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“He talks to himself sometimes because he’s the only one who understands what he’s saying.”

Archive for March 24th, 2006


via [info]lonemagpie

These are the instructions:

  • Put your iTunes/Winamp/WMP on shuffle.
  • Say the following questions aloud, and press play.
  • Use the song title as the answer to the question.
  • NO CHEATING unless the songs you get don’t make any damned sense.
  1. How does the world see me? Crime and Punishment - Fun Loving Criminals
  2. Will I have a happy life? A Stroke of Luck - Garbage
  3. What do my friends really think of me? Friend or Foe - Adam Ant
  4. Do people secretly lust after me? In Liverpool - Suzanne Vega
  5. How can I make myself happy? Found That Soul - Manic Street Preachers
  6. What should I do with my life? I’m finding it harder to be a gentleman - White Stripes
  7. Will I ever have children? Little Willie Leaps - Charlie Parker
  8. What is some good advice for me? Armistice Day - Midnight Oil
  9. How will I be remembered? Model Worker - Magazine
  10. What is my signature dancing song? It’s Bad You Know - RL Burnside
  11. What do I think my current theme song is? Under the Weather - KT Tunstall
  12. What does everyone else think my current theme song is? I Will Hold On - Moxy Früvous
  13. What song will play at my funeral? Keep Myself Awake - Black Lab
  14. What type of women do I like? Pain (Slayer Mix) - Four Star Mary
  15. What is my day going to be like? Frank Spencer Blues Explosion - Shirehorses
  16. Will I ever have love again? Good Date Band? - Moxy Früvous
  17. What type of sex life do I have? Written in the Heart - Midnight Oil
  18. What song would be the title of my own porno movie? It’s Coming Down - Cake But see 7 above, which sounds much more like a porn movie title
Very True Mood: (bored) bored

The browser with the rather unwieldy name of Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th is, as the name hints, here and the usual suspects are talking about it.

This release is feature locked as far as site rendering is concerned. So time to start checking your CSS, etc. I’m happy to see that the problems with the book covers in the side bar are fixed, and as conditional comments are also working now I can hide the covers from older IE versions and show them to IE7. (But remember, if you have multiple copies of IE installed they will all use the version number of the ‘main’ copy. So check your conditional comments are working on separate test machines or use browser cam.)

One bug that’s still outstanding is that links with display:block in some case only respond to mouse hovers and clicks on the text and in other cases respond to hovers and clicks anywhere in the block. I think the deciding factor is float related but I need to create some test cases to check. Unless anyone can point me towards someone who’s already done the work?

Very True Mood: (optimistic) optimistic

I think that some people (thinking about [info]frisbyrat for example) may be interested in these new Roman Seas models. Lovely work. Alas, even at 1/300 scale I don’t have room to recreate Misenum in miniature.

Very True Mood: (impressed) impressed

Oh yes, we (meaning the weavers’ team, “Looming Lovelies”, plus ringers such as myself) won. Our ringers were better than their ringers?

Five rounds of ten questions each. TV and Film: 9/10. Fashion and Textiles: 6/10. Music: 9/10. True or False: 6/10. Picture round on famous dogs: 7/10.

(Oh, and yes the numbers on a roulette wheel do add up to 666, and yes the easy way to work that out if you don’t know it as trivia is that it’s 37×18. And if anyone who reads this needs that explaining I will, but really I shouldn’t need to.)

Then there was getting home which involved cajoling a drunk weasel onto a bus and into a kebab shop for surprisingly good chips (but was she too drunk to remember that kebab shop two doors down from us also had pubpbyngr rpynvef on its menu? Could be dangerous…). Drinking is now banned in the Weaseldome for the immediate future - this applies to me as well for reasons of solidarity and beer gut reduction.

It’s Friday. Thank the mythological deity figure.

Very True Mood: (jubilant) jubilant