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Things That Are Awesome

There are things in life that suck. This list is not of things that suck, it’s of things that are awesome.

Awesome.

CompressedJuneJuly

It’s time for another Cram Post, Neuro Style.

june » to san francisco for a couple of weeks to acclimatise to linden lab culture and processes, very chilled yet productive fortnight, i can now convert pounds sterling to/from US dollars and PDT to/from BST in my head; july » had great fun trying to procure a macbook pro for work, to wolverhampton for lugradio live 2007, gave a quick talk and demo about second life, got more enjoyment out of picking up an xbox 360 on the cheap, to brighton for the develop conference and a linden recruitment event, beer is not cheap in brighton, got to meet peter molyneux and aleks krotoski which rocked – aleks, the pigeons are still not safe!, saw the simpsons movie – basically a 90 minute episode of the simpsons and that’s not a bad thing, housemates who moved in here in march are moving out to a bigger pad near glasgow *schniff*, the geekha.us shall continue tho!

Scotland to France and Back in Sixty Seconds

Filed Under: cram, outside world, travel

cram post á france » thursday 6th july > trip down to portsmouth, hot as hell on the m6 toll, nice smooth sail overnight on brittany ferries; vendredi 7éme juillet > en france, lunch with friend jc who owns l’equinoxe bar at agon coutainville, crashed hard after reaching the gite near coutances; samedi > spent the day in gévezé for stage 7 of le tour de france, beers at half ten, vin rose for lunch, coffee on the way home :) dimanche > lazy day, gutted at france being put out of la coup du monde on penalties; lundi > lazy day, finally started watching season two of lost; mardi > went to villedieu-les-poêles for the weekly market, usual mix of fruit+veg, faded-in-the-sun DVDs and leather wallets — left with today’s international herald tribune; mercredi > visited memorial at caen — huge memorial site commemorating wwii and the cold war, met up with friends starting their holiday in coutances today; jeudi > lazy day, picked up new sony headphones, munchies at oncle scott’s country restaurant et bier mexicaine, found the horse soldiers on arte in english with french subs — woot! — then packing, packing, packing; vendredi > bastille day: vive la france, last minute shopping, un grande dejeuner á l’equinoxe, nice leisurely drive to cherbourg, high speed ferry back to portsmouth, ; saturday > » sore back, had breakfast with amanda, back still sore, warm drive, ow back, home, unpack, ow back, collapse, ow :)

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Crap.

I love blogging, but sometimes I just zone out and forget all about it. So it’s time for another CramBlogEntryDuNeuro™ …

november > new car > dj’ed (!) at john and sabrina’s wedding > videoisland died > december > firefox 1.0 > rediscovered celestia > blagged myself a free iPod mini (a gold one, bling bling) > culturekitchen > smoothwall’s site got hacked :( > new phone > chill out! > finally sold the tivo > sun must buy red hat or die! > rediscovered dooce > cheerio blunkett > ny times firefox ad > ruff! > strange people at my work make christmas video card > equally strange, but absolutely superb, works night out > on call from 24th to 31st :P > enjoyed quiet christmas with family, slightly marred by getting called out on xmas eve, plus some evil boxing day late-nightness due to some bloody worm > tsunami badness > rediscovered chunk’s snowball > finally managed to download grand theft auto 2 > january > came off call, drinkies, sore head, oy > thank god the west wing is back > rediscovered queen of sky > pro evo soccer 4 kicks serious arse > brad and jen split up — so she’ll be shopping around then … :) > learndirect sucks > so looking forward to huygens landing this friday …

… and relax.

Saturday Past, Drinking Liquids, All In and Out

sat 1445 GMT home -> car to mcphabbs (loads of guinness and munchies) -> air organic (loads of lager, spirits and a nice boak in the loo) -> $randompub (water and crisps) -> solid rock (guinness and crisps) -> kebab shop (keeebab!) -> firebird (guinness and chips) -> crash at a flat -> sun 1215 GMT awaken -> watch first half of old firm game -> taxi to car -> car to home -> celtic 19 points clear of rangers — no a bad weekend :)

Cheers to everyone who turned up on Saturday for my pre-birthday drinking sesh, which didn’t quite follow the route as intended, but it was all good — I’ll get pictures sorted from folk as I only took about 3 meself. It was great to see everyone, especially those I hadn’t seen in an age from WS Atkins! I’ve got another 21 hours of being a twenty-something to go until 3:30pm tomorrow — 30 years after I was born. I have the slippers and cardigan on standby with ‘break glass now’ hammer beside them.

From Saturday to Monday in Several Easy(ish) Moves

Filed Under: cram, linux, meta, open source

saturday > figuring out how to install debian woody over network using pxe netboot / tftp > successfully installed > grab old write-to-serial-lcd perl script to do cool stuff on newly built deb box > remember how to do rc.local equivalent in debian > pack > drive to town > drive past town to PC World > misread opening times and confuse 21:00 with 18:30 > drive back into town > grab random munchies at woodlands shell station > drive to neil’s > irc from ground floor via wifi to get let in front door to neil’s flat > lan party > sunday > more geekage > the stand, featuring Sandy Nelson (don’t believe this review, he’s funny as hell), Alfie Joey (bloody excellent), Shazia Mirza (almost embarrassingly too self-deprecating to be superbly funny), and ably compered by Michael Redmond (yes, he was in Father Ted), with superb piss-taking of an arsehole heckler all through the night > Uisge Beatha > monday > chips in curry > drive home > soggy chips munch > random genghis produced evolt tool > blog > crash (predicted) > thud

 

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