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In ur office not doing ur workz

Belatedly, and perhaps not terribly excitingly this is my new office (note the lack of “ra” and thus entirely SFW).

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Moimoi

Inspired by someone else’s meme-ing (which has now vanished so I won’t link just incase there’s a specific reason she’s deleted). I toddled over to Sunday Stealing and stole an older one.

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Blackjack

I decided that this week I was going to do a video of my world. I sort of have, but with a few missing continents. If I actually filmed what I did this week mahoosive chunks of it would have involved; me staring at a tiny computer and trying to think, being distracted from thinking by listening to Radio Four podcasts, eating, sleeping, accumulating enough bits of newspaper to run my own newsagents*, eating Brie, swearing at my phone, and cat annoyance. Continue Reading…

Compass Rose

This was going to be another video. The technical hitch this time is that my ‘office’ has been taken over by the build of a new Media Centre PC*. I did actually film something, but since it was about my DVD collection it was in fact dull as the proverbial. Actually it was duller, dishwater would have been enigmatically fascinating. I and my DVDs were not. Plus it made, my face ache. I don’t know why. I honestly don’t. I wasn’t gurning with embarrassment (although I probably should have been).

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A Book Tour

I’ve had to use YouTube this time, and thus it might only let 25 views happen. If it does behave awkward, and you do want to see itlet me know; though bare in mind the title y’know there’s no nudity or anything salacious (unless badly stored books do it for you).

EDIT: I’ve put it on public but will switch it back off again towards the end of next week, I’m not a massive fan of youtube but until I work out why Cinocopa is making the sound go weird I’m stuck with this.

EDIT 2: It’s now on private but if you urgently desire to see my book collection in all its untidy glory email me, or leave a comment here.

Further Adventures of MCCCXCIV

We bought a new card, and cable. With some effort it was fitted into the computer; it seems that Dell don’t envisage anyone ever wanting to add stuff, which suggests that they don’t really hang out much with proper IT geeks for whom no electronic device is entirely finished until everything inside has been swapped and overclocked to within an inch of its life. It surprises me that as yet our washing machine doesn’t do the clothes in about ten seconds and produce a read out of everything washed.
So the card (which came from Germany, because in eBay world only Germany and China seem to exist) is installed. Well actually it’s not at the moment. It’s sat there, but unplugged from the board, because it keeps restarting the computer every time it gets turned off.
Which is amusing the first five or six times, but less so after that point. After that point comes the sensible approach, which is followed by cursing the card in half remembered GCSE German (just incase the malevolent little bugger happens to have tiny pcb ears). Which itself is not a lot of cursing, apart from the only two swearwords my, very remiss, German teacher taught me (Schweinehund and Scheiße). Though given that my French teacher tried to convince me that the worst swear word available in France was Zut, at least that’s two actual expletives.

In the meantime, until we either solve it the sensible way and find out why, or find out how to say “I’ll bring you as much radiator fluid and as many whorish graphics cards as you like if you work” in such a way that the card understands, I am 1394-less.

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To Begin at the Beginning

The quality isn’t great, but I’ve now found my other three cameras that will hopefully be better. The quality of the presentation, ah well that isn’t quite so easily solved with a better camera.
Oh and I don’t know why it’s selected the least flattering image to freeze on, clearly a plugin with a sense of humour.

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