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[Jul. 24th, 2008|08:56 am] |
I'm Fechtbuch and
I'm a Sailfish.
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FlickR mosaic meme (from birthday boy ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thermalsatsuma) |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|08:49 am] |
My mosaic
If you want to play too, type your answer to each of the questions below into a Flickr search. Using only the first page, choose your favorite image, then copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker (3 columns, 4 rows). Leave a comment if you play, so i can have a peek.
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you attend?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you
12. Your Flickr name |
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[Jul. 23rd, 2008|10:10 am] |
Leaving aside any comment on any allegations made against the actor Christian Bale, here is the best newspaper splashboard ever. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2008|03:09 pm] |
I was on the train in to Victoria station this morning when I noticed a plume of smoke in the window, just like that produced by a steam locomotive. I looked up and saw this loco, pulling a long train of vintage carriages into the station. I made a note of the name and looked it up. Didn't take down the number, though. Then I drank my weak lemon drink.
Managed to find a bit of footage of the Bittern running, too. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2008|05:04 pm] |
Anyone see the first University Challenge match this year? City University team had a big win against a decent side from Hull. I think they should go a long way this season. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
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Happy National Loan Wolves Day! |
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| Loan Wolves ? - ? Loan Wolves |
[Jul. 9th, 2008|02:08 am] |
We turned up to play Raiders Green tonight, but they hadn't been able to field a full team and so they didn't show. We had a seven-a-side practice match instead (not sure what the score was). The default win makes our record 5 - 3 for the season, but it would have been nice to play the match rather than just take the default. |
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| Weekend of sport |
[Jul. 6th, 2008|10:25 pm] |
Softball tournament on Saturday. Advertising industry league, but they were short of teams so we got to play. Early morning in order to get to Barnes Bridge for nine. I had my new pull-along bag, a bargain at £12.00 from Sainsbury's. And when I scraped a hole in it the first time I lugged it down some stairs I realised why it was so cheap. But it did a good job otherwise of carting bat, glove, chair, rug, food and all the other necessities of a day spent in an exposed field in unpredictable weather. Once again, our team for the day was short a few Wolves so bolstered by Meteors. Who brought their own bats, which meant a fair number of bats between us. Averaged to one bat for every second player. The other ones were given some ammunition and told to pick up bats when they could from their fallen comrades...
We won our first game, lost the next three, and ended up in a play-off vs Comer's Homers - our rivals since they (a) poached two of our players over the winter and (b) decided to play in orange and black, claiming it was coincidence and the fact that two of their team had been wearing black and orange as Wolves since 2006 never occurred to them. Yeah, right. Anyway, we didn't manage to beat them, so our tournament ended there. We stayed to watch Kevin play for the Digitas Devils who were a man short vs the Homers in their final, getting a home run and the winning out. Afterwards, I left to have a bath, make dinner and watch Doctor Who on iPlayer.
Today I watched the Tour de France (Eurosport had highlights of day one, plus today's stage), the British GP and the Wimbledon final. |
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[Jul. 4th, 2008|09:51 am] |
Quiz win last night on a tie-break. We scored pretty well, with a minor grouch about a geography question. We thought the "smallest, flattest, dryest continent" was Antarctica. But it was Australia. It was the "dryest" bit that threw us. We were sure that was Antarctica, because of its lack of rainfall.
I scraped us a point by my knowledge of cheesy music - remembered who sang this one...
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| July 9th - National Loan Wolves Day! |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|12:17 pm] |
Last year on July 9th, we achieved our first ever victory in a softball league game. At some point in the pub afterwards, we decided that 9th July would forever be National Loan Wolves Day in celebration of this glorious turning point in our sporting history. All Wolves are to wear their team shirts that day, whether we're playing or not. All friends and fans (do we actually have fans?) of the Wolves are likewise invited to wear orange that day, in honour of the team's past (and future) success.
So, if you count yourselves among our fanbase, wear your orange with pride next Wednesday!
(And wish us luck against the Fat Cats tonight, too...) |
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| Well, I got my alien invasion and explosions... |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|12:38 pm] |
For all its weaknesses, I rather enjoyed this week's Doctor Who. I trust RTD to screw it up next week, of course. And if he hurts Sarah Jane, I'll be very annoyed indeed. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2008|05:06 pm] |
Andy T turned up to the pub quiz on thursday, which was a nice surprise, him living in Argentina and all. He seemed well and happy.
On Friday, I was at a creative thinking course at work.
( Solving metaphorical problems ) |
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| Beautiful Dynamite |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|07:41 am] |
Cyd Charisse has died.
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| Revenge! |
[Jun. 12th, 2008|09:00 am] |
No, not on Tribold - that can wait till the rematch.
( Revenger's Tragedy ) |
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| Zombie apocalypse meme, from thermalsatsuma |
[Jun. 7th, 2008|05:11 pm] |
You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon.
2. One song blasting on the speakers.
3. One famous person to fight alongside you.
1. One of these...
2. A bit of this...
3. Shall we dance?
Mind, if we were allowed fictional people and kit, I'd just take a lightsaber and...
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