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08:56 pm
[Link] | A thing which has not happened to me before happened when I was panicking about my Bardcamp packing.
A chap knocked on our door and said he was doing the Coventry Household Survey. Now, I'm sceptical about doorstep callers, but you'd have to be a really intense scammer to make up a list of quite so many odd and tedious questions, and as a government stato I feel I ought to support random slightly uninspired surveys. I can't complain there's never any data if I personally go out of my way to avoid giving them data.
I have a feeling that their survey of Coventry will be horribly skewed to 'Coventry people who are at home and bored enough to answer surveys at 10.30 in the morning', a subset who I don't think are very representative of the rest of us. Anyway, the survey is also on line here, so any Coventry citizens reading this might want to consider filling it in. It's very keen on finding out if you're happy / content / sleep deprived / stressed, so I think filling it in 4 hours before bardcamp, when I was about as joyfully over excited and as sleep deprived and anxious as I get also led to me being slightly unrepresentative...
The chap didn't at any point remark on the fact I was wearing a long rainbow striped waistcoat, of the sort one might have been in the middle of trying on if one was making a clown costume in a hurry. I hope it cheered him up...
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04:43 pm
[Link] | I'm skeptical about the 'LJ gives people a year's free paid account in order to get them signed up to an inertia marketting direct debit scheme'
http://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/23977.html
However, if you're less skeptical and would like my $10 dollars, first 10 commenters can have them. And I won't be in the slightest bit offended if you then decide not to use it. I'm assuming that most people I know who want paid accounts have them already though...
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07:20 pm
[Link] | Hmm, I am failing to write my yuletide story, and at some point I will need a beta reader or two...
Poll #1496777
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24So yuletide... And just so I don't get you to beta a story I'm writing for you... My yuletide name is not my LJ name, it is: So beta-ing and general yuletide filter...
ETA: The 'I'll beta your story' tickybox is there to mean 'if you set up a filter to talk about your yuletide story in more detail and it sounds like there's a cat in hells chance I understand the fandom you're writing in, I might then volunteer to beta your story'. But that was a bit long for an LJ poll box.
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10:31 pm
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Automation of casting matrices
Hi all!
Readthroughs are generally better when people don't spend hours having conversations with themselves-as-different-characters because the person casting did it in a rush. In the past, I have read through scripts and made lots of semi-incoherant tally marks and a few vague assumptions. However, it strikes me this ought to be an easy thing to automate.
( This is what I want to do )
So three questions:
1) Has anyone done anything like this before?
2) If you were going to do something like this, how would you do it technically? (ie program languages of choice, etc)
3) Does my algorithm for how to do it seem fairly sound? Where are the difficult bits I haven't spotted?
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10:39 am
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Laptops and things
I have a desktop computer, and I want a portable computer-type-thing.
As far as I can tell I have two options:
1) Get a laptop type thing
2) Get a really small cool eeeee-type thing.
Oh wise LJ, what do you think I should buy? Recommendations of particular products / packages particularly appreciated.
( what I want / pros and cons )
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07:46 pm
[Link] | Lots of the stuff I keep I keep because it has memories. It's the mask I wore to Peterhouse May Ball, or it's the toy dog that was the most exciting thing I'd ever owned when I got it, (because you could put the puppies in its tummy and take them out again), or it is the rabbit my great nana knitted me. Now, sometimes it is nice to have the thing, as well as the memory of the thing, but I am not sure my life is enhanced by, eg having the Tufty Road Safety game, whereas I think it genuinely is enhanced by having a reminder that the Tufty Road Safety game existed. So I think I am going to blog about things, and then get rid of them, in the quest to have Less Stuff.
Poll #1466408 Blog-a-box!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 74So, where should I do this? And if I filter? House name
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08:01 am
[Link] | No email for the next three days due to house move.
Text me for urgent things, and I'll pick up comments here (comments screened) on Friday hopefully
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09:28 pm
[Link] | For those of you that requested it, a map of the norfolk holiday. Apologies for the image quality - when I'm rich I'll buy a scanner, but it's amazing what you can do with a camera!
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06:06 pm
[Link] | NEVER EVER EVER OPEN A PLAIN TEXT HTML FILE THAT YOU ARE WORKING ON IN WORD.
EVER.
No, not even if you just _open_ it, and don't tell it to save in the slightest. It will still trash your wonderful simple code and replace everything with hugely over prescriptive garbage.
Damn you, microsoft!
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03:20 am
[Link] | Robert BS said this* was fabulous. It is. Apologies to the 99% of the internet to whom this isn't news, but the other 1% desperately need to know
*Literal video total eclipse of the heart.
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10:19 pm
[Link] | 3 things I am currently interested in...
Poll #1406746
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 118Anti-depressants How many people die walking in the mountains in England annually?
What is there to do in New Orleans other than drink chartreuse and avoid vampires? What have I forgotten to take to America? Plane tickets, passport, money, ESTA application, fingers for fingerprints... Help me, LJ, you're my only help!
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09:36 am
[Link] | What do you eat for lunch during the week? Are you bored sick of it too?
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10:51 pm
[Link] | ( Well, it's not really LJ if I don't post bad poetry occassionally ;-) )
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09:05 pm
[Link] | I don't know why some people go out of their way to make other people happy. Often people they don't know very well, or who they don't owe anything to. But they do, and time and time again in my life I find myself enriched by the kindness of strangers, or acquaintances, or people I feel blessed and privileged to be able to call friends.
So thank you everyone, because I know lots of you do this. And a big thankyou to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aiwendel, who has today made a dream of 20 years come true. (Although me finally acquiring a viola may be the stuff of Matthew's nightmares, but we'll elide that for the sake of a gushing post ;-) )
Now all I have to do is make sure I follow the good example of wonderful people and help others when I have the opportunity. And put in the time and effort to make the most of the gifts I have been given.
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08:20 pm
[Link] | Poll #1359034
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 62Which is healthier How many unique props are there in a Buffy season 2 readthrough (eg if a stake is mentioned in 2 separate scenes, it counts as 1, but if two stakes are on stage at the same time, they count as 2)
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10:22 pm
[Link] | We did a poll like this last year, and then ran off and did Easter back in Cambridge anyway. But I am quite tempted by the idea of being in Coventry for Holy Week, so I thought that once again I would investigate who, if anyone, was interested in joining me.
This is a fluffy preliminary sort of post. I reserve the right to not do any of the below if not enough people are interested. And I reserve the right to randomly choose a subset of people to invite if too many people are interested. And I may just choose to go back to LSM like I do evey year.
Poll #1355561
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 57A herd of ticky-boxen, mostly aimed at those we usually spend Easter with, but open to all expressions of interest from people of all faiths or none. ...and some straggling ticky-boxen
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03:39 pm
[Link] | I feel happier than I have done for months :-)
Proper post about the weekend might follow, but I just wanted a placeholder to say thank you to all the people who made it so.
*smiles*
[I'm sure eventually I'll realise it's over and the crash will come, but I am far too closely wrapped in happy memories for that to start yet...]
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10:34 am
[Link] | I am having a big New Year, New Efforts to stay in touch with people. As such, I am taking the miriad of different places I have people's addresses jotted down, and trying to compile them into a System.
Even if you are 100% certain I already have your contact details, I would be very grateful if* you would either leave them (or a link to where they live) in a comment to this post (all comments screened) or email me***
Thanks!
2009, the year of excessive organisation!**
*Assuming that is that you want me to have your address. No offence if not!
** Oh how I will look back on that and laugh
***LJ email should reach me. My contact details are here, if I've put you on the right filter for my real email address.
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12:21 pm
[Link] | Poll #1321742
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 115Liquor chocolates Alphabatising things Buying violas for beginners
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12:00 pm
[Link] | Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Make it stop! Please can you make it stop.
Please can you stop it this ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong make it stop
Please can you stop it this ping pong ping pong ping pong make it stop
Make it stop! Please make this ping pong stop.
And for those who have not heard the whole of Milton's Paradise Lost to the tune of the William Tell Ovature, here it is:
( Paradise Lost )
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