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Monday, November 16th, 2009
r_is_for_rachel	11:27p	The Colour of Nonsense went to see the new piece of theatre by Forkbeard Fantasy last Saturday. If you like your Gilliam, then chances are you will like these fellows (who have been going as long!). I prefered it to their last show as it was more coherrant and a better story. Funny and fascinating. The show tours around the UK into 2010 if you want to catch it. http://www.forkbeardfantasy.co.uk/colour%20of%20nonsense.htm http://www.forkbeardfantasy.co.uk/Diary.html (Comment on this)
cleanskies	11:12p	The Chiropractorrrrr! The Chiropractorrrrr! Originally uploaded by jinty. Oh, I wish. We create the superheroes we want, right? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
veronica_milvus	11:08p	Swaffham and Truss ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
hirez	10:37p	Feed me wierd things (xvi) Lomography. Wisconsin head trip. Current Mood: 4711 Current Music: 60614 (Comment on this)
adelheid	10:36p	I has the indigestions. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
hirez	10:16p	Feed me wierd things (xv) Lomography. Documents this. Largely pictures of green and pleasant land. Current Mood: Snowburst and sunblind Current Music: NASA doctor descends from balloon (3 Comments |Comment on this)
cuthbertcross	9:26p	The Pink saga continues... In the continuing Going Over To the Pink Side, I've had words with Father Christmas on the secret hotline. Assuming his elves get cracking, babysaxon is going to have a set of pink Carcasonne men in her stocking. She may want pink stuff but Mummy's in charge... (Comment on this)
luckykaa	8:26p	Sudden influx of energy. Wow! After getting home feeling knackered for the past two weeks, I find myself arriving home and pondering what to do with the rest o9f the evening. Seems you really do get used to the long hours. I am also of the opinion that my writing sucks. This is not something that I have a huge problem with. Practice will allow me to improve. I would offer excerpts for constructive criticism, but my ego can't quite take that right now. I think next month I'll start writing a few short stories and solicit criticism on those. (Comment on this)
hawkida	3:02p	Tautology My local freecylce group has just advertised "ladies tampons". (8 Comments |Comment on this)
wychwood	2:32p	i feel sure that fraser would approve I don't know what I like more - radioactive Carl Sagan, or the space-researching criminals. andrewducker posted this YouTube video a few days ago; it's colour footage of London in 1927, and I found it completely mindboggling to watch. Just. Wow. (Comment on this)
chocojon	2:23p	BadgerLAN Winter 2009 A date has been decided for the next BadgerLAN and it will be the 27th until the 29th November 2009. LAN will start about 6 p.m. on Friday and carry on until late evening on Sunday. There will be some crash space for out of town people. Spaces are limited but I think that we can have 8 guests (8/7 people in the dining room and 3 or 4 in the TV Room). I *might* be able to fit more people in but that would mean spreading out through the floors which would be less than ideal. There are a few people that have expressed a fairly definite interest so far but please comment below if you want a reserved space. Guest list so far: chocojon easternpromise enigma_o ev1ldonut (+crash space) azekeil (+crash space) just_a_monkey heymicster (8 Comments |Comment on this)
veronica_milvus	9:54a	Where did the weekend go? ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
roseyphoenix	6:12p	Workin 9 to 5 ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
wychwood	1:23a	mememe I picked up a meme from write_light: - Leave a comment here - I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity. - Update your journal with the answers to the questions. - Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. If anyone else wants to ask me questions, I'll do those as well. He asked me: ( 1. What is your typical response to stress? ) ( 2. You've been blessed with a superpower (a really good one). Are you worthy? Could you handle it? ) ( 3. What does singing do for you? How does it fit into your life, your personality, etc.? ) ( 4. How do people most often misjudge or misread you? What's their biggest misconception? ) ( 5. If you had to pick, are we here to (a) just live and die (b) learn and grow (c) be tested and found wanting/found worthy (d) something else? ) Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: San Jose Sharks at Chicago Blackhawks (4 Comments |Comment on this)
cleanskies	12:14a	there might be a problem I've not really been posting about it because, heck, boring, but there may be a bit of a problem with my knees. The symptoms (crepitus, locking and giving way, pain exacerbated by inactivity, walking on slopes or steps) are suggestive of something called various things but surely the most ironic is "runner's knee". I don't run. Well, sometimes upstairs, or for the bus, or if I'm late. But I don't run. You know, because I have to be careful of my knees. ( pain ) (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
ese79	11:55p	TOTD: Tweets of the day *tweet* *tweet* I've been busy :D 13:27 twitpic.com/pmjcx - Look what i found at imperial! # 14:20 At hyde park, on a bench, in the sun. Reading sunday times. I love london! #fb # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
hirez	11:45p	It's like rule 34, but for music. I'm still struggling with the notion that since there is no Peel and my disposable income is generally disposed on tiresome things, discovering that this sort of thing is going on well after all the cool kids have moved on to bus-stop house, trouser metal or spastikk-lawnmoWer is sadly normal. Marvellous racket(s), mind. It's also well worth digging out the strangely-tagged material on that there youtubes. I am also about halfway through 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' and it is being utterly excellent. A bit too info-dumpy to begin with, but it is splendidly Swedish and spending great wedges of a weekend reading the thing while The Chemicals and early Sevs & Kraftwerk burble away in the background is something I should do more of. Yes. There are certain books where you get an adrenaline rush when the plot decides to kick off. Selected Banksies are the ones that spring most immediately to mind. This one's not like that (yet?), but one can certainly feel that the narrative has lumpy cams and a furtled wastegate. Rule 34? It made sense at the time. Current Mood: Spadger Current Music: Glorc (11 Comments |Comment on this)
cleanskies	11:30p	moments between posts This also happened today: 10:53 Swiss cuisine includes rosti and steak, ravioli and trout mousse and an anxious swiss chef who gave us amuse-bouches of plum and parma ham. 10:57 It was a very odd thing to find tucked in the corner of a huge redbrick booze barn full of big screens, steady drinkers and occasional dogs. (Comment on this)
veronica_milvus	10:21p	Probably the best soup recipe... ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
bend_gules	9:40p	cat's out of the bag... my sweetie is a Pelican My sweetie Robert of Canterbury was put on vigil and made a Companion of the Pelican this past weekend. I'll try to write it up anon, but I'm visiting w/ friends in Polderslot, and can't really linger on the keyboard. However, I will mention that if you're in southern ID around Sat 27 Nov, you're welcome to attend the Thamesreach revel, where I hope we'll be have a 'post-vigil' and you can come and give Robert your wise and hard-won advice. More details TBA. Current Mood: really proud (23 Comments |Comment on this)
m_nivalis	8:22p	Almost there I've had two day's worth of brain clearing before the intense writing period starts. Three loads of laundry have been done, boxes have been acquired from various shoe shops in town, most of the room has been cleared, the excavation clothes have been put away, fabric has been boxed properly (less dusty than storing them in open bags, and more easily stackable), and I can't really find the energy to finish the last bits. Part of me wants to get a small shelf/dvdshelf-sized bookcase for the cook books, which now stand outside the main bookcase, like an informal extension of it, but no furniture shops here have the size I need, nor anything that can easily be modified. And I'm not allowed to take time for making it myself. I have also, despite telling myself that I need to save money, considering the significantly smaller payslip this month, and my expensive pre-order at the re-enactors' market a few weeks ago, managed to buy a couple of long-sleeved t-shirts (on sale!) at Gap, and a lovely greyish-purpley top at White Stuff (no picture online, sadly). I could wear it for New Year's, although I suspect that my New Year's Eve will be spent in front of the computer, with half an hour's break at midnight to see the fireworks. I ought to have a look at the tannery articles, but my brain has gone to sleep, and only left the emergency lights on. Tomorrow, I guess. (Comment on this)
the_mendicant	5:27p	Running out of spoons rapidly.. Studying hard is not what Sundays should be about. Feeling ill and tired and uninspired and only 9 days to go til submission of my assignment http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/navigation/BYDLS-TheSpoonTheory.pdf Current Mood: sore (7 Comments |Comment on this)
jinty	4:17p	1944: proposed Oxford traffic and other redevelopments Oxford Mall proposal 1944, originally uploaded by jinty. When we went on the Secret St Ebbes walk back in September, our guide told us about the sixties plans to drive a motorway through Christ Church Meadow. In the comments on my entry about this, an earlier road plan, from the forties, was mentioned - proposed by a Doctor Thomas Sharpe but also, it seems, slightly earlier by Lawrence Dale, a local architect. addedentry lent me "Towards A Plan for Oxford City", a pretty little cloth-bound Faber & Faber publication from 1944 ("produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards"). It makes, if not quite a delightful read, certainly a more amusing and interesting one than I'd expected from what was surely supposed to be a manifesto in favour of something I would naturally be against. Who can dislike something that is so beautifully done? The end papers are not only drawn in such a way that I could look at them for hours, but are useful and interesting as well. Look at the part labelled "The Anglo-Saxon Town" - that's the heart of Tom Hassall's Secret St Ebbes tour, that is. The river limned in green, and even the Gas Works a feature. The text is, er, well, I think addedentry's usage of the word quixotic is bang on the nail. Dale starts by likening his proposal to flying a kite - kites being forbidden in Christ Church Meadow - and ends by pastiching exam papers in economics, psychology, divinity, and other University subjects as summaries of his overall argument. Which is that a Mall - his pleasant road through the bottom end of the Meadow - would be useful and beautiful. It would solve a traffic problem that has been around since Anglo-Saxon times (this is the fact that Carfax is the cross-roads and main passage point to everywhere, so simply to go from East to West inevitably requires going through the centre of town); but he also believes it is possible, and required, to make it beautiful. He proposes "...a fine stone terrace wall as the Meadow's southern boundary, in lieu of a scraggy hedge and, from the public's point of view, a tree-lined road for their daily journey, overlooking the Meadow on the one side and the river on the other. Surely this, added to a peaceful High Street, is sheer profit." It's a lot less ridiculous than I expected it all to be, florid language and written conceits aside; Dale is respectful of practical and aesthetic considerations, and is trying to reconcile the commercial side of the city to the academic endeavours. (I leave aside idiosyncrasies like the fact he hates the Gothic architecture of the late Victorian period - that was a popular view even when I came to study here in 1988, when you were still expected to think Keble an architectural monstrosity.) He also includes interesting discursions on the historical development of Oxford's city plan ("No one understands Oxford, however, who does not realize that it is an Anglo-Saxon town. The fact that no legionary set foot in it renders the intra-mural plan an original document of the greatest value. Every road and alley is of immemorial antiquity, New Road and King Edward's Street alone excepted.") and the first mention I'd seen of the Conduit that used to stand at Carfax. He also suggests developments that would broaden the scope of what Oxford has to offer - a school of design and art that would be "a meeting-place for the Town and Gown, a place of public resot, for art is both work and recreation." In fact, the only real problem is that he has absolutely no conception of the huge increase in motor traffic that was to come. (Or the huge increase that would be facilitated by road-building.) It's not the 8 miles of motorway that was proposed in the 60s; its heart is in the right place; but it is absurd nonetheless. Pleasingly absurd. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
veronica_milvus	12:33p	Godson ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
tictactoepony	12:14p	CSI Dye-Ami For anyone who is interested in crazy fibre-dyeing experiments FOR SCIENCE, take a look... ( CSI Dye-Ami crime scene images below ) (Comment on this)

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