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Hello,

I'm watching Cannibal The Musical and drinking red wine. It's ace.

Hello im listening to the radio and rubbing my eyes.Its average.

Don't fall asleep whilst controlling that air traffic. It'll be like 9/11 all over again.

I've been reading the posts on TISTFC - I did fall asleep! :soapy tit wank:

Everybody's quiet tonight. Thursday night should be party night.

HELLO

Everyone's shit, nobody wants to go out this week. Come to Oxford next Friday for a big end of term piss-up

I'd forgotten about me going to oxford for a piss up. I should stop organising things when I'm drunk. I would go next friday but I'm working. Would take it off but as I only work 2 nights a week and will most probably take off saturday it would be a bit of a liberty.

boo, I'm gonna try and drag some people out for the reggae/ska night at the Zodiac on Thursday how's that?

that's sounds ace, do you have some fit lady college friends? Also any chance of a place to crash? I don't know when the last train is. I'm also quite capable of sleeping anywhere.

Yes I do. You could possibly crash at mine but I have to get up at 7 the next day and you'd need a lift to get back to the tran station.

I expect all my friends will be gayers and not come out though :|

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Get Crystal Cubes off there, it's ace.

I've got a feeling that my computer wouldn't run it. Been working on a few games of my own. Although I tend to loose the interest once I've got something sort of working.

I'm a bit of a world class tetris player. 4000 Lines on Tetris DX. Apparently playing tetris is one of those A* algorithmic maths problems which are impossible to solve and one of my old computer science lecturers used to go on about. Shame I missed that lecture. Makes me feel that the brain is good anyway. Takes fucking hours to get to 4000 lines though (actually I got 4002)

If you want some fun stuff to play then try this http://tcksoft.co.uk/download.php?view.24 the sound by itself is as trippy as fuck.

Anyway enough of the geeky stuff. I need to get back to drinking red wine and watching star trek. Oh.

Next thursday sounds cool though. I could always sleep in the train station. Are your nice little oxfordshire middle class friends ready for the force of crazy nature which is ben though?

There's 11 of you signed in. Someone must have done something interesting today.

I myself made a trip to Sainsbury's where I bought 2 bottles of rather tasty red wine. A half price Inycon Vineyard selection 2005 Shiraz (reduced from £6.99 to £3.49) and a half price bottle of the very nice half price Ernest & Julio Gallo Sycamore Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon, which I've had before and is half price from £7.99 to £3.99.  Also bought a South African Cabernet Sauvignon from the legendary Kent Road shop for a fiver. For backup. Just finished it now, surprisingly nice.

Only got the Sainsbury's cabernet sauvignon left now. Glad I bought the 3rd bottle.

I got up at 11

went and played football 12:30 to 1:30

then I came home

went and played football 4:30 to 5:30

then I came home

went and played football 7:30 to 8:30

then I came home

I bought loads of computer parts so I can be a geek and build my own

Not really Ben. I've been to work and spent most of the day browsing the Internet. I did go out to dinner and eat some very nice Maryland Crab Cakes.

I've got some Californian Shiraz on the go. Unfortunately, the wife has taken to using lots of red wine in her cooking, the good news though is that I always get to look for good bottles to feed that sad addiction...and then finish them off.

 
I thought about doing that, but I have no idea what is good any more. I found  out the other day that even new hard drives don't work on good old ide chains. All this crazy dual shit.

To be fair I can't see theirs that much to learn, theirs only a few bits you need to get right and then the rest is pretty modular. It always surprises me that people are so scared to fuck about with their computers. Even proper technophobes could learn it pretty quick and in a way it's much simpler than trying to delve into the workings of windows when something goes wrong.

But yeah. what did you buy and what are you doing?

Basically bought a complete new kit as I'm using a shitty laptop at the moment and want a better desktop. Spent a fair bit (£1200) but it's a buy now pay later job, so I'll pay it off over 2 or 3 months.

Got a 19" TFT widescreen monitor, tv card, wireless adapter and all that shit.
An EVGA nforce 680i motherboard
A dual core Intel 6400 processor
2gb of RAM
2 x 500gb Seagate HD (on clearance)
2 x XFX 7600GT 256mb graphics cards (going to link up via sli)
Antec nine hundred case (basically has shit loads of fans thrown in)


Should fly once it's set up. Just hope the graphics cards fit in the case ok

I think I'm all geeked out. Might go to bed

Red wine in cooking is ace, although I always feel sad when there alcohol get's burnt off.

2/3 of that Shiraz went into a fab stew last night. So long as you cook it out slowly you don't burn as much of the alcohol off and the taste infuses into the food (especially steak). Yummo!

Yep, in slow cooking stuff it's ace. I always picture the cooking process of the chorizo in my dad's place though. Fry off the chorizo and then poor over the red wine. you see it catch on fire and all the beautiful alcohol break down into flames. Nice and tasty though (shameless plug) and fire is always good fun. They do Morcilla (spanish black pudding) in the same way.

One of the chefs I work with, Nicole, managed to set stuff on fire on 2 consecutive Saturdays back in November. Didn't bother me because I got to play fire fighter.  First was a pair of oven gloves which were left on top of one of the big pan things and slipped  onto the gas rings. Second was a loaf of bread that fell into the back of the oven. I am slightly disappointed at myself for not utilising the fire extinguisher. That would have been fun.

Come on Gladiator and Singingiffy, you must have something to say?

boo, they've gone. Danjackson always seems interested in my rasta jew ways. Maybe he'll talk?

call me jacko benjamin

And I'm always on here at 2.10am because I live by Jamaican time. Had an interesting day Jacko?

not bad, just got in from a night at the local watering hole and to be fair im shit faced! how about you my fellow rasta jew?

ben i must leave you now to pass out on my keyboard!nnightthtjbalfdkjbvcnkdajvck jnk v

I'm fine although got to the classic having to shut one eye to see one screen point.

come out for sebs birthday in swindon tonight (friday)

i'll come out in oxford next week! just give me somewhere to sleep and i'll be sorted

I'll go out next Thursday when i get back from Barca - i have Friday off, you see.

And yes. Come out tonight.

Cant be arsed to start a new thread, anyone still about tonight? what you up to?

im still about, not up to much....by body clock is fucked...wont be tired for another 3 years hours

Im trawling the Rough Trade Shop and My Space for Indie pop :mrgreen:

im just watching old-ish south park its still absolute quality

You know season 11 started a few weeks back? They've done the first 4 episodes. All been pretty ace.

hello i'm doing my essay. its due wednesday so i have to post it off tomorrow (tues) by special delivery i reckon, so i'm trying to finish it now.

where are all you wimps? i'm onto the conclusion thank fuck. my head feels weird, i'm hungry and my mouth aches for some reason. oh and i'm really tired too. i hope we have a printer.

i've still not been to sleep yet. i've never done this before, am i becoming an insomniac?

i was awoken by my alarm, pressed snooze 3 times, prepared for work, went to work, came home, and made burgers.

and they were good burgers.