Chris’ Blog

Saw this in the Ram Bar found it rather amusing, thus sharing.

More Uni news later.

… to University this morning. Bye.

(21:59:40) Me: Tempted to get a 2.1 system but I cba to carry a sbuwoofer around
(21:59:49) Me: *subwoofer
(22:00:29) Arthur: hmm
(22:00:47) Arthur: Headphones?
(22:00:53) Arthur: for carrying around
(22:00:53) Me: erm
(22:01:02) Me: I mean carrying to and from uni
(22:01:17) Arthur: ah, lol
(22:01:25) Me: I don’t randomly wonder around with speaker strapped to my head
(22:01:59) Me: well at least I hope not xD

I thought it was obvious.

I tried to play a DVD last night on my newly upgraded Ubuntu, it was horrible. I checked the usual stuff DMA was enabled it was, looked at the debugging info from Xine which didn’t really help.

Google is my friend in times of need, turns out I need to disable the X composite extension for frglx (the ATi binary driver) to work properly. An hour and several reboots later this simple fix fixed it, always they way.

Ohh and I found this page useful, but I prefer to keep it simple.

Kinda need to get last stuff minute stuff for university my memory is terrible so here it is:

• Laptop Bag
• Laptop Battery
• Mouse
• New keyboard - possible this one is a bit stinky
• Blu-Tac
• Some new posters (dig some spares out of my cupboard)
• Speakers - current ones will not stand the battering of traveling

Must be stuff I have forgotten, I also need to purchase a TV card and setup MythTV before next Sunday, eek.

Yes you guessed it, or not more likely, I upgraded my Ubuntu installation to the latest unreleased version 6.10 The Edgy Eft. This release is supposed to contain new features which are not as finely tuned as Dapper Drake was I have seen nothing too major considering this is essentially still an Alpha version. My calendar applet has broke meaning I cannot remind myself when I leave for university but thats so well implanted I cannot forget it now :D. The only real trouble I had was the actual upgrade the upgrade tool bottled it and left me with a half upgraded system in a totally confused state, with a bit of dpkg magic I got things moving again.

So, to conclude, I am impressed with this latest version of Ubuntu I just hope the calendar applet gets sorted out.

ASCII needs a method to portray sarcasm in a more natural way *sigh*

(20:16:39) Me: Hey
(20:16:42) Me: I do love EA
(20:16:45) Dave: hi
(20:16:47) Dave: do you?
(20:16:50) Me: yes
(20:16:54) Me: Updated my BF2
(20:17:10) Me: Now everytime a game ends it says there is a problem with my connection
(20:17:36) Dave: not really a good reason to love them…
(20:18:15) Me: sarcasm dude
(20:18:36) Dave: i was joking too
(20:18:41) Dave: double sarcasm ftw
(20:19:31) Me: well I was joking about not knowing that you were being sarcastic
(20:19:42) Dave:
(20:20:17) Me: How confusing

So, you see 3 glorious years ago I was lumbered with being taught French because that was school policy. All was fairly good at the start of term, awesome teacher and I was in top set, yikes. By the end of the autumn term we were told that our teacher was leaving, damnit, he informed us that his replacement was Mrs Wigwam, or was that Mrs Wigram, who gives a toss.

We returned for the first french lesson after Christmas break to find some short, chain smoker, cow with a non existant fuse she was just permanently pissed off. I seem to remember one of my friends suggesting we give her time to … err get worse?

Anyhow french being such a sisyphean task that my brain barely (or less so than normal) functioned during these lesson, this resulted me to produce some really odd quotes. I must admit some sound rather dodgey outside of the context, which I cannot remember, and others were just twisted with a large amount of poetic license. Here they are verbatim from the covers of my mates french book.

1. Tibet is in Quebec
2. If it sounds foreign, it’s correct.
3. Quiche = omelette in a pie.
4. Why do they put French in a French exam?
5. If I went to France, I would have to speak France.
6. Why must they speak France in French?
7. Don’t give me any ideas – Referring to his oral with Wigram
8. Dave’s sword is almost as big as Dave, and Dave’s bed, so Dave is longer than his bed.
9. I once ate a banana over two weeks.
10. Once you’ve found him, you’ve found him.
11. Move your chair dave, I need some room to spread my legs.
12. Move up dave, I’m wrapped up in your legs.
13. I had sex with my cousin the other day.
14. I licked the outside, it tasted like strawberry, I sucked out the middle, it tasted different.
15. I’m like a banana I bend both ways.

16. Me: I want to go the castle

    Friend: well go then

17. While Wigram is writing on the board – Was that writing there 10 mins ago?
18. I bend words, and eat my own cheese, because cheese is fun.
19. Whats this? Its all hard.
20. My cheese is humorous and plastic.
21. I get implants from Silicon Valley, but that’s beside the point.
22. My cheese is Grey.
23. I like eating my cheese yogurt.

So there you have it

I keep returning to this subject, once again I am back, yet I do not claim to be a brilliant driver but I try not to drive like a headless moose on speed. I may not be perfectly straight with the laws of the road, a small amount of artistic license or poetic license if something is very much to be frowned apon. It just happens somebody hogging the middle lane on the motorway doing 70MPH, what are you to do? Stay behind, on the inside (left) naturally, but you must not undertake that is bad. Overtake, well you could, but that involves breaking the speed limit doing ohh 71MPH to pass this guy (or lass) but thats gonna take a while and piss all the beemer drivers off. I cannot win. In comes the artistic license, I mean depress the accelerator some more and ‘open her up’ 80MPH maybe touching a little more. Being a fairly new driver I would be heavily frowned apon if I was caught performing such a speed and therefore I stick to the limits the rest of the time and only do it for as long as needed. Sorry for this just a random musing before tonights moan …

Went out to the cinema and get some grub dropping my friends home going along a dual carridge way with a 40MPH limit at the limit I signalled to move to the outside lane car in the distance performs the opposing motion and undertakes me. We stop about 10 seconds later at a red light (kinda surprised he stopped) him to my left looking like a moron with his crapped up Vauxhall Astra Mk 3. Traffic lights go amber, boom he is off, go green me trundles along (knowing the next set of lights are red) I get to the next set they go green as I draw closer. Muppet then cut me up, ie moved into my lane on the bend of the roundabout without a signal. I think its safe to say he then ‘floored it’ and went speeding towards another set of lights, which a car was travelling at a normal speed through with all the lights and pavements in the way he couldn’t overtake there. So, this is where the madness came in he went onto the wrong side of the road with no hope of moving back over and overtook all the traffic before cutting back in line rather abruptly. He then shot off into the night hopefully overturning and rolling into a brook somewhere or passing a copper no idea which sounds more appealing.

Personally its the “people” (I don’t wish to elevate this self centered plank to the level of civilised people) that drive like this that need prosecuting and having their license endorsed with smarties points. Even with the roads crammed with ‘Traffic enforcement cameras’ they can only catch speeding motorists, or at a push people that jump red lights (no wonder Royal Mail are in a bad financial situation.) I propose a device simply called Twat Cam but then again that sounds like it belongs in the adult entertainment industry, maybe Asshole Cam butthat has the same problem. Ohh heck Moronic Driver Cam, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring too it