You hear that, Mr Andersen?

T-shirts, No 2nd Flatwarming Yet

Even though crew gear and vendor swag has accounted for my t-shirt wearing needs for the forseeable future, I'm really tempted by the Boolean Operator t-shirt. Actually, the "Status Quo Now!" and "I'm not your damn search engine" tees from Non-Zero Chance are also tempting, as are "Not a Doctor" and "The monkey represents sharing" from TopatoCo, and a number of items of quality merchandise from ThinkGeek.

I will exercise my traditional herculean restraint (or Brobdingnagian lethargy) and not do anything.

(Actually, I guess Hercules wasn't exactly famed for his restraint, so perhaps I should go for a different adjective. I'd do with "Tantalian", but I guess that he wasn't restrained so much as under restraint. Classical scholars, answers on the back of a postcard, please. Or a comment, either will do. :)

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I investigated getting LiveJournal to read the RSS feed, but it looks like that requires you to have a paid account, so that (said John) is that.

It occurs to me that it might be a useful exercise to write a little perl script to read the RSS feed and post it automagically to the LiveJournal copy - I'm sure knowing how to do that kind of web automation would come in handy for other things. Unfortunately, I don't see a big chunk of time freeing itself up in the near future... there's a bunch of stuff I should be writing right now. Which is presumably why I'm writing this, rather than doing that stuff. ;)

(Huh, looking for the A.A. Milne poem referenced above gave me a poem defending cats, and incidentally musing about Christian morality. How can you not like a medium that has this, a collection of pictures of silent movie stars, and the Uncyclopedia? Hmm, okay, I guess asking that question on a blog is kind of dumb. ;) )

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Didn't get to Breaking News last night, owing to the other party having a migrane, and to me having a "was out until after midnight the previous evening", a disorder that becomes more and more debilitating the later in life it occurs - like chicken-pox, only much more rarely fatal.

Chatted to my flatmate today, and he seems ambivalent to the idea of a flatwarming - he claims he doesn't know many people. I'm tossing up between having another biggish gathering (so he can meet people), a slightly smaller cocktail party (since I've been planning to do that for a while), or holding off until the French chemist comes, and having some sort of do at the end of April.

I guess they're not mutually exclusive. Well, apart from the "holding off" bit. ;)

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Mum just called, and she and Louise are heading out to the Lyall Bay Warehouse, so I'll hang out with them for a bit, and then it's off to Hix's party in good old Aro Valley. I don't miss the mold that grew on my shoes, but I kind of miss living in that area.

Anyway, possibly more later. :)

Posted by svend at March 26, 2005 1:58 PM