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What else would entice me to break my silence?

For those of us who will recognise ourselves in it. You know who you are.

I could murder a cuppa – and half the population )
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Further to my original announcement,

I have decided that, due to the cultural significance of the day, Friday 13th, the theme should be

"The Supernatural"



Please feel free to interpret this in any way you wish. Costume is optional, if you can substitute a clever gimmick (like actual telepathy or something) ;)

Address and contact details will follow in the traditional manner.
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Birthday Party!


I am supposed to be coming up with a theme for this, but haven't yet. I thought I should stop letting that delay me in giving all you lovely people a date for your diaries.

Friday 13th April
Heartbreak/throb Hotel


Any suggestions for a theme are most welcome.
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Wilson's Party World is proud to present


a McEwan and Graves co-production

The last party of 2006


Yes, I should have posted this ages ago, but [livejournal.com profile] marrog's been telling people that I would be having a party since before she got around to telling me, so at least some of you know.

It has been decided that my flat is too small for the grandeur of the occasion (now that the flat is full of all my stuff) and so an alternate venue is being most graciously provided by [livejournal.com profile] call_waiting and [livejournal.com profile] ratmist in their beautiful new, and giant kitchened, flat.

As usual, the address will follow in a subsequent post, friend filtered to avoid publishing it to All the World.

If you cannot see the address but would still like to come, find yourself someone who can see it and come along with them :)

If you can see the address, please feel free to bring along any and all people you consider to be Good Company, however you choose to define that.

Highlights will include The Gimp Closet and The Amazing Travelling [livejournal.com profile] fluffworld. Those of you who are not able to make it (especially those several thousand miles away) will be sorely missed.

I expect that we will be prepared to receive guest from about 9pm onwards, but will be continuing into the wee, small hours.

Hoping to see lots of you there.

B.Y.O.B

No R.S.V.P. required.
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...but this one did need updating.



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Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and underline the ones you loved.

Read more... )
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The Feral

You are 54% experimental, 54% feral, 50% spiritual, and 10% square!

Roar proudly! You're a Feral! You love to be in nature, and rebel against society. You may dabble in spirituality, but it doesn't rule your life. Neither does hygeine - people are meant to smell this way! Anyone who doesn't is benefiting from the deaths of hundreds of cosmetic testing animals.


The hippie world needs you because you are their link to the wild, and because you can beat our a mean rhythm on the djembe.


If you believe that opposites attract, you probably find yourself around Faerie-children. If you are more inclined to enjoy the company of those with similar attitudes, then other Ferals, as well as the Raver, Treehugger, and Full-blown Hippie are for you.


The other categories are Alternate, Mystic, Neopagan and of course, the Non-hippie














My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on experimental
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on feral
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on spiritual
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on non-hippie




Link: The what kind of hippie are you Test written by pragmaticdreams on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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Yoinked from [livejournal.com profile] saoili.


Cr...Chromium

You scored 21 Mass, 24 Electronegativity, 85 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!

Oooohaaaaah.... shiny! You probably have an incredibly stable and well-maintained group of friends... that probably also don't get out much either. You're not one to get bogged down by a problem. Of course, I'm basing this upon Chromium's ultra-low water-exchange constant and it's corrosion-resistant properties, and I wouldn't be too surprised if the analogy doesn't even apply.






My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on Mass
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on Electroneg
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on Metal
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 99% on Radioactivity

Link: The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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Today I got to expound upon Ron Edward's GNS Theory of gaming in a job interview. Who would have thought that would ever happen?
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For those of you with busy Friends pages, who may have missed this the first time around...


Party Invitation )
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I died in the Dungeon of Time For Tea

I was killed in an insect-bored tomb by Electronblue the owlbear, whilst carrying...

the Wand of Gingerfifer, the Crown of German Delight, the Shield of Thorn11, the Armour of Julie Bee, the Shield of Tequilamonster, the Wand of Games, the Dagger of Wyrdo, the Wand of Films, the Sceptre of Stuff, the Axe of Civi, the Wand of Scuba Diving, the Amulet of Films, the Sword of Taliesinn, a Figurine of Luciddestiny, the Sceptre of Rpg, the Dagger of Inkstained, the Amulet of Stuff, the Sword of Craigoxbrow, a Figurine of Microgirl, the Armour of Sleazyweazel, the Armour of Games, the Axe of Games, a Figurine of Blearyboy, the Dagger of Ubiquitous Cat, the Axe of Games, the Amulet of Books, the Shield of Rock Climbing, the Amulet of People, a Figurine of 0olong, the Crown of Lucifer Viola, the Shield of Films, the Armour of Conpulsion, the Sword of Kshandr and 525 gold pieces.

Score: 512

Explore the Dungeon of Time For Tea and try to beat this score,
or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon...
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Paul and I are finally getting around to having our proper

flatwarming party



It will be on

Saturday the 1st of July



and we will be most pleased to see as many of you there as possible*.


The theme is "party". Costume should be from the category "clothing", although you should not feel too tied to this if it proves to be a problem. Suitable props might include "alcohol" and "snacks".


Please pass on this invitation to people that know either or both of us who might/will not have seen this post. Also, please feel free to bring additional people who we haven't met yet**.


The address will follow in a friends-locked post to avoid publishing it to the World at Large. Please feel free to share it amongst yourselves.


* There will already be some notable absences, but we're trying to not take it too personally ;)

**with the simple requests that they are interesting in some way*** and that you would be happy enough to have them at a party of your own.

*** examples of "interesting" include, but are not limited to, witty, charming, decorative, proficient on the nose-flute, naturally a sort of silvery-blue colour or a genuine 'Nam vet, prone to (non-violent) flashbacks.
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A press release I was sent this morning which is soon to appear in the journal BMC Biology. I thought it was rather interesting and I'm sure it will have an influence on interpretations of Auspex ;)

BIOLOGY - Vampire bats recognise their prey's breathing



Vampire bats, the only mammals to feed exclusively on blood, including human blood, recognize their prey by the sound of its breathing. In a study published today in the open access journal BMC Biology, vampire bats of the species Desmodus rotondus could recognise recorded human breathing sounds much better than human participants could. Vampire bats feed on the same prey over several nights and the authors of the study propose that the bats use breathing sounds to identify their prey in the same way as humans use voice to recognise each other.

In a study conducted by Udo Groeger and Lutz Wiegrebe from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, two vampire bats were taught to associate recordings of different humans breathing with different cattle blood dispensers, providing food rewards. They were then played short clips of people breathing and had to associate them with the correct individual by going to the correct dispenser. Four human participants were asked to associate the same short clips with the correct individual.

The vampire bats were able to spontaneously associate the clips with the particular individuals, regardless of whether the individual was recorded breathing at rest or breathing while under physical strain. The human participants were also able to recognise some clips, but they were unable to recognise the clips of breathing recorded under physical strain.

Full article will soon be here.

Classification of human breathing sounds by the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus
Lutz Wiegrebe and Udo Groeger
BMC Biology 2006, 4:18 (22 June 2006) doi:10.1186/1741-7007-4-18
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Impending Birthday


Having a birthday seems to be the New Black at the moment, but I have no choice but to jump on the bandwagon.

It also seems to be the Done Thing to go away for Easter Weekend. Hmm.

My (revised) plans for this year's Festival of John are as follows.

Drinks in a pub in Edinburgh on Thursday evening, being the day itself. You are all invited. I am open to suggestions as to which pub. If there are no other ideas, it will be Doctors.

Friday spent tidying the house, then going to visit my Parents in Blair Atholl. You are not invited for this phase of the plan.

Party in Polmont on Saturday evening. If you can see the locked post with directions to follow, you are invited to this, as are you people who know that you would be invited but have chosen, for whatever personal reasons, to not have LJ accounts, or to withhold your LJ accounts from me.

To Recap...

Drinks in Doctors on Thursday


Party in Polmont on Saturday


Hope to see you at one or both.
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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Neat Facts
1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics
1873 - Colfax Massacre
1970 - The oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril.


Births

1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

and I reckon these should count as one
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate

One especially for [livejournal.com profile] megglesmcgoo
1519 - Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France

and one for [livejournal.com profile] rpgactionfigure
1892 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander in World War II

Death
1938 - Grey Owl, proponent of nature conservation
"Sajo and her Beaver People" is a lovely book, but very sad.
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You scored as Storyteller. You're more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You're quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story that moves like it's orchestrated by a skilled novelist or film director.

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Method Actor

83%

Storyteller

83%

Casual Gamer

50%

Tactician

50%

Specialist

33%

Butt-Kicker

17%

Power Gamer

0%

Law's Game Style
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My fence-sitting comes to the fore again with exact splits between Storyteller and Method Actor and between Casual Gamer and Tactician.
time_for_tea: (Long Island)
My beautiful, little laptop has arrived!

It's an IBM Thinkpad X22 found on EBay. It is very light and portable, and even seems to have a fairly decent battery in it. The system claims that it will do another 2 hours and 13 minutes on the 73% of charge remaining.

My morning train journeys are changed forever!
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