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Another lazy day...

Was too apathetic to get up, so stayed in bed until around one. Then I had to do mundane stuff like shop for food and do obscene amounts of Laundry. Oh, what fun. Added a few new pics to my LiveJournal and noticed that a couple more people have friended me (waves). After that, I got down to doing some more writing - had to forcibly restrain one of my characaters from referring to himself as a t00b (whatever that means), so have clearly been reading too much LJ. Watched WarGames while I ate tea - another surprisingly good movie which I haven't watched for years. More CD ripping and writing and writing after that - noticed that have just passed 15,000 words, so about 1/5 done. Unfortunately, expect to run out of plot ideas in about 5-10,000 words time. Darn. Wrote LiveJournal entry. Went to bed. (OK, that last part is still in the future).
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That is not a lazy day

jiggery_pokery

October 6 2002, 18:10:30 UTC 18 years ago

That is a highly productive day. Heck, your lazy days outstrip my highly productive ones by about a factor of three.

Ooh, that's a fine crop of Friends; excellent people who might each be referred to as a mushroom because they're a fun guy. (And Irina, who isn't a guy. Sorry, Irina.) You shall have to bully Keith Fraser into getting LJ'd up so that we can complete the Four Horsemen of the Apocalox.

I like your new pictures a lot, but who is Dinwiddy Snurdle? He's not even the wooden bird... with purple hair...

...ooh, somebody stop me...

...who's on a wooden pole so he can't go nowhere?
He's a wooden bird! With lots of style!
WHEN HE TAPS HIS BEAK HE'S GONNA MAKE YOU SMILE!

Re: That is not a lazy day

zorac

October 7 2002, 00:56:15 UTC 18 years ago

<lart> <lart> <lart>
Feeling better, Mr. Evans Dickson, or should I call the Narn Bat Squad?

I regret to inform you that the aforementioned bird is no longer with us. He got so old that his hair turned white (no, really) and passed away to the land of the wheelie bin.

Dinwiddy Snurdle was a character on the 1985 kids TV show "Galloping Galaxies" (which also featured a computer voiced by Kenneth Williams). Somehow, the strange ... uh ... thing pictured got named after the character (hey, it was 17 years ago, I don't remember the details).

I refer to yesterday as a "lazy day" on the grounds the I spent most of it in my PJs (except the trip to Sainsbury's, obviously) not in reference to how much (or little) I achieved.

Sid

Anonymous

October 7 2002, 08:58:44 UTC 18 years ago

*sudden flashback moment* Sid! The computer was called Sid! Yikes.

/~worrals

Re: Sid

zorac

October 7 2002, 09:35:43 UTC 18 years ago

OK, I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers it. In the second series Sid had a smaller, mobile version called ... um ... <googles> Junior. And the whole thing only ran for 10 episodes.

War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

jiggery_pokery

October 6 2002, 18:29:03 UTC 18 years ago

Ahem. Have calmed down now.

WarGames rocks very very hard indeed, my favourite film ever for many years. Do you have it on DVD or VHS? (Indeed, how is it available?)

Will get webcam at some point. Webcams are cool, but the main problem I've had over the years is a feeling that I don't know other people who have them. If you have one then that's one more than the old total...

I am really rather embarrassed by my lack of involvement on the YKW. It has been three consecutive weeks where my (time of) good intentions has come to naught. Damn, I suck. Still interested, though.

Absolutely Nothin'

zorac

October 7 2002, 01:33:36 UTC 18 years ago

I got WarGames on DVD (£7.99 on Amazon, the have the VHS for £2 less). Definitely one of the better hacker flicks - actual wardialing! Some of the tech is less plausible, but I'll let 'em off for dramatic license.

It's actually a LEGO® cam that you can build into your LEGO robots along with some basic vision recognition stuff. You can of course use it as a basic webcam as well, not that I ever have. I have no desire to be the next JenniCam.

Not sure what the TLA YKW means (hey, It's Monday Morning), but if you're referring to what I think you're referring to, then dinna fash yersel' - if you get the chance to have a look, then great, if not, that's fine too.

Re: Absolutely Nothin'

jiggery_pokery

October 7 2002, 13:33:43 UTC 18 years ago

YKW = You-Know-Who, or in this situation, You-Know-What. And evidently you do know what. :-)

Re: War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

addedentry

October 7 2002, 01:41:38 UTC 18 years ago

Is it just that WarGames was released (or rather, screened on BBC) when we were particularly impressionable? Or is this, so soon after watching Ferris Bueller, evidence that Mark is stalking Matthew Broderick?

Personally I identified not with Broderick's sassy kid but with the reclusive Falken. And I was eight.

Chris, I have a VHS copy; the DVD doesn't seem to have any extras. Next time you visit London, how about a nice game of chess suitably themed partay? For added authenticity, WW3 might well have started in real life...

Re: War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

zorac

October 7 2002, 09:30:20 UTC 18 years ago

Probably is the fact that WarGames was pretty much the earliest Hollywood linking of computers & cool that a young proto-geek encountered. That said, I do have vague recollections of a TV show of around the same vintage featuring schoolkid computer hackers - pretty good for a couple of years before they started getting all smoochy and I lost interest ;-)

I ain't no stalker. It just happens that those two DVDs are recent acquisitions (possibly from the same special offer). The only other movie involving Mr. Broderick which I have any interest in acquiring would be "The Lion King" (if/when Disney finally get around to putting out the DVD).

The DVD does actually have some extras - a commentary by the writers and director, oh and the trailer. On the downside, it's letterboxed rather than anamorphic widescreen.

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

Anonymous

October 7 2002, 11:18:58 UTC 18 years ago

My God. I am a paid-up member of TLK_L (http://www.lionking.org/~tlk-l/) yet had completely forgotten Broderick's role - he only really leaped to my attention as Inspector Gadget - remembering only Jeremy Irons, Rowan Atkinson and of course Whoopi Goldberg and the immortal Cheech Marin as members of the family hyenaenidae.

(By coincidence I bought TLK on video at a car boot sale yesterday, and watched it for the first time since 1994. Whee.)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

zorac

October 7 2002, 11:54:22 UTC 18 years ago

I've seen it a little more recently than '94 (the benefits of babysitting kids with a large collection of Disney videos), but probably not for 5 years or so. Hopefully only a few more months until the DVD release (Beauty and the Beast is out next month). I'm ripping the CD at the moment having ripped Rhythmn of the Pridelands from cassette at the weekend (but neither has the Hula song :-( ).

Re: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

huskyteer

October 8 2002, 01:36:07 UTC 18 years ago

Purrsonally I'm more enthusiastic about the upcoming IMAX release and, judging by Beauty and the Beast, the associated explosion of merchandise...

Lookie, I remembered my LiveJournal password! Hurrah for me.

Re: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

zorac

October 8 2002, 01:58:35 UTC 18 years ago

The BFI London IMAX notes its release on Boxing Day, so definitely one to go and see - particularly as their ticket prices are lower than the west end cinemas...

Re: War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

jiggery_pokery

October 7 2002, 13:31:42 UTC 18 years ago

First sentence: absolutely correct. Well spotted. I dread to think how many times the BBC have shown it, but I must have seen most of them.

Paragraph three: this from the man who wrote "I hate parties (except political parties)" to a man who feels the same way? That said, the thought of a local nice party for local nice people is rather a different proposition. Themed parties are particularly vexing because it's difficult to know how far to take the theming metaphor. (Also, I have no independent concept of costuming.) That said, the thought of a gathering of nice people for party-type activities is a very fine one, if you felt minded to so host.

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