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Ian Rennie's LiveJournal:
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | |
| 11:22 am | why so wide? I'm trying to work out what got posted on my friends page that caused it to decide to break its own tables so massively. I thought it might be a huge picture, but I don't see one. oh well. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 | |
| 9:52 am | new story 365 tomorrows published another of my stories: http://www.365tomorrows.com/05/11/retir happy happy joy joy |
| Monday, May 5th, 2008 | |
| 9:25 am | belated, because I am an idiot happy belated birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} purplesparkler.Hope you had a good day, sweetheart. We'll bring your present over when we come to see you in June. |
| Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | |
| 10:37 pm | I have a message for london voters I have a message for everyone in London who voted for Boris Johnson on Thursday ( message below the cut ) |
| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | |
| 1:46 pm | this is Fox News. This is why I don't watch Fox News In a feature talking about how Clinton and Obama should have their own version of a Lincoln-Douglas debate (the famous series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that were responsible for accelerating the national debate about slavery in 1858), they put up this image:  Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. If any english readers want me to explain why this is insane, I'll do so. American readers are probably already crying. |
| Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | |
| 4:43 pm | quandry I don't know which is worse: that someone went around turning the number lock off on about 8 of our computers, or that this caused a horde of idiot patrons to come to the desk and say "the computer's broken, it won't let me type" |
| 1:16 pm | songs in the tune of tired I haven't done a big update in a while. Instead here are some random things and random thoughts * costco is fantastic, but it is also a little bit of a false economy. 48 cans of v8 for $18 is a great deal, but only if you need 48 cans of v8 (which, luckily, we did). However, there are some things that are definitely worth it. $12 for two litres of first cold press olive oil is way too good a bargain to pass up. * after our last costco run we now have probably enough food to last us a month with a different meal every day. I love having an enormous freezer. * the aliens in Doctor Who last night made me think of Karl Pilkington. * I'm amazed that I don't actually find Catherine Tate annoying in Doctor Who. The rest of the time, I can't stand her, and the christmas episode she was in was utter crap, but she's actually done a good job in this one. I hope this season turns out good, and I am already looking forward to the Stephen Moffatt episodes. RTD should never write anything again, the christmas episode this year was so bad it hurt. * they're bringing Being Human back for a full season! Yay! * I've been writing a lot of flash fiction lately. Short stories under 500 words. Some of them, I'm quite proud of. I've had one published, one due to be published, and several more sent out. Fingers crossed. I'm sure I've had more thoughts lately but I'm drawing a blank. I think I have a sleep deficit going on. THe problem is that my body doesn't let me get back to sleep after I've woken up. |
| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 | |
| 9:20 am | nanananananana bookmeme! 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open it to page 161. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually next to you. "Sitting next to him seemed a sad, futile act" From The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier |
| 9:04 am | beat on beating on this morning I am the only person in my department, apart from Heidi who is teaching a computer class. I got maybe 4 hours sleep last night because my brain was misbehaving. You know that feeling where you really really want to be asleep, and the thing that is working hardest to stop you getting to sleep is how badly you want to? Yeah. so now I'm manning the desk for 3 hours. Oh well, Tuesday mornings aren't too busy, touch wood. Wait, this desk is made of fiberboard, not proper wood. Crap. |
| Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | |
| 8:08 am | note to one corner of fandom (they know who they are) congratulations. She's legal. (which means you'll probably turn your attention to ginny) |
| Monday, April 14th, 2008 | |
| 8:50 am | d'oh nothing like mixing up your schedule and going in three and a half hours early to make yourself feel like a total doofus. No feeling like it in the world. |
| Sunday, April 13th, 2008 | |
| 10:04 am | dreams of my best friend long and extended and odd dream I just had. to begin with, I was sitting and watching a flashback in time to my first or second year at university. For some reason, instead of looking like me, I looked like Richard Lane and I rode a vespa. then, we were all going to the opening of Ellen's new comic store (which was incidentally opening in 1998, although it was me as I am now who was going). As well as the regular run of comics, she was also selling a title that se had written herself called "Yes!". Written by her and illustrated by a guy I knew at York called Chris Harte, who was the bass player in Dromedary (I think). anyway, the plot was about two people who had just become flatmates. One of them was a kind of Ellen-analogue, and the other was an odd and possibly gay guy called Peter. Except Peter wasn't what he seemed to be. One night she walked into his room and saw him with his face dismantled on the table as he did repairs. He saw her and asked her if she could keep a secret, and in that moment she saw two futures. In one, she said no, ran away, lived a normal life, bought a comic shop, and always wondered what had happened. In the other... She said "Yes". And the comic was the story of what happened after that. Now I've woken up, I'm actually a little angry that it doesn't exist. Ellen, go write it now. |
| Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | |
| 10:20 am | New Zealenders will throw hedgehogs at you http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pac I hope he picked up all the gold rings before they disappeared. |
| Monday, April 7th, 2008 | |
| 4:53 pm | closing stretch a quick look into how my schedule works my weekends are on a 3 shift rotation. What this means is that I move between having a 3 day weekend (fri, sat, sun), a 2 day weekend (sat, sun), and a 1 day weekend (fri). This is measured sunday to sunday, so in any given 7 day period I work 5 days. However, it does mean that in between the 2 day weekend and the 3 day weekend, I have an 11 day stretch that only features 1 day off (I work monday to thursday, I'm off friday, then I work saturday to thursday) I'm about half way through that right now, and it's starting to wear me down. The only really good thing about it is 3 days off at the end. I'll need it. |
| Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | |
| 1:14 pm | I shouldn't be allowed thoughts just now, in google chat: me: did you hear that charlton heston died? Aja: yep me: which means now they can get that gun from him. *pause* me: oh god, that was in really poor taste, wasn't it? |
| Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | |
| 9:12 am | 30 of them just got primary SCHOOLED 30 |
| Friday, April 4th, 2008 | |
| 1:53 am | happy birthday to my sister happy birthday, katie. Expect your present from us in the mail pretty soon. |
| Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | |
| 11:30 pm | happydance version 2.0 365 tomorrows just accepted another story for publication. woo, and if you will, hoo |
| Thursday, March 27th, 2008 | |
| 1:07 pm | so this is how it feels There's nothing like finding out you didn't get an interview for a job you just applied for by listening to someone else chat about how their interview went. Certainly gives me a much better view of my exact place on the totem pole. |
| Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | |
| 8:55 am | feeling like crap off work today because my cold makes my head feel like an overinflated water balloon. blurgh. |