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| Holiday snaps | Jun. 7th, 2009 10:05 pm | |
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| Why twitter's interesting | Apr. 3rd, 2009 11:03 am | |
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Just had an interesting conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 Newsreader. It started when he commented: For which he obviously got some flack, as it was shortly followed by:  which then turned into a brief but interesting conversation between he & I:  Not profound, maybe not fascinating, but an unusual & interesting way to give some direct feedback and get the ideas of someone I'd not otherwise have a chance to. (Some of the appropriate content can be found via http://search.twitter.com/search?q= | ||
| No idea | Mar. 7th, 2009 11:51 am | |
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why this dropped into my mind while taking a shower earlier; possibly something to do with the rythmn of the extractor fan. Some of you will be familiar with the traditional British kids' variant which starts with the same line. While shepherds washed their socks by night To get them clean and nice The bloke from the laundrette dropped by And gave them this advice: Rinse no! He said For there's a red Sock in with all the white Your laundry is now pink throughout Due to this oversight. mood:
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| "Won't somebody think of the drinkers?" | Feb. 23rd, 2009 04:54 pm | |
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/248117/char | ||
| Levels of Liberal Linguistic Logic & Lunacy | Feb. 15th, 2009 08:34 pm | |
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1) Refusing ever to leave the UK because the water tastes funny elsewhere (distinct, on various axes, from holidaying in the UK for financial, environmental or other reasons) 2) Travelling overseas, but TALKING ENGLISH IN A VERY LOUD AND CLEAR VOICE, 'cos the locals should speak english and are just being stubborn, damnit. 3) Holidaying strictly in anglophonic (yes I made that up, I think) countries because you only speak english and feel guilty that you can't speak local anywhere else. 4) Holidaying only in various Western European countries because you happened to learn a bit of the language at school. 5) Sticking to Western Europe but venturing into a few more countries where the languages kinda sound a bit like the ones you already learned, possibly also picking up the "$newLanguage in 24 hours" audiobook. 6) Venturing further afield, possibly to Greece or Russia where the alphabet's a bit different and the language family's quite distinct. 7) Trying to learn an ideographic language with new cultural references & up to three new alphabets to get your head around, with the vague idea you might go there sometime. This level may also just qualify as nuts. So, yeah... I've been wandering around these levels over most of my life, with a current linguistic score somewhere as follows: English (UK): Mother tongue, give or take my ability to get my tongue in a complete knot. French: Fluent; studied since I was about 8; numerous holidays, exchanges, and a year of my degree spent in Paris. Spanish: Learned as a regular GCSE and used on occasional holiday. Latin: Studied at school to a fairly low level. Norwegian: Learned a few words when I went on holiday at about 9? Forgotten all, I think. Welsh: Used to be able to pronounce most of it right and sing the national anthem. Never knew what much of it meant. German: Fluent. Studied in my final year at school and during my Uni degree; studied a year of my degree in Karlsruhe. Irish: Fascinated by the language and mythology, utterly baffled by the pronunciation, got nowhere reasonably fast. Italian: Learned a few words for recent holidays. Still have a habit of speaking Spanish instead. Japanese: Learned a little specialist vocab for Aikido and food. Learning more recently after getting fascinated and deciding to make it this year's hobby (not intended as an insult). ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} webcowgirl's ability to speak Mandarin & Japanese in restaurants is also quite inspiring.Portuguese: Learned a little prior to a recent holiday. Still bemused by the fact that weekdays don't have names. ( Notes and Resources ) | ||
| A post | Feb. 10th, 2009 09:33 pm | |
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There's an icon here for someone in the second panel: http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20090210.h You may have noticed that my loudtwitter feed has switched off. I figure people can follow me on twitter if they want. I still read LJ but am likely to post *very* infrequently. | ||
| If you only watch | Jan. 29th, 2009 11:44 am | |
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one video of two fleeing court prisoners running into a lamp-post today, watch this one: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/s | ||
| Ideas for LJ apps to write | Jan. 2nd, 2009 12:29 pm | |
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Would anyone use these if I wrote them? (ETA Looks like LoudTwitter can be persuaded to post to groups.) 1) Tweet2LJ This app allows a user to automatically post their tweets to a specified group in their LJ account (LoudTwitter only allows public posting). It may in future allow users to post two streams; one in "real time", one in "batch mode". It will need to log into LJ and extract a group list. It will need to log into LJ to post. It will need to memorise, or have specified: The journal name The journal password The twitter account For locked twitter streams, it will also require the twitter password! It will need to know, or calculate, the "last sent" time for a batch. 2) Crowd Control A related app is a "group self-organiser". An LJ user may nominate a group on their journal as self-organising. Users *on the primary user's friend list* will be able to add or remove themselves from this group. They can log into the hosting website by using their LJ username, which will be converted to an OpenID and authenticated against the LJ site. (The friends DO NOT need to supply their passwords to the hosting site). The hosting site will then modify those groups via the LJ API (http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/l For each primary user, the system will need to store: - Username - journal password - group(s) to allow self-organisation on The system MUST NOT allow users/friends to see or deduce their membership of other groups, or the membership lists of the self-organising groups. | ||
| Sinfest says it best | Jan. 1st, 2009 11:01 am | |
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| General and Specific Theories of Literary Exasperation | Dec. 28th, 2008 07:15 pm | |
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General: ARGH I own too many books! Specific: ARGGGGHHHH I own too many books I've never read! (Having shed most of the cruft a year ago, though, it's a pretty good collection) | ||
| I has a Nomlet! | Dec. 25th, 2008 02:02 pm | |
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Well, it's not exactly a traditional Christmas lunch, but it's still delicious; I've just been out on a bike ride, the first one since I moved to Putney (over a year ago!) as part of my plan to get a lot more exercise (which was foiled for the last several months by the bad foot). A 10K ride (thought I'd start simple) up to Richmond Park (full of deer!) and back along Upper Richmond Road; still haven't shaken off my cough entirely so my lungs were protesting a bit, but it's *so* much nicer to ride here than it was in Brixton! My 3-egg cheese-and-ham omelette is joined by an apple, crunchy salad and, thanks to the wonders of parbaked baguettes, hot, fresh, buttered bread :) Not bad at all! :) I think the rest of today may involve a little cleaning of the flat, but mainly chilling out and a few Christmas phone calls. And possibly some Babylon 5, unless the TV gets a lot more exciting... mood:
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| It's that day again! | Dec. 25th, 2008 11:25 am | |
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Happy Christmas, peoples! Mine's getting off to a bit of a slow start - I got a decent number of hours' sleep last night, although it wasn't of the best quality, but I feel better for it. I was distinctly wiped out yesterday but still had great fun playing Munchkin with booklectic, barking_watcher and adjectivemarcus, in a game which had much the requisite amount of silliness, and culminated in a ludicrous pie-related winning move. Great fun, hope I wasn't babbling too much due to tiredness. Also (very briefly) played Little Big Planet (the graphics are astounding) very badly and chatted to duranorak a bit before heading back to feed the cat and pick up a pressie from webcowgirl's house.Today's a quiet one for me - I have just the one pressie to open which I'll do in a moment, although I did buy myself series 1 of Babylon 5 last night. My family had its Christmas celebration last weekend - probably the first time we've all been in the same place in years, and it was fantastic. As well as my parents and siblings, my sister's husband and daughter and brother's fiancée were also there, and it was a great atmosphere. My niece is jut about to start crawling but can't quite find forward gear yet, but is still incredibly curious and cute. Plus we had a very good turkey dinner :) Work's been fairly busy right up to the break, so it's nice just to be able to chill out today. I may try and get some exercise in a bit, and need to go feed the cat again sometime. Oh, and Happy Birthday Isaac Newton. Probably. ETA Yay! Great pressie, webcowgirl *smooches* :)
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| On the move | Dec. 17th, 2008 12:16 am | |
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| Lack of Today | Dec. 14th, 2008 08:16 pm | |
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I've been awake for all of 7 hours so far today, during which time I've sorted out the paperwork for a bank meeting tomorrow, booked a holiday with webcowgirl, and had a rather nice dinner. And only twittered once, which is unnatural. I *think* that counts as productive... | ||
| ION | Nov. 29th, 2008 11:39 pm | |
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| Duck Phoora at Chula was *delicious* | ||
| VO | Nov. 29th, 2008 09:53 pm | |
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And when the father turned to his family, and saw that the snow doves had torn out the left eyes of his two stepdaughters, and both eyes of his wife, he said to them: "Come on. Let's go home." ( Erm, wot? ) Icon borrowed from thewronghands
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| Nov. 27th, 2008 06:08 pm | ||
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| Today is just Epic Fail. | ||
| Nov. 24th, 2008 05:33 pm | ||
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No, it's not healing. It just looked like it was healing because I hadn't been wearing shoes for most of last week. | ||
| On the move | Nov. 20th, 2008 12:34 am | |
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| Tickets for Wayne MacGregor tonight going spare | Nov. 19th, 2008 02:10 pm | |
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I'd booked two tickets to see the Wayne MacGregor "Voluntaries / The Lesson / Infra" show at the Royal Opera House tonight but, due to webcowgirl's illness, we can't use them. It's modern dance / Ballet. That said, it's accessible stuff; I'm no dance buff but MacGregor's one of two choreographers whose work I really enjoy. I have a review of the last piece I saw at http://www.phase.org/journal/parsingpha If anyone wants them, please let me know; they can be collected from the Box Office, but I'll need to give you the booking code to release them. Please comment and/or call me if you're interested. (friends *should* be able to see phone number here: http://wechsler.livejournal.com/379 They're balcony seats, nominally £30, but while I'd like some cash for them if at all possible, I'd also rather see them used than wasted (so if you can't pay, don't stress). Show info: http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/productio | ||