For the past week I've had a huge list of chores (forms to fill in, people to telephone, rooms to clean etc) that I've been slowly working through. Yesterday I got them all finished so I was enjoying that wonderful state of mind where you know you have nothing left to do that you're avoiding ( Read more... )

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there should be more "sports entertainment" like wrestling but with say football or baseball where it's ridiculous teams dressed up like the warriors with nicknames in choreographed matches having fights and knocking out the ref and driving cars around the pitch and shit

Some guys I know on the internet are playing an MMO called Wurm Online. Let me describe a typical session of Wurm Online ( Read more... )

I bought this candy spray thing. It's a syrupy sour sweet liquid that you spray from a tube:

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last night i had a dream that neil patrick harris as barney from how i met your mother held a mcdonalds hostage with a gun and forced the customers to throw burgers into the mouths of the staff like some kind of fucked up ring toss

I think my computer's blown up. That or the video card has just come loose again. Either way, I can't be bothered to troubleshoot it now. I'm sick of faffing about with it ( Read more... )

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Where I've been
I'm back! Both from London and to LiveJournal. I stopped updating this thing a few months ago because lately I've not had anything to write about. Got up, went on the computer, went to bed. In a way it's a bit of a vicious circle, I have nothing interesting to say that i've done so I ignore Facebook/LJ, people lose touch with me and ( Read more... )

A year or so ago I posted a short story, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. It seemed to get a positive reaction so I'm going to post another short story that I enjoyed reading. It's called 'Jipi and the Paranoid Chip' and it's by Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash. I cut a small part of the story off at the beginning in order to skip right to ( Read more... )