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22nd-Aug-2009 10:03 pm - Yo! Sam!
duoshinigami
Imogen Heap has finally released her new album 'Ellipse'. Especially liking 'Little Bird', 'Aha!' and 'Canvas'. Please enjoy:

cryotec
I passed my driving test! *waves tiny flag*
18th-Jun-2009 05:20 pm - Fandom Meme
geekz0r FTFW
From [info]redbrunja  :

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

10, pff. Here are the ones that  come to mind...

Gundam Wing: Duo Maxwell

Repo! The Genetic Opera
: Graverobber

Hikaru No Go: Touya Akira

Seirei No Moribito: Balsa

Inuyasha
: Sesshoumaru

Mononoke: Kusuriuri

Naruto: Kakashi (with Iruka and Tenzou as close second and third)

Soul Eater: Maka

Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin

Firefly: Kaylee

Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series - Eric Northman

Watchmen: Rorschach

Stargate SG-1: Daniel Jackson

Simoun: Wapōrifu

Bit of a mix! Tell me what you think :)

10th-Apr-2009 08:50 pm - Shiny Bones
redtiger
Got the rest of my college work emailed away, and although I might have corrections on it, it's a big relief to get it finished. Woo!

079. Nahoko Uehashi- Seirei no Moribito
080. Lian Hearn- Grass For His Pillow
081. Cory Doctorow- Little Brother
082. Lady Murasaki (trans. Richard Bowring)- The Diary of Lady Murasaki

So that's all the books I've been up to. I'd especially recommend Little Brother (thanks Mo!) which you can download off the author's website. It's full of awesome tech. Go read.


'Fake' by Alex Roots. Nice modulation :D

I'm off to have weekend adventures. See you soon! x
30th-Jan-2009 12:37 pm - INV to LSI @ 17:50, Or So They Say
deathmatch
Whoo, what a relief. That's my second block just about over, and I'm heading home on the plane tonight. Spent the week trying to get as much work finished as possible, so I haven't read much. Not to worry though, with the Amazon voucher Mom and Dad got me for Christmas, I was able to buy many, many new books. Actual impending glee.

Still February is going to be chock-a-block with project work and logbook entries. I look forward to the end of March, and getting everything handed in. Hoping to squidge some excitment in the cracks.

Got my bags packed, and I suspect it's gonna weigh more than 20kg, being that my shoulder cracks every time I pick it up. Since BA has sold our route to FlyBe, they are a lot more strict about such things. Eep.

Have to get back to writing 'Safe Isolation Procedures', which is almost as much fun as it sounds. Have a nice weekend, peoples!
26th-Jan-2009 05:45 pm(no subject)
redtiger
083. Jack Kornfield- The Eightfold Path for the Householder                           
084. Charles de Lint- The Blue Girl                                                                            

Slowly getting better from my flu. Been doing lots of homework, and I had a nice weekend with Chrissy and Ryan visiting from Aberdeen. We walked around the canals, had nice drinks and window-shopped our way around the East Gate Centre. I bought a couple of t-shirts, so clearly I was doing it wrong ;)

Just into my last week at college. Still have a couple of things to catch up with, mostly around three phase theory and earthing, which I'll be working on in the next couple of days. I've been really enjoying this sort of thing:



TN-C: combined PE and N conductor all the way from the transformer to the consuming device.

 
TN-C-S earthing system: combined PEN conductor from transformer to building distribution point, but separate PE and N conductors in fixed indoor wiring and flexible power cords.




I should be headed back home on Friday. It's been an interesting month, I've learned a lot more testing, done some project work, made a little ground on doing regular meditation and writing in Japanese. I would've liked to have done more exercise, but my walk to college every day and back will have to suffice. Right, to the homework pile!

18th-Jan-2009 03:58 pm - A Lame Excuse For A Week
ill
Basically spent the whole week in bed ill (deprived of internets). Slept lots, and in the last two days finally managed to get some of my logbook done. Towards the end of the week I even read some books.

Twilight sort of tastes like fanfiction to me. I even had daydreams of doing comparison charts between Twilight and the Dead series because of the similarities. Vampire first boyfriend, check. Werewolf best friend, check. Heroine strong-type who happens to get hideously beaten up, if not once, then on a regular basis, check. Heh.

085. Barry Farber- How To Learn Any Language
086. Stephenie Meyer- Breaking Dawn
087. Stephenie Meyer- Eclipse
088. Stephenie Meyer- New Moon
089. Stephenie Meyer- Twilight
090. Ma Jian- Stick Out Your Tongue

Still dizzy, but I'm going to go back in to college tomorrow. That's right. HARDCORE.

stripes
091. John Ajvide Lindqvist- Let The Right One In
092. Charlaine Harris- From Dead to Worse
093. Charlaine Harris- All Together Dead
094. Charlaine Harris- Definitely Dead
095. Charlaine Harris- Dead As A Doornail
096. Charlaine Harris- Dead to the World
097. Charlaine Harris- Club Dead
098. Charlaine Harris- Living Dead In Dallas

I might've accidentally spent most of this week reading. I'm not going to keep up this speed, going to force myself to focus on my coursework, which I have rather a lot of. Saying that, I did really enjoy the Harris books. It was all very light amusing fiction, although slightly formulaic. In this case, though, that works. Rather like watching one of your favourite soaps.

On Friday I watched 'Let The Right One In', then on Saturday I read it. I think that the movie had a better effect. It followed the book quite closely, but the ambiguity of the film was nicer somehow.

At college, we've been doing project work (design and plan an installation for a newly built warehouse and old asbestos riddled pump-house) and 3-phase theory (phasor diagrams and the such). When I'm underway with my project I shall post up some pictures. I don't really have great internets here in Inverness- the College have annoying filters and the coffee shops aren't very close.

Also been playing Guitar Hero on my DS. It's very good, but it makes me miss my own guitar.

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