Round 1
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4. Reading: "encouragement to come out. Judging by the thanks I received" I suspect the same book as Rich.
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can…what do you find? Wardrobe.
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? Who knows, it was nine weeks ago.
4. Without looking, guess what time it is? 11.30pm
5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 11.24pm
6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? My neighbour snoring.
7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Two hours ago. I went to the shop for snacks.
8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? Facebook.
9. What are you wearing? Jeans, t-shirt, hoodie.
10. Did you dream last night? Something involving feeding small fish to larger fish.
11. When did you last laugh? Wednesday morning when the fire alarm went off in my lecture.
12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? Various cards and postcards.
13. Seen anything weird lately? My neighbour?
14. What do you think of this quiz? Kinda dull so far.
15. What is the last film you saw? Disturbia. If you count TV-movies, then Knight Rider.
16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? A nice house, kitted with the kinda geekery that would appeal to me. I’d move in immediately so that I didn’t have to live in these shitty halls any more.
17. Tell me something about you that I don’t know: Euler’s equation is my favourite.
18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? That’s not a great question to ask me… I’m not very tolerant. Let’s just say the worldwide population would drop, but community would rise.
19. Do you like to dance? If I’m drunk.
20. George Bush: Shows what money gets you.
21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Christine.
22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? James.
23. Would you ever consider living abroad? Yes, but I’ve not been anywhere I’d like to spend the rest of my life yet.
24. What do you want to say to God when you reach the pearly gates? I won’t be going to heaven. If such a place existed I’d be denied access by my current ardent disbelief.
Round 2
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? Damn you need a shave.
2. When is the next time you will have sex? Who knows?
3. What’s a word that rhymes with "DOOR"? More.
4. Favorite planet? Earth. Kinda got everything I need.
5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your mobile? I only have three people in my missed call list. The third was my father.
6. What is your favorite ring on your phone? Glósóli.
7. What shirt are you wearing? Reading Beer Festival 2007.
8. Do you "label" yourself? Only at team building sessions.
9. Name the brand of shoes you’re currently wearing? Quicksilver.
10. Bright or Dark Room? I like to follow natural light, so darker in the evening.
11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you? Richard saves my life sometimes.
12. What were you doing at midnight last night? You mean midnight this morning? I was playing NetHack.
13. What did your last text message you received on your mobile say? "Oh yeah i forgot to tell you that, but the bloke said its [sic] the same stuff but over a larger area"
14. Where is your mailbox? In the building reception.
15. What’s a word that you say a lot? Indeed
16. Who told you he/she loved you last? Not gonna say, but I will tell you it was more than six years ago.
17. Last furry thing you touched? Myself.
18. How many drugs have you done in the last three days? One - Ibuprofen. Two if you count alcohol. Three if you count caffeine.
19. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed? None.
20. Who was the last person you had a chance meeting with? Terri.
21. Favorite age you have been so far? I quite liked 22.
22. Your worst enemy? So many.
23. What is your current desktop picture? A motivational message.
24. What was the last thing you said to someone? Thanks.
25. If you had to choose between a million dollars, or being able to fly, which would you do? Fly.
26. Do you like someone? Many.
27. The last song you listened to? InMe - Underdose.
28. If the last person you spoke to was getting shot at, would you jump in front of the bullet? Yes.
29. If you could punch one person in the face who’s in your life right now, who would it be? Bendict
30. IF YOU COULD BE DOING ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Telling you to turn Caps Lock off.
Spore looks like great fun!
Today I went to London to meet up with Psymon for a few drinks. T’was a very enjoyable day, despite my initial reluctance to leave my room and face daylight. I took along my copy of London Pub Walks by Bob Steel — an amazing book which I highly recommend — so that we could check out a few of the recommendations along the way.
We started in The Chandos, on St Martin’s lane. Not a pub featured in the book (what a glaring oversight!) but one of our favourites, and indeed a favourite of a number of our mutual friends. After a drink and some lunch with Psymon’s sister we all took a brief walk up to Leicester Square, then Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street via the Virgin Megastore near the Trocadero, at which point said sister left.
As we were both planning to leave London from Waterloo we decided to take the Waterloo-Tower Bridge walk in reverse. A short(ish!) journey to Tower Bridge had us at our first1 port of call on the walk, the Bridge House, a lovely café cum bar. Interestingly they’re tied to Adnams (somewhat of a rarity to see) so four lines of various Adnams were on offer. It was a nice enough place but not a huge amount of atmosphere, though the staff were very interested to see their establishment featured in a book! Psymon didn’t take too kindly to the decor, either.
We decided to skip a couple of the featured pubs on the walk as time was pressing, and had we visited every establishment we would undoubtedly have been rather inebriated before our return to Waterloo, so next up for us was the Horniman at Hays. The Horniman has a wonderful riverside terrace overlooking the HMS Belfast, though for a converted warehouse the interior seemed somewhat cramped. The beers were unremarkable — neither excellent nor poor — but the single thing that caught my eye most (as the pedant that I am) was the atrocious spelling on some of the chalkboards. OK, OK, not the first thing to detract from a pub’s graces, but still the overriding memory I have of the place!
After skipping another pub we came to our final resting place, the exquisite Anchor. The Anchor quickly seduced me with a chalkboard on the backbar reading "Try our pie of the day!". Any pub with a pie of the day wins for me! Chicken and Bacon, with a nice selection of veg, mash & gravy. It was rather busy, but I suspect the proximity to Tate Modern had a lot to do with that.
1I should point out that our actual first stop was the above mentioned Shipwrights Arms, but we did not stay for a drink as it smelled of stale beer and sweat in there…
You can now search for any lyrics you please on the LyricWiki community project from the Lyrics page.
This is definitely the coolest thing I have ever seen.
If you fancy getting involved, there’s one planned for Trafalgar Square, that you should come along to.
I am currently working on some posts from the weekend, just researching links, etc. so to keep you amused until I finally finish those, a very quick posting to say I’ve updated the Lyrics section with one new song.
I promise to put more lyrics in soon, but formatting that initial Lyrics page is proving to be a bitch with my current stylesheet… I may have to look for an automated solution. (like the rest of this site!)
Woop woop! My parents’ card arrived today. Given that my present arrived six days earlier and was posted on the same day I was beginning to think my card had vanished in the postal system so I’m glad it’s finally here. I think this card is the only one I’ve ever had that was written by my father! If he’s ever written one before I don’t recall — it’s always been my mother’s handwriting on cards, presents, etc. so it was nice to see his hand on there for a change.
I went to Staines today, to spend some of my birthday money. I always seem to end up there when I have nothing to do with my day, and in some ways I’m glad that the trip gives me something to do because the last three times I’ve gone I’ve come back with nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Rein. Etc., etc. This time was slightly different, as while I didn’t manage to get anything fun and exciting for my birthday I did at least pick up a few essentials — kitchen stuff mostly.
Tonight is the ‘Burberry Bash’ in the Students’ Union. What a load of tosh! It’s a come-as-a-chav night, which couldn’t be more repugnant to me. Somehow I think I’ll miss that one out. Amusingly one of my flatmates asked me what a "chav" was (I should point out this is his first year living in Britain) and I had a hard time finding a reasonable and polite way to explain it while not chuckling at the absurdity of explaining the term.
Well that’s all. After a week of trying I just can’t make this post seem more interesting.
