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08:15 am
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For those who missed it....
Serenity: Better Days trade paperback should have been on sale yesterday.
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09:07 am
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Request
Does anyone have a set of the Molesworth books, who could then scan me in the image of the hi-tech cane (with hammer, telescopic sight, etc) that appears in one of them?
I would be most grateful.
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08:34 pm
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Firsts Meme (via ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) telynor)
( We cut because we care )
Current Mood:  amused
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10:53 am
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Thought for the day
dduane rocks my world.
Current Mood:  thoughtful
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09:58 am
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War Of The Worlds 30th anniversary
http://thewaroftheworldstickets2008.trinitystreetdirect.com/litetickets/ticketselection.asp
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07:20 am
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Public Service Announcement.
For all kinds of reasons, bardling rocks.
Thanks, Rika.
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09:03 am
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Meme
From various, most recently sbisson and mamishka:
Take a picture of yourself RIGHT NOW.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
first, post that picture in a reply to this post with NO editing.
then, if you want, you can also place your picture in your own post with these instructions
( It's early, I'm not awake. )
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01:14 pm
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Odd-eyed white
A temporary visitor to the Mill House. Anne swears blind we're not keeping him, as he's deaf, and we let our cats outdoors.
This is the second weekend he and the other kitten from her surgery have been here... :)
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10:52 am
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Blink and I missed it...
But yay....
My Dolgoch Falls picture made Flickr's Explore page for Sept 1.
For those, asking, BTW, the actual Real World location is here. (And I am annoyed that Y! Maps doesn't have a good enough satellite image.)
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06:02 pm
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ESYSADMINISPILLOCK
So I walk in to Anne's office to check what Anne rewired from the utility room.
No lights on Netgear switch.
Big yellow cable reel. Check.
Six way strip on wall plugged into it. Check.
Cool. Now, what did I leave plugged into the six way?
Wallwart for ADSL modem. Check.
IEC lead for firewall. Check.
IEC lead for Netgear switch PSU. Ch....
Wait a minute....
The NEW Netgear has a wallwart, not an IEC lead.
That would be that wallwart sitting on top of the firewall.
How about I plug it in?
Ooo. Blinkenlights. Network. Yay.
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09:14 am
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This week is not a good week.
It's a long story, but the concise summary is the UK Filknet server will be unreachable until I get home this evening, and possibly for an hour after that. Also I cannot read my altrion.org email - if you need me, comment here, grab me on IRC/AIM/Skype or email fleetfootmike@me.com - if you need a CGI IRC client for #filkhaven or #ukmg, try http://www.us.filknet.org/cgi-bin/irc/irc.cgi
( The gory details. )
I am not in the mood for stupid questions, so apologies in advance if 'have you thought of X' gets you snapped at. The answer is "Yes". For most sane and several stupid values of X.
To further cap a crappy week:
Our downstairs loo is blocked (as of Sunday), and the Saniflo engineer we usually use is in Majorca.
My car boot latch decided on Monday morning to stick in the 'locked' position while open, so I can't lock it.
Inanimate objects hate me this week.
Current Mood:  pissed off
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01:05 pm
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Holiday photos up :)
Dolgoch Falls
Originally uploaded by fleetfootmike Check the set this one is in for more :)
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08:39 am
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Back from holiday
Company: Anne, James and bardling
Location: Mid Wales
Fun: lots
Photos: about 6000 (between me and bardling)
Damage: one stretched left lateral collateral knee ligament (Anne, pulling James across a stream)
Pants: variously in laundry and bankrupt. Please comment if there's stuff I need to see.
Emails: 294 unfiltered not counting work, untold thousands in list folders
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10:46 am
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Someone at work asked how old I was....
So, in the best tradition of my previous employer, I gave them a puzzle to solve.
I share a birthday (but not year) with someone very famous. His memorable quote was made a LONG way from home, and according to most versions of the story, he didn't say /quite/ what he planned to say.
Another famous speech started the process that sent him there. I was born in the year the man who made it was killed.
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10:19 am
[Link] | Best Haynes Manual Ever!
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08:48 am
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Revision
For those interested, I rewrote the last verse of A Little Bit Of England on the train this morning. Works better, methinks.
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10:22 pm
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Moleskine time again :)
I went out for a walk from work at lunchtime. There's a very.. London, very English thing that happens on the corner of Shaftesbury Ave and Charing Cross Road just about all day every day - someone is handing out free phonecards for some company or other.
And they're almost never English.
I was reminded of a Radio 5 feature on Polish students doing work on farms in England - someone asked the local unemployed teenagers if they'd do the jobs, and the answer was 'no way'.
I'm not xenophobic, or racist. This song is more me wondering aloud.
And it's bloody hard to remember chunks of lyrics when you're driving! :)
( Lyrics behind the cut )
Current Mood:  accomplished
Tags: lyrics, music
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02:14 pm
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AKICOLJ
Does anyone know of any print-on-demand services that fulfil ALL the following:
a) link to an online shop so I can sell the damn thing?
b) handles both US and UK customers without killing one or other with postage charges?
c) allows me to use my own ISBN?
d) will do spiral/wire binding?
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11:03 pm
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I wish...
... my GAS budget wasn't earmarked till October or later.
'Cause.... the things I could do with a Strat-zouki!!!!
Having said that, it does look as though it's just a Strat with two extra tuners, extra nut slots, and a modified bridge, and I'm not sure if the high and low courses aren't a bit close to the edge of the fingerboard.
Current Mood: wistful
Tags: gas
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07:58 am
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New toy! and for sale notice :)
At last :)
deborah_c bought my Troubadour octave mandolin off me last month, which, while I enjoyed, isn't really big/deep/resonant enough for what I want (it seems to suit her perfectly, so life is good).
To replace it, I've acquired a Blue Moon large-bodied bouzouki from Hobgoblin, which I had them fit with a cheap and cheerful Belcat pickup -- normally this fits externally, but they've fitted it under the soundboard and drilled a hole for a jack socket. With the addition of some decent heavy strings, it sounds awesome - instant Steve Knightley.
(Note to anyone else eyeing one - they come in two versions, and the newer shipment have a truss rod - do not try putting heavy strings on the older ones, because you'll bow the neck!)
As for the for sale, I'm rationalising my collection of odd stringed instruments, and the following are surplus:
- Antoria electric mandolin - sunburst, single pickup, volume and tone controls, f-holes, pear shaped (not in the bad sense :) ). Pictures available on request and I'll restring it for you. £100 or near offer.
- No-brand (as far as I can tell it's a Gremlin or similar import for Hobgoblin etc) laud - basically it's a Spanish six-course/12-string mandolin. It should apparently be tuned AEBF#C#G#, but I keep mine in GCFBbDG (guitar capo 3) - sexybass has a similar one he keeps in DADGAD or a transposition of it. Quite light steel/silver strings, kinda mediaeval-looking. Again, pictures on request once I've bought it some new strings. (You can hear it on "Theoden King" on my 'The Oak, The Rowan and the Wild Rose'). £70 or near offer.
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