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| 15 Years | |||
| 12:48pm 01/12/2009 | |||
| This Christmas, I will celebrate having owned a modem for 15 years. | |||
| Read 19 - Post | |||
| Rearranged Flower | |||
| 11:24pm 26/11/2009 | |||
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| Manchester | |||
| 02:37pm 11/11/2009 | |||
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| Alternating Travel, Swings, Pumpkins and NaNoWriMo | |||
| 09:23pm 01/11/2009 | |||
 Today I've been attempting NaNoWriMo, although have already managed to injure myself while chopping up a pumpkin, whose smile was just too sinister, and I very almost lost consciousness. My text adventure so far is set in a town where it hasn't been Spring for 3 years. This is mostly because when it gets to Spring in the UK, it will be a year and a half since I last experienced Spring. I am still confused about seasons. I thought I saw snow today even, which sort of makes sense if it is Calan Gaeaf today, the first day of Winter, according to Welsh culture. |
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| Crush | |||
| 02:20pm 27/10/2009 | |||
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| NaNoWriMo Text Adventures | |||
| 03:55pm 22/10/2009 | |||
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NaNoWriMo starts soon, and as I've been reading Twisty Little Passages, I'm vaguely contemplating writing some kind of interactive fiction/text adventure type thing for it. Poll #1474777 Text Adventures Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49 When did you last play a text adventure?
View Answers Before 1980 Between 1980 and 1985 Between 1985 and 1989 Between 1990 and 1995 Between 1995 and 1999 Between 2000 and 2005 Between 2005 and 2009 I've never played one. What text adventures have you played? What was the last text adventure you played? |
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| Read 45 - Post | |||
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| 09:31am 21/10/2009 | |||
| The hills were misty and I felt like I was in a dream, wandering to work. He moved to the left to let me pass, and I did also, as if we were dancing, amongst the puddles, the burst balloons hanging from the fence, the paper aeroplanes littering the pavement, and the dismantled speed cameras. | |||
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| Reasons to get fit | |||
| 01:31pm 20/10/2009 | |||
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1. To be able to run away from zombies. (Zombieland Rule #1 - Cardio.) 2. For your wishes to come true. (Chester has steps leading down from the city walls, which if you run up, then down, then up again, without taking a breath, you can make a wish and it will come true.) |
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| Parties | |||
| 12:05pm 19/10/2009 | |||
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House-warming party on 14th November 2009 will have the theme of: Eyes, Pies and Dragonflies. I am also planning to celebrate my 40th birthday on February 27th 2010, probably in London, so mark it on your calendar now. Poll #1473223 Songs Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12 Songs about eyes? Songs about pies? Songs about dragonflies, dragons, flies, or things that fly? |
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| Read 26 - Post | |||
| Melbourne | |||
| 03:15pm 14/10/2009 | |||
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| Read 15 - Post | |||
| Wrexham | |||
| 12:21pm 13/10/2009 | |||
 ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tackline and I explored Wrexham and saw: Button moon ice-cream; An old church with a painting of the Last Judgement, bodies rising from the graves; A stone circle constructed in the 1960s; Poetry adorning stones, written by school children, about Acton Park; Piles of fallen leaves; Zombieland; The blonde long-haired guy; The abandoned shell of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on a pub crawl; The last song a band played that night; Black and white fungi, like ghosts, haunting the inside of a burnt out tree; Reflections of the sky on the Cup and Saucer Fall; The former location of a motte and bailey; Squelchy Mud; Falling acorns. |
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| The Fear | |||
| 09:50am 12/10/2009 | |||
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| Celestamol | |||
| 09:44am 09/10/2009 | |||
 squirmelia takes celestamol. She floats through life like a ghost ship. There's nothing inside her. The streets are dangerous, tidal waves of people. She leaves her house every day after taking a pill, coffee half-drunk, biscuit half-dunked, and then she drifts onwards. |
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| Walking | |||
| 11:57am 08/10/2009 | |||
| We were walking in the same direction, yesterday, and I saw the red patterns on the bottom of his black shoes, and I noticed that he is far more careful than I am when crossing the road. | |||
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| 10:03am 07/10/2009 | |||
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| Homework | ||||||
| 05:09am 02/10/2009 | ||||||
I had to say this for homework:
Anyone else fancy a go? |
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| 07:06pm 30/09/2009 | |||
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| Sorcery | |||
| 10:59am 17/09/2009 | |||
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I've signed up to learn Welsh. I am now therefore a student again, as well as being staff. I found that the Welsh for "cider" is "seidr", and "seidr", according to Wikipedia, is "an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery or witchcraft which was practiced by the pre-Christian Norse." Cider is sorcery. |
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| Captured Shadows, Shimmering Cupcakes, and the Moon | |||
| 11:34pm 08/09/2009 | |||
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I was back in England for only two months, and now I am no longer in that country. I am in Wales, house-hunting, and planning to start work on Thursday. -- It seems somehow glorious and amusing to watch the raindrops, after previously living in a city with years and years of drought. -- I went to the London Girl Geeks 4th Anniversary Dinner at Channel 4, and listened to speakers, such as Maggie Philbin (from Tomorrow's World) talk about technology as candy, and pink laptops, and then ate cupcakes that shimmered. -- I've strangely been logging onto Monochrome BBS a bit more than usual, after seeing a number of people I met there (when I was in England.) I realised I missed Mono meets. -- I watched Nick read a book on the Fourth Plinth, in Trafalgar Square, as part of Antony Gormley's One & Other. I felt voyeuristic watching a friend reading, much more so than if I had watched reality TV. -- I went to the Techniquest Science Discovery Centre in Wrexham last week, and my shadow was captured, temporarily. I also made DNA out of plastic beads, read about female astronomers, and played with the plasma ball. -- I saw Douglas Coupland in London last week, talking about typography. I am still not sure what my favourite font is though. -- I read Generation A and realised that it has been at least 15 years since I first read Generation X and my life is made up of more stories now than it was then. The stories don't always have the weirdest storylines and I wish more of them had happy endings, but they are there, I have stories to tell, I have had adventures. I should write about them one day. -- 'There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses.' - 2 Days in Paris -- I showed wintrmute, who I had last seen in Melbourne, around Eynsford, and we walked through a field that had recently been plowed, and it reminded me of the moon, as it was so grey. We hugged and it was then that I missed Melbourne. I still am amazed that the Dutch moon rock was fake.-- I've been reading about augmented reality (via City of Sound): Soundwalk for Android phones and LEDs in contact lenses. |
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| The Mystery of the Dancing Stones | |||
| 08:28pm 30/08/2009 | |||
 Lanyon Quoit I didn't see the Tregeseal East Stone Circle (also known as the Dancing Stones), probably because I did not walk far enough. I think the stones were surrounded by cows in a field I didn't walk into. Modern ordnance survey maps and the St-Just-in-Penwith Area Guide both mark the Tregeseal Stone Circle at the same place (SW387 324), south of Carn Kenidjack. Apparently there were once two or three stone circles, in a east/west line. (According to one website I found, one of the stone circles was destroyed due to a farmer removing the stones when he wanted to plough the field.) The 1966 Ordnance Survey, which I was using, did not have the circle marked at that point, but instead, "logan stone". (A logan stone is a rocking stone.) To the north of Carn Kenidjack, on the 1966 guidebook, a circle was marked. The remaining Tregeseal Stone Circle (at SW387 324) has apparently been subject to heavy restoration over the years, but so much so that it has moved to the south? Or so much so that in 1966, it was a logan stone, and has now grown into a stone circle? Other reports of the circle say that over the years, the amount of stones in the circle has increased, so that there are now nineteen stones. I am confused by the whole circle, of the stones that have danced from where they once were. I did not see the stones, but I imagine them dancing, over the tor, around the logan stone, from the west circle to the east, dancing non-stop, and maybe the mystery is what music they were dancing to. |
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