The News and Lightsabers.
I have some good news, and plenty of bad news, unfortunately. However, the outlook is still bright, with occasional grey intervals.
Firstly the good news!
The house I mentioned in an earlier post is now ours. We've paid the holding fee, and given in the forms for references, now all we have to do is wait for the all clear to move in! It turned out we were the first people to view it, so that was quite lucky! However I wasn't quite so lucky, and my name was drawn out third from the hat, meaning I got the second-to-worst bedroom. There's not really any bad bedrooms, as they're mostly the same size, but I did want one at the top of the house, as the bedrooms at the top are a little bigger as well as having built in wardrobes.
I have no idea what the hell I'm gonna do with all my stuff, or my projector. I'll have to find somewhere to put it.
I hope the house isn't too small. I like it, and it's really nice, but it's not particularly spacious, especially compared to the places I'm used to living, and 4 of us is gonna be a tiny bit cramped I feel. However, it's gonna be worth it, as it's bound to be quieter than my current place, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
What I am looking forward to is the garden though. I haven't had any hammock time for at least six months, and I miss it. I loved coming home from work and setting my hammock up on the roof, and looking out to sea. There'll be no roof, and no views, but at least there'll be me, the hammock, and the sunshine. Hopefully. It seems like the summer is over already.
That's all my good news unfortunately. I found somewhere cheap (and not scabby) to live.
The bad news is that my motorbike seems to be fucked. In my previous post I mentioned the tragedy and misshap that had befallen me, an innocent biker just wanting a tattoo. Well today I got round to having a half decent look at my machine. It would appear that the coolant in the reservior is not getting to the radiator for some reason. Most likely is an air lock - air trapped somewhere in the system and stopping the flow of liquid. I also discovered that there is definately a leak in the radiator itself. This is bad. Very bad. It should be covered under warranty, but I've a feeling it's all gonna turn sour on me. The reason being I've had a couple of spills on the bike (once when I first got it, and a drunk driver took me off, and the other time was on Sunday on the way back from Newquay, as I've already explained. However, neither spill caused the leak. The first accident was about 8 months ago now, so it can't be that, and the other one happened after the bike was already leaking. Problem is that I can't really prove that, and the spill on Sunday left the radiator looking a little bit warped.
I know when I take it to the shop, they'll try and get out of the warranty fix by saying crash damage isn't covered in the warranty.
Also, there's only one place I can take it to in Plymouth to get it fixed under it's warranty, and they can't even look at it until the 18th July!
AND FUUUUUCK! FUCKING BLOGGER JUST STOLE THE REST OF MY POST! CUNTS!
I've just spilt an entire cup of water over my keyboard. It still works, but it's acting a bit weird. I think the Ctrl key is stuck down. This makes it very difficult to type, as I have to hit each key totally seperately from the last. If I type too quickly, the PC thinks I'm pressing two keys at once, which if Ctrl is held down, usually indicates a windows command, so all sorts of weird things keep happening. For a fun simulation, try sellotaping the Ctrl key down, and then typing quickly. Hmmmm..... To make matters worse, I'm not sure if I have another spare keyboard. I did have an excess of them a little while ago, and I was begging people to take them away (recycling is good for badgers and ninjas alike). Now I wish I hadn't got them all! Still, the keyboard might sort itself out after it's dry. The remarkable thing about keyboards is providing you wait until they're dry before using them, they're still good after being totally submerged in water.
However I take no responsibility for any of your failed experiements. Successful ones, I will have though. Yoink!
I've finally got round of getting video footage of my lightsaber. Transferring the video from the DV camera hasn't been so easy though. I've managed to get a weird format from it, and that will play in my quicktime player, but it's about 75mb. A touch large for the internet. The problem is that however I encode it, I seem to lose the sound. Also, the only program that will actually grab the video from the camera will only convert it into a number of rubbish quality formats.
Click LIGHTSABER ACTION to see the video. It's 2mb in size, and not very good quality. I'm trying to fix this, but as with a lot of video transcoding, it takes patience, time and a fair amount of fiddling to get the best results.
Anyway, I'm sick of typing on this piece of crap, I gotta go find a keyboard. Later!
Firstly the good news!
The house I mentioned in an earlier post is now ours. We've paid the holding fee, and given in the forms for references, now all we have to do is wait for the all clear to move in! It turned out we were the first people to view it, so that was quite lucky! However I wasn't quite so lucky, and my name was drawn out third from the hat, meaning I got the second-to-worst bedroom. There's not really any bad bedrooms, as they're mostly the same size, but I did want one at the top of the house, as the bedrooms at the top are a little bigger as well as having built in wardrobes.
I have no idea what the hell I'm gonna do with all my stuff, or my projector. I'll have to find somewhere to put it.
I hope the house isn't too small. I like it, and it's really nice, but it's not particularly spacious, especially compared to the places I'm used to living, and 4 of us is gonna be a tiny bit cramped I feel. However, it's gonna be worth it, as it's bound to be quieter than my current place, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
What I am looking forward to is the garden though. I haven't had any hammock time for at least six months, and I miss it. I loved coming home from work and setting my hammock up on the roof, and looking out to sea. There'll be no roof, and no views, but at least there'll be me, the hammock, and the sunshine. Hopefully. It seems like the summer is over already.
That's all my good news unfortunately. I found somewhere cheap (and not scabby) to live.
The bad news is that my motorbike seems to be fucked. In my previous post I mentioned the tragedy and misshap that had befallen me, an innocent biker just wanting a tattoo. Well today I got round to having a half decent look at my machine. It would appear that the coolant in the reservior is not getting to the radiator for some reason. Most likely is an air lock - air trapped somewhere in the system and stopping the flow of liquid. I also discovered that there is definately a leak in the radiator itself. This is bad. Very bad. It should be covered under warranty, but I've a feeling it's all gonna turn sour on me. The reason being I've had a couple of spills on the bike (once when I first got it, and a drunk driver took me off, and the other time was on Sunday on the way back from Newquay, as I've already explained. However, neither spill caused the leak. The first accident was about 8 months ago now, so it can't be that, and the other one happened after the bike was already leaking. Problem is that I can't really prove that, and the spill on Sunday left the radiator looking a little bit warped.
I know when I take it to the shop, they'll try and get out of the warranty fix by saying crash damage isn't covered in the warranty.
Also, there's only one place I can take it to in Plymouth to get it fixed under it's warranty, and they can't even look at it until the 18th July!
AND FUUUUUCK! FUCKING BLOGGER JUST STOLE THE REST OF MY POST! CUNTS!
I've just spilt an entire cup of water over my keyboard. It still works, but it's acting a bit weird. I think the Ctrl key is stuck down. This makes it very difficult to type, as I have to hit each key totally seperately from the last. If I type too quickly, the PC thinks I'm pressing two keys at once, which if Ctrl is held down, usually indicates a windows command, so all sorts of weird things keep happening. For a fun simulation, try sellotaping the Ctrl key down, and then typing quickly. Hmmmm..... To make matters worse, I'm not sure if I have another spare keyboard. I did have an excess of them a little while ago, and I was begging people to take them away (recycling is good for badgers and ninjas alike). Now I wish I hadn't got them all! Still, the keyboard might sort itself out after it's dry. The remarkable thing about keyboards is providing you wait until they're dry before using them, they're still good after being totally submerged in water.
However I take no responsibility for any of your failed experiements. Successful ones, I will have though. Yoink!
I've finally got round of getting video footage of my lightsaber. Transferring the video from the DV camera hasn't been so easy though. I've managed to get a weird format from it, and that will play in my quicktime player, but it's about 75mb. A touch large for the internet. The problem is that however I encode it, I seem to lose the sound. Also, the only program that will actually grab the video from the camera will only convert it into a number of rubbish quality formats.
Click LIGHTSABER ACTION to see the video. It's 2mb in size, and not very good quality. I'm trying to fix this, but as with a lot of video transcoding, it takes patience, time and a fair amount of fiddling to get the best results.
Anyway, I'm sick of typing on this piece of crap, I gotta go find a keyboard. Later!
Ryaninja flipped out at 10:07 pm
Throw me a Stabby Shuriken - 5 thrown so far!
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Ryan you can't take credit for this, because it happened over a week ago, but the blind (window blind, not visually impared person)in the office was blown by the wind and spilt a nearly full bottle of coke over my keyboard. I gave it a bath, dried it out and it works fine. The space bar rattles a bit now, but it's as good as new, and doesn't have all the crumbs under the keys that I've been collecting over the past few months. :)
That light sabre is sweet! XD
I have spare keyboards if you want one. One of them used to be yours.
PS. This reminded me so much of the fat star wars kid.
James, if I remember correctly, it was none other than me who told you this useful scrap of information!
The only reason I know is because I once dropped a keyboard in a bath of water. I left it a week, and it was fine! Although I have a mate who once dropped his mobile in the toilet, then put it in the microwave to dry it out, and it was fine! Unbelievable!
And Foss, are my skills *that* bad? I am a bit out of practice...
Damn. I should've added "except not fat, and not as skillfully retarded" or something.
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