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Knightmare Night
The plan for this evening, for all those that are interested:
Knightmare Night will be running from 8pm to about 11:15pm: we'll be watching season 2, episodes 10 through 16. BYOB, etc. I've even tidied the flat... a little. And Claire's done the washing-up.
But before this, at 7:20pm, we'll be doing a "bottle bank run", to … -
Big.McLargeHuge Lives
Nobody on Earth, not even Gareth, knows or understands what happened to cause the server problems on Big.McLargeHuge yesterday, but, as usual, everybody's blaming me. My apologies to everybody who was inconvenienced by the problems. It's amazing how much damage can be caused by a MySQL server going down... almost all the sites on McLargeHuge …
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Another Knightmare
Peter and I, this time joined by Matt, JTA, Ruth, Andy R, Sian, and Katie watched another eight episodes of Knightmare (the first half of the second series) last night. Highlights include:
First ever winning team: they sucked up, they bribed, and they otherwise twisted the NPCs around their little fingers. Having seen this … -
Spellcasting: A-L-C-O-H-O-L
Last night, Paul, Claire, Pete and I sat down, beer and gin and Dooley's to hand, and watched the entire first series of 80's kids TV game show Knightmare, taking a drink every time:
Team gives directions to dungeoneer that they can't possibly follow. ("Go through the door.")
Team gives wrong directions to … -
Another Fab Weekend
Geek Night (must finish that web site) was great on Friday. JTA and Ruth were away in Shropshire, and so I thought I might stand some chance at Settlers Of Catan (now with the Cities & Knights Of Catan add-on. But Jimmy came, and - despite it being his first ever game of Settlers - …
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How To Sell May Ball Tickets
Every year the Students Union here in Aberystwyth puts on the May Ball, an excuse to dress up and party if ever I saw one, for students. For the last few years this has been held on-campus, in the Arts Centre, Students Union, and the concourse in-between the two. Live music and shows, dancing, and …
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9 Songs
Hmm. Watched 9 songs tonight at a special screening at the Arts Centre cinema.
Synopsis
A couple meet at a concert and go on to have lots of sex and go to other concerts. Their relationship is threatened at a point, when they stop having so much sex and start actually talking, at which point they realise … -
9 Songs
Troma Night regulars (plus Sundeep) only invited to an exclusive cinema screening of 9 Songs tonight at 10:30pm. Send me a text message - or meet me on the RockMonkey ChatRoom - for details (times, places, arrangements).
BYOB. No pizza though. -
Barbeque
As Sundeep recalls, last night was fab. We lit a fire and tried to hold back the tide with it; then, just after high tide, it started coming in again, wildly, and threatened to extinguish our fire, so we moved around the coast a little way. But we ate cheeseburgers and waffles and things, and …
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Sundeep/Katie Burning
As you all know, Bryn's nemesis and everybody's favourite pseudolesbian are having a birthday burning and unchristmas party on the beach tonight. More details here, here, and here (can you tell they've been planning this awhile?).
Anyway; in order to make sure that people know, I'll post this message here: I'll bring all the barbeques you … -
GMail Accounts
People have asked me for GMail invites again, but one of these people's @aber.ac.uk e-mail address doesn't seem to be working, says GMail, so here are some "ready to pick up":
Invite 1 (used) Invite 2 (used) Invite 3 (used) Invite 4 (used) Invite 5 Invite 6 Invite 7 Invite 8 Invite 9 Invite 10 … -
SmartData’s Almost-Free Pens
I've just seen haggling taken to a new level. A marketing company called us up and offered us 100 executive-type pens, branded with our company information, with no commitment to buy. They delivered them, and they're... okay... but they really don't fit the company image. The total value of the pens is £290, and we're …
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Hollywood Pizza And BT Online Billing
If only BT.com online billing provided an XML feed... we could integrate our Hollywood Pizza order call times and lengths into the Troma Night web site.
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Confusion
Don't you hate it when you can't draw the line in your memory between your dreams and waking life: I'm very hazy on last night, and can't remember whether a conversation took place or if I just dreamt it.
I'm more certain, however, on a nightmare I had last night: Claire and I bought a villa … -
Productive Weekend… Perhaps
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Not quite so productive a weekend as I might have hoped, but still - plenty got done. Geek Night on Friday is best described by Ruth. Saturday saw me interviewed by some Theatre, Film & …