Random Ramblings

May 14th, 2006

12:37 pm - Meme
Don't often do these things, but this one was a bit more interesting than most.

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.

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Postmodernist

81%

Existentialist

69%

Cultural Creative

69%

Materialist

63%

Idealist

56%

Modernist

56%

Romanticist

44%

Fundamentalist

25%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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bouncy

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March 16th, 2006

11:42 pm - Yippeee!
Off to Budapest tomorrow! My first proper holiday in a very long time.
Current Mood:

bouncy

March 4th, 2006

01:09 pm - Remembrance

Steph

I'd forgotten about this photo until I had to think of something to write in the book yesterday.

The wave has come in, but the memories remain

Steph drew this in July last year at Winterton beach.
Current Mood:

contemplative

September 18th, 2005

04:33 pm - Plastic Surgery obsessions
Following Tuesday's discussions on plastic surgery, here are the links I promised.

The title of the second link says it all really - be prepared to meet the 2nd Scariest man alive.
More pics for anyone who can bear it

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September 17th, 2005

08:47 am
For all you magic fans out there... (and everyone else)

http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849

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Steph, I seem to remember saying I'd send you a link to something, can you remember what it was?

February 21st, 2005

01:38 pm - I used to like winter...
I now feel like an old woman.

I slipped on the ice on the way in to work this morning and have fractured my wrist.
Typing with one hand is a real pain, hell right now doing anything that involves moving
my left hand/arm at all is a real pain.

The other really depressing point in this episode was the fact that the doctor I saw at
the hospital was younger than me...
Current Mood:

sore

February 2nd, 2005

07:07 pm - Bluergh
I have a lurgy

Quiz yoinked from loads of people ( Read more... )
Current Mood:

sick
Current Music: Ghost of the Navigator

January 13th, 2005

05:38 pm - It's the little things you miss
Like internal email at work on a day when you haven't got much to do...
Current Mood:

bored

December 30th, 2004

05:52 pm - Worth reading
I don't often post links to other people's journals but after a number of recent conversations with various people I thought this was rather apt.

Read me
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contemplative
Current Music: Apocalyptica - Nothing else Matters

December 20th, 2004

10:30 pm - Vaguely seasonal
Trying to do too many things at once is not good for me or anyone around me for that matter.

It's the usual mad seasonal clear up round here, made worse by the fact that brother #1 and wife are coming over from the States in a couple of days. Brother #2 and wife will also be arriving at some point before the 25th so its going to get rather crowded round here.

Anyway, Seasonal greetings to everyone

Oh, and this is what I was originally going to write about

December 1st, 2004

06:16 pm - Prettyness
Driving back to Norwich at 7am this morning was very pretty. Good job I didn't have my camera or I might not have made it into work...

Not that that would actually have been a problem today... Total work: 5 minutes Approximate number of silly emails: 100
Much nice lunchness. Brain turning to mush.
Current Mood:

bored
Current Music: A Town Called Malice

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November 21st, 2004

02:43 pm - And it's another rainy night without you.
Hmm, what to say..?

As some of you may have gathered I'm rather happy at the moment. As a result I've not been around much and have missed some things I shouldn't have done (Sorry Meg!). Anyway, for those depressed by the current grey drizzleyness of the day, it was rather nice at 8 o'clock this morning so I took some pictures ( clicky )
Enjoy!

November 7th, 2004

12:08 pm - Idea nicked from Beleraphon
1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.

Pete and Chris having fun with sparklers last night

The orchid in my kitchen
Current Mood:

indescribable
Current Music: GnR: Knockin on Heaven's Door

November 1st, 2004

12:25 pm - Hugs
One of the reasons I like working at the beer festival so much is that I get (and give) lots of hugs. Roughly half of them are "hello" or "goodbye" hugs, and most of the rest of them are "you look tired" type hugs. There is no pressure, its just friendly.

We finished packing up yesterday and I haven't had a hug since 6pm last night. I already miss everyone.

The world would be a much nicer place if there were more hugs in it.
Current Mood:

melancholy
Current Music: Brown Eyed Girl

October 31st, 2004

07:47 pm - Busy, busy, busy.
As most of you know this past week has been Beer Festival week, so as usual I have been exceptionally busy. What I didn't know till I walked into St Andrew's on Monday evening was that the PTB had decided to promote me to bar manager so I was even busier than usual. I also hadn't mentioned to anyone before now that I had agreed to be a driver for the festival. This means that for the last few days I have been driving a 3.5 tonne lorry round Norwich. Fun fun fun.

The festival this year has been a HUGE success, record numbers of customers and ridiculous amounts of beer consumed :)

Oh yes, I also had a job interview on Thursday and have landed myself a nice little contract at NU for the rest of the year. I'm rather pleased with myself about that one, as I didn't even have to apply for it.

Might add more later when I have caught up with some sleep.

October 24th, 2004

10:24 am - Computer Problems
Here's one for all you tech types out there.

I recently reinstalled Neverwinter Nights for various reasons and since then have been having nothing but problems with my machine. Specifically with my graphics card. At first NwN installed updated and played fine.

The next day I came in from work and turned on my computer to discover 4bit 640x480 graphics and no amount of playing with the settings would change that. So off came the side, I took the card out cleaned up some dust and put the card back in. All worked fine on boot up.

Only problem after that was that NwN was complaining about an OpenGL driver size mismatch and refusing to run. So updated both mboard and grphics drivers from the nvidia site (FX5200 Ultra) NwN still refused to work.

Cut to Saturday, reinstalled NwN and forced it through set up. It still complained about the drivers but would play. Everything seemed to be fine.

Cut to this morning.

I have 4bit graphics again. This is not good. Any ideas folks?

Update: Re-seating the graphics card did (after two reboots) fix the problem again, but I really don't want to keep having to yank the card every couple of days.
Current Mood:

aggravated

October 23rd, 2004

04:31 pm - Photo time again
It's raining which means its time for some more photos :) No spiders this time.

( Photos here )
Current Mood:

bouncy
Current Music: Rammstein - Amerika

02:16 pm - Fun
This is fairly short so make sure you watch it to the end :)
Watch this

General updateness:
Isabella is putting on weight and doing well. Many thanks to all those who have enquired.
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bouncy