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Anyone handy have the Orange Box? ;_;
So, for my birthday, I got the Orange Box as a present. The gifter kindly also brought their CDs, so I could install it accordingly without annihilating my 5GB/month cap with 8GB of game.
Unfortunately, my install has turned out to be corrupted, so I need to reinstall...
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THE CAKE IS A LIE! THE CAKE IS A LIE! THE CAKE HAS TOO MANY CANDLES! ...Wait...
(Yeah, I got Portal for my birthday from Mahal and Nightrain.)
(The irony about 'cake' is... delicious.)
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This Message Brought To You By The Whims Of The Catholic Church
Having been telling everyone that my birthday is St Patricks Day, in an attempt to make the matter nice and clear without being quite so blatant, it turns out that the Catholic Church has, for the first time in 68 years, decided to change the date of St Patricks Day this yearIn any case, while St Patricks Day has, for this year only, shifted to the ( Read more... ) -
Birthday ponderances.
I feel like celebrating my birthday this year. Trouble is, I'm not entirely certain how to best do so - that it's St Patricks day tends to put me off going out, on the basis that I dislike crowds of drunken idiots at the best of times... And even the weekend before it will tend to still be filled with drunken idiocy ( Read more... ) -
The Meaning behind the Icons
Six icons does not leave one a lot of room for random pretties. Accordingly, each of mine has a job to do. Then I realised it might actually be useful for someone other than me to know what it was... et Voila!
The Genie tends to indicate the jokester/prankster/mischevous/silleh/overthetop.
Greebo tends to be callous/combative/warweary/cynical.
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Home made Fractals!
A couple links to fractals you can (literally) make in your own home. I blame Myst for getting me fascinated by the things to start with. :p
Sierpinski triangles, hand-made in plastacine:
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Merry Christmas. (Yes, shut up)
First off, I'm not dead. Just thought y'all might appreciate that little fact.
I seem to recall that I promised a great many of you the Grand Saga That Was My Christmas. I might as well, if only for posterity, eh?
How it was planned to go:Dec 22nd: Go to a family christmas dinner. Partly due to the scale of our family, we tend to hold an extended ( Read more... ) -
The femme fatale
Meme created by loweko which I think is hilarious:
Describe the femme fatale who would walk into the office of a hard-boiled PI to investigate your death or disappearance ( Read more... ) -
When asking a question, it helps if you let people answer it, right?
specialrpt, which runs the Quicknews thingy on Livejournal, has mentioned that they were wondering just how many people read the thing, and how often ( Read more... ) -
Snapped.
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Science/Math Nerd
(Absolute Insane Laughter as you pour toxic chemicals into a foaming tub of death ( Read more... )