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Work Shift.

 
  

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Evil Scientist
07:51 / 13.12.06
Another dull December at work. Validate those vessels, change those valve diaphragms, then gaze vacently at the screen for hours on end. No rivetting threads to pursue, no sprawling arguments to follow, not even the faintest whisp of an indication that psionic battle-apes from the future are invading. That, at least, would be a distraction.

Hey ho, and away with the pixies.

Ooh, blu-tac.

Time to craft myself a minature dalek with which to terrify and amaze.

You will all fear my blu-tac dalek. Prey to Darwin for mercy!
 
 
Quantum
12:26 / 13.12.06
Worky work work. I'm reading about Nobilis and resisting the urge to jump back into the atheism thread to pass the time.

Some fuck just put a six CD set of Christmas tunes on. That's it, I'm going to slack like a mofo in protest, I can't be expected to work under these conditions.
 
 
Evil Scientist
12:37 / 13.12.06
Yick. Nothing worse that Christmas tunes in a working environment. Working nights stacking shelves in a Sainsburys back in my Evil youth with just one Christmas CD playing over and over and over and over just about burnt out all that remained of my soul.

One can only listen to so much Slade before one reaches for the sniper rifle.
 
 
Quantum
13:12 / 13.12.06
So heeere it iiis, Merry Christmas, everybody's.. BANG.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:18 / 13.12.06
Well, I'm not actually at work, but I'm filling the miserably pointless few hours before it's time to go back to sleep so I can get up for tonight's shift. My ATP hangover/comedown is now on about its fifty-somethingth hour, which seems unreasonable. Fortunately all the post-drug depression shit seemed to happen Monday night at work and yesterday at home. Now it's just the lethargy to deal with.

Ah well, by the time I feel human again it'll be nearly time to knock off for Christmas...
 
 
Closed for Business Time
13:26 / 13.12.06
Aahhh... I remember doing night-shifts... too many frozen pizzas, too many friends wondering when the fuck they were gonna meet you in a non-comatose state, too many people trying to kill themselves, me, other staff or their fellow patients. Acute psych ward. Not nice.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:29 / 13.12.06
Oh, I just read newspapers. Normally it's quite fun, but all the doom and gloom around really hasn't been helping my fragile mental and emotional state these past couple of nights. I spent most of yesterday agonising over whether drug-induced depression (where I feel stupid because I did it to myself) was better or worse than clinical depression (where I feel stupid because there's really nothing to feel bad about). And that wasn't a cheerful subject to dwell on, really.

Ah well. Torchwood should have finished downloading in a minute.

I just have to force myself to eat something...
 
 
Triplets
13:40 / 13.12.06
Phew, was wondering where you'd gone, Stoats. Feels like you've been quiet this week.
 
 
Triplets
13:42 / 13.12.06
And I hope you feel better. Oral toast injection!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:43 / 13.12.06
Well, I was away all weekend and haven't had the energy to type since then (which has made work quite tricky...). Although if the last hour's anything to go by my Barbe-habit seems to have returned. And it feels good. I should have started posting loads again on Monday- I may have saved myself a whole lot of grief!
 
 
Closed for Business Time
13:43 / 13.12.06
Yeah, how was the quality of beards at ATP? Damn I look forward to No Neck Blues Band tonite!!! YIIIIHHHHHHAWWWWWWWW!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:49 / 13.12.06
Oh, are you going to the London show? I was planning to, but don't think it's gonna happen.

There were some top beards there, though. It truly was an awesome weekend, post-rock-stress-disorder notwithstanding.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
13:55 / 13.12.06
Yup, upping today's weird factor by a helluva lot in Barden's Boudoir, that lovely little cellar. Paricularly looking forward to the co-op effort by the GREENWOOD/MOLONEY/FLOWER TRIO. As well as the main attraction, f'course. Sonic brainwash, just what the doc ordered.
 
 
Evil Scientist
07:12 / 14.12.06
Nothing to do. Day 2.

That's a lie actually I'm sure I could mop the floor or correct those SOPs or any number of other things. But none of them are any fun.

Does blu-tac dalek need a blu-tac cyberman friend?

Nah, blu-tac sculpture is sooo yesterday.

Hmm, elastic band/paperclip siege weapons on the other hand...

All your castles am belong to us!
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
07:40 / 14.12.06
Blah, blah blah.

It's nice knowing that I've resigned and all, and have a lovely new job waiting for me after an extended Crimbo break in the US with my lady, but JEEZ, is this last week and a bit going slowly. Plus none of the clients know I'm disappearing, so I have to make nice when I've pretty much mentally checked out.

Ho hum.

You want that finished do you? Um, might be able to do it before I leave FOREVAR!

Or perhaps I can't. Simply loaded down with leaving dos and exit interviews old chap. Sorry.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
09:05 / 14.12.06
Urggh... departmental xmas party + show tonite. yours truly will perform the Beck's four steps alongside 3 other fools. Ghastly, I say... At least the drinks are free and plentiful enough to inflict a mild retrograde amnesia that should last me until Friday afternoon, when I'm on bleeding vacation.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
09:44 / 14.12.06
I'm not at work! So... what have I missed in the last three months?
 
 
Evil Scientist
11:12 / 14.12.06
Everyone got free bottles of gin. I think Dead Megatron drank yours.
 
 
alas
00:22 / 18.12.06
Anyone else up working on a late Sunday eve/early early Mon morning time?

Me, grading. .... Need distractions...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:47 / 18.12.06
But of course.
 
 
alas
00:56 / 18.12.06
Ah, hurrah, Stoatie!

So, it's a week on, for you? What's new in the news? or, better still, in your own little world? Sheena still a punk rocker?
 
 
Char Aina
01:21 / 18.12.06
not reeeeally working.... but i am drumming.

i just discovered that my computer desk makes a great drum noise when miked up and recorded in audacity.
i am now trying to find a tune i can add my magical drumming fingers to, and i am more excited than may seem reasonable.

dude.
it's a FREE DRUM.
in front of my computer!

i can't belive it took me this long.
 
 
alas
01:35 / 18.12.06
Yay for free drums. Coach me through these next papers. Some of them are going to be rough.
 
 
Char Aina
01:45 / 18.12.06
yes, but they will make you stronger.
the mentals you build now will help you find your own 'free drum' when the time is right.

a stronger you will be like a stronger samson; unstoppable. plus, without the hair thing you'd get less of the tragic end as a result.
you may also shun the killing-philistines-with-the-jawbone-of-an-ass thing, but then i don't know you that well.
maybe you are partial to ass-jawbone philistine fighting.

metaphorically, of course.


philistines!
come get your metaphorical ass(-jawbone) whupping!
 
 
Char Aina
01:53 / 18.12.06
oh, DAMN.
it sounds awesome with reverb.

baBOOMbippiBAHtiBAH...
tiptibapbapbaBUHMbapbap!

fuck me, i may never go to bed.
 
 
alas
01:55 / 18.12.06
Whuppin' the philistines is kind of the definition of grading english lit papers.

I generally use a pencil, but it's a metaphorical jawbone of an ass. In oral conferences with my students, it probably really is the jawbone of an ass, but that's just too depressing.

Thank god I got my hair cut yesterday. The last time I had to bring down the temple of learning on my head it wasn't pretty.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:00 / 18.12.06
Oops, sorry, disappeared for a bit there. Had to do some, y'know, work and stuff.

yeah, last night of a week on- then EIGHT DAYS OFF! (Extra day for Christmas, y'see).

Oh God, all sorts of shit's going on at the moment, but yeah, everything's fairly cool right now. Though hectic and weird.
 
 
alas
02:24 / 18.12.06
Whatever the shit is, it can't be as bad as my Delilah problem.

Can it?

9 more papers to go. I'm going to do one more tonight, and the rest tomorrow morning, methinks.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:26 / 18.12.06
Oh, it's not bad. Just weird stuff I'm unaccustomed too, really.

FUCK, I'm enigmatic.
 
 
Char Aina
02:26 / 18.12.06
would anyone like to hear the finger drumming?
i am in love, i think.
 
 
Char Aina
02:27 / 18.12.06
i am reading your posts too, if anyone is wondering.
 
 
alas
02:35 / 18.12.06
Ok. Now we're down to 8. That's it for me tonight, me luvvies, much as I would love to hear your finger drumming toks....'Night!
 
 
Char Aina
02:35 / 18.12.06
nighty night.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:36 / 18.12.06
Goodnight, alas.

FINGER DRUMMING yes.
 
 
Char Aina
02:46 / 18.12.06
right.
took a second to figure the mp3 coding, but...

here's a six minute sample of my drumming so far.
it's pretty unplanned, goes in and out of time and has no real structure, but the sound is awesome.

all i've done mix-wise is copy the single track about six times and put reverb on one and a bit of delay on another.
oh, and i panned the tracks a bit.

audacity soundforge is amazing for simple stuff like this, and my co-10 mike seems to be better and better every time i use it. the pair were free and cheap, in that order.

i guess i should slap a creative commons warning on it, just in case anyone thinks they should steal it.
i mean, i have no idea why they would, but it would shit me proper if somone made millions on my desk tapping.

so uh, yeah.

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this means you cannot use it commercially, and you cannot use it at all without crediting me.
 
  

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