Jim's Journal

So, kittensofdoom came back from her sojourn north of the border and I decided to welcome her back with a special meal. One of the things she really likes in Marmaris and tried and loved when we were in Turkey was Incik. For those that don't know, those I've had have been Lamb Shank in a tomatoey sauce usually slow cooked and served with rice.

I actually managed to get some Lamb Shanks from Waitrose and found a recipie for Incik that I felt I could implement. I left the meat on the bone and halved all the amounts as I only did it for two.

kittensofdoom loved it. YAY!

Anyhow, I'm sure some people might like to try it so I thought I'd post a link to the recipe. It takes a little while but really only uses one dish! Washing up = negligible.

Bit of drama outside our flat. Neither kittensofdoom or I saw a thing.

Pretty sure I know who they arrested though.

After a break of six months Entropy is back on this weekend at the Porter Butt from 8pm on Saturday. icklemichael, Andy (When Robots Attack) and I will be playing the usual mix of all thing alternative.

We hope to see some of you good folk there!

I unsubscribed from the Bath-and-Bristol-Magic yahoo group today.

I had already unsubscribed from the MTGRULES and DCIJUDGE mailing lists last month but this really feels like cutting the last connections. I really will have to get around to boxing up any cards I want to keep and selling/giving away the rest now.

I feel a little sad.

For those of you are are fans of "Josh"



I have recently purchased Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. kittensofdoom and I will let you know how it turns out.

So, I found out there were no busses up to University today after waiting for one for ten minutes. Given the state of the pavements I got a taxi up the hill (for the second day in a row. GRR) so that I wouldn't miss my 10 o'clock meeting... which was cancelled.

So, this whole week of stuff I've had organised has pretty much been a washout because of snow. To top it off the flat room of our office has lots of snow on it, whenever this happens the roof leaks. This isn't usually a problem - you see tiles bulging - but someone called Property Services and they said the magic word "abestos" so the office has been evacuated for 24-48 hours while they fix it.

Luckily I have tomorrow off work.

Meh. What a day.

Given conversations last night in the pub, I was amused by a story on Massively titled "Is World of Warcraft a religion".

A chap has a thesis on this called Cyberpilgrims.

Well, I have (finally) won some money on the Premium Bonds. I'll be spending my winnings on a nice meal.

Yay!

So, last week the new year was going well. Got down the gym, played footie. Then I hit my knee and it took three days to stop hurting - it's still sore now. My legs were achey for two days post footie (used to that after not playing for a while) and not I seem to have caught whatever Emma had and I'm off work with a throat that feels like its full of sand paper.

MEH.

All this badness should fuck off. I want to be doing interesting stuff at work, going to the gym and playing footie.

Noob night should be fine tonight - just don't drink out of my glass!

Was just wondering if anyone was going to Cory Doctorow's signing of Little Brother dressed appropriately?

I have queued overnight for tickets for a concert. I've queued at the doors of Electronics Boutique (back in the old days) for a console. Tonight I queued for a game. I don't give a flying fuck if people think I'm sad. I went along with friends, we abused half the queue and then jumped the line because I'd reserved my copies.

Install quick, upgrade account quick. Online patch? Sloooooow. 65% done.

Woot. Giev WRATH.

I stayed up until Ohio was called for Obama. As my understanding went, no Republian has ever won without it. As I went to bed I was a little worried that it might be close and that a colony of lawyers would tie things up in knots.

This morning it seemed it wasn't even close and McCain graciously conceeded defeat. I don't know how things are going to turn out. Maybe, as lee_chaos has pointed out, we should remember the optimism people felt back in 1997 and how people feel now.

I'm choosing to go with cautious optimism.

Probably a good idea some people don't play internet games...

It is October tomorrow and on Saturday Entropy is seven years old. As usual we are runnign a fancy dress night and have some special guest DJs, gillywoo and lee_chaos.


Prizes for the three best costumes as judged by the DJs at midnight. Doors open 8pm as usual and £3 entropy (£2 if you have a rocksoc or musicsoc card).

Hopefully some of you will be there ;-)

Cheers!

Yarr.

Splosh, splosh, splosh.

Had a dream last night that I woke up back in time the day before one of my final exams. Obviously I couldn't remember what the exam was, let alone the content and I was worried that it would change the future when I got back to it.

No, I don't know what goes on in my head either.

If you think that you can start child threads and then "grab data from the main thread before it changes" then DON'T TRY TO WRITE MULTI-THREADED CODE.

Saw Iron Man with kittensofdoom yesterday. It would be fair to say that I LOVED IT. I thought Robert Downey Jnr was excellent, I loved the costume, I loved how they'd taken good source material from the original comics and some of the Ultimates line and blended it to form a great superhero origin tale.

I think the orginal Superman film is still my favourite but I'm now struggling to decide whether Iron Man or Batman Begins is second.

We also saw some good trailers for the new Indy movie, Hancock - which opens with a drunk Superhero crashing through a sign into the back of a bad guys car - and Wanted. Wanted is based upon a short Mark Millar comic run from a couple of years back. It centres around a man who finds out he's the son of a top supervillain in a world where the villains won and changed things so we think that heroes are only in comics ;-) I loved it when it came out and it's pretty adult material - I hope the film is pretty good.

Tomorrow, for those that need reminding, is ENTROPY. Dave the flier guy did us another flier you might have seen at the last Entropy or in a few places around town...

( May 2008 Flier )

I like it because the first time I saw it I didn't get it. Then it dawned on me as I saw what was being shot down ;-)

Anyway, enough gibbering. Hope to see some of you tomorrow night.

Oh yeah, there's a little teaser at the end of Iron Man after the credits. Just FYI if you like that kind of thing.

The tide turns, time flies and the moon chases the sun around the sky. How did it get to be April SO SOON? It is the first Saturday of the month and (hopefully) you know what that means.



Another flier by our resident artist, Dave.

Tonight I will be DJing witrh Paul Roper and Andy - who's not DJed at Entropy before, so be nice.

Hope to see some of you there ;-P

On the way out this morning we noticed a sign in the flat below us (that's been redecorated and has been empty for months). It is for sale for "offers in excess of £175k".

This is a lot more than I paid for my flat but less than people tell me it's worth. Until I sell the flat I guess I don't really care as long as it goes up along with the other properties in Bath and lets me and kittensofdoom find a bigger, quieter place one day.