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blooging under iinfluecnce 12` November 28, 2006

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that should say 2 but im too drunk.

im dsriunk 1

played have you eveR ! you go round in a circle and say ‘have you ever….. ‘ and if you haveypui take a shot.. I had a lot of shots :FD1 3!!!!!!

FUN GA<ES !!!!!

going plymouth over xm,as + several jam seesion !! 3oo !!!!!!1

Uni life November 28, 2006

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After being at uni for a few weeks Ive got a nice routine going:

Monday night – band practice.

Tuesday night – a bit of work. Im so shattered from lectures (6hours usually) I cant do much.

Wednesday – Only two lectures, so I spend the afternoon doing problem questions.

Thursday night – still doing those questions. Im retarded!

Friday – wake up early to finish of questions. New questions are set.

Saturday – Cook waffles (from scratch!!!) for breakfast. Do washing, buy food. Read a few chapters of textbook and go over lecture notes. Party in the evening.

Sunday -  Start problem questions.

So yeah, thats uni life. And its great :) But still, I cant wait for Christmas to come, and to be able to go home and see all my family and friends again !

Saturday night just gone was ace. Went t a second year’s party (The other guitarist in my band). Drinking games and pizza ensued. Saw some random person Id met several weeks earlier – took me a few hours to recognise her !!

Capped off the night with an addition to the house’s roadsign collection. That makes 3 now…

what grinds my gears November 24, 2006

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Ebay’s feedback.

I buy an item off ebay. I pay. Rather than the seller giving me good feedback for upholding my end of the deal, they wait until I give them feedback. Obviously, if their product is faulty and I give them bad feedback, they will be petty and give me bad feedback.

damn problems that my lecturers set also gmg. last week there was only one i couldnt do, this week theres 2 :O I might have to resort to asking my lecturers for help…

New pickup, new pre amp November 24, 2006

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My pickup is now in my guitar :D Sounds awesome. The guy that runs the second year labs was really helpful, and let me use the 3rd year’s equipment that they were using for theyre projects :D

My pre amp also arrived – a marshall jmp-1 valve midi pre amp :D Sounds beautiful.  Running it through the effects loop of my amp atm, which by passes the amp’s pre amp. Was so worth working 100 hours in a week and a bit for it :D

Got my self a band for uni aswell. Everyone’s really good at what they do! Should be entering battle of the bands next term.  Cant wait !

Amarok November 8, 2006

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When I first used this app, I thought it was a bit crap. Couldnt play my mp3’s, couldnt see my music etc.

But after installing xine, gxine, and some funny lib files for my mp3’s (easyubuntu), it works fine ! And its found all my music, looks nice, and has an intuitive interface ! I had to choose the xine engine under hte settings though.
Before I was using gxine which works nicely. However, its quite unstable – didnt always open properly, crashed etc.

So all in all, great app.

Anyone know how to make the xine engine the default…?

Yeksimesh November 7, 2006

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Went with my house to watch the Borat movie last night – absolutely hilarious !! You MUST see this film !

Not much else has been happening up here…invented some new games. One is a variation on baseball/rounders. Someone on the top floor drops a clingfilm-wrapped-in-tinfoil ball out hte window. One person at the bottom belts it with a frying pan and 2 fielders try to catch it. Was much fun until the dean told us off incase we damage the window (wtf ? it was clingfilm. Foo’!).

The second involves throwing kitchen knives at the notice board and trying to make them stick in. Excellent game, and we got the hang of it after a while. Ninja !!

I now have my new pickup (Dimarzio Evo2 bridge). Apperantly the guy that runs hte first year labs is into guitars so im gonna go ask him if I can use the lab equipment to install it. He might help too !

Laters…