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  • Dark Liquid 4:23 am on May 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    Wedding Malarkey 

    Well, my suit is coming along. I now have the jacket, I’m awaiting the shirt and trousers (they needed altering) and I have my shoes, by which I mean lace-less Doc Martin boots. It all looks rather smart.

    I can’t believe it’s only 3 and a half months away. 3 and a half months until I’m a married man at 24 years of age. Cripes!

    In truth though, it’s not scary or daunting at all. It just feels right. There isn’t any doubt in my mind that Dru is who I want to spend the rest of my life with and the only way I could be happier about the whole prospect is for it to come into being on the day.

    I love you Dru.

     

    • Lorcian 12:21 pm on May 23, 2008 Permalink

      :) I can emagine how scary it is, Theres a prospect of Stephen and I getting engaged soon, and that scares the crap out of me!

      So Married… even though you love Laura, I can see it being scary if you think about it.

      can I have some wedding cake?

      nummy…

      Lorcian

    • Dark Liquid 5:15 am on May 24, 2008 Permalink

      Hey, cool! A pre-emptive congratulations you guys!

      It’s not really scary per se, more overwhelming. The enormity of it all is almost too much to comprehend.

  • Dark Liquid 4:17 am on May 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    Linux on my Macbook: The Installed 

    I must say, I’m really pleased with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. I installed it on my macbook yesterday and it works like a charm. Wireless didn’t work out of the box but by following the Ubuntu Macbook Howto things went pretty smoothly. My wireless works perfectly on the madwifi driver with NetworkManager, compiz works nicely and I have a nice, fancy desktop, sound works, the touchpad works with two-finger scrolling and multi-finger tapping for clicking. It’s generally a really solid build and I’m very impressed. The only issue I had was booting it up for the first time. rEFIt just wouldn’t boot the partition. It would show the penguin logo but just hang. After updating it from version 0.9 to version 0.11 though, everything worked fine.

    I’m really enjoying Firefox 3. The new features make it so much easier to use and things I was using plugins for are now either built in or have better equivalents integrated into the main app. The only downside is that Google Browser Sync doesn’t work with Firefox 3, which is a real shame. However, since I use the del.icio.us plugin for my bookmarks, it’s not a complete show stopper.

    I’m also posting this directly from my desktop, deciding to give a desktop blogging client a go. I’m using the gnome panel applet gnome-blog 0.9.1 so we’ll see how it goes.

    All in all, Hardy Heron in a phenomenal piece of work and I’m blown away by it. Once the new free-as-in-freedom madwifi drivers support the wireless, I see no reason why most of the macbook hacks and stuff can’t be enabled by default or at least be wrapped into a script so you can go into the admin and enable ‘Macbook compatibility mode’ with a warning about possible non-free things being installed/enabled/etc. Being able to just install linux on a macbook and be ready to go would be awesome.

    In other news, I’ve been reading the rulebook for Promethean: The Created and I’ve fallen in love with the setting and the general theme of it all. I’ve come up with a character concept based around a promiscuous female Muse of Aurum, who roves from college to college, university to university trying to understand the human condition by immersing herself in student culture and sex.

    Speaking of the new World of Darkness, it looks like we’ll be playing a Werewolf: The Forsaken game. I was homing for a Changeling: The Lost game, but we were out-voted by the other players. Our GM is good at what he does, so I’m sure he can reach a good balance of roleplaying for Dru and I and hack-and-slashing for the others.

    It looks like I will be starting either one of my own roleplays this coming Wednesday. After pestering people with Facebook I eventually created an event and invited people to it. I’ve had just enough responses to make running a game worthwhile. I’m hoping to run both games alternately, but we’ll see what the players go for. You’ll be able to keep up with the games’ progressions on my Obsidian Portal page.

     

  • Dark Liquid 6:42 am on May 15, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Steeleye Span 

    Now, I’ve never been that enamoured with Steeleye Span. Most of their work I’ve heard has come from their album recordings and it’s never really done anything for me. However, seeing them live at The Pavilion last night completely blew me out of the water. They were excellent and, to me, had a totally different sound to what I’ve heard before.

    The only thing I could have asked for would have been more use of the electric violin. I love the sounds of that instrument so much and they used it to full advantage for one song. If only there could have been more!

    It was amusing, my age bracket were somewhat the minority at the concert, the average age of listeners being somewhat older. Then again, when you’ve been going as long as Steeleye Span, I guess you’re going to have a lot of fans in the older age brackets.

    We were amazed by the excellent seats we had. We’d got seats right at the very front, in the middle so we could only have got closer to the band if we had climbed up on stage.

    All in all, it was a really enjoyable evening.

     

  • Dark Liquid 11:21 am on May 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Iron Man 

    Dow, dow, dow-dow-dow, dowdowdowdow-dowdowdow, dow-dow-dow.

    Last night Dru and I went to see Iron Man at the cinema. Normally, I’m not often impressed by Marvel film-adaptations, but I really enjoyed the Iron Man film, the only downside being the slightly anti-climatic final battle, which seemed somewhat short compared against the action in the rest of the film.

    The cinema was basically empty, which was nice and foolishly everyone left as soon as the credits came up and so missed not only the cool ending credits animations but also the secret extra scene at the end of the credits.

    I thought Robert Downey Jr. made an excellent Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow’s character was very good too. The film had an excellent balance of comedic and action sequences and generally ended up being an enjoyable film.

    Highly recommended.

     

  • Dark Liquid 8:32 am on May 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Roleplay 

    Well, angry ranting over.

    In other news, I’m enjoying GTA IV quite a lot, I’ve bought my wedding suit and a new table and chairs to replace the crappy ones we have now and everything seems good.

    I’ve probably mentioned it already, but I’m going to be running 2 roleplays. One is Dockyards a mostly/completely freeform game centred around on off-shore platform dedicated to criminal activities and the other is a Feng Shui action roleplay called Future’s Past.

    Let me know if you’re interested and don’t mind heading to my place every Wednesday. If I don’t get any responses within a couple of weeks, I’ll start trying to round up players personally from my existing gaming groups (rather than see if they turn up first come, first served via here or elsewhere). If I still don’t get any responses, I’ll run it on RPoL instead.

     

  • Dark Liquid 11:54 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Social-networking bullshit 

    I find it annoying that so many people sign up for all these different social networking sites, sites designed to help people communicate with each other and keep each other updated about what’s going on and yet no-one bloody checks these sites for updates.

    For example, Facebook has ‘groups’ that allow multiple people to keep everyone else in their group updated whenever they post something to the group. However, most people don’t keep tabs on anything that go on in the groups they are in. They seem to join ‘just because’ as if it’s some pointless badge to be paraded around “oh look at me, I’m in group X”. It just strikes me as somewhat shallow and pointless, then again so do most of these social fads.

    Of course, ‘people not checking’ could just be ‘people not responding’, which is almost as bad. In that case, it’s just rude because then anyone who posts anything has no idea if people are just ignoring them or are just not interested. This situation is especially irritating when you are mentioning things that other people have requested specifically and will bitch about when they find out after the fact.

    Quite frankly, I’m not going to contact everyone I know individually to tell them about something. I’m going to use the tools available to make doing that easier – and fairer. If I’m offering something on a first-come, first-served basis, calling people individually is hardly fair, because I’m deciding who comes first.

    For fucks sake, use these fucking tools properly or not at all and don’t come bitching to me if you’re too lazy to pay attention and make sure you’re involved.

     

    • angelique 6:20 pm on November 15, 2010 Permalink

      Social networking is crap. It is boring, useless, and a waste of time! I don’t know why it’s so popular, it sucks. If people want to contact people, or meet new friends, they should do it in the real world, not the cyber world.

    • Anon 6:28 pm on September 21, 2011 Permalink

      I could not agree more with the sentiment that social networking is bullshit..

      Have you seen or even noticed how Google’s marketing campaign for there new social networking plus service is to draw little circles around the word you?

      Then direct you to it with crayon colors!?

      Firstly I for one protest at the very concept, your not running rings around me!

      Secondly has the whole world gone social networking mad?

      F*** social networking! Google Plus is the same as facebook & twitter, Simply Bovine Excrement where the masses can gather and stroke their ego by posting rubbish that is of no interest to any body, epic titles like “I slept with Maria’s Sister!” etc

      Who the hell gives a flying rat fuck, just because I may have met you does not mean I want to instantly be added to your social networking circle, it seems a very sad statement of affairs if our social interaction as a species is that we simply Join mass media groups and start posting our most personal and intimate thoughts to be mind raped!

      I have no problem with Social Media, I am using this blog as a social outlet to vent my pent up frustrations with little or no problem, yes come read it, I could care less…

      If I want to socialize I send someone an encrypted email or pick up a telephone and go meet them for a night out, thats what having REAL friends is all about.

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