Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category

• 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 #

• @andrewkenrick Only single rotor so not Chinooks – thinks they might have been Merlin HC3s #
• @call_me_salome You're saying he's Bagpuss then? #
• Exploring Blender's particle systems to see if I can use them in a Vue scene made with Daz Studio #
• Hitchcock never could resist getting a cameo in RT @simplychrista: Send a grumpy Hitchcock holiday card : http://t.co/dpMuEdZW #
• @simplychrista Hmm all those fat men in Dickensian Christmas cards – how many were Alfred Hitchcock cameos? #
• @Ulyverse It wont help you'll be just as annoyed that you've spent a load of time tweeting utter rubbish #
• @simplychrista Odd how they are called Dickensian but I've never spotted a workhouse or Fagan in any of them #
• Making elf more alien/supermodel thin got past uncanny valley problems by being less realistic. #
• Adding barely visible particle system to improve look of render makes it more realistic. #
• I'm not going to try and work out how making one thing less and one thing more realistic can make a scene better and just do the lighting. #
• @MoonWolf95 The little things make all the difference sometimes – I'm tweaking the lighting even though only I'll know what I've done #
• @xyleanne69 Does that make my favourite Mexican bean dish a potential imposter? Should I have it followed to find out where its really from? #
• @MoonWolf95 Absolutely. Although I prefer it when a picture is easier to get to work than this one has been lol #
• @MoonWolf95 lol Takes tens of thousands of years for photons to get to the surface of the sun so its not that fast either #
• My Cthulhu is dusty and has no care label. Is he machine washable? Worried that spin cycle might wake him from his slumber… #
• @MoonWolf95 Only really energetic ones on steroids made in the lab not ones from novas crossing interstellar space so far #
• @MoonWolf95 One theory I heard is that the lab made Neutrinos on Steroids may have been taking shortcuts through higher dimensions. #
• @MoonWolf95 @symatt And pantomime is peculiarly British. A friend who works in theatres had to brief a NY theatre boss on them recently. #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks I'll give them a go #
• @MoonWolf95 Have you seen the escape route for a problem on the pad? Death slide to armored car might not be wheel chair friendly #
• @symatt Your players must be far more with it than mine #
• @MoonWolf95 I'd rather try and explain Rab C. Nesbitt #
• @cha0tic A friend I used to crew with at Uni used to get Polish Spirit which can go to 96% abv from a wine and spirit shop #
• @MoonWolf95 Have you had the 2nd half of 2011 series including "Let's Kill Hitler" I can't say a lot without risking River Song "Spoilers!" #
• @MoonWolf95 I think you're up to date but wouldn't want to accidentally drop a spoiler. If you are apart from Christmas special nothing new #
• @MoonWolf95 We get that with US shows all the time too #
• @MoonWolf95 Which is even more peculiar as they don't show it here. #
• @symatt That battle I'm keeping out of – I'm specializing in the ugly or peculiar at the moment lol #
• @MoonWolf95 Just post it at certain famous CG sites and see if they ban it as being naked or not #
• @symatt I think @greywulf is having his tea and staying well out of this if he has any sense #
• @MoonWolf95 Could she be less naked #
• @cha0tic Not sure if its still true but I think the high strength ones can only be had from specialist shops. Might be a special licence? #
• @greywulf @symatt I'm just sticking with the only doing ugly at the moment & leaving this to you & @MoonWolf95 #
• @symatt @greywulf @MoonWolf95 Are you going to put one of your counter sketches into the fray? #
• Email newsletter offering whitepaper entitled "Preparing for Cyber Monday" just arrived. Guess they didn't read it themselves… #
• @undercoverman The lung to body mass ratio is something like 3 parts body mass to 20 parts lung. Slightly better than a fog horn #
• @Troppers In reply 1. Bleh 2. Without Marc Warren: a relief he really needed Adrian Lester to make his performance work (imo) #
• @greywulf @symatt @GiniKoch @MoonWolf95 Just to be clear are we doing Ugly or Beautiful now lol #
• @greywulf @GiniKoch @impworks @MoonWolf95 The prize is not embarrassing ourselves publicly #
• @impworks @symatt @GiniKoch @MoonWolf95 Think #SexySunday might be taken #
• @Troppers Ok I'll give you that. Similarly the loss of Jaime Murray not quite replaced. Bleh = Have picked up cold and am feeling a bit #
• @Troppers As BBC shows go it has always managed a high level of eye candy for all genders, preferences and ages #
• @Troppers Ah yes they pretty much had me hooked by casting Robert Vaughn. #
• @Troppers Similarly NCIS with David McCallum & the line "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" Gibbs responds, "Illya Kuryakin." #
• @undercoverman Absolutely. Physics defying in the best sort of ways #
• @Troppers Once NCIS worked out it was a relaxed version CSI with jokes, pop culture & a cast who could carry that it became very watchable #
• Just for giggles – lets try Daz Studio 4 + Blender hair simulation then see how Vue copes #
• @richeym Well that would put a dent in the institution of marriage – or at least guests at the ceremony #
• @TheAngryDM From memory its 1000 a day but rolling on an hourly basis. #
• @Restartkeromais You'd be far better off asking at Daz's forums – I'm only recently converted from Poser to use it #
• Gotta call it a night before this cold turns into man flu. #
• @MoonWolf95 Sleep worked #
• Torrential rain here before. You could tell it was bad only one smoker braved cold & rain sat outside Costa under an umbrella. #
• Flier delivery just came through door including Pizza menu and Zumba sessions – synergistic advertising? #
• @MoonWolf95 You only got a ton of rain? We got so much we could barely see across the road at one point earlier #
• @MoonWolf95 I can see why you'd do that. It stopped raining before I left work but my trousers were soaked from walking down the street #
• @MoonWolf95 Cool Tank Have you seen the sports car model from Johnny English 2 that Rowan Atkinson was doing 50mph on? #
• @MoonWolf95 Its patchy but he did do most of the wheel chair driving himself – hard to hide a stunt double on a wheelchair lol #
• @MoonWolf95 Surely they should be more worried about the flame throwers? #
• In 1911 Police stormed St George's Plateau during Strike. In 2011 Police vans fill it preparing to escort Union march. #
• @jearle Stop knocking the Royal Wedding – it was a great opportunity to get an extra Call of Cthulhu session in this year #
• Noisy but apparently well organised strike march is going past outside. #
• March has snaked past us now – must have gone on for a good half hour. #
• @Troppers That would be what happens when the Department of Stealth and Obfuscations goes on strike – ninjas sneakily marching in protest #
• @Ghostwoods Cool two people confused with images from different parts of one tweet. March is one of those slinky spring months #
• Good Q for @guardianstyle RT: @GRIMACHU When describing something as 'spartan', rather than referring to the people, is it capitalised? #
• The Gade, the Bartók and the Ugolini #classicalmovies #
• @cogspa What u gonna do? #
• @call_me_salome Hello. lol. Methodologically inspired but quite likely to cause misunderstanding #
• @call_me_salome @GRIMACHU If you can't be left alone to play with twitter nicely by yourselves we'll just have to turn it off till you can. #
• @call_me_salome @GRIMACHU I'd send you a copy of the Spotters Guide to Mythical creatures to help with identification but it is mythical. #
• @cogspa With no Monkey Wrench you ain't gonna fix that gastropod! #
• @Dicecreator Sorry to hear that #
• @richard_iorio Only if the numerological calculation of Caesars' name used to slander him on the quiet in ancient times bothers you #
• 1978 Taito Space Invaders! RT @DesignMuseum13 classics added to Collection includes M1 sign, AK-47 Rifle + Sony Walkman http://t.co/fiG20JbA #
• @DanDiplo Odd that there is no commenting on that article. Danger of owners of other machines pointing out how they outsold BBC #
• @call_me_salome Does that mean you have to look after the death of rats? #
• @DanDiplo Which loses all the local news and other personalisation I had set up on the old one #
• @DanDiplo I don't disagree it was influential but the BBC seem to be a bit revisionist in their coverage of 80s home computers #
• @call_me_salome A Death of Rats wearing trainers would have real problems with rats passing in nightclubs where trainers aren't allowed? #
• @JMdoubleU The real question is Nature or Nurture #
• @mdlachlan Rich Hall's rant about him on the BBC4 documentary about road movies the other night was unexpected and brilliant. #
• @guardianstyle Thanks #
• Back to work. Time to shorten the to do list. #
• So now the Google Icon opens a menu I can't see a single click back to my Gmail inbox when I've expanded a few labels. Excellent UI work #
• @richeym A christmas tree appeared in the NBH foyer today #
• @xtamsynx Within a tightly defined set of circumstances – but not for wearing out shopping to the local supermarket #
• Two police horses just went down my street causing the first traffic jam I've seen on it ever. #
• @DanDiplo Over heard someone on the bus call them Love Films Hate Users earlier… #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff Nice hat #
• @symatt One little bit of tweet madness has a lot to answer for Thanks for the #ff #
• @guardianstyle How do you cope with the band "The The"? #
• @call_me_salome I think its because most ubergeeks have eaten too many – a sort of flabby beefcake #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks for the #ff #
• @call_me_salome Most full time ubergeeks consider the major food groups to be junk food, pizza, chocolate and caffeine #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• If I was a D&D monster I'd be a 1 HD Medium Ooze with a special area Poison attack of VickVapo Rub found in Duvet terrain alignment bleh! #
• @ianf When there is a code error would they catch it with a #fail ? #
• @Troppers Was it Omid Djalili who played Terrorist #3 I think he had routine about that when he was 1st on TV or I could be confused #
• Tip: Watch Saturday Kitchen double speed – the music goes from relaxed Sat morning to pumping spy show thrills and spills #
• @xtamsynx Happy Birthday and Gratz #
• It was tipping it down when I went to the shops. Now I'm in the dry the sun comes out. Still no waiting in shops so rain not all bad | #
• @K23Detectives Shame you didn't get a £1 reward for each one #
• @thedeadone Are you staging the tortoise remake of the bike scene from The Great Escape? #
• @sciamannata Paints I used to use could be used on fabric (I never did) had a fixer available. Could something like that help? #

• Computer, peripherals, computer desk, cables all disconnected cleaned, hoovered and then reassembled. I need a sit down. #
• @Troppers Vicks infused lasagne sounds very Heston Blumenthal but not in a nice way #
• Internet connection mysteriously went down @ the same time as yesterday. No flock of BT vans trying to fix it today. Now back up #
• @Troppers Hope you're feeling better soon. Better living through Vicks is one slogan I hope to never see catch on. #
• @symatt Should I ask what you've been doing for 12 hours? #
• @symatt Ow 12 hours of that – no wonder some of the ticket office staff look fed up! #
• Interesting Parsian inspired curry for dinner in a good way: Chicken with Apricots (from Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Easy p91) #
• @DanDiplo New Scientist had a piece about Decaptcha an academic project to break them. Only reCAPTHCA was found to be reliable against bots. #
• @KimKnox Not quite reached the point of bringing in actors and improving the scene in a Mike Leigh like process then #
• Wondering if there is a book about at what can be seen along the 86 bus routes of different UK towns & cities. But not very seriously. #
• @ehlanakovas lol. Just one of those random things that starts at work: in this case several people have used the 86 in different places #
• Did Adobe have the most pointless brainstorming session ever when they came up with new features for Photoshop Elements 10? #
• @ianf I bet they sweated over that for a measurable number of seconds before pretending to be working for the rest of the afternoon #
• @Troppers Sorry he's completely besotted with his Virgin box if the ads are anything to go by. He only has eyes for Tivo. #
• The office is now discussing introducing the effect of "Assertive" technology for web browsers after a slip of the tongue… #
• First rule of engineering: If it can go wrong it will go wrong. #
• @symatt Got one of those fitted bathrooms where you have to remove half a ton of paneling to get to the seat screws? #
• @symatt Did you get it sorted in the end or did it end up going like this… http://t.co/eM8wIvUK ? #
• Why didn't anyone tell me about @guardianstyle before? Also pleased to see that @grauniadstyle exists too #
• @KimKnox On a scale where 1 is bad kittens & 10 is A Rickman playing Hans Gruber & the Sheriff of Nottingham playing with kittens how bad? #
• Emailed a website that they may have ModSecurity misconfigured: 1st time at site it says I'm making too many request but displays on reload! #
• @KimKnox 11 is so old hat now. E veryone goes to 11 or gives 110%. Stand out from the crowd – turn it up to 15 #
• Who would have guessed you lot would be so keen on @guardianstyle and @grauniadstyle ? #
• Over the last 20 years Liverpool has gotten rid of market stalls because they were a nuisance to pedestrians and replaced them with… #
• … seasonal street markets with twice as many stalls to be a nuisance to pedestrians. Still the tat they sell is different and festive. #
• @symatt Its been improvised from a chocolate bar foil, some liquid nitrogen and a copy of time magazine? #
• @Troppers If the Guardian story is what you're talking about – maybe they could build a new Stadium below ground level to hide it? #
• New word of the day: Messuage #
• @xtamsynx I was thinking blown away here – but pretty similar result. #
• Is the Metro using one of Nick Clegg's ex-Neets army for Photoshopping? White outline & missing arm http://t.co/ljmj3uX2 #
• BBC experimental TV controlled Dalek in your home. Next robot Punch & Judy to replace TV for real 3D experience? http://t.co/MKiLpRX7 #
• @johnlambshead Now be fair: its not technically slavery they just want to bring back Indentured Servitude and the Feudal system #
• A rather manic driver just overtake double line of traffic then reverse wrong way up 1 way street park on double yellow… #
• @Ghostwoods Annoyingly decided not to when friends said they weren't who now are. Train would now be £70 so not really worth it #
• @KimKnox Good luck. Heavens just opened here and it doesn't look at all pleasant outside #
• @KimKnox Good luck. #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #
• Its Friday evening. Yeh! My head hurts. Boo! #
• @SarahDarkmagic Worth a trip to the cinema when it arrives then? We only have the muppets Orange advert here at the moment #
• @RobCornellBooks Its the start of it for us in the UK. Last two years the Internet has spread it across the Atlantic #
• @richeym Get it with extra cheese – it should be a special reward for not having it at Lunch #
• @symatt Night (hello). #
• @sizemore Bagsy the prequel to the prequel² as well as the sequel to the DVD extra originally exclusively on YouTube #
• @WastexGames Is that a brontosaurus leg roast on the plate? #
• @jearle Not London or right now but did run into a website IP address being blocked by BT because spam email came from it over a year ago. #
• @call_me_salome A friend of mine almost dated a pizza delivery guy because he was visiting her so often. #
• Sign of a true gamer RT @xtamsynx: Whenever I tidy up I always find a lurking d10 or a d6. #
• Two ponderous and huge helicopters just went overhead far, far lower than usual. #

• @MoonWolf95 Hope you found Mars DEMS. Think USGS / NASA used to have them. #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff hope you had a great weekend. #
• Excellent CoC game although we did mislay one PC in another dimension & one probably has to retire to a desk job. #
• @richeym Sorry: Call of Cthulhu – a classic table top RPG based on H. P. Lovecraft and related horror writers http://t.co/lc10v0Dr #
• @MoonWolf95 Cool – I knew of a lower res whole mars but those both sound excellent #
• Plan: Tidy today. Do something more interesting tomorrow. #
• @symatt I'd missed a few with being busy at work – really like the mouse with a watch #
• @symatt I look forward to seeing the improved version then #
• @call_me_salome Afternoon #
• First room blitzed. Time for lunch. Yes my life today is thrilling. #
• Think I may have forgotten to put washing powder and softener in wash thanks to annoying auto dialer recorded phone call this morning #
• RT @LPOBryan: The definitive writer's cheat sheet: http://t.co/pyiWtDW7 via @KimKnox @Suburbman #
• RT @newscientist: What does mathematics *look* like? A team of world-class artists & mathematicians set out to discover http://t.co/slLZaIF5 #
• @xtamsynx Thats worse than the time the only way to get an update was to kill my web browser, restart and log in again. #
• @xtamsynx Now that really is odd. In fact its approaching just plain weird. In an annoying way #
• @simplychrista Very cool. Like it. #
• @simplychrista Sadly no CTRL-Z key for real life #
• @Danacea In danger of a titter ye not there #
• @simplychrista Just the Adobe monster to feed instead. #
• @MoonWolf95 @simplychrista I had a similar thought possibly due to playing CoC Saturday night and winding up in another dimension lol #
• @xtamsynx One habit I've yet to succumb to but down side is I'm tweetless on the move. #
• @Danacea So many innuendos to choose from so few tweets in the world #
• @simplychrista Just so long as its just the decor and not the dilemas and San loss #
• @MoonWolf95 @simplychrista I really hope that was a Freudian typo;-) #
• @MoonWolf95 lol #
• @MoonWolf95 That would be cool. I've got a planetary scale grey scale altitude map but more detailed sounds interesting #
• @MoonWolf95 Ta #
• @DaddyDM Very productive so far thanks. If I can get through all my chores that leaves the rest of the week for fun You? #
• @daneofwar Pretty grey here all day. Not even atmospheric fog. Soon to be replaced by dark #
• @cooda Woolworth's used to be good, I guess Argos or DIY shops will probably be the only inexpensive but not rubbish choices left #
• @cooda Sorry those weren't any use. Sadly the other likely to be cheap + quality place I know are Liverpool only #
• @DanDiplo I was signing up to a site the other day that didn't allow capitals or numbers in passwords too! #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks #
• Good day in 1 tweet – kitchen cleaned (boring), chatted about writing & #RPG saw Tintin & In Time + excellent dinner @tapastapas #
• @call_me_salome Spam is so borring these days the only girls names in my last 30 days spam: Lorriet, Sherie, Ericka & Aimee. #
• @call_me_salome Used to use it all the time: got really good ones for characters for Dirk Dangerous stories. Lately only rubbish #
• @xtamsynx lol. I'd have to write a story where he gets the girl and so far that hasn't happened. #
• @xtamsynx You're right – I forgot he mentions "getting" Felicitous Bragshot: “Nice girl. Long legs. Laugh like a donkey.” in DD&tGBoD #
• @xtamsynx I really must finish writing some more Dirk Dangerous stories and find somewhere looking for pulp. #
• Downloading CityEngine 2011 #
• City centre has been captured by 6 flavours of chugger, 3 market research squads + assorted buskers & living statues. Its hell out there. #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• After buying a new kitchen timer I have to ask but Heston Blumenthal is the joke still on us? http://t.co/S8Kszejw #
• @aniakovas It was a long time ago… #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #FF #
• @DougPiranha Probably. Check the opening titles and see if he's guest staring in your life. Bad things usually happen around him if he is. #
• @call_me_salome Judging by my Twitter Time line they mostly still are. Very slow Saturday morning. #
• Very, very cool prize RT @MuseumLiverpool: See my new galleries on 2 Dec? Free tickets in this prize draw http://t.co/sQ2BqmGC #
• Sometimes its the little things that make the difference – like getting roundabouts in CityEngine 2011 #
• Just back from Immortals – quite pretty and 3D not overdone till end but story and characterisation rather thin #
• @MoonWolf95 I've no problem with the action just that the characters lacked a bit of depth (which is sad in a 3D film) #

Back in the days before he rose to the heights of TV chef with his own show Heston Blumenthal had a column in the Guardian that featured his somewhat impractical for the home recipes.  I remember one required boiling lobster shells for 24 hours to make the sauce.  Which all led to conspiracy theories that he was a made up satirical character playing the longest April Fools day joke set up ever.

The other day my old clockwork kitchen timer broke so I went to buy a new one.  Now in our topsy-turvy post Woolworths age the simple mechanical timer seems to have become an expensive , luxury item so I ended up with a Heston Blumenthal battery powered model that also doubles as a clock.  I picked it because I liked the look and it was the cheapest one I’d found.  On opening it I found a tiny sheet of instructions and a large sheet that makes me think someone is still running the Heston Blumenthal joke.  The guarantee makes it clear that the timer is for “Domestic Use Only”.  Yet the other sheet is headed “Electromagnetic Compatibility” and provides detailed warnings about factors that electromagnetic instruments may influence the timer or cause it to temporarily malfunction.  Which could obviously be a serious risk if trying to precisely boil your egg for the 416 seconds required for the perfect firmer, more creamy yolk with a completely set white.

• Just watched an episode of Chuck: if it was a pizza would have a topping of Die Hard with extra Lethal Weapon references on a crispy base #
• @SteveHills Just so long as you don't revive Russ Abbot's pop career with a dodgy remix to promote your new word. #
• @KimKnox Nit boinging weeble t' spool: Thits nit Bag end nat cleaver. #
• Did anyone at Currys/PC World think having Darth Vader inspect a store pretty much says they are the Empire and therefore Evil? #
• @blindgeekuk Something to do with blowing up planets & killing millions. Just a little thing I know but I find it hard to overlook. #
• @blindgeekuk Don't worry I only partially think you're suffering from Jedi mind tricks and have slipped to the dark side of the force #
• @grahamwalmsley Piece in this weeks New Scientist (tenuously) links creativity, schizophrenia and humans moving past basic tool use. #
• @Troppers I know London's cosmopolitan compared to the rest of the UK but the chances of meeting a seal there have got to be low #
• @Troppers Chance of meeting a Seal: London Zoo 0.1% The Thames 0.001% District Line (around Hammersmith Station) Saturday after 10PM >11% #
• @Troppers So the one time I had to change lines there which happened to be on a Sat night was probably a repeatable unpleasant experience? #
• @Troppers lol #
• Ravenloft Fans: Quoth the Raven issue #18 http://t.co/G0xlvjZ9 #rpg #
• @ehlanakovas Still my favourite D&D setting – shame 4th Ed version was canceled – left me no reason to get 4th ed. #
• How long till Mafia reject comparison to News International? http://t.co/gDUdJEf1 #
• Should have videoed woman who was barely taller than she was broad & deep when she fled the police – Instant YouTube Gold. #
• @call_me_salome lol like it (although the vet student in the room next to mine at Uni zoomed more on a pack of Pro Plus) #
• @Troppers Ow! A plug has to rank alongside lego bricks as an 8 on the Ow I trod on that in my bare feet scale) #
• @call_me_salome Sounds right – by the 72nd hour without sleep he & friends were jumping the tennis court nets at 3 in the morning. #
• @Ghostwoods Could @cultauthor work JKVD in and someone called just Jay just so – Jay knows JR killed JFK and JKFD will star in the movie – ? #
• @Ghostwoods I was trying to think of someone famous called Jay quickly – how did I forget Jay of Jay and Silent Bob? #
• @Ghostwoods A few years ago I'd have said Jay who used to edit Valkyrie but I think we lost him to WoW #
• @Troppers Oh yes. Not had sole of foot but did have ankle joint with a 1 mile walk to first aid and a sting with every step. That was a 9. #
• @cultauthor That will probably cause the mass head explosion you were trying for. #
• @cultauthor Now that would make for a good review quote "Cult author – when one head explosion just isn't enough" #
• @Troppers That definitely sounds painful. I'm sure there is some logic to not swimming afterward #
• @symatt Night #
• @DaddyDM Night too #
• @Troppers lol I don't think I ever went as far as getting stung to get out of PE #
• @cultauthor I dread to imagine what could have been worse than that in reality but still considered #
• Finally all the models I wanted to use for making a picture downloaded and installed almost just in time to be thinking of turning PC off… #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• @Trollgodfather I've heard one famous SF writer wallpapers the inside of furniture to avoid writing when suffering apathy! #
• @DaddyDM A bit of CoC tomorrow hopefully and I have an adventure I need to finish writing + associated floor plans etc. You? #
• @KimKnox Get well soon. #
• @DaddyDM Just the way it should be #
• Intriguing maps from The Guardian: The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped http://t.co/ubDjuVSg #
• @ser_timothy Thanks for the #ff #
• Well getting home was a mini adventure between the couple who couldn't understand that they needed all the parts of an M&S special offer… #
• … to get the discount and the man on the bus convinced NASA first landed on the moon yesterday evening. #
• Still one curry and two episodes of Chuck later and I almost feel human again. #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks for the #ff have a greate weekend #
• @NissieShay Thanks for the #ff have a great weekend #
• @grahamwalmsley Happy birthday #
• Stayed up far too late making a picture last night. #
• @richeym Overheard on the bus the other day – "When my computer gets full I just buy a new one with a bigger hard drive" ! #
• @richeym lol and I thought I had a bad habit with the amount of junk that ends up on my PC. #

• @oldknickers @craig3djarvis This is the one time of year I cross my fingers for bad weather. #
• @oldknickers Then too but if I could predict riots like I can bonfire night I'd be being asked questions by the police #
• @KimKnox Worth a trip then? Some of the reviews put me off. #
• @iancockayne Two positive tweets. You'd recomend it then? #
• @KimKnox Cool will probably give it a go then #
• Once I've installed all the bits and pieces for Daz's Victoria 5 I may still have will to live but this installation process is clunky. #
• @allison_pang I jumped & made the switch a couple of months ago partly because Smith Micro's customer service managed to get up my nose #
• @allison_pang Me too. Only done CG for 1 year professionally and that was over 10 years ago. #
• @shainorton There just has to be a smarter way than all these installers – especially 2 or 3 for one product! #
• @allison_pang I've used Genesis a lot lately very flexible it is plus so much old content works. Probably not good for content makers sales! #
• Dear @daz3d I don't need the default settings of installers to put a link to your store on my desktop. I find it far to easily already #
• @Troppers Is one of them doing the utterly annoying thing of looking at you while snogging as though to say "look I'm with someone" ? #
• Next illustration on my list is an easy one – see if I can put it together quicker than yesterdays 6 hours. #
• @Troppers Boring I had a couple in front of me like that last time I went to The Comedy Store. Couple next to me at interval were funny #
• @Troppers Turned to me & asked loudly if a pair of exhibitionists for £19 with Jossie Lawrence & Comedy Store Players for free was worth it #
• @pookie_uk Lol very cool #
• @Troppers Cheered me up no end and embarrassed the couple into stopping sucking face for the second half #
• @pookie_uk An excellent choice – should go down a storm #
• Two nations divided by a common language – Manchester City Council leader's "Shed Load" bleeped http://t.co/LKSRvqJl #
• @symatt I had two bananas for desert. That's a whole extra banana! Exciting enough for you? #
• @symatt Ok. See my next tweet. #
• Just had an idea for an adventure involving in no order: The Blackwall Tunnel, a Necropolis, a Dragon flushed into sewers & Circular Saws #
• @symatt Is that more exciting? At least in concept #
• @symatt Sorry then nothing really exciting here #
• @symatt Surprise me #
• @Curis Hitting it with a spanner in just the right spot – well thats what I've been tempted to do to Joomla for months #
• @BigDaddyDraven Saddly there version probably makes more sense to the sort of people who set them off after midnight and before 7AM #
• @Curis @EroticPuffin I've been working with Joomla pretty much solid for 2 months & I've about had it up to a very high place #
• @symatt I think I'll go for the 9 minute version http://t.co/GtuaNRsL #
• @EroticPuffin @Curis When the clients launch these they will be anything but simple. Around 1d10 San Loss level. #
• @sciamannata Glad I've eaten or talk of riso e latte and porridge would be making me very hungry. #
• @symatt Night #
• @sciamannata Thankfully no. Just an appetite and a headache from spending too much time coding at work #
• @call_me_salome I get sexy little ankle boots. Never bought them or looked at them (on Amazon or other websites). Weird security measure? #
• @call_me_salome I was more thinking if my account looked at or ordered them they'd know I'd been hacked but your way sounds more fun #
• @Curis @EroticPuffin Could you could send a missable $100,000 or $200,000 my way while you're at it? #
• @call_me_salome Saddly a group of companies already got there http://t.co/z4Y960fB Pretty diagram though #
• @Curis @EroticPuffin Why does it play that one Eagles song in the lift and foyer over and over especially the bit about never leaving? #
• I could poke plot holes in Death in Paradise but its fun and good after a hard day at work so I'll enjoy it instead. #
• @call_me_salome Glad you found it interesting. It makes sense but it doesn't stop it being scary. #
• @CrazyCGChick And I thought I was tired lol #
• RT @Danacea: SQUIRREL!! (My friend has just sent me this…) http://t.co/f9my7RO9 #
• Stab at elf rendering suffering badly from the uncanny valley. #
• @Troppers I suspect New Tricks will be being watched when many more serious shows are forgotten. #
• @Troppers lol http://t.co/E8nV4w4q #
• @Troppers Whose guesting? For guests my favourite is probably Meat is Murder for David Calder & Christopher Fulford as Gerry 's brothers #
• @Troppers I've heard he's really worth seeing – the joke in one episode of having him doing Shakespear as Brian – that takes skill #
• @Troppers That is a cool set of guests. #
• @FakeTSR Thats why you guys made your own incorrect in Campaign Source Book & Catacomb Guide right? #
• @Troppers Brilliantly #
• Is it just me or do George Papandreou (Greek PM) and John Malkovich look alike? #
• The New @DesignMuseum plans for Kensington High Street look really interesting http://t.co/ipLGAmwt #
• @simplychrista A slightly belated thank you for the #ff #
• @DaddyDM A slightly belated thank you for the #ff #
• @MoonWolf95 A slightly belated thank you for the #ff #
• @vmdolphin A slightly belated thank you for the #ff #
• @dr_monkeyface A slightly belated thank you for the #ff #
• I used to shop in the city every Saturday but now if I have to I try to treat it like a military raid – I get it fast and get out faster #
• @richeym What time did you guys finish last night? #

• @Troppers Got me beat. One to send into SFX? #
• @Troppers And something sounding like that from that era I'd usually have some sort of vague memory of it too. #
• @Troppers Did you find out what the TV show was? #
• RT @iancockayne: http://t.co/AyfgPvG2 Doctor Who Lego Vignette with micro K9 instructions awesome #
• @periwinklewine How did you get leaves in your hair? Sounds like a hedge trimming sprayed with mayo #
• @GRIMACHU Isn't the prominence of Pole Dancing in films/TV inversely proportional to Quality? In which case in the title is really scary #
• Can anyone name the 80s TV show probably German or Dutch with a blond blue/green eyed lanky villain, kid hostages & a volcano for @Troppers? #
• My review of Johnny English Reborn http://t.co/kXTbqAq2 #
• @richeym Maybe my review was a bit harsh. I enjoyed it but it left me wanting something a bit more filled out. #
• @Troppers I must have missed that one – Wikipedia says BBC showed it in '88 so I may have been buried in GCSE exam prep or projects #
• Almost time for the last part of Hidden. Please let the resolution live up to the first 3 parts promise. #
• @Troppers That just means they're hiding in the cupboard or under the bed #
• Despite certain cliches in conspiracy Hidden managed to pull off an original thriller and left enough characters around to do a sequel. #
• @Troppers What kind of hotel has lacks cupboard doors? You couldn't stage an English farce if the lover can't hide from the partner there #
• @Troppers I'd say check under the bed and behind the shower curtain but you already looked there for axe murderers so that wouldn't help #
• RT @guardiantech: Tintin and the Uncanny Valley: when CGI gets too real http://t.co/ZF25hkwL #
• @RandomOenophile What could possibly go wrong with chocolate? #
• @simplychrista Thanks for the #ff #
• @GRIMACHU Does it have a bar? Is it quiet? We moved the seminars at a Con I helped run to the bar, both benefited plus one less room to book #
• @DaddyDM Thanks for the #ff #
• I am out of here. #
• @DaddyDM At the moment sleeping in is my biggest plan for the weekend #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #
• @cha0tic I watched it on DVD the other night. Brilliant film. Outstanding cast. #
• My neighbours got Tracey Chapman album on but I know they'll never play past the famous tracks. I'll hear this http://t.co/zFL4a8N6 #
• Will get to hear Fast Car http://t.co/FQ9zXbD5 but never heard them leave it on far enough to hear Why? http://t.co/QSKmVhDQ #
• @DaddyDM Well we're in the run up to Bonfire night here so I may need all the luck or bad weather I can get. #
• @GRIMACHU A limpet with its own armed forces, police forces and health services to call for support. That seagull is in for a bad day. #
• Seems like HMV Liverpool has a bad batch of On Her Majesties Secret Service DVD still watched Brilliant Big Bang Theory episode instead. #
• @Danacea I had a similar problem. Didn't end up paying a power bill for 18 months as they wouldn't refund. #
• @DanDiplo I might go back and read more but once I got as far as discovering he subscribed to Drucker I struggled to carry on #
• @Danacea Fingers crossed #
• @simplychrista It arrived. Cool #
• @symatt Thankfully not a Last Chicken in Sainsburys reference. Had me worried for a second #
• @dr_monkeyface I got one the other week that's fluorescent pink. Thankfully it doesn't glow in the dark. #
• @DanDiplo Thats why I may go back and read it. Thankfully that theory is less popular as many decision makers turn out to be cost centres #
• @dr_monkeyface When they put spikes and electrify the shelves in HMV we'll know for sure #
• Saturday Kitchen without omelet challenge not so much fun. Worse knowing it was so talking heads could waffle about F1 not showing sport #
• @jasummerell Or have to sell your soul to Nero Caesar #
• @Curis Given some of the things that were hidden in the Natural History Museum during the war it may well be in the same building #
• @jasummerell Pretty much. #
• Just watched the first part of Death in Paradise looks like it could have legs #
• @Curis About anything you want from HP Lovecraft to a Predator in formaldehyde. They hid 2 SOE stations in there during the war + 1 in V&A #
• @jearle When Klout says its a Beta it really is – they keep changing the way they do the calculations yet rarely mention when they do #
• @jearle Ah for once they have #
• @GRIMACHU Nice #
• @MarcUpdates Follow Suit I think from card games #
• Pleasantly full having cooked paella for the first time. #
• @cthulhuchick And cold leftovers good for supper too #
• I have no idea why I'm watching F1. I just put the TV on so it would change its clock. #
• @6d6Fireball Morning #
• Now that I'd watch. F1 with Rowan Atkinson's face picture in picture as commentary. No spoken words. #
• @oldknickers It takes a special kind of person or a special kind of firework and I'm guessing not the later? #
• @oldknickers @craig3djarvis Or hungover – and even a 14 year old with a hangover doesn't think loud bangs are cool #

• Just watched the first two parts of BBC's Hidden. Its pretty good hope it the ending is worthy of the build up. #
• If the Beetles were writing songs today would Day in the Life say "Three hundred thousand bits of gum spat on Oxford Street"? #
• @xtamsynx Since reading the stat on the amount on Oxford Street I keep think of a new D&D monster made from used gum probably an ooze #
• @symatt So no 1 minute working day. Shame #
• @symatt It would certainly reduce unemployment #
• @Troppers As long as some sort of Buffy musical demon doesn't turn it into a micro hell musical reality for you. #
• @MoonWolf95 That would qualify for a promotion from Geek to Boffin #
• @Troppers If ever an episode jumped the shark in a good way that one did #
• @simplychrista And to all your twitter followers now #
• @simplychrista So what do you do to it. Just to help me imagine it better… #
• @simplychrista Sounds delicious #
• @simplychrista Onions of all variety make so many dishes far more interesting. #
• @Troppers Quite possibly the best inexplicable musical episode of a TV series… Ever #
• @simplychrista Thankfully I could – it was fatty food that did me every time. That's the weird thing with gallstones: everyone is different #
• @simplychrista Thankfully not a pain I should ever suffer again. #
• @Troppers I've heard they died out in the 70s, thankfully, but I think Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope and Xena did them that I remember #
• 1500 words down time to start thinking about winding down. An episode of Big Bang Theory or 3 should finish tonight off nicely. #

• Just watched the first two parts of BBC's Hidden. Its pretty good hope it the ending is worthy of the build up. #
• If the Beetles were writing songs today would Day in the Life say "Three hundred thousand bits of gum spat on Oxford Street"? #
• @xtamsynx Since reading the stat on the amount on Oxford Street I keep think of a new D&D monster made from used gum probably an ooze #
• @symatt So no 1 minute working day. Shame #
• @symatt It would certainly reduce unemployment #
• @Troppers As long as some sort of Buffy musical demon doesn't turn it into a micro hell musical reality for you. #
• @MoonWolf95 That would qualify for a promotion from Geek to Boffin #
• @Troppers If ever an episode jumped the shark in a good way that one did #
• @simplychrista And to all your twitter followers now #
• @simplychrista So what do you do to it. Just to help me imagine it better… #
• @simplychrista Sounds delicious #
• @simplychrista Onions of all variety make so many dishes far more interesting. #
• @Troppers Quite possibly the best inexplicable musical episode of a TV series… Ever #
• @simplychrista Thankfully I could – it was fatty food that did me every time. That's the weird thing with gallstones: everyone is different #
• @simplychrista Thankfully not a pain I should ever suffer again. #
• @Troppers I've heard they died out in the 70s, thankfully, but I think Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope and Xena did them that I remember #
• 1500 words down time to start thinking about winding down. An episode of Big Bang Theory or 3 should finish tonight off nicely. #