Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category

• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• @iancockayne I don't know. The make up, hair transplants and work out to make him look like a little oriental girl is amazing! #
• @symatt If you do that after getting your hair wet diving from a submarine would it be #teaquestdsv ? #
• Back and mostly sorted from weekend away Omid Djalili very funny on tour in Bradford on Friday night. #
• Dear Old Media, I've no interest in registering to comment. Especially if you don't tell me I'll need to before I write the comment. #
• Grumble. Grumble. Life. Grumble. Grumble. #
• @TheRealGelfie I buy good sausages from local butchers. Cook them in the oven on a tray at Gas Mark 6. A few split & no explosions. #
• @K23Detectives I've seen some trolls go on for years. Not a medical condition – they just get a kick from trolling #
• @K23Detectives Not all of them are capable of stepping on people in real life but are quite capable of doing so online. #
• @simplychrista lol. I forgot it pretty much from last Thursday – Real life must have been too busy and fun #
• @Dicecreator Very nice #
• @GRIMACHU Nice work #
• @symatt If you were in a spoof of a 60s TV show you could have a #galaxyteaquest #
• You Decide: Jeggings and Treggings new core races in 5th Ed D&D or just street slang for kinds of leggings? #
• @sandchigger Those that respect the law, love sausage or know Treggings should not watch them being made (with apologies to Mark Twain) #
• @sandchigger Probably the best way to imagine it. Rather than the codedy skit about the big dog, little dog & step ladder #
• @sandchigger I'm guessing you mean mules? #
• My mistake. I only ever played one session of Dark Sun sometime in the '90s. We (almost) all died. #
• @K23Detectives I've no real idea. I think it was because an hour of Jeremy Clarkson would be illegal under the Geneva Convention #
• @K23Detectives He's become a caricature of himself. I think James was added to have someone who knew something about how cars work. #
• Just found a document I wrote a few years ago with the lovely title "Glocalizing Folksonomies" #
• @symatt I think it means you're about to become a [TM of Tolkien Estate] or a more generic Halfling. Life will become a #foodquest #
• @MarcUpdates Precisely lol. It was about making Tag clouds on websites that were tailored to each visitor's demographics. Didn't get made. #
• @call_me_salome Work Harder! Work Faster! (Hope that was the kind of help you wanted) #
• @call_me_salome PS And stop wasting time on Twitter #
• @KimKnox Can you tell yet? Can you tell yet? Can you tell yet? Can you tell yet? Can you tell yet? Can you tell yet? #
• @cultauthor 8 vials – thats about a leg full isn't it. Worth at least a biscuit and a cup of tea. Mabe even a lollipop. #
• @Jennisodes Good morning. I'd love to but there's a small ocean getting in the way #
• Simple yet Cool Visualisation RT @datastore: Europe: where do people live? http://t.co/nnNVyYPW #
• @cultauthor Couldn't they have swaped those for a toe, an ear or a none writing finger so you could work? #
• @Jennisodes We desperately need a Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (with apollogies to Harry Harrison) #
• @Jennisodes With current engineering it would be very difficult and ridiculously expensive. Planes it is then. #
• @DanDiplo lol #
• @SarahDarkmagic It nailed me except it has me as being interested in Anime which I'd put on a par with my interest in soccer (ie a tiny bit) #
• @JonBrazerEnt I'd be flattered. Just like when a fitness game tells me I'm 21 or 22 #
• @StargazersWorld Congratulations on a most interesting number of followers #
• @simonjrogers Does that replace the old one that you have a million pounds but started with two million pounds? #
• @simonjrogers I can understand that. I think your new one is far better #
• Pub. #
• @MarcUpdates The complete plan was: Pub. Film. Chinese. Went like clockwork #
• Haywire not a bad but something lacking and the score was just odd and used in a weird way that detracted from the rest of the film. #
• @symatt Yes. At least there was in September when I went there on holiday. A proper game shop but a bit hard to find: http://t.co/RSBzfsek #
• @symatt Cool. I found them really friendly and had a lot of stock crammed into a small shop #
• @symatt Lots of book shops along the main road its off too if you like those. The Waterstones is huge. #
• @symatt And if you have time go to the Museum on the Mound to see the money chests and £1 million (not open Mondays) #
• @symatt Have fun #
• @KimKnox @iancockayne I don't know but I'm guessing around the time the first Hobbit film hits later this year. Just in time for Christmas. #
• @KimKnox @iancockayne Big fans here too. Wonder if it will be a launch title for the Wii U? #
• @simonjrogers @grahamwalmsley Hopefully not to recruit cultists for a ritual. #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• Would a Camraphone be a device for photographing real ale and making calls but only in a certain kind of pub? #
• The SFSFW with Castle Games Club will be putting on a game using Armies of Arcana rules at Crusade 2012 in Penarth tomorrow. #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• @MoonWolf95 I thought it was so bad I had to share it #
• @KimKnox Like you needed an excuse #
• The SFSFW with Castle Games Club is putting on a game using Armies of Arcana rules at Crusade 2012 Penarth today. #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #
• @sciamannata My condolences on your loss #
• @symatt lol. Hope you found it quicker than I did. #
• With this cold snap haggis for dinner seems to be a pretty good choice. #
• @simplychrista It was thanks #

• @call_me_salome Me! #
• I've put on a timer for 60 minutes and the 60s Mission Impossible sountrack. Now all I need to do is turn notes into sentences then paras. #
• @call_me_salome 1 was started when young & not good. 1 needs serious structural work. 1 needs 20K and an opening & time to finish! #
• Trying to find good words for men and women when writing about orcs. Thinking blorcs for me and womorc for women. Any suggestions? #
• @call_me_salome The one that's short 20K about 4 years ago. It has two layers: an inner one that's written I need a hook for the outer. #
• @GRIMACHU Thank you I think those could work well #
• @DanDiplo Colonel Mustard in the library with a copy of Professional C# ? #
• @cimota Those little model boating ponds at seaside resorts are going to get really dangerous now too. #
• Sherlock fun and I'll say no more for fear of spoiling it for anyone else. #
• I thought it was bitter out today – then I walked down to the new museum by the Mersey and its a different order of cold down there. #
• E-on Software Ships Vue 10 Linux Rendering Solutions http://t.co/Ggg22Uv5 #
• @GRIMACHU Even if you picked a slim race like an elf high the armour eventually made them massive. Aircraft carrier shoulder pads #
• @GRIMACHU I always thought Whispering Bob Harris should have had a breakfast radio show #
• @call_me_salome Its more like a circle anyway. Extreme left and right are often indistinguishable except by name. #
• I've never held twitter unfollowed people but just found I no longer followed @Ghostwoods & had him blocked! Don't think that was me! #
• @Ghostwoods The only thing I can think is I clicked something by accident but I've done som app culling & changed passwords just to be safe #
• The @OpenEyeGallery is perfect for a bite sized lunch or an excellent aperitif for its larger neighbours. #
• I wonder how stupid the company that sends me offers I'm not entitled to as a customer's marketing department is. Stupid or really stupid. #
• My thoughts on The Open Eye Gallery and the Painted Photographs exhibition http://t.co/acJeo6BY #
• So wikipedia is blacked out unless you know how to disable javascript. #
• @guardiantech Turn off JavaScript then go to Wikipedia? #
• Just for the record: I don't support SOPA. #
• My thoughts on The Open Eye Gallery and the Painted Photographs exhibition http://t.co/acJeo6BY #
• Just saw a film advertised as the Film event of 2012. Maybe they've not heard of a little film called "The Hobbit"? #
• @DanDiplo Maybe I'm being old fashioned but I assumed they'd actually remove the site. Guess SEO wins over protest. #
• @symatt Reply to me! Reply to me! Reply to me! Reply Now! Reply Often! Me! Me!! Me!!! Me!!!!! #
• @symatt lol. I think I may have used my exclamation mark quota for the quater up in that tweet #
• Is that something from the imagination of HP Lovecraft? RT @Thisangelbites: Imagine having a chandelier like this: http://t.co/KsmhHhLi #
• @xtamsynx @symatt Hey! Hows things? #
• Just back from excellent meal @tapastapas and equally excellent Margin Call. #
• @guardianstyle Just curious is the Internet no longer a proper noun? #
• This joke will probably only work if you've seen Margin Call. I'm hoping they make a sequel Margin Call: This Time it's Personnel #
• Its hailing again. I don't remember it hailing as often as it has this winter in the past. #
• @symatt I hope not! Good night #
• @symatt lol. 3AM is an unnatural hour that should be tipexed from the clock of everyone over 30. #

• Watched last week's Sherlock just in time to watch this weeks #
• I had to check twice if Sherlock not Watson was driving. So often the assistant drives on TV detective show. Wonder if this was deliberate? #
• @cimota He's become a bit of a handy deus ex machina for all bureaucratic problems Sherlock runs into #
• @cimota The risk is Mycroft becomes rather mundane. #
• Enjoyed Sherlock – an interesting twist on the original. #
• @Troppers Love those flowing skirts, corsets and dark makeup too but I think that look would suit Robert Downey, Jr's Sherlock more #
• @Troppers Gatiss/Moffat take is different from the usual film/TV. Guy Ritchie takes an interesting different different approach #
• @Troppers Absolutely: the Conan Doyle original is the best. I do like that recent versions have returned Watson to something more like CD. #
• @JamesWallis What happened to all the Video rental stores? #
• Headline "Ferry company in liquidation" if it hadn't been would they have used "Ferry company still Afloat"? #
• @symatt But by telling us you may spread the need. Unfortunately there is no law of conservation of need to go to the loo. #
• Why does the announcement of D&D 5th Edition make me want to hum Whitesnake's Here I Go Again? #
• @symatt All the loos out of order or no loos? I suggest 5th Ed speculation as a cure. I speculate – 6 Stats: Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis & Cha! #
• @SarahDarkmagic I'm fine but @symatt seems to need distacting from a bathroomless train journey #
• @SarahDarkmagic THAC0. Just kidding. Streamlined, consistent, unambiguous rules & a focus on making D&D a fun social event to play. #
• @TheAngryDM And at extremes if suits of armour, long swords, metal daggers exist or if civilisation has emerged from the Stone Age. #
• @symatt Bit late but… How about THAC0 instead of THACO? #
• @symatt You like tomato and I like tomahto, You Say THACO, I Say THAC0. Oh hangon we probably both say it the same way #
• @SarahDarkmagic The mechanics of how different magic users "worked" differentiated them enough for me and the spells weren't common to all. #
• Probably a bit sad but I just bought ImagineFX just for article on world builiding by James Gurney. #
• @EmperorsElite £6 for four pages I want to read just seems a bit extravagent #
• @GeekyLyndsay lol. You could include the late night pregened bard from a game I wrote for a con – just one small slip and he had no spells. #
• @DaddyDM @GeekyLyndsay @DaveTheGame @TriskalJM I shudders at the memory of players wanting to abuse kits in 2nd ed 20 years on. #
• @simplychrista @symatt I found somewhere that did custom card printing after years of looking – cost effective if they made 10K copies #
• @EmperorsElite I get to use this for 3 hobbies so I can count it three times #
• @simplychrista @symatt I was told that the biggest expense is the cutter to cut the cards from the printed sheet. #
• @GeekyLyndsay I always found it easier to DM gothic and fantasy because I don't read them a lot. Felt less like I was messing up than SF. #
• @weareboy And I thought my old habbit of sketching on tracing film was expensive! #
• @GeekyLyndsay Agreed. I find most of the settings jar – I tend to have strong radar for anachronism that spoils them #
• @simplychrista Special finished could be but otherwise inks & stock were nothing special. Cutters & boxing machines were specialised. #
• @symatt Absolutely. Focus on what makes playing with others in a room is special, what no computer can do. Lead rather than follow. #
• @KimKnox Are you sure you're not alternate universe you and in the one you came from our Kim is about to enjoy surprise chocolate? #
• @KimKnox Yes. In a type 1 multiverse you only need to travel far enough to find parallel you with chocolate – around 10 to power 29 meters #
• @KimKnox Meanwhile your type 1 multiverse twin 10 to the power 118 metres away is missing chocolate too #
• @SarahDarkmagic From shop owners I know it depressed it in the past but many collectors & fans like owning originals. Supply v Demand. #
• Cheap motion capture anyone? RT @guardiantech: Kinect for Windows to launch in February http://t.co/6cizNhAT #
• Brilliant – Amazon sends me a message from a seller but provides no obvious route to reply! #
• Amazon seller has asked me to remove polite truthful review after selling damaged goods. Should I just ignore or contact Amazon? #
• @jearle Or its a cynical piece of marketing to gather some data and then do what they want anyway. #
• @call_me_salome You confess even without us resorting to the Comfy Chair? What kind of devilish trick is this? #
• @simplychrista lol. If the Mayans could have been bothered to work out their calendar for another cycle they'd not be talking about it now. #
• Just saw the Daily Star front cover in newsagents "Robbie Savaged by Hot Dogs …and he didn't relish it". Too bad jokes in one headline. #
• @simplychrista My calendar only runs to the end of the year. We're all doomed. Doomed I tell you. Doomed! #
• @simplychrista Don't worry my diary runs to Jan 6th 2013 so we get another 6 days after 2012 #
• @sizemore Are there marauding packs of feral unpaid interns? Will he uncover a stash of expense claims? Does the speaker look like Blofeld? #
• @symatt So tempted to retweet that just so you can be all excitted again #
• @RPGadvocate Is it so big you could pin a tail on it and call it an elephant? #
• RT @SpringaldJack: Male fantasy author strikes fantasy heroine cover poses. – This is pretty great. http://t.co/JNxOWVCT via @GeekyLyndsay #
• @Fantasticmaps Nice post. I'm having flashbacks to drawing isometric designs at school lol. #
• 3D Printing coming closer and closer to the living room http://t.co/8BedjsLv #
• Interesting Publisher Rules of Thumb on the end of this Pelgrane Press blog post http://t.co/xC1iBRCA #
• @simonjrogers Normally I don't when asked but I thought the rules of thumb were interesting and worth sharing #
• Just back from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo enjoyed it. Sadly I inferred who dunnit from two early moments. #
• @DanDiplo lol. I'd not read the book or seen the original film although I'm tempted by the book now I've seen this film. #
• Is it really Thursday? #
• @sandchigger You're telling me its Friday Eve already too! That means I wasted Thursday Eve and Thursday Double Eve too. #
• Overheard by near busker: Did his business plan read: buy cheap guitar, cute puppy, piece of string, g̶u̶i̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶s̶s̶o̶n̶s̶ ? #
• @rodluc2001 Hi Luca. Thanks for the freebie #
• @KimKnox I've lost a lot of time reading the surveys at http://t.co/8jM7eb7F lately. If you've not seen it you'll lose even more #
• I'd missed that the new Open Eye gallery had opened think I'll wander down and take a look at this exhibition next week http://t.co/QhMKFu2m #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff – Any gaming this weekend? #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff have a great weekend #
• This reminds me of those plastic puzzles from the 1970s just on a larger scale: Facet by Bloomming http://t.co/FUyOf8Ti #
• @Wizards_DnD Having started playing when 2nd ed came out & having played every ed except the very first. D&D3 for cleaning up the mechanics #
• And thus another working week ends. #
• @rodluc2001 Thanks for the #ff #
• Happy Birthday! RT @SFSFW: 20 Years and counting… The SFSFW was 20 on the 12th January! #

• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• RIP Ronald Searle #
• I now have a new windswept look. #
• @simplychrista Join the rest of us with the new year windswept look – its what all the happening people are doing #
• If I had a do and it was called Toto I'd have had the perfect quote after the last gust of wind… #
• listening to "Mission Impossible TV Series Plot Music – Lalo Shifrin" ♫ http://t.co/EzQItFR2 #
• listening to "Billy Bragg – Moving the Goalposts" ♫ http://t.co/RGwiem5e #
• A little shredding can be oddly satisfying and relaxing. I doubt it is if you think the FBI is about to knock on your door #
• @Stigmatyr lol. Just the sort of documents an unscrupulous competitor could potentially exploit if they don't mind crawling through bins… #
• @call_me_salome @Stigmatyr Da. Do. Da. Do. Da. Do. #
• @Stigmatyr @call_me_salome I destroyed the evidence of cake. I eat all of it. Now I need to exercise to hide the evidence of the evidence. #
• @johnbellwrites Thanks for the #WW #
• @call_me_salome @Stigmatyr Did you have Wheelie Bins imitaiting tumble weed last night? #
• @DaddyDM lol. Our office is just in Liverpool's Cavern Quarter. #
• @call_me_salome @Stigmatyr I started back into it yesterday but I'm falling off the wii balance board again tonight for pizza & a movie #
• @Stigmatyr @call_me_salome So long as you get all the trace evidence (and by trace evidence I mean crumbs). #
• @DaddyDM Saddly it was a London station putting on a dodgy accent rather than the genuine Lime Street #
• @Fantasticmaps Nice. And simpler than my first model and render them in Vue Infinite then post process and draw over the render #
• @Fantasticmaps For those mountains drawing it is simpler & the results nicer. On the flip side I can easily produce perspectives. #
• @Aldric_Newberry To quote a microbiologist I know "use by dates – because botulism is tasteless and odorless" #
• Why are adverts full of wimpy cover versions? First it was a wet version of Kiss Crazy Nights. Now its Steve Winwood Higher love #
• @Domikko Make that three bad covers in ads. Cheapskates #
• @symatt The way its blowing out there the whole UK may all end up in Kansas + bits of Oklahoma & Nebraska #
• I wouldn't be surprised if the shipping forecast areas have been shuffled into a new order by tomorrow morning. #
• RIP Bob Holness #
• @paulbaalham Saddly so. Look at UK trends on twitter and its full of related topics #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM Not this weekend – still recovering from late finish of New Years Eve Cthulhu #
• @GameCouch lol. Last time I cooked a curry my kitchen was aromatic for three days #
• @EmperorsElite Thanks for the #ff #
• @xtamsynx It does look interesting doesn't it #
• @DanDiplo Love the hair #
• @darkdwarf I'd forgotten those but yes they were bad too #
• @DanDiplo Plain or with a pattern? #
• @DanDiplo Probably the most humane end to them being turned into a cloak then #
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Movie Review http://t.co/upClCnXz but is it really Mission Impossible or just a rubber mask? #
• @Jennisodes Its a time dilation caused by a localized distortion of the space time continuum related to the inverse effect on a Sunday. #
• @simplychrista Nice #
• @Troppers I'm trying to map those to the programmers food groups. Toast=Pizza, Tea=Cola, Marmite = Beer? #
• Morning world. Having done stuff I'm now doing as little as possible. #
• @KimKnox That problem – I'm measuring reference material for FG by the foot #

• Happy Christmas! #
• Surprising number of people surprised to be caught without tickets on the train today. Personally I'd rather pay than be left at Stockport. #
• @simplychrista A very late thankyou for the #ff #
• @MoonWolf95 A very late thankyou for the #ff #
• Spell checker really wants me to change Stockport to Stockpot lol #
• Managed to write almost 4000 words on the train today and only one serious accidental deletion on the shaky bit over the Pennines #
• @CODAPUBLISHER I'm figuring on around 20K for that piece of which around 15K are now done #
• @simplychrista I had to stop when the guard got annoyed with me writing up her sleeve #
• Diving shoes and a couple of sandbags might help with the wind. A suit of armour might help with the shoppers. #
• Happy New Year! #

• @oldknickers At least you didn't plug it into the cactus #
• @simplychrista Toucan and Preen or Robin Cousins #
• @cha0tic I just can't imagine the brain dead brainstorming that came up with that idea #
• @simplychrista If the weather report I just saw holds up they'll get plenty of opportunity. #
• @Ulyverse I was wondering but was too polite to ask #
• @Ulyverse I can do pedantic if you want but its far too cold right now #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks I'd return the compliment but it seems to only want to offer me Parking or Anime as topics you influence me on lol #
• @cimota We need a word for that – I had something similar when starting PC and it said "16,423 updates to apply do not turn off until done" #
• @symatt Any people get a haircut applied as an effect by the printer Seriously this explains it better than I could http://t.co/erCCo8Em #
• @SteveHills I've called in a strike by an orbital mass driver on your location. Look up now & you should see the asteroid just about to hit #
• Analysis of Bifrost survey now winging its way to Steve Blease for Ragnarok. #
• @Dicecreator Very cool and a Ftaghn Christmas to you to #
• @deadorcs What formula did you us? #
• @deadorcs Cool. Will you have lights and/or tinsel as well this year? #
• @Danacea Good piece. Not hugely surprised that WH Smiths are in a lot of bother in the vote. #
• Drag and drop upload in WordPress is pretty cool #
• The Cold Soap Window Sill Steam Phenomenon photographs http://t.co/pS3Rsay2 #
• @Troppers Onions, Carrots, Salt , Pepper & Herbs (Bay Leaf, Parsley). Garlic. Possibly leeks, celery, mushrooms, fennel, tomatoe #
• @Troppers I had to shorten the original list to fit twitter. Garlic is very much an if you like it in stock. #
• @MoonWolf95 I had to add it as something you're influential on. #
• @Troppers I'd not put gammon and garlic together personally #
• @MoonWolf95 Just Klout being weird and not getting the obvious stuff while picking out random stuff. #
• @Troppers Cool. Onion and salt are the key ingredients and have been at least as far back as the ancient Egyptians. #
• I expected Chicken Curry with Cardamom to taste more of Cardamom still it was pleasant and not fussy to make. #
• The Glasgow of Young James Herriot seems to be a ghost town with no trams & barely any other transport in sight but enjoyable anyway. #
• Is it just me or does pretty much everything sent mail order at the moment come with vouchers for money off wine? #
• @undercoverman The weather this year it was like completely crazzzzy man! Especially the rain of petit fours on July 42! #
• @realsimjoy So far I have resisted. Although I have a nice bottle of rioca stashed away for New Years Eve #
• @realsimjoy So far vouchers: one for a bit off, one for free delivery over £100, one for £40 towards a 12 bottle case and one like yours. #
• @greywulf And the Cliff Diving Award goes to… Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Splat! #
• @cultauthor At the end can you do that laugh he does? #
• @STARBURST_MAG I'll probably see at least one or two of them but the trailers make me want to say none of the above. #
• @symatt I've been snacking on trail mix today. All that dried fruit is healthy right. That means no calories right #
• @xtamsynx A slow download could be at the other end – especially now for smaller websites 1 user with a good connection can swamp a server #
• Vue 10 PLE and Trial Versions now available http://t.co/kTrjz5AX #
• @xtamsynx Is it slow compared to what you're used to getting? #
• @call_me_salome I thought you were a bot but if you're saying your a man I'll not be upset #
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows my review with spoilers http://t.co/O7hvkfyY #
• @call_me_salome My GP tells me no man should wear jeans that tight. They can cause problems with the digestion. #
• @call_me_salome lol. In '78 I was too young to understand the significance of Olivia Newton John being stitched into those jeans for Grease. #
• More interesting than more Ugg boots RT @call_me_salome: Surreal shoes of the day. http://t.co/8yeskBtf #
• Email spam way down but 864 spam comments to my blog since 5 December – 120+ for Ugg Boots? Not one made it past akismet #
• @ehlanakovas Not attractive but different #
• Goodnight clouds. Goodnight sky. Goodnight twitter. Goodnight world. #
• @xtamsynx I'd be tempted to talk to my ISP then. Years ago Orange broke mine by putting their gear into diagnostic mode #
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows my review with spoilers http://t.co/O7hvkfyY #
• @xtamsynx Glad you got it sorted #
• @Thisangelbites That would be unfortunate #
• @jearle Google need to open it up both ways with APIs or its in danger of becoming another casualty of their wanderings into social media. #
• @GRIMACHU Oy! Leave it out I was just starting to drop off nicely then. #
• Spending the day coding C# always leaves me feeling far more like falling asleep than coding PHP. #
• @jearle I know. Yet somehow Facebook do and accept that making money on a % is better than a walled garden that fail. #
• @Ghostwoods lol #
• Personally I'll take the brass trio busking near the office over the usual guitarist with a backing tape but I seem to be in a minority here #
• Finishing the last day at work for 2011 with a bit of WordPress. Nice. #
• @Troppers Depends – did you speak with your mouth full? #
• @MoonWolf95 Just a guess from but that shape will have a lower centre of gravity than a cube so less chance of rolling on landing. #
• @MoonWolf95 Plus its tried and tested for 40 odd years so most of the kinks have been worked out of that design making it safer + cheaper #
• @Thisangelbites That looks rather good – I might be near one of their shops I can see a purchasing accident happening #
• @MoonWolf95 You're on a 2 year mission to Mars on the way there IIS has an accident – now you can't get home. #
• @MoonWolf95 Plus the assemble in orbit idea is nice but I'll bet quality & cost are cheaper when done on the ground even with launch cost. #
• @MoonWolf95 Long term yes but the number of manned space flights is still barely out of the early flight era. Stick with what we know. #
• @MoonWolf95 Or you get overly enthusiastic unrealistic programmes. Not just space read Neville Shute's Slide Rule for airship engineering #
• For the last time in 2011. Home time #
• @DanDiplo Ask the MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire #
• Something tells me the driver of the shiny red Ferrari didn't buy it for sitting in a traffic jam in a less fashionable area of Liverpool. #
• @Ulyverse I shocked some colleagues by not only knowing who William Orbit is but having some CDs of his music. #
• Listening to the @TheUkes cover of Teenage Dirtbag http://t.co/ThqKJWFa #
• @Troppers Trouble is the one in my head from the books beats all of the actors. Although everyone except RM gets part of him right. #
• @Troppers I wouldn't want to over promote them. But the novels are worth a look and the short stories include some intriguing oddities. #
• @Troppers Personally Dr No as its close to the Connery film, Casino Royale as that's the Bond of the books before any polishing… #
• @Troppers …+ The Living Daylights just because the whole of novella is 5 min of the film but read others first as its not like the films. #
• @call_me_salome He's behind you. (I could say yes but its panto season) #
• Happy Christmas http://t.co/gskEf6is (this year's virtual Christmas Card) #

In the winter a slightly odd phenomenon sometimes happens when I do the rather mundane task of doing the washing up. When its cold outside and I fill the bowl with hot water steam produces tiny water drops all over the bar of soap on my window sill. I’ve normally only seen this at night but a few times I’ve found its happened late in the day. Tonight it was light enough to get a few photographs before the drops succumbed to gravity and ran into the soap dish.

• Back to making notes for some proper writing later… #
• @Ghostwoods Its a slippery slope. Its 1 v. cute kitten picture then its more kittens finally its "Hi I'm @Ghostwood & I'm a kitten addict" #
• Much tutting from old dears on bus – woman in loose jeans with no belt & little yappy dog juggling to keep both from getting away. #
• Emma Thompson is a MIB? I can see that but if Dougal and Bill Oddie don't cameo as aliens I may be upset http://t.co/RAzrl0GO #
• @sandchigger lol #
• My sitting room had been flitter free for 6 months but after tonight's card witting there are trace levels of shinny flitter everywhere #
• @Troppers Following the logic one step too far… if you're using your Telly as a Christmas tree what are you using as a TV? #
• @sandchigger But if you had been considering it you'd have been a complete sucker #
• Six WordPress sites updated without a hitch #
• My first blog post for awhile in which I say rude things about The Thing with some spoilers probably http://t.co/Kt6eWTTF #
• My review of The Thing from last night now with added bonus of @Drunken_Goblin response http://t.co/Kt6eWTTF #
• @Drunken_Goblin I was just using your comment as a cheap excuse for promoting my website again #
• @Drunken_Goblin Seriously though thanks for taking the time to comment #
• Excellent works night out at the Olive Press. #
• #uksnow L2 3/10 #
• #uksnow L2 4/10 #
• #uksnow L2 2/10 #
• #uksnow L2 0/10 having turned to #ukrain and #ukslush and #ukseagullsthatarelookingforatasteofhumanflesh #
• @sandchigger Doing my bit for http://t.co/BILRjheG crowd sourced snow reporting for UK. Did see some impressive Texas snow reports last year #
• I predict a flurry of LEGOlas jokes given the Lego Hobbit / LotR announcement #
• @sandchigger 4/10 was how heavily it was falling. 4/10 isn't a blizzard but still pretty heavy. #
• @wartrader lol #
• @sandchigger Thankfully its not been settling because otherwise the hill out of Liverpool can become quite dangerous. #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM I'm not sure how useful #ff are. I do think it does sometimes lead to a new follower but without a sudden surge its hard to say. #
• @xtamsynx Could be worse. 4 friends of mine agreed to meet in a bar but all went to different bars with the same name lol #
• @TheAngryDM Those & figures were the start of the slippery slope. It was cool when they did tokens on weetabix for the first lego village… #
• @TheAngryDM … I eat Weetabix everyday for months when I was five or six but I got all the village sets #
• @TheAngryDM lol Weetabix is a breakfast cereal. Consistency & taste of crisp or soggy cardboard http://t.co/41isErYU #
• @TheAngryDM An acquired taste that was my breakfast staple for 18 years but I can't imagine eating it now lol #
• @xtamsynx Sorry. Thankfully I wasn't part of that debacle. Pubs should be like fictional characters – never give 2 the same name #
• @TheAngryDM Just give them bad advice – "take the craft skill its essential to character survival in my setting". Soon they'll stop asking #
• Home time #
• Lego LotR: One Stud to rule them all, One Stud to find them, One Stud to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @xyleanne69 And people in houses without central heating in this weather #
• Twelve minutes ago the cold dark night passed through the grey dawn to the cold grey day #
• @beltonwriter Goodmorning and Goodnight #
• @symatt Morning #
• Must get on #
• @nardan Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Get better soon. #
• @simplychrista You've been busy then #
• @simplychrista Cool. I struggle to keep the idea for one picture going at a time. #
• Finished reconstructing FoGE from PDF / DTP file to word to send to Mr Blease… #
• Brian Blessed interview on BBC1 wonderful distraction from weather outside. #
• @Troppers I made it to the couch but thanks to Brian Blessed I'm in danger of becoming a potato. #
• @Troppers The hail was fierce here earlier but the sky is blue now so I might brave the outdoors too. #

• Warm mackerel sandwiches for lunch. #
• Please note my last tweet has two purposes… 1 to swamp historians in the future with data when they go through twitter. #
• 2 to upset stand up comics who dislike twitter because its all about what we eat and simultaneously to keep them in easy material. #
• The sky is so grey here its like one in a 1970s photo of an angular modernist factory in the USSR. Welcome to Greyistan Comrades! #
• Vicious hail outside glad I don't have to go out today. #
• @simonjrogers Are you Being Serviced? 1970s SitCom setting with double XP for double entendres #dramasystem #
• I'm blaming this cold for my utter incompetence at post to twitter. I've got SocialMediaFlu #
• @simonjrogers I might just have to see if I can work that up. A few years ago & I can pretty much see Jay running that in Valk for the title #
• Excellent word resource for writers of historical novels, players of CoC & other #rpgs The Guardian 1928 Style Guide http://t.co/Pdmvdot0 #
• @DanDiplo Only once a month if I'm lucky. Wait till At the Mountains of Madness turns into a CoC film franchise #
• Man asked for a "ten pound orange" in shop. Is that price or weight? Reminded me of The Two Ronnies http://t.co/UvUnfvZl #
• @Troppers On a scale where 1 is heated them from a can and put on a plate to Gourmet hot dogs in hand made rolls as 10 where are you? #
• @Troppers Pasta & cheese – sounds like your heading into areas of the scale that involve the square root of -1 and other impossible numbers! #
• @DanDiplo I resisted sending pretty much that tweet when I saw those pictures earlier #
• @symatt Am I allowed to use a dice roll to decide #
• @symatt Sometime you have to ask – what would Sheldon Cooper do. Roll 1d6: 1-2 No 3-6: Yes. Roll=4. So Yes I missed you today #
• @MoonWolf95 And in less than 140 characters you sum up why I not only don't play RoleMaster but have virtually none in my #rpg library #
• @MoonWolf95 I like to improvise my crits on the fly. Keeps the old GMing juices flowing #
• @MoonWolf95 First #rpg I ever played. A friend used raw potatoes as props for experimental happiness pills… #
• @MoonWolf95 Not enough flesh #
• @MoonWolf95 lol – that wasn't a challenge #
• More note making than writing tonight. Note have a nice way of expanding into sentences & paragraphs Now for something different. Night. #
• @KimKnox Have you got the shakes yet? #
• RIP Harry Morgan http://t.co/CuUyhSGy #
• @ryanag123 Cool. Is it proportional to regular sized gingerbread folk like the scale diagrams in the CoC rulebook? #
• @ianf @DanDiplo @jacquar @richeym *Cough* Mobile and Accessibility Testing *Cough* #
• @ryanag123 Good job you didn't go for Lu-Kthu to scale #
• Microsoft reinvent the window instead of the wheel – a bathroom mirror that lets you look outside http://t.co/9M4mLtpn via @guardiantech #
• @Danacea So you got a preview of this year's Doctor Who Christmas special then #
• Weather like this makes being able to do stuff online doubly great. #
• @MoonWolf95 The snow will have to fight the wind, rain and hail to reach the ground tonight! #
• @richard_iorio A genuinely classic font #
• If nothing else this is worth reading just for the sentence "any of us can commit acts of journalism" http://t.co/fcvGZjap #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff Have a great weekend #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff Have a great weekend #
• And so another working week winds towards Friday night and the weekend #
• @grahamwalmsley It may be a bit geeky but I'm really looking forward to the @designmuseum moving so I can see the permanent collection #
• @MsBorok They're renovating the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, London #
• @ianpearse Its really good to see them bringing the Commonwealth Institute back into use. #
• @symatt Maybe a bit obvious but how about Elves or if auto correct goes bad Elvis Elves #countersketch #
• @MsBorok My pleasure you can see more about it here http://t.co/ipLGAmwt #
• Its one of those days when the cold gets into your bones #
• @call_me_salome I do the whole gargoyle perching on high places thing but I'm not good with heights but I'll take the sexy doom part on #