MatGB—Knowledge is underrated
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Oh my. This is so very silly, StrangeFrontier pointed me at it in comments to the previous post, the rest of the site looks amusing as wel
Poll #1193737 25th May
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Wearing lilac?
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Of course, it's the Glorious 25th
5 (10.4%)
No, I wasnt there, and neither were you. 33 (68.8%)
WTF? 10 (20.8%)
Towel awareness
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I know where it is 44 (88.0%)
I'm carrying it 3 (6.0%)
I've lost it 0 (0.0%)
Why should I care where my towel is? 3 (6.0%)
Happy anniversary John and Frances
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
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I have seen it and liked it 11 (20.4%)
I have seen it and disliked it 3 (5.6%)
I have not seen it but plan to 17 (31.5%)
I have not seen it and don't plan to 7 (13.0%)
I might rent it 8 (14.8%)
I hate it and all it stands for 2 (3.7%)
Meh 6 (11.1%)
Mat should
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Drag SB to see it even though she's not keen 7 (13.5%)
Respect her wishes and see it independently 22 (42.3%)
Not bother and wait until the DVD is out 5 (9.6%)
Stop using polls as a way out of decision making 18 (34.6%)
Also, am watching Sunshine on DVD. It's shit, unfortunately, I'd heard that people that liked Event Horizon liked it and others didn't, as I liked that film, I thought I'd give it a go. Ah well.
ETA: It's stripped out the link to John's Wedding speech from the anniversary bit, silly LJ.
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Looking at various sources and I was reminded of this result - is it possible Labour's headed for a wipeout of these proportions unless they sort themselves out?
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to be produced by Sam Raimi. That slurping noise? That's a thousand brains melting at the idea. If you haven't read the book? Don't. Really, don't.
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Heh: staff and customers at a pub in Tunbridge Wells reported seeing a UFO with "red and green flashing lights" moving across the sky. When asked to describe the direction of movement their answer was "Gatwick".
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rhodri's new book is available for pre-order at Amazon:FWD This Link: A Rough Guide to Staying Amused Online When You Should Be Working
It's only £6 (and if you reserve it on pre-order then bookstores will stock more which helps him, right, no obligation to actually cough up later), although given most of my posts at the moment are already linkblogging...
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that bastard Duncan tagged me for it anyway, so might as well.1. The rules of the game get posted on the beginning.So, to business:
2. Each player answers the rules about himself [or indeed herself].
3. At the end of the post, the player tags five people and posts their names as a linkthen goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they’ve been tagged and asking them to read his [or her] blog.[because if you're not checking your incoming links you're crap and off topic comments are rude].
( What I was doing ten years ago )
( Five things on my To-Do list today )
( Things I would do if I were a billionaire )
( Three of my bad habits )
( Five places I’ve lived )
( Five jobs I’ve had )
( Five books I’ve recently read )
Five people or communities I’m going to tag:
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Jennie, Alex, ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
Debi, Justin and you. Yes, you.-
It'll either be great or awful. But I do want to know who'll play Servalan.
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See, it is good for you: Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ejaculation encourages the cancer-inducing fluids to \"flush out.\"
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Lunatic is modding his PC. Looks quite cool though
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I keep telling people to never read the CiF comments, but I break my own rules every so often. Mines not published yet, but even so. I see no reason at all to not give Brian first pref if you live in London, he's definitely better than the other two fro
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Linking and storing because a huge chunk of it is rewrites of discussions in the comments there involving me, it's a very good post and I want to reference it.
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An excellent examination of the London voting system and how to use it to stop Boris, equally applies if you stop Ken. The \"excellent\" bit may be related to the bits they've quoted from an \"expert psephologist\". I'm an expert. Weird.
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Vince on the banks and money markets. Looks like a sound analysis to me
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Jennie writes the post I've been meaning to for ages about Brian and the voting system
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Some good stuff in here, alongside the incredibly predictable. Two Cities should be much higher but you can't have everything
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Annoyingly, some of this stuff still needs to be said to some people (from Debi)
We wandered a bit after that, I wanted to get hold of a book. Smiths didn't have it, but they did have a nice pile of DVDs on offer and, well, we couldn't resist, so more classic Who[1] and a few other things, including a boxed set of wooden board games[3]. Waterstone's didn't have it either, but they did have an import of Android's Dream so that's ok. We decided that out of Borders and Waterstone's, Waterstone's wins, could've spent all day there, easily. Instead we just spent money we don't really have. Ah well, books are never bad.
So, given she's off galivanting in York and I'm not in the mood to go back out, it's me, the dogs, a wide screen TV and a glass (or three) of whisky. After a nice long bath that is. What should I watch first then?
Poll #1162622 DVD watching plans
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What would you watch tonight?
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Essential research for my next post on Liberal Conspiracy 2 (15.4%)
Bug Eyed Monsters destroy Earth 3 (23.1%)
Zoe's arse in that spangly catsuit 8 (61.5%)
A review of the Thundercats DVDs we bought last time:
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Write it Mat, go on! 11 (73.3%)
Nah, you can't write reviews anyway. 1 (6.7%)
Thundercats? Why would I want to read a kids cartoon review? 2 (13.3%)
guido_was_taken 1 (6.7%)
[1] And some 5th Doctor stuff, does that count as "classic"?
[2] our first proper 'date' as it happens
[3] Does anyone actually play backgammon properly? Never actually tried it.
RIP Sir Arthur.
ETA: ( More linkage. ) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Have loads of stuff I kinda-sorta want to post about, including a few damn fine books I've read or am reading (Vallance's The Glorious Revolution being top of the list, a book about events in 1688 still has many many modern echoes that nearly inspired a post or three). But, well, actual inclination to do so lacking. A bit of a meh mood really—when I'm in Yorkshire, I'm either working or wanting to spend time with SB, when I'm down here I'm recovering.
OTOH, very busy week this week—just got back in from the London leadership hustings for the Lib Dems, and, um, yeah—two damn fine candidates that I'd be happy to see as leaders, both very very good. Consensus in the pub from those who've been members longer than me is that both were better than any of the three from last year. Given that one of them was a candidate last year, well, competition + experience = bonus in this case.
Tomorrow I go, hopefully, to see/hear Iain M. Banks get interviewed at Imperial, although timing on that one is difficult, it starts at 6pm and I technically finish work at 6p. Ah well, finish early I guess.
Then Thursday I have tickets for the
now_show. Friday, probably, going out somewhere, then Saturday back oop north. Memo to self: book tickets for journey. Am reading entries, just not commenting much, spending a lot of time haging out on various Lib Dem places trying to see if anyone can persuade me &c. Also, my attept to port my twitterings to Facebook has worked fine, but they're not showing up here, which is annoying.So I guess the questions are: Are the Wheel of Time books good, should I try to read them, how far from completion were they, and will someone else be hired to finish things off?
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