Doghouse's Jounal

ARGGH!!

2008-01-20T20:26:41Z

近ごろ私達は　いい感じ
悪いわね　ありがとね　これからも　よろしくね
もぎたての果実の　いいところ
そういう事にしておけば　これから先も　イイ感じ

もしも誰かが　不安だったら　助けてあげられなくはない
うまくいっても　ダメになっても　それがあなたの生きる道

もえてる私達は　いい感じ
生きている　あかしだね　世の中が　すこし見えたね
もぎたての果実の　いいところ
そういう事にしておきな　角度変えれば　またイイ感じ

少しくらいは　不安だってば　これが私の生きる道

近ごろ私達は　いい感じ
悪いわね　ありがとね　これからも　よろしくね
まだまだここからがいいところ
最後までみていてね　くれぐれもじゃましないでね
もぎたての果実の　いいところ
そういう事にしておけば　これから先も　イイ感じ

それでは　さようなら

Facebook Finally

2007-11-28T14:14:21Z

I finally gave into peer pressure and joined Facebook.

I am not a number. I am a free man.

2007-11-18T21:40:59Z

Where am I?
In the Village.

Thursday - Saturday: Visitied Portmeirion.
200 mile drive. Took us bloody ages to get there.

Was fun, but was ill for most of it.
Caused by a bad curry, no doubt.
Had a chance to visit Caernarfon Castle and see the Ffestiniog Railway Station in Porthmadog.

Ship Ahoy!

2007-09-19T15:28:42Z

Your LiveJournal Pirate Crew
LiveJournal Username
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest!
Cutlass or pistol?
What is the name of your pirate ship?
Where is your secret pirate base?
What kind of loot do you prefer?
What do you and your crew prefer to be called?
Parrot or monkey?
Argh!

Your capable first mate	woowar
Your bumbling cabin boy with a heart of gold	feanorfinwe
The aloof, yet honorable, pirate with a mysterious past	jpangel
Is always the first one into the fray	cunninglittlefo
Is the naval officer who ruthlessly pursues your ship	r05km
Is the comical pirate who is always drunk on grog	amuletts
Is currently in Davy Jones's locker	comrade_lesnik
The amount of money you make as a pirate	$39,072


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Retrofitting an Amiga 1200 with cool stuff

2007-08-30T15:06:25Z

*** This post is for geeks only. If you're not a geek, you'll think "What the hell??" ***

Some of you older readers will remember the Amiga (and my current Avatar) from the early 1990s.
The Plan: I'm gonna resurrect my Amiga 1200 (last manufactured in 1996) with some new technology from this century.
Reason: I always wanted a good Amiga and I wanna play on some of my old games again.

How:
I'm gonna replace the aging internal hard drive with something from this century. A 2.5 inch IDE Flash Drive with 1 GB of storage from a company in Taiwan ought to do the trick. ;-) Apart from the DS-DD Floppy drive, the machine will have no moving parts.

The next plan is to find some EDO RAM from some discarded PCs (of 1997 - 2000 vintage) and upgrade to some huge amount of FAST RAM which will be unheard of a decade ago. Perhaps 32mb?

Stuff I wanna run:
Alien Breed 92
Turrican II
Deluxe Paint 4 (I was never very good at painting)
Great Giana Sisters (They can kick Mario's ass any day)
James Pond 2
Elite

Anyone got any suggestions / contributions / condemnations?

ゲド戦記 - Some kind of a film

2007-08-29T11:13:39Z

I wanna see ゲド戦記 Tales from Earthsea.
http://www.talesfromearthseamovie.co.uk/

It has dragons and magic in it! The pics look so good!

Those people at Studio Ghibli really make good animations.

Another era, another Avatar..

2007-08-28T09:33:56Z

Waddya think?

Comments on the new (old) avatar please!

Breakfast

2007-08-20T20:43:55Z

2 Hashbrowns
Portion of Mushrooms
Portion of Baked Beans
1 Circle of Black Pudding
Portion of Scrambled Egg
1 Sausage

Do you see the problem?

- The Black Pudding wasn't cooked so well.

Nothing

2007-06-24T22:23:06Z

Nothing to say.
Nothing happened.
No dinners.
No food.
No snacks.
No cake.
Not even a fish finger.
Zip.
Zilch.

No Clothes

2007-04-28T15:24:48Z

I've ran out of clothes. Can't leave the house until the washing is done.
D'oh.

Office

2007-04-27T15:33:28Z

I have my own office at work now!
It has a window, door , computer, phone and everything.

Marriage

2007-03-22T20:02:16Z

It's been several years since their high school graduation, and a few long-time friends are starting to talk about marriage. While each of them has their own love dilemmas, Shizuka is the only one who has no interest in a relationship. The others are concerned about her quiet ways and unrecognized beauty. Her best friend Maki finally registers her in a dating service called "The Wedding Club" and Shizuka reluctantly agrees to meet her match. But when the man she meets is not exactly her type, Shizuka wonders if her red string of fate has already been cut.

Five beautiful young women are all sisters, each a year apart. After Mami, the youngest sister, gets engaged, Kiyomi is the only single girl left. She's not interested in a relationship, but when her co-worker asks her on a date, the four sisters intervene. They talk Mikimaro into proposing to Kiyomi, but her cool attitude proves to be quite daunting. Will Mikimaro finally build up enough courage to pop the big question?

Help protect Warneford Meadow

2007-03-16T10:53:13Z

There is a fundraising gig this Saturday (17th March) at 8pm, in support of the Friends of Warneford Meadow (www.friendsofwarnefordmeadow.org.uk).

Its featuring five bands:

JC's Digital Kitchen
Borderville
The Repeats
Fat Sue
Stadium Horn

Plus DJ, bar, food and raffle.

The event is taking place at the old Bingo Hall on the corner of Cowley road/Magdalen Road, East Oxford. This is the first FOWM event, they are raising money to help fund the Town Green application to protect Warneford Meadow.

Entry £5 adults or £3 others, pay at door.

New avatar

2007-03-14T11:25:28Z

Made new avatar. It is Gorilla sleeping in a door way.

Indifference

2007-03-04T15:01:51Z

indifference is great!

Words / phrases I've associated with being indifferent:
1. Am I bothered?
2. Whatever! - (Works well in an American / Canadian accent)
3. Yup!
4. You reckon? - (Works well in Canadian accent)
5. I'm not really bothered.

Examples of indifference
1. People eating crisps in my car. -It's an old car anyway!
2. A friend canceling on me this morning. -I'm staying in bed.
3. A friend canceling on me just now. -I can sort out my Magic Cards.
4. My room needs tidying. -If you don't look at it, it doesn't matter!
5. It's raining outside. -I'm inside so it doesn't matter.

You can't do that! Can you?

2007-03-02T22:34:37Z

Stalled car whilst trying to get out of a parking space.
The car is an automatic.
Is that possible?

Tues

2007-02-27T23:13:47Z

Nothing happened today.
Not a sausage.
Not even a Chipolata.

Fri 23rd: Mammoth Sleep

2007-02-26T13:12:28Z

Arrived home from work at 5:30pm. Went to bed soon after 8:00pm.
... to be continued ...

Friday: Breakfast

2007-02-23T10:02:03Z

Latte
Toast
Sausage
Black Pudding
Mushrooms
Baked Beans
Bacon
Hash Brown

TOTAL: £3.39

Stay tuned for the events of yesterday(!)

Oh my God! I killed Yuna!

2007-02-19T14:12:32Z

Took Yuna out of the packaging, and she promptly fell apart!
Her torso separated from her legs.
Is this supposed to happen?

What's up with the interchangeable hand anyhow?

Breakfast

2007-02-19T10:46:35Z

Went to Tesco for a fry up:
Black Pudding
Hash Brown
Fried Bread
Scrambled Egg
Bacon
Sausage
Baked Beans

They ran out of Mushrooms.

Needed cheering up this morning.

It finally came

2007-02-15T16:30:56Z

Those shoddy people finally delivered my package. One day late.
Jobsworths.

Wed

2007-02-08T23:34:53Z

Went to work and did stuff.
Met up with Jason before his Star Wars game and tried out my milling deck.
Alas, I didn't get the right mana combinations and artifacts out fast enough so I got beaten.

Jason's game was good... we're just starting to get into the plot. Something sinister is afoot.

Work

2007-02-05T22:58:30Z

Work was more boring than normal.
1. Sent back a broken Wireless Access Point.
2. Burned a DVD filled with documents.
3. Ate school Lasagne for lunch. *Urggh*
4. Got serial port to USB adaptor to work
5. Taught teachers how to use an interactive whiteboard

Yawn!

Wii + Space 1999

2007-01-28T22:35:46Z

There's something which I had almost forgot about until Tom & I stumbled upon it in conversation.
Started in the late 70s (That's the 1970s), it's called "Space 1999".
....

Andy, Andrew, Jason, Kevin and I met at Tom's for pizza and some Wii games. Was pretty much crap at most of the games except Golf. Pizza was funny. We ordered 6 pizzas at the special offer price of £5 each, yet the shop charged as £30.01 in total.

....
We finally got the chance to watch '1999 in glorious colour on Tom's mechanical analogue recording device.
Storing video and sound on a linear magnetic tape? - Pure genius!
Alas, must not mock the technology for the special effects were worse than real life.

Basically, Space 1999 is a sci-fi set in the said year in which the Earth loses the Moon due to nuclear waste dumps exploding. The force pushes the Moon into deep space thus creating a plot device for the inhabitants of the moon base to tell some kind of a story.
Shaky physics and cold war metaphors abound.

'Tis great sci-fi for the day!