quote:Originally posted by vikram: big picnic in the park tomorrow
bbq and gig on brick lane on sunday
i love picnics.
we have no plans for the weekend, except watching loads of movies. we are now part of blockbuster's monthly subscription thing, where you pay a specific amount of money per month and set up a movie queue. then they send you 3 movies at a time. once you watch them you can either take them to the store and exchange them for something else or mail it back to them. once they get all the movies they've sent you, they send that many more. tonight we're taking the queen and some kung fu movie back and getting saw II & III.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: sounds like you need to work on your diet, young bleak.
I don't have any say over my diet any more - Octavia prepares all my meals, makes my sandwiches, prepares breakfast etc. I am reduced to the status of a spoilt child.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I'm trying to work out if I can put a satellite card capable of picking up full HD into a Sony VGX-XL100 as thy have one knocked down to a grand at a local shop..
I think the thing only takes PCI cards though not PCIe..
Pretty sure it won't mate - I'd be vary wary of buying an off the shelf as they aren't very forgiving when it comes to adding your own bits
The Sony media thing isn't all that bad, and considering each time I try and put seperates together (say at Alternate) I end up with a machine that's 1800 upwards a grand for a box that'll do what I want seems fine..
As long as it'll take the card..
I think I might just ring Sony... I saw a nice reciever amp today at the media markt too, 299 with dual HDMI in and single out..
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: How could life be any worse.
You could find out your mate is betraying your birthday picnic in favour of "dicking around with a video camera"
look man, it's like, I'm not, you - you have to understand, listen okay, right, it's, I agreed that I'd help out on this thing with the video camera long before your thing turned up, man. I, you know, it's not that - it's more - I -
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I did a guff at a tube station yesterday. Victoria, to be precise. I've been on a health kick, and been eating lots of fibre. Usually even the sturdiest trump can't be heard among the melee of commuting, but yesterday's had a fatal combination of wooden bench, close proximity to suited men, a bent-over shoe-tying position, and the only moment of quiet on the London Underground rush hour since 1903.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: look man, it's like, I'm not, you - you have to understand, listen okay, right, it's, I agreed that I'd help out on this thing with the video camera long before your thing turned up, man. I, you know, it's not that - it's more - I -
pftttttt
you could have been on my flickr dude, in my blog even. but now, now you're dead to me.
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: ...Johnny Walker Green Label...
Mmmm...Johnnie Walker Green. Have you ever had Johnnie Walker Swing? Excellent.
Now I want a scotch.
Dang- did you take those photos? You've got a great eye. I particularly like the blue daisy type flower with the bee on it. Is that your house? It's huge!
Does anyone know how to get a cat to stop chewing wires? She's done it for years (destroyed an incredible amount of wires) and I've tried cayenne pepper and some other thing I can't think of right now. Neither has worked.
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quote:Originally posted by Amy: Mmmm...Johnnie Walker Green. Have you ever had Johnnie Walker Swing?
No, I haven't but I'll give it a whirl next time I see a bottle. Really loving the Green Label currently though. Oh fuck it, I'm going to have a glass now. It's all your fault Amy. You see what you've done to me?
Re: your cat. I believe that if you wrap tin foil around the relevant wires, the cat will cease to chew them.
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Joy of joys, my mum has agreed to lend me her car. it's costing me a princely £20 in insurance (that's an absolute joke isn't it. £20 for 24 hours' insurance. *****) but it's still less money than a cab, and means I can go and leave as I please.
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It's what time there now? About 6:40? If anyone questions having a drink at this time, you can say it's Happy Hour...because it is.
The reason it's called Swing is because of the bottle it's in. Was originally created for cruise ships, so that when the ship hit waves, the bottle would gently rock back and forth. Rather than fall over and break.
Hmmm tin foil may just do the trick. Thanks!
Good job Ringers...at least now you won't end up soaked by the time you get to the party.Is it still raining? We're due for a Nor'Easter apparently.
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in the Uk weather cycles last for all of 5 minutes so it's now lovely and sunny out. Still, I didn't fancy cycling down past the canal at like 1am with no streetights or owt.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: in the Uk weather cycles last for all of 5 minutes so it's now lovely and sunny out. Still, I didn't fancy cycling down past the canal at like 1am with no streetights or owt.
Are there a lot of cars that could possibly run you off the road? Doesn't your mom's car insurance cover someone if they're just borrowing the car? Can you get car insurance just for the evening?
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Alas no. when I had my own car, my policy covered me in such a way that I could drive any car with the owner's consent (albeit only third party cover) but now I have no car I would need to be specifically added as a named driver on the policy relating to the car I wish I drive. It's not a great system, and it seems designed specifically to rob you of money and unfortunately not having insurance just isn't an option.
I don't cycle down the roads, thankfully, but my cycle route would take me down along a canal tow path. in the day it's really picturesque but at night it's literally pitch black for a few miles and I don't really fancy that. While I'm not one for worrying unduly about kids or drunken thugs or whatever, it seems safer not to go around that sort of area at that time of night. If simply because I wouldn't want to end up fallling in the canal, like I nearly did last week in broad daylight, when i nearly ran over a heron..
£20 is a lot of money, but it's cheaper than a cab, and means I can go and leave whenever I want. Odds of getting a cab from someone's house at that time of night on a friday are slight at best.
Anyway, this probably isn't terribly interesting to read, and I'm now done eating my cottage pie so I'm going to go get my party on.
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It was ok actually. It does kinda make you feel a bit old being surrounded by people who are about 4 or 5 years younger than you, seeing them acting in a way you used to. The fact I was sober also gave the evening a surreal feeling, like I was an abserver rather than a participant. But actually I had a laugh and that's what counts.
Also, the one particular person I wasn't looking forward to seeing wasn't there. She phoned Kev up at like 8pm (kev's birthday, remember) asking if he would pick her up, then drop her off after. Kev did little more than laugh at her. That gave me some slightly petty satisfaction. Particularly since time was I would have been the first to say "hey, I'll go get her" and then run off like some sort of gaylord. Not that night though.
Highlights included me managing to make the barbecue (my old one from Shenley, if you remember it) hotter than the flames of hell itself, meaning nobody was able to stand within 2 metres of it. Also, catching a spider in a plastic cup then getting it high. Then it slid on the floor and Ashley accidentally trod on it. Silly foolish things, but funny all the same.
There was some really skanky fat chick. Really drunk. insisted on showing me her pierced nipple. It was hideous. She was also stroking my hair which was particularly sharp, if I do say so myself.
Low points include me, ashley and kev all sitting together in the garden feeling slightly old and past it while becky's teenage friends all took drugs and drank lots of alcohol. Spending more time talking about good times we'd had in the years before than having a good time then.
Ah well. All in all, an interesting and amusing, light hearted evening in which I saw breasts, made fire, and laughed at the misfortune of one who has wronged me. So, y'know, about 7/10. Asseptable.
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I want to sit round a fire. I mean, I couldn't really sit round an entire fire on my own, but I'd be amongst a number of people who together were sitting around a fire. No, just me and one other, sitting adjacent to a fire. Wine out of a shared bottle is the fireside preference I would say. That's what I want. Waves breaking a short way off. A gentle sea breeze. No one else but the two of us. Where can I purchase this experience?
I was reading the other day about a new documentary about Joe Strummer in which all the interviewees are filmed talking by firelight. The director (Julien Temple, for it is he) reckons it got them more relaxed and introspective than if they were in broad daylight in some posy location of their own choosing. I like the idea, though the film's probably rubbish I expect, being about a superhero as it is.
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There is something special about a campfire that does seem to relax people - I don't know maybe it is some ancestral link back to our caveman days - something that has remained with us throughout time. In a lot of cultures of course its still a relevant thing - a central point of the settlement. It provides essential light,heat for warmth and for food, and I guess in a wilderness at night its the one place where everyone heads.
Yup you can't beat a good camfire for a good social gathering. Just a shame about the bloody smoke...
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Dang- did you take those photos? You've got a great eye. I particularly like the blue daisy type flower with the bee on it. Is that your house? It's huge!
Forgot to answer this, sorry. I did take the pictures, but it's not so much a good eye as effective cropping. I don't know what other people do, but I sussed out a trick the other day. What you do is set the canvas size on photoshop (or paint.net in my case) to the size you want the final picture to be - say 600 x 450 for those web pics. Then you paste in the full size jpeg off your digital camera, so it'll be about 20 times the size of the canvas or something. Then you just resize and drag that image around till there's just the really nice bit of the picture in the middle of the canvas, and you save it.
Up till I figured that out I'd been using the cropping tool method which was a complete pain and far less flexible.
Anyway, sorry to drone on like that, but TMO isn't exactly buzzing right now so I'm just keeping the word count up really. That may be a common technique that everyone uses anyway and I'm just a bit slow.
Also, that is my gaff, yeah. Surely not huge by American standards? Too big to maintain though, I can confirm that.
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