In reading a text wrote by my lecturer, I suddenly feel great affection for him in that he invented the word indigoth. (Meaning, the degree to which something possesses the quality 'indigo', as in width, depth etc. And that just makes it even more awesome.)

hey all, just joined the group and thought I'd come along and say hi *waves*

whilst I'm here, I also wanted to ask if anyone knows of any flats/houses to rent beginning October.
Me and my fiancé are looking to relocate to Aber, but at the minute we are stuck in Liverpool, so house-hunting is a problem.
We also have cats that I would much prefer to take with me as they are my babies, but thats proving a problem.
So any local knowledge on pet friendly places to stay?

Sorry it took so long, but at long last there is now a second part to the recap of this summer's craziness. There is more to come, but I continue to break things up so none of you is bored into a catatonic state.

http://wanderinghome.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/the-summer-of-dave-part-2/

Also, if any of you remembers when I talked about a project idea about rewriting the Bible in its entirety (in my own particularly irrevrant way) I am still considering that idea, and am ready to start posting entries by Friday. It will probably be a post a day for that project, and I will put it on a different blog dedicated to the project. So, if anyone has any questions or comments let me know. I'd love to hear what you all think.

http://wanderinghome.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/coming-soon-bible-20/

Pretty random dreams lately.

The first one was hanging out with a friend while smoking Aniseed cigarettes (which apparantly don't exist, which is shocking).

Secondly, I was working on a foreign remake of The Dark Knight starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Donnie Yen as Batman and ..Robin (apparantly Robin is in the remake).

A bit of interest for you there.

EDIT: In posting this here, it's now second in the Google results for Aniseed cigarettes. Hahaha.

I really don't understand the point behind speed cameras. You see, they put them at junctions and accident blackspots etc. So these are places where they had lots of accidents in the past before they put a camera up. Then, in their infinite wisdom they put up a speed camera. Now most people don't really want to get caught for speeding (or anything for that mater) and as we all tend to let our speed creep as we have other things to worry about we all almost always focus intently on our speed as we come up to cameras. So now we have a dangerous place with everyone focusing on their speed and specifically their speedometers. Now burying your head in the dash strikes me as a very good way to well, err, bury your head in the dash. Now the most odd part is the government admit, it really doesn't make much money from the things. It's like those thing that tell you your speed. As soon as they flash up "SLOW DOWN" people do... BY JABBING THE BREAKS!

Now I will admit, I have been caught speeding in the past by a camera. I can't complain I was caught, I was going over the limit and I cant make too much excuses for it, however I can say one thing. I was caught because I was too busy focusing on traffic. Had I noticed the camera then that concentration would have no doubt shifted to the camera.

In this weekend:

-I got my voice back, and Joel also recovered from his sickness.
-I went on a longish walk, 2.5 hours (Kelburn-Thorndon-Northland-Mairangi-Wilton-Karori-Highbury-Kelburn).
-I went ring shopping with Bex and Tara, and not only was this shopping expedition not hideous, it was fun. Further, I decided on the metal, the design, and the kinds of stones I want, and I know what the next step is. This is astonishing to me!
-I got myself olive salad at the Syrian shop in Newtown. I love their olive salad.
-I read paperbacks.
-I went to the vege market with Nik.
-I started watching Angelic Layer again and I am enjoying its sweetness.
-I made an enormous meal for Sunday dinner which consisted of five dishes (roast lamb, spice-roasted potatoes, tabouleh salad, honey-garlic vege stirfry, and leek & mushrooms in white wine) and although the guests I invited sadly couldn't show up, my flatmates ate it appreciatively and I have lots of leftovers for work this week.
-My flat watched Wipeout shamelessly and with great enjoyment.


Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to a working week we go.

Ok, I know this ignorance probably knocks me down a few rungs regarding my fandom, but I must know. Do the Marrakech pictures still exist online somewhere? This was my favorite shoot ever, and I had hoped to use his hair as a model for my current (unrelated) painting. So far, I can only find these pics as fanart and icons. I suppose I could make do with stills from Alexander, but I would really like to see those Marrakech pictures again. I had them all saved before my computer died. :(

Please...enlighten the ignorant?

I'll admit it, I have a new laptop, and thus (although only after being pointed out to it), I gave World of Warcraft ago.

The only thing more amazing than the amount of how many commas I just put in the last sentence is how gutted I felt realising that after all these years I'd actually played WoW.

It's been pretty much the icon 'geek' game, I've avoided it this far, mainly due to terrible computers. But yeah, I am on a 10 day trial and that is it. As I mentioned earlier:

Rob says:
it can take over your life
Mr. Hibbert says:
it's only for the 10 day trial
Mr. Hibbert says:
one for the books right there

Like my usual style with these things, I made my character as creepy as possible. And thus, I give you a midget/Kevin Spacey/Harvey Keitel combination. Get ready to be impressed.

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Anyway, to prevent this from being a journal post just about WoW, because that'd be the worst. Don't you hate mouth ulcers?

I have started to do a recap of the last four months' events. I decided to break up the text into several posts so that none of you loses focus or consciousness from reading a long ass entry. I know how you people are ;)

http://wanderinghome.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/the-summer-of-dave-part-1/

Got to love this comic:

I have just realised I have waaaaaay too many clothes. How can this be even remotely possible? For starters, I'm male so clearly I don't need many, secondly, it's not like I have some form of exciting dress sense or any grasp of style. I have a wardrobe in my parents house and my room in Brighton. The one in Horsham contains 38 hanging items, plus another 30ish T-shirts, 5 pairs of shorts, 7 or 8 trousers. The one in Brighton to be fair is pretty empty, but still, how has this all crept up on me?

I guess this is what happens when you have a work wardrobe and a non-work/uni wardrobe. They have very clear distinction and yet both have and will continue to take up vast amounts of my time. I will always change after work into anything else and I will never start wearing a shirt at the weekend (if I start wearing shirts to church on a Sunday morning you have my permission to shoot me).

kay! says:
is hibbert really ur last name
Mr. Hibbert says:
lol yeah?
Mr. Hibbert says:
why?
kay! says:
its cool
kay! says:
i like it
Mr. Hibbert says:
's good
Mr. Hibbert says:
you can have it if you want

Oh the smoothness.

Now for some random news:
When walking around a busy supermarket where everyone is walking around slowly, I just want to punch them in the back of the head.
Shortly after playing Tetris (on Facebook no doubt), I think in Tetris blocks
I had an epic battle with a Wasp, which lasted for somewhere over a week. I eventually won. Which I now regret (he was my only friend).
You know when you've watched far too much Olympics when you know how the scoring works for such events as the Diving or the Shooting.
Wall-E is pretty sweet little movie, although it gets a bit Pokemon towards the end.
I am the only teenager in the UK to have not seen The Dark Knight.

So, the family file storage server died a month ago or so.

This is a machine that I built for my family which lives in the loft as an always on file server and backup device. It's main purpose is to provide spill off room for the media centre (as that chews through scary disk space). It's a simple old machine with a CD drive, a small disk for the OS plus two large drives for the data in a RAID 1 setup. It runs FreeNAS as it's OS.

So about a month ago my dad told me the machine wasn't appearing on the network anymore, so I just told him to turn it off. Today I finally got round to working out what was up. At first I thought the primary disk had failed given the BIOS said that. Who would have though, an error message that made sense and was right... nah, don't be silly. So I tried to put a Knoppix CD to check the data was still there. CD tray would not open. I then check the BIOS again, the CD drive wasn't there. So, unplug the CD drive and the machine boots as per normal.

So, the lesson for today, a CD/DVD drive can actually break in such a way that even while being marked at the slave device on the channel and with other set as master, can still knock out the whole channel so the BIOS things primary disk fail.

Annoying but solved.

I interrupt my flailing attempts at poetry to bring you this news bulletin: I have laryngitis and it sucks.

I could speak. It hurts muchly (as in "only two hours until I can have another painkiller!") but I can vocalise. But I know if I speak today I can't speak tomorrow. In some ways it would be better if I were alone. But everyone is home today and I really want to talk and I can't. There is an inherent comedy in watching me write things down indignantly on paper, or feed them through the computer voice synthesiser, and so I can sort of understand why my nearest and dearest are laughing at me, but at the same time I do want to stab them with a pen so that it threads nicely through all the orifices in their skulls.

That is all.

JOEL! STOP TAKING AWAY MY PENCILS GAH FRICKING DENIM YOU! I NEED THEM FOR STUDY!!!


Edit Add: Triumph! I can talk just a little and I can go to work and it doesn't hurt too much. Discipline paid off yesterday.

Things I've seen and done while away last week:

Seen a deer in the wild.
Stood in the open air, and had my phone say "No Network".
Seen wild mountain ponies.
Eaten lunch at the top of a Welsh hill, with the heather for a chair.
Stood at the top of a cathedral tower.
Walked up a different Welsh hill the wrong way, and discovered a wonderful forest at the top.
Travelled both under and over the Severn.

Well that was a lot of work!

OK, so they have changed the Facebook interface. I for one welcome it, its very nice and removes a lot of the clutter for me. However, one of the changes I don't like is the removal of the friends statuses on the right. I used this as a quick way to see what my friends are upto and how their feeling etc.

So, Vista sidebar for the win. I downloaded an RSS feed reader sidebar gadget (this one in fact) and had a look. It is a nice gadget, lots of features. One thing that did bug me was it wanted to scroll all the time. This is a bit annoying, so, coding skills for the win, I took that feature out and while I was there added a pretty Facebook logo to each status to replace the RSS one that was there.

I love it when you can just change the applications to suit your own needs!

Metis has been down for the past week, due to my dyndns account expiring about 5 minutes after I left to go on holiday for the week. I'll get a longer-lasting account of some sort set up soon.

I am back!!!

I posted a brief and sort of disjointed entry on my other blog just a few minutes ago. I'm finally in a place and time where I can return to blogging and writing regularly. I hope that all my veteran readers are willing to come back to my wonderland of words and stupid observations, but if not, bite me :)

http://wanderinghome.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/friends-and-dogs/

Let me know if you want to see me write more literary stuff like stories and poems again, or if you would rather me fill you in on the last four months.