India for a bit, and did scales and stuff). I was amazed to find that there was the merest hint of me still being able to play the piano. Although my wrists and back hurt after about an hour.

But yeah, was good. Although my dad’s piano is somewhere beyond hideoulsy out of tune. I didn’t check mine….

…I also checked my TV still works (it does, apart from 3 phosphors…) my video works, (I was going to bin one of mine (namely the Panasonic-needs-regular-cleaning-and-long-play-doesn’t-work one) but realised that some tapes, containing stuff I want to save, need it – unless anyone’s got a copy of the Alan Bleasdale Presents…. films from Channel 4), discovered that I was a bit excessive in my binning of tapes – I’ve got rid of some I’d not moved onto MP3. Bah.

Saint Saens, incidentally, is fantastic.

Yes.

Incidentally 2, my CD player is crap and I need new speakers. Oh and I need to finish fixing my amp. Grr.

Perhaps I should have a go at the Natural Sound amp. Hrm.

Annnyway. Yeah. So. Binned piles of stuff. Reams and reams of paper. All of it complete shit which I would have ended up keeping for the rest of eternity and it’s only real use was bonfire lighting or papier mache making. So that’s all out in the recycling bin now. Not of course the one in Newbury, because Newbury’s recycling scheme only takes very specific waste. As in none.