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blanky
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Posted: 8th Oct 2006 01:24 Edited at: 8th Oct 2006 01:27
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Ok. So what's the most impressive thing you did this week?

(Just trying to find out how interesting you lot actually are.)

I know I'm terribly boring.

Included: Screenshot of 'Fighting Through Darkness' exe (from the WIP boards) running on Wine, on amd64 architecture Gentoo Linux. Yes, 3D works very well. Yes, it's smooth. Yes, the cursor is locked to the centre of the screen so I can't click any menu items, and the one time I managed to get and click the 'Start Game' button (NOT EASY) Wine threw an exception and crashed.




[edit] For anyone who cares, basically I d/l'd the DirectX April 2005 Full Installer (not Web Installer(!)) from www.microsoft.com, used cabextract on all the .cab files (UGH) (because the installer would claim to have succeeded while changing/adding exactly nothing), used winecfg to set environment to 'Windows XP' and on the Graphics tab forced a virtual desktop of 1024x768. Then it worked..somewhat. [/edit]

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 8th Oct 2006 01:51
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Is this sort of like "The Official blog your week thread"?

My week was extremly interesting. I spent all of it on my ass in front of the PC recovering from a neck injury, but am now back in action chasing squirrels through the woods.

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Peter H
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Well, i guess that depends what you think is interesting eh?

let's see, umm, i just got back from the lake. I tried about 5 times to slalom by "dropping a ski" (slalom = 1 ski if you were wondering, obviously i can do 2 skis like most people) but after i dropped the ski i could never get my back foot back into that slot before i fell over... once i was balancing on one foot for about 5 seconds

anyway, i had some really interesting wipeouts.

i was told by the people in the boat (couldn't tell at the time) that during one wipe out i did a horizontal roll in mid-air, then landed on my back, i only remembered the landing on my back part though

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Hmm. Finished two tunes, past the first few stages of recruitment into a top IT company (CV and online IQ test), kicked my mates ass at pool. Nothing particularly special. I would like to say I made a giant orange sparrowhawk and harrassed the local military camp with blindingly bright dive bombing runs, but alas I fear my 4 channel RC transmitter wouldn't be sufficient to control such a beast.


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Killswitch
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I've had two 18th birthday parties in two days - and on both occasions I've gotten so drunk I can't actually stand up. I've had to spell check this about 4 times just to make sure it was legiable! Whey!

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Played a decent show last night and talked a bit with Sylvia Massy (for those who dont know, she produced the first TOOL album), who kept saying we should really get produced... dont know if that means by her or not, but hey.


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Well, lemme see...

Finished a vip cut of one song. Got the news that another song would be featured as track of the day in ambient at garageband. Sang a middle e without cracking. Bought a pimp shirt. Hit on a few girls. Discovered Counter Strike Source. Ended up right in the middle at a fencing tournament last weekend (which wasn't too bad considering how strong the tournament was). Anddd I guess that was it


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Cian Rice
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Well... I played the Wii. Had alot of fun with Excite Truck and Metroid Prime 3. That's the highlight of my week. <_<

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I achieved the first level of self motivation.

formerly KrazyJimmy

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found a P4 laptop on a junkyard that has a missing harddrive.

i fixed that and it works. Plus the laptp came with a win XP SP2disk

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Posted: 8th Oct 2006 08:47 Edited at: 8th Oct 2006 08:48
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Quote: "I've had two 18th birthday parties in two days - and on both occasions I've gotten so drunk I can't actually stand up."

How old do you have to be to drink where you live?

Quote: "Well... I played the Wii"

How did you get ahold of that?

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I went out for my birthday yesterday. The club had a beer drinking contest up on the stripper stage. It was me and 4 other big angry young military guys. I slammed my beer, and of course I won. I proved that I'm not just a drunk, but a drunk with skills


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Lost in Thought
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I actually got to work on time one day this week

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Drew Cameron
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I filmed the first episode of a new series with Paton, fixed up websites, played Poker lastn night and worked all week 9-4. Went to girlfriends birthday party sleepover and had pizza at a resteraunt with a friend from Southampton.

It was an unusually good week though. Usually they are pretty samey.

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I worked all week.

And now I'm feasting on ribs, salmon, turkey, cheese cake, beer, and cigars


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Chris Franklin
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Gcse's (Very important stuff/ coursework) and biked it around everywhere as well as start a new project and rejoin here =)

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El Goorf
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i watched a girl loose her virginity in the school common room

that is to say her.. wax virginity...
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Posted: 8th Oct 2006 12:05 Edited at: 8th Oct 2006 12:07
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Quote: "How old do you have to be to drink where you live?"
I take it you are American. Pretty much everywhere else can legally drink in bars a lot younger (apart from the places where they chop your hands off and stuff). It's 18 in the UK. And a fair bit younger than that in your own house or somesuch. Just to balance it up a little we aren't allowed to learn to drive until we are 17. And I don't think you can get married without parent's consent until you are 18 (and 16 for sex).

I once heard that alcoholics in Russia are advised to use beer to recover as they don't really consider it real alcohol (like Vodka). Whether or not that is true doesn't matter; it's cool enough that it should be true.

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Quote: "and at this point I muster all my energy left, open my eyes, and get out of bed"
And at this point I assume you flounced all the way down to the amateur dramatics society. Heh...

Oh, and I can't say what the most impressive thing I did this week. Sorry. The second most impressive thing I did I can't show you, but lets just say it's better out than in. Yes, not *all* full time programmer geeks are having an extreme sports sex and drug fuelled weekend Maybe next month when my back is feeling better

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I just had a surprise visit to the world's biggest transport museum and it ruled!

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I sat on my arse, doing nothing at all, but eat and sleep, oh and a little forum abuse because I have nothing betterto do right now.

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I found a DVD I thought I'd lost forever (Blood: The Last Vampire incase you're interested) and cut the grass. Last week I gave money to a tramp.

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I leveled to 20 on my Warrior in World of Warcraft

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My wife and I had a baby.

Read all about it here: http://www.myspace.com/luke314pi

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I submitted my first module using CVS to the official Drupal.org module repositry.
http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

And within a few hours overnight it got its first (allbeit small) blog post...
http://www.whatwoulddrupaldo.org/global-redirect-a-solution-to-a-problem-you-didnt-know-you-had

Apart from that, not a huge amount.

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I ate chicken

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Just remember, you are what you eat...


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*groan* --- If I understood that joke correctly.


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I learnt PI to 28 decimal places....and am currently going for 55....
3.14159265358979384626433827950288419....




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Have you googled the Pi remembering thing? Lookup the 100 club, and even the 1000 club. Then go for a pint instead.

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Quote: "I learnt PI to 28 decimal places"

Why? I learned a long time ago that in any situation where I need to know it to more than 2 or 3, I also need a calculator to do anything with it - which itself knows PI to far more accuracy than I do!

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I escorted Mrs Scraggle to York University for their open day on thursday. She want's to be a mature student and gain a degree in Social Work.

So, what's impressive about that?

Well, I fell in love with the campus and made a decision to give up work next year and become a mature student myself. Perhaps a little late in life but turning 40 while at university could be a lot of fun.
Both of us living the student life again ... sounds fantastic!


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Quote: "Why? I learned a long time ago that in any situation where I need to know it to more than 2 or 3, I also need a calculator to do anything with it - which itself knows PI to far more accuracy than I do!"

Cause it is cool to know massive amounts of PI, and intelligence is measured by the ability to recite excessivly large yet utterly usless numbers.

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I did what I usually do.

Get fat, useless, and boring.

I suck.


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So Zen.

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Wow, Scraggle, if that's true seems like this has been a big week for you, not only interesting, but life-changine, lol. Good luck .

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I talked to you.

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Quote: "Cause it is cool to know massive amounts of PI, and intelligence is measured by the ability to recite excessivly large yet utterly usless numbers"
You keep telling yourself that in Math camp Personally I'm off to buy another computer/car/house/whatever.

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i switched bread.

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2.718281828459045... <-- that is a much cooler irrational number to memorize.

i only know it to the 15th decimal but that's enough to be moderately cool.

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I bought a huge bag of funpack size chocolate bars in preperation for the dreaded halloween trick or treaters, and I haven't eat them all yet! Usually I end up scoffing the lot and buying some more.

Boo!
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One time the parents told the children which houses to go to, probably in mass hysteria over their kids getting kidnapped and the like, so I had this big load of sweets and choccies (cos they didn't come to my house as I don't know them, as I don't have kids). Didn't eat a dinner for like a week Probably need dentures now...

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This weekend I drove about 600 kilometres to various houses, feasting on turkey, ham, ribs and washing it down with beer and whiskey. There was a jug of moonshine but I didn't want to touch it


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I included it for the obvious pointlessness, don't take everything you read on the internet as true!

Remember GIGO, Garbage In Gospel Out :p

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Why the unhappiness, Meister Darwinia? You ought to be REJOICING.

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It's just sad that's all I did. Oh yeah, I started a NES emulator, but we all know how that's going.

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I just asked the same question to three guys I saw on the elevator, since they all looked happy about something.
The young man said "I had a great woman this week."
The middle-aged one said "I had a great steak this week."
The old man said "I had a great bowel movement this week."
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Quote: "York University"



My brother tried to get in there after finishing at York colllege but didn't quite manage, he's a brainy chap but he wanted to study music and iirc you have to be amazingly good to get to do music there.

How well do you know York? If you EVER get some free time it's a cracking place to spend the day (ofcourse having some spare money makes it more fun).

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