Archive for April, 2008

Black Squirrels!

My dad was telling me about these today saying he read about it in the paper or something. I really love squirrels so I did some research when I got home and found it is some sort of pigment disease like with albinos, so they exist and I would like to see one someday. But I do really like squirrels, I prefer reds to greys because they are smaller and much cuter, but greys are nice to watch run about and stuff. I really enjoy Thormby red squirrel sanctuary (no idea how to spell Thormby) cause you get to just wander about and feed the squirrels and stuff, great day out.

But yes, I do enjoy nibbling animals like squirrels and rabbits, especially squirrels because they actually pick the food up like the cutes human ever. I am quite annoyed at the grey squirrels for killing all the reds though, I would like to be able to see reds as often as greys, but greys are evil and mean and it looks like the ones with the bigger spleens turn the colour of their souls. I don’t have to want to go to a special place to see reds, but I would certainly make the travel to see albinos though. Now they are some cool squirrels the picture here lis an albino red, which makes it the ultimate squirrel, it would be an ideal pet for me.

So yes, aren’t squirrels great, enjoy the pictures.

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Circular Cheek Bruise

Look at what I have managed to do, aren’t I the best! Oh my, do I not look like the biggest dick ever? I was playing with some sort of drink sealer working from a pump system, so I was playing with suction and I pumped a lot on my cheek, I wouldn’t have even noticed unless my brother came in like “what have you done to your face”

So yes, I look like the biggest dick in the world and I assume it will stay for a few days, I couldn’t have done it Friday night could I. Feel free to take the piss as much as you went by comenting.

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Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords are a folk band from New Zealand. They also have an amazing comedy TV series aired on HBO in US and BBC Three in UK, now available on DVD. I first discovered them in one of the school holidays (I think it was Christmas) I was up around 03:00 flicking through the channels and found the show, I remembered seeing it advertised months ago so I gave it a go. I laughed my tits off with their hilarious songs and sheer wit, so I watched it every night after that.

I have been in the mood for a laugh recently so I started watching the series again online, its 12 episodes in length which I think is too much, they should have split it into two I reckon, but they are from New Zealand so… (I am not racist). They just released their first full length studio album “Flight of the Conchords” a few days ago which I downloaded today, the track listing is as follows:

  1. “Foux du Fafa” – 2:47
  2. “Inner City Pressure” – 3:27
  3. “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros” – 2:09
  4. “Think About It” – 3:15
  5. “Ladies of the World” – 3:57
  6. “Mutha’uckas” – 2:27
  7. “The Prince of Parties” – 1:49
  8. “Leggy Blonde (feat. Rhys Darby)” – 2:42
  9. “Robots” – 3:43
  10. “Boom” – 2:18
  11. “A Kiss Is Not a Contract” – 1:55
  12. “The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)” – 4:02
  13. “Business Time” – 4:05
  14. “Bowie” – 3:16
  15. “Au Revoir” – 0:22

It’s a good album full of loads of the TV series’ great songs, only thing it is missing is “I’m not crying” which is on their EP “The Distant Future” it is one of my favourite songs from the series and I am quite annoyed that it is missing. You should really give them a quick look on YouTube, I suggest “Inner city Pressure” and “Robots” (a.ka. “The Humans Are Dead”) enjoy.

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New Badges

Well my new badges came today. Got them on eBay cheap as always (£0.99 for NES key ring and badge and £1.49 for Pac-Man badges, postage brought it up to around £4.50 for both) Not much to say about them really, they are made from either rubber or silicone, feel more silicone to me, the clasps are solid And both are copyright 2006 (I know they not vintage like my other stuff, but they look cool so I am not too bothered) I do prefer enamel badges but ones I like are hard to come across. I still have not got the one of Toad (ak.a. mushroom retainer) I want from 1993, but I shall some day.

So yea, that is about it really, happy with my purchase, nothing wrong with them, great stuff.

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Optimus Maximus Has Arrived!

Those who have been with me from the beginning should remember my post on the Optimus Maximus keyboard, the keyboard to beat all keyboards which any rich geek would buy in a snap. What sets it apart from all other keyboards is the fact that each key is a OLED display showing its current function. That may sound silly but it gives extreme customisation, for example the keys could be lower case in regular typing, but become capitals when shift is held. As if that is not cool enough you can customise the keyboard to programmes having icons for hotkeys, making photo editing easier or making you the ultimate gamer. Not only can you change the icons and functions of keys, you can play videos on the keys, tell them to display your CPU usage and you can even play minesweeper.

So with all those tiny displays it obviously carries a heavy price tag ranging from 462.30$ to 1564.72$ depending on which keys you want to be screens. So yes, it is now available to buy from the company’s site at http://store.artlebedev.com/computer_add-ons/optimus/ . This keyboard has been added to my “if I win the lottery the first things I would buy are…” list along with a top spec Mac Pro and other horribly expensive products.

But that is not all that is new from Optimus; looking at their site I saw a new concept keyboard that goes a step beyond the Maximus (something I thought to be impossible) This would be the Optimus Tactus, a FULLY customisable touch screen keyboard. This could mean different sized keys, different amount of keys different layout of keys, playing videos, the list is endless. This would truly go beyond the Maximus in functionality, but those fond of tactile response may find it bad if they do not do anything to make the virtual keys clickyer. Also it could not be just any kind of touch screen display, it would have to be multi touch so it could understand the shift and letter keys being pressed simultaneously. One thing they could also do with the display is give it pressure sensitivity to make it into a form of graphics tablet. The possibilities would be truly endless if this was made, it would be a great day for high earning freaks around the world.

I have chatted on enough now, if Optimus products have interested you then have a look at http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/ and look at their other stuff, they have a 3 keyed keyboard using the same technology as the Maximus and also a strange monitor/12 button keyboard thing, take a look around and you will be impressed.

 

  

 

 

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Lenard the Lady Bird

Got home today and found a lady bird on my sun flower Leafy. So the lady bird lover I am I tried to get some nice photos. I like the feeling of them walking on my hands so I got a few pictures of that and in other places. But the best was on Leafy.

Just taking a few pictured and by chance I caught him setting off. It is quite an impressive picture because it isn’t TOO blurred, looks like the double anti-blur works on my camera, but too bad it wasn’t triple, oh well. So yes, he was a nice lady bird named after Lenard from The Big Bang Theory (only decent comedy series on TV at the moment until May 2nd when Peep Show starts) if only he was a snake and he could be Sheldon.

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I am back!

Well I am sure you all missed me dearly in my two week absence. I did get a huge chunk of revision out of the way and now I can go at a bit more of a leisurely pace. But of course nobody cares about how my revision want and you are probably hungry for some more stories from the gospel according to Mr. Lee. There are a few things of interest to talk about and I will get those out of the way first, clearing the way for my regular stream of rubbish.

The main thing that sticks out in my mind from my two week break is my discovery of lime cordial and its greatness (how sad). But yes, lime cordial. I ran out of coke one day and was quite lost without it. So I routed round and came across some lime cordial, so I mixed some u and was amazed at how much I did not hate it. So I did some experimenting and here are a few used for it:

  1. Mixed with water makes a nice drink
  2. Sipped neat for a tasty syrup thing
  3. One cap full mixed with a tumbler of coke makes a truly amazing drink
  4. Mixed with all drinks seems to enhance the flavour. Most people know of lager and lime, but mix it with spirits or anything you want and you get a great drink.

So yes, now I have a bottle of coke and lime cordial next to my bed. But in more recent news I made a nice tower of bottles a few minutes ago.

Every1 knows you cans tack 2 litre bottles on top of each other cause the top fits snugly into the bottom, but the addition of a 1 litre bottle was a bit of a challenge, but not really. It just looks good doesn’t it, great stuff.

 

In other news I started growing some plants. Only £2 for a little greenhouse with 6 tiny pots, soil and three types of seeds. Only two types sprouted and only three seeds. It’s just nice to have plants I reckon, take little effort to grow, and sunflowers grow huge so you get to watch them grow from tiny to huge.

I also gave them names, but not human names, plant names! From left to right it is Stemmy, Soily and Leafy. To think of your own plant names just think of something a plant has, then turn it into some sort of name and your ready to name plants they would be proud of.

 

While walking around I have seen a lot more brown sheep around in field, I only seem tor remember black and white, but over the past year I have seen them brown. Dunno what all that is about, some sort of half-cast sheep that think they are accepted by both types of sheep but really all of the other sheep hate them; maybe somebody can shed some light on that topic for me.

I also saw a load of cute lambs around aswell; do baby goats look the same as lambs? I’m not sure but baby Ibex would look cool if they had the horns. Imagine them like lamb sized with all the horns and stuff; they would be a great pet! (Of course the horns wouldn’t be there when they are young, but they should be)

 

Thinking of pets. Which pet would you have if you could have any? (Excluding normal ones like dogs and rabbits) Peter says a unicorn and a dragon, but they need to be real so then he said panda, which I totally agree with. Baby pandas are amazingly cute, and adult pandas are like me in bear/racoon form!

Well, I have been rambling for a while now, so I will save some stuff for future posts. I just wanted to give you a catch up of some of my thoughts over my break. Hope you enjoyed.

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Taking a Break

I have my two weeks holidays now, at first I thought it would be a good time to blog more, but of course revision is getting in the way. I want to get a huge chunk of geography revision out of the way in these two weeks and hopefully a bit of maths, so not only is revision taking up my time but it is killing my brain, I am struggling to think of interesting things to talk about.

So you may be seeing some stuff from me in these two weeks if I see something really interesting, but there will certainly be a lot less stuff posted probably from now until the end of my exams. So in conclusion, you won’t see much of me at all in the next two weeks, and you will see less than the average after that until around June (when we are supposed to be seeing a 3g iPhone)

p.s. While writing this article I have actually thought of something to write about, so you will be seeing that by the end of the night.

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Trevor the Rock

I made this little fellow today in school. In form Ben gave me the rock saying he found it and thought I would like it, so immediately I thought to make him into a primitive pet rock. So I drew him some feet an eyes in biology and selotaped them on. As if he did not look good enough, Mrs Huges-Gooding gave out plasticine for us to make a model of a red blood cell. So after I made the blood cell I made a quick hair and tash for Trevor and took a quick picture.

So then I carried him around with me during break, but Peter was again being mean and he kept attacking him. So in RE I put him on Mrs Gun’s desk to see if she would notice, she was looking right at it three times and didn’t notice, and even at the end of the lesson Ross pointed it otu and she didn’t see him. So when she eventually say him I said she could keep him, so I hope he stays there through her teaching career now, away from the evil fist of Peter.

 

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Un-explained Injuries


 

My house seems to be attacking me. The three pictures shown are injuries I have at the moment which have no explanation to them at all. I have had the scratches on my shoulder for over a month now, the picture doesn’t show how vicious they are, but I have no idea how they got there. The other two I noticed today, the ankle wound seems to be a few days old now, but I get that often (always with no explanation) and they come and go within a few weeks. But the knee is the strangest, this happened only a few minutes ago.

My ankle was “itching” in bed so I kept scratching it, then I looked at my finger and it was stained with blood. So I thought I had scratched a bit too hard (I have been known to do that and I am swore for weeks) but this was actual dripping blood, so I turned my light on and saw this mini gash. So I took a picture of all my stuff to write about, but it must be something in my bed which cut me because my knee was still throbbing. But I checked my bed thoroughly and found nothing, so yet another mystery. So I am a bit scared to get back in bed now in case I wake up with an axe in my head, if anybody wants to be a witness in court testify against my bed.

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