Saturday, November 26, 2005

You're the best, all round...

George Best. He died. Thats said when that happens. Its even sadder when someone's death is over shadowed by another, like when Kurt Cobain pegged it the same day as Bill Hicks.

RIP Pat Morita

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Miaow

I dont know if i like this...

Your results:
You are Catwoman
Catwoman

75%
Spider-Man

70%
Green Lantern

70%
Superman

60%
The Flash

60%
Iron Man

50%
Supergirl

43%
Hulk

40%
Wonder Woman

38%
Robin

38%
Batman

25%
You have had a tough childhood,
you know how to be a thief and exploit others
but you stand up for society's cast-offs.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Mines "Pchown", Whats yours?

What happenned last night:

i shot Rich with my gun. He retaliated my developing a bigger weapon to attack me with. My attempt to construct and power up my force field belt failed and in the end i had to call for back up from my cyborg mate 4n-dy.

true. all of it.

What happenned today: made a new friend and started on the first steps to making my future happen. made another new friend at work....

a good day.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

John Williams would have summat to say....

Saw The teaser trailer for Superman Returns

Go watch it...

Watched Threshold. Its got a wee man in it. And The Robot from Star Trek. I reckon I'll follow see whats going on....

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Awesom-O 4000



I've always wanted to see myself as a south park citizen. i reckon i've captured myself well.
If you want to go try it yourself, go here
I've even accomodated for the tell tale gruft often found lingering around my headular area.

Anyway...

Ive been twatting about far to long trying sort out various video files i've recently downloaded. It's not the piece of cake i once believed it to be.

I tried to get me a copy of Flightplan. Downloaded ok (and at super speed as well) but it came telling me it was an AVI file, a run of the mill format. No media player i had would play it and no codec i had would deal with it. suffice to say, to the trash can it went.

I also got me a copy of Secret of the Sword. I spent most of sunday watching He-Man and She-Ra duke it out with skeletor and Hordak. To this day i still get all goose pimply when Prince Adam makes his transformation to He-Man. I often have the He-Man theme tune on myMP3 player. It's a rousing piece. really sets you up for the day......

Thursday, November 10, 2005

I Vant to suck your blood...

This here is the character im currently playing with inVampire: The Masquerade. So far this character has been a bit hit and miss.

This charasmatic coterie leader did successfully collaborate with his Malkavian colleague. We tricked a security guard into thinking David Letterman had been viciously attcked outside a factory we needed to infiltrate.

I managed to blood bond one of my coterie to me. im so ridiculously conniving.

Right now he's in the past somewhere. who knows what crazy shenanigans will occur....
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

No Super powers as of yet....

I payed a visit to the hospital today for my MRI scan today.

After seeing a consultant a couple of months back, the x-rays revealed that my bones are'nt fitting into their sockets correctly (more square than round). So they sent me to get an altogether more industrial sized scan.



My Skeleton. Yesterday.


I was dressed for the occasion, tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt, all items with no metal bits so as not to mess up the procedure.

After lying down on the bed, they put my feet together then selotaped them to keep them together.

The machine makes a god awful noise. like a highly localised construction site (what i imagine the doozers would make). to combat this, they place headphones on you, piping through easy listening jazz tracks to relax to while your body is bombarded with magnetic fields.

It were'nt half uncomfortable by the end, all that staying still i had to do. I hope from this that the cause of my pain is truly established. putting on my socks is murder....


Sunday, November 06, 2005

Tis the season....


I am pooped. i spent 3 hours on a train last night. slept in a reclining chair with a very bad case of cramp and spent another three hours on a train today. I went to Nottinghamand back for the third party in as many weekends. i did take photos this time.



It were bloody fun. Tracy (Daves missus) had some of her old uni friends up from london for the party. All have MSc's in astro-physics. All bloody nice people. Dave's band mates were there also. The whole deal was kind of a belated house warming party, offset by the vivid cacophony that was bonfire night...

Look out for the louis theroux looky likey. He even carried himself like louis theroux. I called him louis all night.

I also took a picture of the wrong coloured house on daves street. it plain old dont look right.

I've had a proper good time over the last 3 weekends. i've pretty much seen all of my friends at one function or another. Im full up on soul food...




















Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Bad Press....

We all hate cold calling. It gets on everyones tits, especially in down time.

But ...

i have developed a fascination with how frustratingly mixed up people get about market research. There are some issues that need addressing:

  • We DO NOT have a database of anykind with information on anybody. If a survey does carry a name we ask for, its because that person is a customer of the company we're doing the survey for (respondants are way more receptive in this case)
  • When you get the response "i work nights, you woke me up" its always quite harsh. thing is if it were one of their mates ringing up, they would know already that their friend works nights so knows not to bother. but they would'nt get it in the neck. Same goes "your phone call woke my child"
  • we are asked (and quite condescendingly) why we're not in a line of work that provides more convenient hours. This one does'nt apply to me as such, im just a lazy ass mo' fo' (with a dream, mind). I know that theres a lady working were i do because she is single handedly funding her son through university. This job is easy money for someone who really does need it. the public shouldnt judge.

Im not saying that we should all take up thechallenge if we get a market research call. there are times when ANY phone call is inconvenient. i just think alot of misconceptions should e cast aside.

Next on my Market research agenda is the suggestion that our UNIX based surveys take on the form of text adventures. product placement with thrilling gameplay. thatwould certainly draw in the info that the big businesses need. And you get to fight a dragon at the end.....