The internet really does have some strange stuff on it, take this for example. A place where you can adopt a fetus. Slightly beyond me what the thrill is exactly, but I thought I'd get myself one anyway. So here he is:
Person: What does your robe do?Made me laugh, so I thought I'd put it up here. I overheard it while I was doing a spot of mining.
Monk Person: It says that I feel closer to God. Does that mean I'm going to die?
So I look at the date today and I think, "Oh God, it's that time of year again". Valentines day, or as the businesses would probably like to call it, "all your money are belong to us" day. Exactly why this day exists has always intrigued me. Now, I can see the logic in wanting to do special things with that special person, but why reserve a particular day for it? There's 363(4) other days in the year, so why this one? So I thought I'd look into a bit more.
Typically, it's origins are rather boring. The name comes from a St. Valentines, who allegedly arranged illegal marriages, as some big and important person had declared marriage illegal because they found that single men made better fighters. There was also something about secret love letters and prisons, but that was about as interesting as it got. On February 15, there used to be some old Roman holiday, which was actually quite cool. It involved dipping torn up bits of wolf in their own blood, then running around and painting every women you could find with said blood-stained wolf bit. The funny thing is, the women enjoyed this. From this I conclude that ancient Roman women were actually all goths, and thus liked that sort of thing. However, the Christian church, always keen to ruin other peoples fun, decided that the painting of women with wolf blood wasn't really all that Christian, so they decided to replace the Roman tradition with what we now know as valentines day. Well, that's the general gist of it anyway, and I may have combined several theories together because I like the sound of them, so I wouldn't be too surprised if the above is a fabricated load of waffle.
Now that's all well and good, but I still don't really understand what the modern valentines day is all about. The purchasing of cards with really cheesy messages on, that have been produced by some bloke in a back room of some factory who gets paid to write cheesy messages to put on greetings cards. Just because you can buy a card with a message that was written by a complete strangers isn't really much of an indication of your own true feelings doesn't really prove a whole lot in my opinion. I guess what it all boils down to is my dislike of the way that nice holidays are becoming increasingly over commercialised, such as Christmas, Easter, and all the other ones that I can't think of right now. Valentines day is going down the same route, pretty soon it will be meaningless and filled to the brim with cheap plastic stuff. Which is rather quite sad, as the concept of valentines day itself is quite a nice one. I have nothing against the concept, just the way businesses try to sell it to us. And, of course, there's no resentment in the fact that I'm currently single :P
Well I apologise for the length of that; I do have a nasty habbit of going on and on (and on and on) sometimes. If anyone has subtracted a case of chronic boredom as a result of reading this, and needs someting to ease their pain, then might I suggest clicking here for some Team Laser Explosion action. Lastly, I hope everyone has had a good day. I know I have, I had pie and waffles for dinner, which rocked mightily. Until next time, drive safely and remember that if you should come face to face with a rabid emu, then the best advice I can give is to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction, screaming as loudly as possible. Goodnight folks.
It's that time of year again, where people intentionally sacrifice something that they enjoy in order to prove that they are somehow better then everyone else. Or at least that's the case with me. Now usually I don't go in for the whole lent thing, as I would much rather watch everyone else suffer and still be able to enjoy my luxuries. This year is different however, as I have been dragged kicking and screaming (only, minus the actual kicking and screaming) into the whole ordeal. Why? Because its worth it to watch other people suffer. ]:-)
So what small luxury am I to go without for the next month? Chocolate? Crisps? Cheese? No, it has been decided that for the next month my life must be entirely devoid of coffee. For me, this is the equivalent of being asked to give up oxygen for lent. Actually, no for my caffeine is important than oxygen. But for some unknown reason, possibly indicating an latent case of masochism, I have willingly decided to give up coffee. For a whole month. I had been doing fine for the past couple of days, but today it would seem that the last of the caffeine has finally worked its way out of my system, and blood has started flowing through my veins again for the first time in months. As a result, I can hardly keep awake anymore, I've got a headache almost constantly, and it's becoming increasingly more and more difficult to concentrate on anything. I keep wanting a coffee, but I know I can't, not for a long time. Already I can foresee that the next month is going to be not nice, and haven't even been coffee- free for a week yet.
There is only one word which I genuinely feel can sum this up, and that is "arses".
Just gonna have to be a different man,
Time may change me,
But I can't trace time.
New template, as I got bored of the last one. And this one looks a lot more shiney. Don't start thinking that just because there's a new template that there's going to be anything worthwile reading here. ¬_¬
Edit: Changed the template again. Got fed up of the last one being too big for my resolution (I'm still running in 800x600). Also, this one is on the whole more blue, which can only be a good thing. Perhaps one day when I'm really bored I'll have a crack at making my own template.
Today begins half-term, which means I have a week where I can do absoloutely bugger all. Although this is what I usually do, the difference is that now I can do it without any feelings of guilt.
Today I finished the last of the scholarship exams for Aberystwyth. If I'm really lucky then I'll get my course paid for me. Wooyay.
I have also (rather foolishly) decided to accept the challenge of giving up coffee for lent. This is not going to be good, but at least I haven't started hallucinating yet.
Clicky.
I hate beer. Yet I feel that with the addition of caffeine it could be vastly improved. The again, with the addition of caffeine I feel that most things can be improved. Although there are some thigns that will never get better, no matter how much caffeine you pump into them; including such things as Michael Howard, Modern Music and magerine. (OMH they all start with "m", go me ^_^).
Downloaded MSN Messenger 7 (beta) last night. And the only way to sum it up is: yurgh.
Firstly, they've tried to make it look nicer and more friendly. What has really happened is that they've added more crap to it. There are now even more of those "tabs" on the left hand side of the contact list, and although you can now change the order in which they appear, there is no longer an option to disable them. Who actually uses the tabs? They're annoying, pointless and just take up space. At the bottom of the contact list there is a search bar. Handy you may think, but it uses MSN search which couldn't find a needle in a haystack. I'd much rather stick with google. Again, this search bar cannot be removed, thus taking up more space.
The conversation windows are also different now. The text input box takes up half the window, which is just unnecesary imo, as I only ever need it to be 2-lines tall. Your display picture is now displayed at the same size as the person you're talking to, but it can be shrunk, or hidden like in previous versions. Next to the boxes for smilies and backgrounds you now get 3 others. 1 lets you send "winks", larger, flash-based emoticons that also have sound emebedded in them. Whilst these may look pretty, I certainly find them annoying. By default they play back automatically, something which I was quick to disable, mainly due to the fact that in previous BETA releases the "wink" code has been open to exploit. You can also send a "nudge", which plays a sound and shakes both the person your speaking to and you conversation window briefly. While this may have a practical use, say someone hasn't responded to you for a while, it can become quite annoying when it is used over and over. I'd go as far as to say this is the single most infuriating thing about this new version of messenger. Lastly, you are given an option to download "packs", which can contain things such as winks, emoticons or backgrounds. From what I gathered, they are not free. At the bottom of the window is a small line of text informing you that you can download these, essentially another advert in addition to the main one displayed at the bottom of the contact list.
There are some nice new features though. It certainly does look a lot prettier, and for newer users I guess it will be simpler to use. You can now choose to set your status before you login, for example you could set yourself so that you appear as offline everytime you log-on. Your current display picture is now shown at the top of the contact list, alongside your display name, and whenevver somone signs in it will show you theor display picture as well as their screen name. However, the good points are few and far between, and are vatsly outnumberd by the bad. Also, consider the fact that it currently consumes a whopping 30Mb of RAM; which just goes to show that the new features are just bloat-ware.
For my money, the best IM client is still Trillian 3.0. This does everything MSN 7 can do, except winks/nudges (which I had turned off anyway). Okay, it may not have the same smileys (it has better ones, and lots of them), and you can't have things such as backgrounds, but I hardly use them anyway. It also lets me connect to MSN/AIM/YIM/ICQ/JABBER/IRC all at once, which is incredibly useful.
And thus, this concludes exactly how bored I am right now.
Decided to actually get the pictures of my camera and upload some, so I stuck one in my profile. Don't worry, you can always click the x in the corner of your screen to make the ugliness go away.
Today was mostly spent playing San Andreas for 6 hours solid, with a few breaks for eating. Yesterday was spent soing the same. I know that you really wanted to hear all about it.
I'm really bored so I'm going to go and stare at the wall for a bit, and then if I'm feeling really adventurous I might go spin around on my chair for a bit.
Something tells me I need to get out more.
Back from protrest. Am tired. I wa son local news for like OMG the millionth time (it seems that the local news really will film anything, and quite often they do). Rather boring in total, just standing around shouting a lot and making up witty slogans. As a piece of political irony it seemed that someone had left a no right-turn sign dumped on the road at Whitehall, whather this was a subtle hint for our current shambles of a government I am not sure.
Journey was boring. 7 coaches in total. I sat and listened to music, stared out of the window and played with ballons for most of it. Same on the way back except by this time I had also figured out how to play about with the seat controls, so I did that. I know, sounds so exciting doesn't it. My favourite paret of the journey was about 3/4 of the way down the A21. That strech of road never fails to inspire me.
All in all a rather average day and a rather mediocre blog-post at best. I am very tired and it's the last day of winter-een-mas, so if I manage to pry myself away from the 'net then I may play San Andreas for a bit. I anticipate the highlights of this evening to involve brushing my teeth and going to bed. I tell you, my life is non-stop action.
Farewell, friends.
Really. Really it is, honest. Actually I'll be frank (or Geroge, or Howard or whoever else you bloody well want me to be), it's not really that much of an update. But I figured that rather than leving this lying around with nothing in it, I may as well leave a blog lying around with tons of OMFG CRAP in it. So I shall be putting yet more midless drivel into this thing.
Tomorrow I am going to London, to do some protesting or marching or lunching or something like that. Quite likely all at the same time. I was going to take my camera to take pretty pictures that I could then post here. But I figured a) I cannot be arsed to carry a camera around and b) You all know what London bloody well looks like, and some generic picture of the london eye that anyone could have taken a picture of really isn't all that inspiring.
Untill tomorrow, my completely non-existent blog readers that don't exist in any way shape or form ¬_¬
Saw these in a thread on the weebls forums, thought I may as well post them here in case anybody bothers reading.
http://www.dec.org.uk/ - UK charity coodinating donations
http://www.worldvision.org.uk/wayst...ion/default.asp - Worldvision UK donation form
http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html - American red cross
international sites:
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/programs_emer_asia.htm - Oxfam international gateway
http://www.wvi.org/wvi/donation/donation.htm - WorldVision International gateway
https://secure.ga3.org/01/helpasia?...p_asia_overview - Save the children international donation page
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/p...1LdP0G&b=276341 - UNICEF international donation page
It's new year's eve (at least it was about half an hour ago), and this is a picture of me biting the head of a rubber chicken. Note: I am completely sober. \o/
Please do forgive me for using "l33t" in the title, but I think it pretty much sums everything up. Tomorrow is the last day of 6th form before the christmas holidays (well technicaly I should be there tuesday as well, but 1 lesson? No way). Also, I've recently found out that all my hard work arsing about with UCAS forms is starting to pay off, I've got conditional offers so far from Aberystwyth, Portsmouth and Hull, and I'm particuarly pleased about Aber offering me a place. At the end of this year I need at least 3 C's in my A-Levels, and I'm sorted. And then there's the scholarship I've applied for, if I get that then I'm sorted out for the next 4 years. Niiiiiice.
Christmas coming up, which means several things. Firstly it means digital camera meaning the ability to post mugshots of moi on the interweb. I spy camwhoring ahoy. Secondly, it also means online PS2 gameage, I'll finally be able to deal death to people online, or at least get beaten horribly by some 12 year old kid. Either one will do me fine, really. But most importantly christmas means food. And lots of it, which means I am = :D
Lastly an update on my interweb activites. I recently discovered 8-bit theatre (yes, I am fully aware I am woefully behind the times). And I'm going to put a link to this wonderous place, right about here. Other than that I have mostly been living on IRC and trying to teach myself Linux. And failing.
Possible more updates over holiday period. Hopefully with pictures.
Now Playing: David Bowie - Beauty and the Beast [02:36/03:34]
Remind me never to drink again. Actually no, just remond me never to make blog posts whilst drunk.
Onto some serious news. Firstly, and excuse the use of capitals but it is deserving, I HAVE BROADBAND! 1Mbps unlimited ADSl, and it's more beatiful than I ever dared imagine. Deciding it needed a little test I decided to download something, something big. Mandrake Linux 10.0 fit the bill nicely. 2GB of downloading later, and an old PC that I once believed to be dead lives once again. The only problem is that I feel like such a computer newbie when I use linux, but the overall feel of it is just so much nicer than ol' windows.
Now Playing: Bowling For Soup - 03 - Girl All The Bad Guys Want [03:16/03:34]
Arse, why am I listening to modern music? :(
Right, so this is the second time I;m making an update after returning from someones 18th birthday party. The evening started well, with us all taking a little jaunt around time in a strech limo. Rather nice I must say. Although as was pointed out the economy cola kinda let the feel down, but sod it, after insurng one of those things do you think they can afford real cola? Hell no! And anyway, its a bloody limo! Much woo and yay to be had there.
The party was also very good. I sit at home now typing this, swaying from side to side, cursing the computer monitor for moving around and trying tor ecall exactly how much adn what I had to drink. All I can remember is that last vodka, coimbined with a bigorous bout of headbagin was most certainly not the best of ideas. Ah well, it was all fun anyway. Cheese was also present, whcih was good, and nuts were htere also. Can;t have a party without nuts, no way.
Since I will most likely forget most of this by tomorrow, I'll have to write oit here to forever remind me, and anyone on else on the interweb about it. Well from what I can rewmember it started opf wiuth me forming an "elite gentlemans club,", ehere we discusssed manly things such as backgammob adn sports cars. yes, most fun it was. I decided to get all chappy and drunk brandy, whih was had neat. Very nice. After this I decided to go invade the food on offer, and I subsequentl;y goprged myself silly on cheeses. Wooyay. Deciding I was in need of another drink I decided to try rum. With coke and ice, and despite my displeasyre of diluting drinks, I like it. Although everyone hated it for some unkoinw reason. I have a vereyt odd taste in drinks methinks. Shortly afterwards I was threatened with dancing. Decidin I needed more drink in me to gewt on the dance floor, I got barkeep to mic me up a Martini. Tasted like pepper, but it did the job. i was up and dancing away, and I even proclaimed that "hey Mickey" should be the theme tune of our gentlemans club. I stand by my decision. Deciding I wanted something weaker I popted for a rather pathetric smirnoff ice. Just like l;emopndae, but nice anywya. Mopre dancing if I remember correctly, followed by a Port. Best drink in the world ever, and I made sure I let everyone know tghis. After this I dont really recall in much detail what happend. What I do know for sure is I ordered a Pernod and blackcurrent at some point. Agian,. a very nice drink. I did more dancing, and finally a vodka and red bull to finsih everything off. I also had some cokes in between to stoip me from gettin absoloutley ratfaced, but idotn think it wourked very weel. Then there were more songs, which I found myself dancing to, despite what i ususlay say about dancing. Fianly everything was findshed off byt the obligatory YMCA, gresse and bohemian rhapsody. After which I cam home and decided to write this. yes.
Well thats probably not very interesting, but i like hitting buttons and seeing if a ican hit the right letters. The speeling looks pretty bad, qill be fun to read in the morning. Cant think of anything else to write now, so im going to spin around for a bit, then [roabably collpase and go to sleep. Wooyay.
Now Playing: David Bowie - Suffragette City [01:35/03:26]
Someone really should tell these people that the sun isn't a planet...
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You Are From the Sun |
 Of all your friends, you're the shining star. You're dramatic - loving attention and the spotlight. You're a totally entertainer and the life of the party. Watch out! The Sun can be stubborn, demanding, and flirty. Overall, you're a great leader and great friend. The very best! |
Well I thought I may as well add my thoughts on this, after being virtually glued to the news for the past 2 days. I blame my A-Level politics course.
I felt the election was pretty close, with most of the tension towards the end where the final result depended on whether Ohio called Republican or Democrat. Kerry conceaded the election when it became apparent that Bush had the lead in Ohio, although it had not yet been called what party it would favour. Even if it was true, I still think Kerry should have stuck with it until the end. Call me a fool, but I seem to get hung up a lot on matters of principal.
Now despite not actually living in America, all the way through the elction campaign I had always wanted to see a Democrat victory. Not that I feel Kerry would neccesarily be that much better than Bush, but because of what happened with Iraq, I just wanted to see Bush out of the White House. The fanatics are predicting the end of the world, saying that Bush will end up nuking everywhere. Perhaps a litte far flung, but it would be foolish to think that Bush won't continue his "war on terror" into other countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although I am dissapointed Kerry didn't win, I don't think its all that bad. 4 more years, and Bush is out no matter what thanks to the American constitution stopping people holding the presidency for more than 2 terms. And just think, we will be treated to another 4 years of Deadringers/2DTV impersonations. Which will be nice.
Related to the elction, I feel I must link to a video from Albino Blacksheep. A little late perhaps, all I can say is be prepared (or maybe not).
Now Playing: Various Artists - Living After Midnight - Judas Priest [00:04/03:30]
Got back from Wales on Thursday. Well back to lovely, sunny (may not be true) Hastings, I didnt actualy end up getting home until late Friday night. Wales was as hilly as I remembered from the past, and Aberystwyth turned out to be quite a nice place, the university looked good too. The added bonus is its miles away from anywhere, as someone once said "isolation is paramount". Damn straight.
Friday involved trekking down into the town, and to be pleasently surprised that shops actualy had copies of GTA: San Andreas in stock. The way people had been going on, I thought they would wither have sold out by lunch time, or they had all been pre-ordered or something. Apparently not. Suffice to say this game "rocks" (not literally, no matter how I have tried, standing the game case up on one side does not enable it to move in a rocking motion). At the moment I'm trying to get to grips with some difficult early missions (I suck), and the fact that the map is far bigger than anything Ive ever seen. And thats not counting the other 2/3rds that are still locked. This morning was spent rifing through the countryside on my bike, stopping at farms and gas stations brifly to set fire to things. Yep, definately a bloody excellent game. However, this unexpected purchase has left me with a little dilema, and that is shall I do my coursework like Im supposed to, or just play San An? I think we all know the answer to this question....
Tomorrow its off to London, for no real purpose. Unfortunately this does mean even more train journey's, but watching people's terrified faces as we get on the underground should prove to be priceless.
One last note, if I'm not on the internet anymore, Im busy playing GTA: SA, I'll be back once Rockstar has relinquished my soul....
Now Playing: Queen - Bicycle Race [01:05/03:03]
