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Best product ever!

2007-03-21T14:46:00.000Z

Mmm... Assortedy

So very pink

2006-12-14T14:32:00.000Z

Let it never be said that Woking isn't classy.

Pun pain

2006-12-14T12:37:00.000Z

Ho ho horrendous

Science department notice

2006-11-24T12:03:00.000Z

Optimism abounds.

Sparkly Plasma

2006-11-22T19:03:00.000Z

Sparkly Plasma,
originally uploaded by quixotist.

Crap day. Very crap. Consoled myself with high-voltage toy. :>

Loo graffiti

2006-11-16T23:26:00.000Z

Dan and his fun

2006-11-11T14:58:00.000Z

Strange man. Help.

School dinners

2006-11-03T00:02:00.000Z

Mmm :-)

Stupid company names

2006-11-02T23:50:00.000Z

Edinburgh

Oh no! It might tingle!

2006-10-18T15:37:00.000+01:00

WTF?

Odd door notice!

2006-10-17T12:56:00.000+01:00

LEEKSPIN DOT COM

2006-10-04T22:54:00.000+01:00

LEEKSPIN DOT COM

EIGHT MINUTES SO FAR... CAN'T TEAR SELF AWAY... SEND HELP... AND A LEEK.

Can you tell what it is yet?

2006-10-01T23:03:00.000+01:00

Can you tell what it is yet?,
originally uploaded by quixotist.

Finally fixed my macro adaptor after breaking it a few weeks ago (I got it stuck screwed into something. The solution involved boiling water, ice, and pliers, and probably shouldn't be applied to technology.
Anyway, here is a grainy resulting image which I rather like :)
Enjoy -x-

I am juvenile.

2006-09-16T09:21:00.000+01:00

*giggle*

Which Way?

2006-09-09T11:50:00.000+01:00

Box Hill, Surrey

Do Not Take The Risk!

2006-09-08T17:50:00.000+01:00

Richmond.

Tower Hill

2006-09-06T21:40:00.000+01:00

Whoops. How long has this been wrong? Seems like aeons.
Bored now.

Lebanese Restaurant in Wimbers

2006-08-25T13:35:00.000+01:00

'home-made cream'; I dare not speculate!

Testing blogging by email

2006-08-22T23:40:00.000+01:00

Testy testy test

Test

2006-08-22T15:52:00.000+01:00

Testing

DEEP breath

2005-11-27T22:21:00.000Z

Well, I finally got around to finishing putting up all the photos from my fabulous trip this summer.

All can be found on my flickr profile.

Turkey

Georgia

Azerbaijan

Turkmenistan

Enjoy. Join flickr if you haven't already. Feel free to leave comments/notes.

Tagging is only partially complete, I will go through and be more thorough when I have cleared my backlog for uploading photographs!

x

Stuff and Nonsense

2005-10-27T00:53:00.000+01:00

Haven't posted for quite some time and many things have happened since my last post.

I've moved back to bristol for my fourth year at uni. My new fllat is spacious but spartan. It is, however, fantastically located in the city centre. I have six flatmates. I don't yet know all of their names, but they seem pleasant enough. However, there is an annoyance with getting to uni, have a look at the aerial photo below:

The red blob towards the bottom indicates my flat. The green blob twards the top indicates my lab at uni. The preferred route between the two is clearly the pink route. However the exit I would need to take from the flat building and the entrance I would need to take into uni are both "closed for safety". I cant quite work out how it is "safer" to have a locked door than an unlocked one. Gr. That would leave as the second choice the yellow route which is possible when the car park nearby is open but not when it isnt as then too the route is blocked. This leaves the actual route I take to uni, the cyan route, which is FOUR TIMES longer than the shortest route and involves going down three floors and then up a steep hill, rather than being mostly on the flat (which the pink route is). Grr.

I now have my own bit-of-lab and tomorrow start proper research-project experimenty stuff using expensive and dangerous things. Scary.

I have purchased an account on flickr which can be found here. All old photos are up there and all new photos will go up there instead of the old site. I've put up the photos from Easter, some of which dont suck that much.Below is a thumbnail of my fave with a link.

I have spent a weekend in Edinburgh, with Harry, which was extremely nice, although it rained CONSTANTLY. We went to lots of Pubs. Thsi weekend is lots-of-parties, so no doubt there will be another entry following it.

Also, for your delectation, a screen-grab from the intro sequence to BBC's Poirot, which I recently re-watched all of, as it is fabulous, Art-Decoey, and features (slightly anachronistically) Battersea Power station. Enjoy.

mood: looking forward to the weekend

music: lots of tracks by The Boy Least Likely To

More google earth pretties.

2005-09-24T15:40:00.000+01:00

Sigh, this programme is too addictive.

Here are some more pretty waterways:
The mighty Brahmaputra, northern Bangladesh/India

A section of the longest man-made waterway, the Kara Kum canal. A miracle of engineering sadly contributing to one of the worst ecological disasters of our time.

A rather more famous canal:

One of the more interesting stretches of canal in London:

Ladytron *rocked* last night. They played five tracks:

Blue Jeans

Sugar

Playgirl

Destroy Everything You Touch

Seventeen

Destroy... and Seventeen were announced beforehand, and Sugar was obvious, but it was a great surprise to hear Playgirl. Fabulous. I got a bit drunk, but never mind.

Mood: mixed

Music: Tom Vek - I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes

Photies

2005-09-23T16:09:00.000+01:00

Minor update to photos.bittertwisted.net. Photos taken from when Harry came to visit me in Bristol. We went to Bath. It was pretty.

Music. Wooyay

2005-09-23T15:55:00.000+01:00

Iggy has given me a DVD containing all of the music he has acquired in the last year that I do not have. The DVD refused to read without generating a billion CRC-errors. It was grubby. I cleaned it with optical plastic cleaner and an optical cloth. No improvement. I cleaned it with gin and a tissue, it read perfectly. Moral of the story: in all situations, have gin to hand.

When I am done with the slihgtly daunting task of renaming and sorting pout 796 mp3s, I will have almost two days worth of listening to do to catch up. The dvd includes new albums by some of my favourite current bands, as well as a plethora of stuff I have never heard of due to becoming enormously behind on music this year (I havent been to a gig all summer! But I am booked in for an Editors gig the weekend I get back to Bristol. The editors are fa.. very Interpol/Joy Division-esque.)

Tonight is popstarz, and *terribly* exciting as Ladytron shall be playing. Yay. I havent seen them live in over two years, which is rather remiss of me. Their new album is definitely their best, surpassing even 604, which I was convinced they could not. In preparation for two days of indie-,music catching up, and much indie-music bopping tonight, I am having a classical music afternoon, currently playing through Mendelssohn's violin concerto, which is beautiful and fabulous.

I have read a rather good book this week: Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure is a fascinating and disturbing book, and a natural follow up to his equally, if not more brilliant Darkness At Noon which has for a long time been amongst my favourite books ever. The books are extremnely political, with pause for thought on the morality and ethics of revolution, ideology, and survival.

Everyone ought come to popstarz!

DJing, Google Earth, Stuff.

2005-09-21T13:55:00.000+01:00

Windypops on monday was rather good fun. I played a slightly reduced setlist as too many people wanted to DJ, but i think the reactions were overall positive. It was Bump's birthday, so he is now terribly old, but seemed to enjoy himself *coughWhorecough*.

I have been playing with Google Earth which is terribly great fun. here are a selection of images I have come across:

Fab 3D rendition of Mt. St. Helens:

A set of images zooming outwards over the MOST TEDIOUS LANDSCAPE EVER. Click to zoom out. It's infinite agriculture!

A set of pretty rivers I found:

Poole, Turkey etc., and France photos still to come when I can be arsed.

on Autumn, and terribly bad fonts.

2005-09-17T13:26:00.000+01:00

I strongly dislike having to wear a jacket when I leave the house, it reminds me that we are in that state of inorexable decline known as "autumn" where everything gets progressively darker and gloomier and colder and damper until I have to start on the citalopram again, and today is so cold that I am wearing a jumper *indoors*. Retro/Popstarz was fun last night although I did get rather drunk. Tonight is Laurie's birthday house party thingummy in The Arse End Of Nowhere, which promises to be fun.

Today whilst shivering in front of my computer, I discovered somethingawful's font website fake page. My eyes bleed, but I giggle. Click the scary .gif to go see:

My personal favourite must be this one:

Caption: "Unnecessary Flourishes": Some people don't like this font. We know they just don't understand your poems about wicca and rape.

I also,whilst reading some of the ~~unmitigated crap~~ statements my MP for Wimbledon has been saying in The House, happened across the delightful turn of phrase "magnificent anorak", which was nice.

Mood: Meh @ The Gays & The Weather
Music: Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Opening

2005-09-16T18:56:00.000+01:00

New blog. New resolutions. I will not allow myself to develop the vast backlog of photos that need uploading sensibly that I am now clearing out again. I shall attempt to post at least semi-regiularly. I shall attempt to resist the temptation of the Drunken Emotional Post and the Crap Meme. I shall thus aim to keep this blog content and interest rich and self-pitying nonsense light.

I've started clearing out my enormous backlog with teh easiest bits: the photos that were already resized, or were already on the web somewhere but needed better organising. Thus these photos are ones that may have been seen before as most of them have been online in some form or other for a while. From now on, *all* photos will end up on photos.bittertwisted.net, hopefully soon after being taken.

New sets on there now online are:

Greenwich Sunset: A set of photos taken this Easter whilst out with Phil (all bar one new to the internet).

Clifton Night Walk: Photosoc excursion last year (all previously online but in scattered locations)

Westonbirt Arboretum: (ditto)

Sicily: Family holiday to Sicily last september (all previously online)

Cat's Back Pub: William at the Cat's Back Pub in Wandsworth, Last summer (online previously, but concealed)

OUTInTheUK Trips: OUTInTheUK trips organised by Geeky to Culham (UK Fusion research, includes the famous JET project), the Victorian Sewers in Brighton, and CERN (previously online but scattered)

Still on the backlog but to be uploaded soon are my family easter holiday to Poole and Purbeck, my trip with Jon to Turkey, Georgia, Azernbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and my recent family holiday to Uzès, France.

Longer-term housekeeping on the photos site includes putting captions on the (vast number of) pictures and directories that currently lack them.

This blog is syndicated to livejournal with a username of quixotic_me for those of you who wish to read it via an LJ friends page. My old account there remains so that I can read friends-only posts there but will no longer be updated.

Tonight: Popstarz, to congratulate Laurie on making it to extreme old age, and to dance like a gay to predictable indie.

Music: Ladytron - Soft Power (from Witching Hour)