Celebratory explosion

Before we began ruffle's celebrations we slammed into Orpington so the twits could remove their golden locks, we could get travel cards and rex could slaughter some hookers. After dropping car off we went to the Queen's Head in green street green to watch the rugby. Except they don't have televisions. As a strange twist of fate, however, as we walked in Andy and Lucy walked in. I was like

"whoa?"
and they were like
"urgh"
and I was like
"oh yeah"

and then we all merrily drank alcohol, specifically John Smith's and Guinness:

Andy and Lucy went to grab food and we perambulated on to the harvest moon, where we met the rest of the posse and traversed, via electronically powered rail transport. Though we missed it first of all and had a quick drink in the maxwell. Finally in beckenham we went to ye olde Goose, got food and much drink. We then divided and a load of us went on to continue the celebratory explosion in croydon, specifically in walkabout. Not before having a kebab in beckenham however. After a while in walkabout, we were shattered so grabbed some kfc and got a taxi home, that was cheaper than last time. Bonus.

The day after the night after the holiday

Ad and I attempted to hit bewlwater today, but realised the cycle hire was shut just before we left. Which was lucky, so instead we went to blue water to watch a film. But none of the films were particularly appealing, so we shot up a load of heroin and experimented sexually with a passing group of swedish netball players. Well we would of but the heroin shop was shut. So we met rex instead and pootled around the shops before eating some grub at Bitz and Pizza (gaffaw).

We then resorted to a night down the old harvest moon in drinking readiment for tomorrow. See the photographic evidence of my excellent chest hair and lust-worthy emerald eyes:
(modesty comes at an extra fee)

Today

I have mostly slept.

Hastings

We went to hastings today as my subtly worded title cryptically suggests. It was pretty:

Although we lacked time we still managed to grab some fish and chips, drink some bevvys on the beach, chuck a ball around (in a camp fashion):

fly a highly erogenous kite as the breeze was quite strong, clamber up the cliff (and clone ruffle):


frolic on the rocks:

update some carvings, watch a restaurant that was on fire, play on the arcades and cruise home. Much good fun all round. We also said by the Raffle before she ran away to france :(

BBQ of kings

Today, we enjoyed a highly excellent bbq at young Raffle's house. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what happened, but I know there was beer, and meat... and more meat... and then I ate too much meat and got a meat headache. Twas excellent time though. I think I may have some form of photo....

no wait I don't :( poop. However, I can prove I ate so much as I managed to come back and break a floor board with my immense weight. And I wasn't even drunk!?

Coffee, Toffee, and your mum.

Currently in Starbucks in Bluewater, my main objective for coming here, but I made up a load of things to buy to excuse myself. Currently I've got a new wallet and a new belt. It's surprisingly hard to find non-expensive boxers. And boxers that aren't wack. I have a cracking headache again, but I'm not sure if its down to coke cold turkey, lack of sleep or lack of being outside. Coffee will help.

It has to. Plus Norah is soothing my soul.

I'm slowly typing up my blogs. The interent is gonna come to a halt when I upload it all.

On the topic of others things I'm doing, I'm also kidding myself that the hot girls in here are checking out the lonely wanna be surfer in the corner, scrolling his thoughts into a notebook. I'm also perving on everyone who walks by... I mean. I'm watching for danger...

Everyone here is pregnant. To Marks and Sparks->

I have come to the conclusion that as a phone, camera and mp3 player, my phone is extremely excellent. I have come to love it. And it hasn't crashed in a while. In fact ages.

Things I've recently done but forgotten:

15th: Mainly drove home
16th: Went to bluewater, then beckenham, then croydon. Much merryment, but cab was a long drive home. We went to reflex in croydon which was a bit too 80s for my liking but was still cool. Goose in beckenham now has uber cheap menu.
17th: Existed
18th: Went to monday club, I suspect it was good
19th: Existed...
20th: Went to dump
21st: Is today.

Oh yes.

That's right kids my 360 is now linked into my computer and I can stream stuff to it. Use Tversity if you care not for media player, as I do not.

Talking of 360, call of duty 4 beta giveaway keys here

Must remember to update my i heart movies

well it took longer than I expected but now I'm pissed off with living at home

Gangsta Soul

With all this talk about freedom, it would appear I forgot I need a purpose. Or maybe I just ignored it. It's all very well thinking "seize the day", but unless you do, and you seize the right day, it's all a bit rampant. Obviously rampant is the wrong word here, but I had no end to the sentance and it popped into my head. Like a light bulb in a darkened room, I'm just sitting here, waiting for you to come on home and turn me on. As Norah says.

With so much drama in the LPC, it's kinda hard being snoop d-o-double G.

Amen to that.

Clones, plasmid phones, and Norah Jones

Shit bricks. It's now 1pm and I've packed nothing, forgot to have hair cut and meh. Twas all I could do not to play bioshock *shakes fist*. My head's a bit messed up today, Ed suggested some possibly things I could do, including an industrial phd. I'm sure I need to get away though. Plus at this rate I'm gonna be a lard bucket for the holiday.

Note To self: Keep a journal on holiday. I'm a little worried my blog is turning into a diary. I lie, I'm not worried at all. I hate it when coffee shops have argumentative talk shows on, we need Super Norah to the rescue.

Today has mostly been me putting off everything to play Bioshock. Did well in meeting though and company are foolishly please. Slightly awkward farewell afternoon tea and then hit the bioshock. Began watching Eureka once my eyes broke, which is really good, but means that's one more show to watch. Raping bandwidth as its last Exeter night.

Cat anyone?

White goods

Fridge broke today, so we had to go get a new one, which made me late heading back to the Ex. Got here quite quick tho. Tesco then went straight to the department and bashed out my report in double quick time. Watched awesome england game with Stu in vic and then went back and fired up bioshock....

Order:

One more hoop to take the hope....

So it would appear I'm not actually done and I have to write a summary report for my company and have a meeting with them on Thursday. I was really pissed off about this but I'm more chilled now and not too fussed about it

Hungover today, played more 360, went to campus, saw Dan and talked to Ed. Drove home pretty late, my bad, enjoyed it though

People who are awesome:

• Rex for taking the time to proof read my work.
• Rachel for proof reading AND giving me her ipod shuffle!!

So after 4 hours sleep I'm up again for the hand in of the century. There appeared to be no Saran, however me and dan evaporated to the long lounge for lunch. Then I went and played a large amount of Call of Juarez. Met the crew at the Impy at 4, some drinks and Ed randomly turned up. Then dan showed up, then everyone went home, except me and stu, and we drank our sorrows in the timepiece and got some kebabs.

Please use my body while I sleep

To be honest I'm unsure of the exact details of what happened today. I did spend quite a lot at the coop to sustain me through. I actually finished by 4am though, bonus to me. So sleep->

Stats:

7800 words
32 pages
10 tables

Geeky Things I've done Today:

• Timed the speed of execution of my implementation of the A* algorithm
• Synchronised my work folder with a remote folder on my desktop at home
• Streamed the england match on my computer and then broadcast it on the uni network so me and stu could circumnavigate the crazy ass proxy settings on campus and watch here via dual screen on our lappys
• Streamed the IT crowd to a projector
• Drooled over IronKey

Slept slightly late, till 10 am today. But showered and came straight up to the department. Norah Jones is getting me through this, one soothing word at a time. Saw england match while working. Ate a whole pack of fruit and nut, which is 105% of my fat allowance of the day! Work is exceptionally slow today. I blame stu.

My teeth are fuzzy.

Got back in at 1.30am. 6800 words.

Still behind, sent to Rex and Rachel to see what they think.

I'm in appalling shape at the moment.

Idea of the day: Hoovering, for my floor is totally covered in grass.

Woke up a bit late today and damn facist builders were drilling into my soul. An unfortunate set of events, so I showered and departed to campus. I am literally spending, at maximum, an hour of awake time in lafrowda a day. Anyway, I went to the long lounge where I proceeded to have an extremely yummy ham ploughman's salad. Then came the rest of the day where I spent most of it in the library.

At around 7 I traversed to sainsbury's in my wonder car and bought 25 quids words of junk food. Including doughnuts, cold curry, multigrain hula hoops, pain au chocolate, red bull, fruit & nuts and bombay mix. All to feed me over the weekend. Man I'm gonna need some fruit. An odd police helicopter hovering over uni and town for most the evening, prolly due to some escaped prisoner. Apparently prisoners escaped in march 07 and in Oct 06. Some guy removed 5 bricks from his wall and jumped out. Unfortunately the drop was 30ft and he broke his ankle. I think junk food is making me fat. Found a new toilet in Harrison, best layout yet.

The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time

Whoa?!

So, my attempt to calculate the amount of words I need to do per section failed majorly as I added it all up to 7000 instead of 8000. On a related note, I really can't be assed with this anymore, I'm finding it dull and I have no direction. Plus I'm trying to write this "slanty" to look cool, but it's just turning out illegible.

I'm on 4282 words. I'm flagging though. I'm about 1700 away from my word count projections but I think I need to break and sleep. Re-arrange my thoughts and plan of lyrical attack. I'll go print out what I've just done.

Anecdotes, platters, and inspirational quotes...

After just managing to wake up, I traipsed onward to campus, where unto my great surprise, the long lounge was open. One copy of Empire and an Indian platter later it was time to hit the department. Weather was all sunny by this point and I set up camp in the library. After some rough attempts at work for a few hours I hit the shop, grabbed some baguettes and headed home to pick up my work folder. This was in a vein attempt to find some decent feedback from my past work. Unfortunately, as always, this was not so.

It's currently 17.47, I'm on 2739 words and need to reach 6000 to be on target for tomorrow. I also have to not use all my words on my intro...

Interesting anecdote: Was walking to look and some dude scared the shit out of me.

Films To See:

Bourne Ultimatum: Now
Assassination of Jesse James: 26th Oct, 07
Superbad: 14th Sept, 07
Death Proof: 21st Sept, 07
Across the Universe: 28th Sept, 07
Planet Terror: Novemeber, 07
I am Legend: 4th January, 08
Iron Man: 2nd May, 08
Southland Tales: 08

Covering our tracks

Well after locking myself out of the library, things went from bad to worse as I wasted the rest of the night coding a GP to find the shortest combination of numbers to try every code on a door code. After this I realised I actually still have a co-evolving GA to implement for my project. Shit.

We're breakin' free

Alcohol is stupid for Sleep. Got up at like 12. Pottered around. Randomly had a presentation feedback meeting with Zunic and apparently everything was good. Nothing bad. And I answered his 1 question with skill, wit and a preplanned answer. Slammin'

I'm again attempting to survive on sandwiches alone. My heart hurts. I've constructed a simple, yet effective plan of work to finish my write up:

Balance Brought Forward: 1000 words

Wednesday: 2000
Thursday: 3000
Friday: 2000
Saturday: References and Proof Read
Sunjday: Proof Read.

I do need to go get food sometime though... hmm.

I'm also listening to some grime. Though its not too productive for work, it might be time to bring Norah out again. mmm Norah. I should get her sheet music. From her house. And possibly her underwear. From her body. Excellent.

Surprises, electrical goods and meat of various sizes

Approaching the pedestal with a good portion of nervousness, just as I was setting up, my company dude waltzes in and my heart swings into double step. Not out of lust I add. Unfortunately, I had not planned for a water expert to be present as this foils my normal tactic of glossing over details so I don't say anything wrong. Even though I was visibly a shaking wreck, and was unable to focus on my neatly designed post it notes, apparently everyone said I was alright. After celebratory chatting, I cruised down to starbucks with Gordon and we pondered the world along with another caffiene hit. Then I drove dan dan icelandic dan to currys to get a tv and we had a cup o' tea and a few min of Die Hard before heading off to the Imperial. Here, a small portion of merryment was had and then I stupidly got a kebab. Ah well.

Food eaten today:
Bacon & Brie Baguette
Chip shop chips
Kebab meat and chips

Well I woke up on time, and after a shower I looked only slightly bedraggled. Coffee maybe my only haven. Had a dream last night that involved immense pain in my elbow and I think I was awake for most of it... I also had a dream where Kiean came to the department to work, then it was a fancy ball and cheerleader from Heroes, some other hot girl and a friend fancied me. I had to choose but nearly messed it up. I think (and hope) I chose hayden.

The main issue at the moment is my choice of t-shirt. I've chosen a blue t-shirt as it's colour is non-confrontational, however, the slogan on it is "Burn your computer". Now this may 1) appear that I'm trying too hard, 2) Be a happy and humourous choice 3) Sound like I care not for the field of computer science. Then again it may have just been my only clean top....

Acai smoothie time.

Things I am looking forward to:

• Partying after hand in
• Tidying my room
• Playing Bioshock
• Re-establishing communication with the world.
• Having time to exercise
• Having time to goto the beach
• Blogging
• Reading
• Guilt free "end of days"
• More lickin'
• Digesting the ~20 new artists I need to check out
• Brushing my teeth more
• Possibly expand on SOM Project?
• To be able to write continuous prose without having to repeat the same words for "consistency".. unless it's "awesome".
  

So I just came back from campus at 11pm, my presentation still not finished and it's at 1pm tomorrow. Remembered to take recycling out or we would get in trouble. Promptly got locked out for 10 minutes. Then had shower, set some experiments running and now sleep at midnight to get up at 5am?! to finish presentation and learn it. It's all about kamikazing to the nearest deadline and be damned the consequences.

At least I'm getting some results I can twist into something might be acceptable. Must remember to work after presentation. Last night I stayed up late reading the Prestige by Christopher Priest. Very good book, quite different to the film. Though the film's plot might be slightly better. God I hope 5 hours sleep is enough.

Mind numbing, hum drumming.

Woken up. Showered. Ate a healthy living curry. Disgusted a girl who saw the state of my room. Ritazza.

In an interesting twist to my life, it turns out I failed to charge my bluetooth headphones. Old school cable time.

Day 3 of Radio Silence. The Enemy is closing in and we're far underprepared. Our tactics are sound, but it looks unlikely we can execute them in time. I'm tempted to utilise homophonic sounds to decrease actual contact time to safe limits. After careful deliberation it would appear our resources are below expectations, but with little hope of reinforcements we must continue regardless of the complexity of the task ahead. We've already lost many, and I fear I may crash and burn within the next day. Morale is low.

Today I have mostly been battling for CPU time and discovering new and innovative ways to make up graphs. Our lack of Linux boxes is disturbing.

Geeky things I have done that are awesome:

• Running a VNC server so I can remotely control my pc
• Running a SCP server so I can remotely download files
• Writing a taskbar "to do" list manager in C#
• Re-writing my random wallpaper selector in c#
• Writing a Regression, rule based genetic programming program in Java
• Getting a 3D virtual desktop manager for windows
• Implementing the A* path finding algorithm in c#
• Using 13 PCs at once, then demanding more
• Streaming my music collection across the web for myself

4 games/vids to fail your degree to:

Dolphin Olympics 2 - The best dolphin based game sequel around

Anti-Tower Defence - Flip side experience

Budapest Defenders - Flop side experience

Constructigasm: A Lego production line that builds little Lego cars

Kids that ride a crazy-ass zip line to school:

Click Me like I'm a Polaroid Picture.

Things I Like

I like the blackest, darkest coffee.

I like the feeling of waking up early, knowing the entire day is ahead of you, stretching out deep until the night.

I like nostalgia.

I like Coffee House music, that balances relaxation and calm, with reminiscent warmth.

I like the glow weak outdoor lights emit, when they cast an orange haze across forgotten areas of urban landscape and give an eerie romance to common objects..

I like positivity, optimism, saxophones and brutal despair.

I also like paradoxes.

Unconnective ramblings... Part 1

Is caffeine exponentially delibitating? I'm not really sure what I was trying to achieve with this thought. Especially as I don't think delibitating is a word.

Discussing the project mark scheme:

Tom: I wonder what is defined as flair?
Dan: Glossy handbags

I'm also hoping by the afternoon tomorrow I'll reach a state of delirium where I can blog and code at a heightened level of awesomeness. On the other hand....

I bought a Sata cable woo! now where are my fucking bluetooth headphones. I need a zen bluetooth vomiter.

New Word: sitcomas - you can infer what it refers to.

I bought: 2 salads, 1 baguette, 3 pot noodles, 1 BIG packet of crisps, a nutrigain bar, 4 pints of milk, and 6 cans of pepsi max

and all I have left is 1 pot noodle.

People often ask me, Tom why is your blog so successful. I say its simply all to do with quality standards. And the fact I have none.

There's an orange moon tonight.

I love music.

I might go to china or somewhere and learn mandarin intensively. Could be cool? OFFER ME SOME CONFIRMATION YOU FOOLS!

What do I want to do?

Whatever it is, I want a year of it.

Insight is blinding in hindsight

Tommeh: omg I'm the peak of unfitness
Tommeh: my GA would replace me without a second glance, no ties have to be broke randomly
Tommeh: Stephen Hawking could beat me in a foot race
CowboyDan: lol @ humor !@ physique
Tommeh: I need lollerskates I think
Tommeh: and to top this all off I just went to the shower in my towel, and a korean girl comes round the corner, and like pauses looking at me, and I dunno if it was in awe or in disgust
CowboyDan: lol, I'm sure it was in awe of the european physique
Tommeh: lolz, I'll have u know I'm english not european
CowboyDan: was she hot ?
Tommeh: I dunno, I've seen her around I thought she hated me
Tommeh: but I've held the door for her a few times, so dunno
CowboyDan: nice
Tommeh: maybe she'll surprise me in the middle of the night in a nightie wanting some lovin'
Tommeh: then again she may gut me instead
CowboyDan: well at least you'll get some hot korean sex, and a knife
CowboyDan: knives can be very useful you know
Tommeh: I dunno, I'm not into blood play, sounds a bit crazy for my liking

You may remember

I posted a quote by Edvard Munch that describes how he felt a scream through nature.

Well I just went to get some hula hoops (now in healthy flavour!) and a diet coke, and on my way down to the porters' lodge I looked up at the moon. It was goldenie orange with swispy scratchings of clouds around it, and I suddenly felt enraged at the lack of effort and work I've done in the past two days. I think it may have been an epiphany. Anyway, I think I was rewarded by the vending machine, as I got a free packet of mccoys as well.

This post is mainly to remind myself in the coming three weeks to actually work like a nutter. Nuff said. Oh and don't get drunk.

And your songs will be breaking all hearts again

Note To Self: Don't give up on albums so quickly, Kill Your Own is awesome.

Today started off moderately Brisk but soon warmed up with clear skies arriving from the south west and a warm upwardly breeze near your skirt. I mean.....shit.

Had a meeting with Ed today, was 1 hour and 15 minutes long and we managed to settle on some crazy ass Genetic Programming Regression algorithm. Looks scary, I have zero time to do any of this and he's gone on holiday now. I cry. I may get my research published though, if it gets accepted...

Current Addiction: Forza 2 - I've played WAY too much of this today, but ah well, its good fun. Work tomorrow. And perhaps food.

DUCKS!!1!!!!one!!!The Barker Family Motto:

"Ladies quod Liberalis : testis. Ut est totus"
... nah I'm kidding, apparently it's actually:

"Fide sed cui vide" or in English:
"Trust, but in whom take care".

Enough now.

Why I should write 19th Century Literature

"I see you found my clit bangles" he said with surprising sincerity.

"why yes darling, I was mearly sifting through this collection of lint-"

"Ah yes, how convenient. I believe you have been hunting for them for some time."

A look of intriguing bewilderment flashed across her face, as she pondered a tactful response.

"dear, you're wearing them in plain sight....."

Worst. Poem. Ever.

Lying in wait, amongst the wickedest weather,
For nothing of power can be buried forever,
As from times long gone past
A withered legacy of a sullen task.
For only in the rain.
The nikeman cometh again...

Life Observations

The above photo shows the pricing of "The TechGuys" at PC World. I was looking at this and VOMITING at the shocking pricing of everything. Memory installation costs 14.99. You may think "ooh that's not much", it takes like zero time and effort, take off the case, shove the memory in a slot. Job done. No software or anything. Software Installation 29.99. WTF? that's how much software costs and they're charging you that much to stick a CD in the drive and hammer the next button!? I would go on, but I don't want to fill my blog with ranting. Basically befriend someone who knows about computers, then swap some good old fashion lovin' for computer help. Apparently it's worth it.

This may look like an average paper recycling bin, but you'd be mistaken. If we look at the items that are wanted, and the items that are not wanted we see a worrying pattern. Every single piece of "wanted" paper contains personal/private/delicate information, while all other paper is generic paper waste that will be unlikely to contain such details. Man, Cory Doctorow would be all over this....

Love of the Loveless

I'm currently stuck with my 3rd choice mp3 player (my phone) as 1) My iPod Shuffle is still lose 2) I can't find the cable that charges my Zen. Tit wangles.

Russians in my way all day, though when I say all day I mean in the laundrette. But I mean, come on, you let people THROUGH a walkway, not stand topless (was a fat dude) and motionless. As my twitter pun went "rushing past russians". haw haw, gunf.

I woke up today - according to my notes. I love Eels, yum yum yum. Of course I'm talking about consuming the musical intricies of one Mr E, not masticating on a diverse range of sea dwelling creatures. On this note, what is the best way to expand my vocabulary? I imagine probably just reading. Damn I have no time.

It might be nice to create a random acts of kindness website. Then it again it might be horrendous. I don't know, I wouldn't wanna hazard a guess, the consequences could be dire.

I have suddenly realised I'm attracted to girls with lots of writing on their hand, possibly because of slight hecticness or it just looks cool, or that they have a torrent of creative thought spilling out of their brains on to their hands.

New Hobby: Replacing random pages in people's work with "This page has been censored/quarantined"

Emo Stick Men...

Things I watched today instead of working

Brick: Again I reiterate, this is one of the greatest films ever. Love it to bits.

High School Musical 2: Nearly as awesome as the first, and as I said to Raffle: it's hard to quantify awesome. Though obvious Brick is better.

Evan Almighty: Meh, tis alright, nothing special. CG is a bit suspect. I bet SuperBad will be 100 times better, but it passed the time while I struggled with java.

Voices tell me... tell me to kill myself... what to do? what to do?

Fads are cool. I have yet to see if twitter will be. Or just be time consuming and annoying.

Ed wants me to work till my fingers explode, little does he know that I am lazy and unmotivated. Actually he may know that...

Wenger said recently: "Sometimes I watch tapes of Arsenal games and I see a man on the touchline I don't recognise. Then I realise it is me and that can be frightening." This is indeed worrysome, as he looks exactly the same as he did 7 years ago. On the topic of football, I forgot to mention I stayed up massively late, like till 4/5am to watch LA Galaxy vs DC United play. It was streamed legally for free! Now that's awesome. Beckham was extremely good, very pleased for the old lad. England V Germany soon (wednesday).

Last night I had a dream we went on holiday, and we went to a Maccy D's on the beach, and then I lost my memory like I was drunk, except I had no alcohol. And I woke up the next day. So we went down to the beach, and English Danu was doing something crazy so we went in the water. Then a tidal wave came. And I remember thinking that the water effects in my dream were crap compared to Bioshock. Which promptly woke me up.

Over Interpreting Smiles...

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~ Marcus Aurelius

Bask in me...

Squirrels came into our kitchen today. I didn't invite them, I'd lost my invitation creation kit. But they got into someone's cereal and it went EVERYWHERE. Totally gnawed a hole in the side of it, extremely hilarious, especially as I didn't have to clear it up....

Plus I think it hid the fact that one of my smoothies LITERALLY exploded in the fridge. Ah well, caps will save the day.

Check this extremely awesome AI technique for images, it's actually amazing.

Apparently if you have Gymnophobia u can never be naked. Which would suck if you were being born. Or a nudist. Or most raw animals. And indeed a few fish.

I was on campus until 3am or something working, then I Walked back and there were badgers everywhere. One ran into a fence, as such, and another just pootled around the ground. Silly badgers.

Lollercaust! Videoz!

Meanwhile in the bat cave...

I woke up at 11am after going to bed at 5am, still with a lot of work to do. Oh how you mock me imaginary Jefferry on the left shoulder....

So it turns out Bioshock greatest game ever. Started it up, watched the beginning intro sequence, and I was like "whoa the water effects are amazing in this cut-scene".... Then nothing happened for a while, and I realised it was actually in game. The whole demo is extremely awesome, go buy a 360 and play it now, and it will prolly take a lot less than a whole day to download now the rush has calmed down....



Stranglehold is also very good and very max paynesque, though lacks max himself, who is equally awesome. Other demos I tried today instead of working include Stuntman and Tenchu. Both meh.

In related news: my computer is still sexy, my sleeping hours are horrendous and I did some work..... more BioShock:

Code Alert! - If you get this error:

The item "SomethingSexy.cs" was specified more than once in the "Sources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Sources" parameter.

If you do some crazy ass copying of cs files, sometimes it fucks up the sources parameter in your csproj file. To fix, just open up your csproj file in notepad or a better alternative and under the Project\PropertyGroup\ItemGroup\Compile node "SomethingSexy.cs" will be referenced twice. Just delete one of them and the world is your oyster. Or delete more stuff and break your project. either way....

So exaggerate and t-t-t-trick me..

So apparently resizing partitions that have corrupt data is a bad idea. And my windows and pc were completely pooped. So now I've reinstalled a fresh version of windows, lost no data (just about) and my pc is actually fast?!

And fully up to date for once, plus has lots of new cool tools and no clutter... possibly. AND to top it off I just copied my firefox profile and it all works sensually. Only prob is my RAID controller don't work cos I can't find the drivers, and so can't access my new hard drive. Bastards.

In less stressful news I hit some serves on the court today to relieve stress, and because the fences are all bent up I lost a ball in the bush. While rooting around a couple came by and were like "hey fool, what you doing" so I explained my predictament and then they said "don't worry, we'll let our dog find it" and he just ran into the bush, found the ball and dropped it at my feet. Proper lassie there.

Whoo exeter is in decent res on google maps now!

Hey you crazy man, with the face made of giants.

whoa, some dude just got the world record for holding his breath under water for hte longest.... 15 minutes and 2 seconds!

I want to go to saunton sands to chill. I might tomorrow, depending on my sensualness.

Ways of destroyed myself today:

1. Walked barefoot all over campus, and therefore getting blisters all over my feet so I can barely walk now
2. open a can of tennis balls, and the metal ring pull device slashed my little finger viciously.
3. hit my arm with a tennis racket

I just watched the entirety of The OC season 4. And although I wasted lots of time doing it, and it has depressed me because they all have pretty cool lives, I bet I still sit on my arse and procrastinate. Oh to be a someone. For instance, I was pondering: what if computers are my "talent". I don't think I want them to be. Also although it feels like I've been at uni all my life, the time here has also gone very quickly. Doesn't feel like I've gone to "uni". Perhaps I shoulda joined more societies. Been an activist. Turned into a hippy? Done something.?

I actually just censored myself because it was too sappy. Be damned with free speech.

My Hobby: Finding meanings in my music player's choice of songs when it's on shuffle.

Threading in C#: Code Alert!

Okay, so you have a GUI, and you think you're sexy. Then you run some big task and cos you're not using threads your GUI is as useful as a pile of potatos at a cannibal convent. Unless I guess they had humans in cages and fed them potatos to fatten them up... anyway...

So you have say Form1 as ur form class, it helps to have your main method in there as well for shits and giggles, then when you clicky a button you can just do something like this:

MainClass main; /* The class that has the method we'll use */
Thread mainThread; /* The thread object itself */

/* Instantiate the object */
main = new MainClass(arg1, arg2, bla);

/* Instantiate the thread and define the method that will be used when the thread runs */
mainThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(main.Go) );

/* Start the thread */
mainThread.Start();

And you're all like, "how terrible erogenous". If you want your method (Go) to have parameters, you have to do some delegating shit that I couldn't be bothered by. That's why all my arguments are parsed when I instantiate the mainclass. Also remember to slam using System.Threading; at the top.....

Then you're all like up in my grill saying "Hey Guy, I want to update some shitty form content up in here from my 2nd thread" so I'm like. K. When you instantiated the class object, parse though the form object you want to modify, set it as a global thing, then just have a method to change it:

private void ChangeStatus(){
if (labelstatus.InvokeRequired){
labelstatus.Invoke(new System.Windows.Forms.MethodInvoker(ChangeStatus));

}else{
labelstatus.Text = "Finished!";
}
}

If you don't do the invoking you get crazy errors like "Cross thread operation not valid: Go faceplant yourself"....

That's my c# tutorial for today. Apologises for the informal gangsta format.

Seperated by 237 miles, the silence of our troglodytic existence resounded across the cosmos. Our vocal intercourse, laced with pleasantries, cuts the gentle breeze as we waited for the climatical conclusion to this stratospheric voyeurism. A shooting star traces the contours of my vision while we marvel at the remarkable clarity of the heavens. The insignificance of our fragile existence reverberated through my soul, as the futuristic astronomical abode of our technologically advanced cousins travels fleetingly across the night sky.

Or in other words, Rex and I saw the international space station.

My Hobby: Slowly adding to the blog description over the course of X years and seeing if anyone notices...

I spy with my little eye something that begins with 'I don't care',
That this song, has a melody,
Or that the beats are not complex,
I'm just trying to make you sing,
And not be perplexed. - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Today is Tom's clever day....

So returning to exeter, first thing I could think of to do was to steal the good features from Opera and find them for Firefox. Firefox wins again, I now have an even better Notes type thing that can capture sites and stuff, tis called Scrapbook.

So interestingly, I started copying a folder and the side of my computer fell off and landed in my sink....

I decided that was a hint to swap one of my bust hard drives for the new one I've had for months. So first of all I had to track down a screwdriver, luckily dan was well prepared for such an occasion. Then I snapped some plastic on the front of my case and dropped a pint of water on my keyboard, nearly smashing the glass, a plate and my foot in the process. After some dangerously suspect techniques, I replaced my hard drive. And apparently it works. However it is suspended in the air, with only screws on the left hand side and I have duct tape at the front of my pc blocking a hole I made. I also booted my computer up intially, and was confused why one of my other hard drives wasn't showing up. Then I realised I hadn't plugged it in....

Roflcopter Alert!!!!

(No Spoilers)

It's no mistake Tom is in tomorrow.

I nearly made a myspace today; that'll be me being sweeped up in the online social community explosion. Then I remembered how I hate myspace, and everything in my life fell back into place.

At some points I'm starting to get used to living at home, which scares me. But then at other times I get pangs of missing exeter, though I'm not sure if I'm just missing all my possessions....Though neither place has enough space for me, my room at uni is over crowded and actually has most of my possessions, yet I have no movement space and no room for my guitar. My room here is just as small, except there's no room for any computers, or desks or anything. The "spare room" where I normally set up my computer is so cluttered with junk its nearly claustrophobic, and I can't really find space to set up my electric guitar.

When I get a house I'm gonna need a bed room, a tech room, and a music room. As I also have a piano to put somewhere. And I'll need a library most probably. And a room with a pool table in. etc. I may even need a kitchen.

If I changed all the instances of "pipe" in this report to "pie" my project would be much more interesting. Anyway, fuck yeah, on to some programming, even if it's just simple file reading and euclidean distance stuff. A* tomorrow. Who reckons I can get it done by my meeting with Ed on Friday.. as well as having time to drive back to Exeter tomorrow morning. Don't answer that dan....

InfoMash:

AI in your ass.

Craig Ferguson is a legend... "Hey, you got a light Mac?" "Nar, I've got a dark brown overcoat"

Hawthorne Heights = cool. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly = very dope.

Track of the day: Plain White Ts - Hey There Delilah.

We're comatose but audible...

As the solitary warrior fighting the cause for blogging I often wonder to myself, between battles, if the scars of war are worth it. I would also like to point out to raffle that I have now blogged 107 times since she last blogged... 107!!!... I'm not sure if that is bad on your part or bad on my part...

In related news, check this shaz out. I've been put on the "I heart movies" press site? That's pretty dope... I should probably like use it more, or something... I have so many movies to add, argh.

ROFLors: Mike Soundboard

Looks like holiday plans for september are in full swing now, and when I say in full swing I mean they are very vague and no one even really knows if they can go and what a holiday is. I do know, though, that I want to write a novel. But I have no ideas, which is useless really, and I fear I could never write enough words, plus I tend to repeat so much vocab in my every day word-droolins anyway. For instance, I dare you count how many times I use the word "awesome" throughout my entire blog. Well? exactly.

Who the hell keeps driving by and beeping at my house, stop it! There's no point.

If anyone finds anything that offends them on here can you point it out so i can increase it for humours sake?

Reboot Reboot. Awesome.

Ladies and Gentlemen: clit bangles...That is all.

More Interesting Potter Extended Spoilage:
J K Rowling Web Chat
MSN J K Rowling thang

Counting Stars...

Today I took my mum out for lunch. *waits for the shock to die down* that's right I actually did something with a relative. Bonus points all round, then we went for a walk, bought some compost and went to sainsburys. Having a son who can drive a car is useful for mum's it seems. On an additional note, the lunch I had was steak and ale pie, much good, I had it with new potatoes and veg as well cos I was trying to counter-act the unhealthiness of it.

I have also discovered the secret to major and minor scales that if my piano teacher had just told me would have made my entire life easier. Literally it would have taken 30 seconds. Damn her.

I'm starting to really like Opera as a browser, even though it seems to take up more memory than I first thought. Unfortunately the notepad part is TOO useful, as now I have so much crap to blog I think I need multiple entries. To solve a number of problems I've ordered 512mb of RAM for my lappy, and assuming that works I can revert back to firefox. Because tbh not only do I feel like a traitor but I miss all my extensions and the spell check and it handles websites better. Yes I know i can get widgets but blah blah blah your face is stupid. Also my youtube addiction has reached a new peak, especially with the recent drama on it and lg15's season finale.

MWahaha, that'll stop the spammers, as some of you may know, two of my domains (that begin with d) have all their emails sent to me. Which I have only just realised accounts for 99% of all my spam. So I've stopped them, you can only contact me via my approved gmail address now. and maybe others but you don't really know those and they stink of debauchery.

New Plan:

1. Learn Guitar
   
2. Form Band
   
3. Do Extreme/Cool Sports
   
4. Get weather beaten look
   
5. Win the girl and the day.

Now we must wonder if I can get the balance right by using the smallest amount of coffee possible so as to limit my caffeine so late, yet keep a decent amount of taste in my beverage. On that note, I also despair at the swaying levels of english this blog contains and at the amount of work I've done still not being enough. *sad face*

Narrative Blogs I've Inserted Recently:

• Monday's Child is a drunkard Autobot...
  
• Wednesday's Child is an effin' wizard!
  
• Thursday's Child is potably pub-arific
  
• Friday's child is pedalling his warez...
  
• Friday's Child is mostly asleep
  
• Saturday's Child is like all up in your face getting crunk...

Ad: "I've often wondered what might have happened if when we opened the steam room door, and all those chicks were in there, if we went in rather than going back out... prolly would have both slipped over instantly"
Tom: "or they would have taken us entering as a sign to start an orgy... there's an innuendo there somewhere"

And as the smallest violin in the world plays the smallest saddest song, I shed a single emo tear for my loyal phone. Once more the trials and tribulations of a corrupt bios have shattered its peaceful existence into a comatose state of being. As I struggle with the intricacies of mobile telecommunications via a water drowned excuse for a portable cellular network device, I reminisce of the times when Nokia produced phones of surprising reliability and I was never tempted by the glossy commercialistic gimmicky feature explosion that a gadget whore, such as myself, desires. All the while my iPod shuffle cries a silent scream in lost bewilderment at its predicament, as once more the juggernaut of technology marches forward, producing smaller and smaller devices, while single handedly increasing the Lost and Found storage requirements world wide.

Never to be forgotten, my 4 year old relic of computational "mobility" grinds to a halt once more, as the memory intensive lust of Java sucks its hopes, and algorithmic dreams dry. Its wireless desperately and blindly groping the radiowave landscape for the single wifi router within one metre of its battered shell. Only the solitary palm muting of Brand New haunts this desolate scene of brutal technological anguish....

For hope cannot be spelt in 1s and 0s....

"I dunno how you guys do things in Europe"
"New Zealand"
"yeah, probably..."

man I love Flight of the Conchords. I say it with authority,
battle rap on a hastings track, down the girlie's sorority
blog of blogging, a lack of jogging and lyrically linguistic jokes,
weekend of heat, and a ton of meat, and now my phone's broke

Sup fools

In orpington at the moment, I have a lot of blogging to catch up on, but to that later. Currently I'm trying to do things with my crappy laptop, so am replacing all my resource hungry programs. This is just a little note on what I've changed things to, in case anyone wants to reduce their memory footprint/usage on a crappy PC.

Music player: I swapped FROM Media Player Classic, which is pretty awesomely fast, to Evil Player, which has an even lower memory footprint (1-2MB).

Browser: Firefox, although is awesome really sux my 256mb of RAM dry, so I swapped to Opera for now, which seems to be better in various tests on the internet. Tho Internet Exploiter may be better in some cases, it stinks of doggy doo doo. Unfortuneatly, Opera seems to be sucking a moderate amount of RAM as well, tho not as much.

Bitorrent Client: Luckily I current use utorrent, and you can't get much better than that, so I'm sticking with that shizzle.

Messenger(MSN) client: This is kinda odd, MSN is sucky, then I installed pidgin (GAIM) but that used even more! Now I'm using trillian(which I used to use in my l337 days), which seems horrendous, 33mb at the moment. Now swapped to miranda, which is definitly better than all previous ones. Our final winner appears to be Easy Message, as although I can't set even a photo, it only uses 9MB, and minerva hurt my brain.

If anyone has any more suggests, comment it. As long as it isn't Safari.

Saturday's Child is like all up in your face getting crunk...

After a nice sleep, I was awoken by an awaking device more commenly known as a sound creation manifestation device. Wandered into town and met the fools, where we bought alcohol and more alcohol, then hit Tracey's House.

Then ensued possibly one of the greatest football events in many a recent year. Where the deformed 4 sided triangle of C was resurrected and we ran ourselves into the ground. Literally, many a burnt face and people verging on heatstroke I believe. Then we sat and had an awesome bbq, many thanks to Tracey and Colin's cookery skillery. Yum yum yum. We also consumed some nice cold beer, ruffle poured beer on his groin and a number of us gained a headache. Then Shing's amazing cake, which she claimed had been dropped before, was revealed, which was absolutely awesome. Major props. V.yummy.

As the day drew to an end we moved inside and watched Rexxor's bungy jump video and then we al started to fall asleep, so we went home. Very good day, amazing weather, bonus points all round.

Friday's Child is mostly asleep

Ze Night: After much debating on our destination for the night, we kinda settled on Beckenham. Had a drink in the george then hit the goose, where we got awesome steak and ale pipe, with mash and peas for only 2.99! and we got a plate of sausages, wedges and bread for 5.99, which was also alright. After a couple of bevvys we marched on towards london, where we realised that the only people who had come out were people who didn't live in orpington or the surrounding area... (moi, ad, colin, rex). We shook our heads in despair.

Luckily we arrived at Rileys and began 1.5 hour long pool sesh, and met Shing as well. Unfortunately we all were hit by mega tiredness and I nearly collapsed. while lying down. yup.

So we headed back around 11pm, I think. After shing had explain her crazy plan for cake domination. We all fear diabetes again. On the walk home I wish the chip shop was open, but my cries were lost amongst the foxes that hunted me like raptors. as in they were like raptors. Not they were hunting like they would if they were hunting raptors. Fool.

Friday's child is pedalling his warez...

Woke up surprisingly on time, and was greeted by the most amazin weather ever. oh yeah. Rex lost the tossing contest, and was the designated driver to our destination of Bewl Water. after fueling ourselves with a baguette made by British Petroluem, we hit the road and swiftly arrived. 6 quid for parking there now!, no matter, lots of bikes available and we slammed on the acceleration and surprised ourselves with our lack of death. It seemed as tho the hills that had nearly reduced me to an asthmatic wreck (which was impressive as I don't have asthma) last time, were less steep, and we soon powered round to the pub quite leisurely.

Pub lunch was excellent as always, and we all sweated lots while we all laughed about my sleaveless issue. Cycling then commenced till we reached the end where we all got topless and chilled on the dam type place. After handing our bikes back we got ice cream and watched windsailing type people capsize. Then we realised we'd better get going for the night "on the town"

Thursday's Child is potably pub-arific

As all good plans go, as well as poorly planned plans like this one, I failed to leave exeter bright and early and kinda left around 11.30am, but ah well. Trip back to orpington was pretty clear and music was pumping like a potable water distribution network. oh yeah.

Got back to orpington, this time with only a small hold up on the frickin' m25 and was like woo to the world. Then Rex, succesfully returned from his foreign slaughter, collected me avec adam to the pub-arific place... that is the pub. Much merryment was then had with raffle and ruffle there as well. We resisted kebab luckily, but then got distracted by Ruffle's house and the alluring shape of his george foreman grill. I mean ps3. Ninja Gaiden Sigma = the exact same as the xbox version... except easier. bastards.

Then sleep.

Wednesday's Child is an effin' wizard!

Today I have just played Harry Potter and The Order Of the Pheonix. and completed it. *wins* except I've done no work. shit.

Yeah I'm an achievement whore. W00tever. Oh, me and ad also played some gears of war on xbox live, which now kinda works on resnet. Pootangarama.