Wow.
So I last posted 54 days ago. Hmm.
November was fun, December has been fun so far.
I can't be bothered post things here any more.
Twitter's just more convenient.
However! The past 54 days in one, long, sentence:
I got drunk a lot, I bought an iPhone, I bought another Xbox 360 (this one was more awesome as it was a MW2 250 GB Super Elite), it snowed, I bought Spirit Tracks for the DS, and LEGO Rock Band, The Ballad of Gay Tony and Fable II (plus MW2) for the Xbox 360, I did okay at laser questing for Rachel's birthday, my netbook's SSD died catastrophically, I handed in five assignments (one of which involved a pretty damn good recreation of Duck Hunt), I finished three exams (two Maths, one Comp. Arch), I uploaded four YouTube videos totalling 28 minutes of fun, I scrobbled 2188 songs, I went to the fireworks at Markeaton Park and they were quite fun, I got re-obsessed with Weebl's Stuff and came oh-so close to buying an Insanity Prawn Boy plushie, I also got re-obsessed with Charlie the Unicorn, I had an ear infection, I bought too many games on Steam, I finished the last few Tales of Monkey Island episodes, I procrastinated, I got Google Wave and used it twice, I bought Sainsbury's Basics chocolate numerous times as it wasn't that bad, and there were two fire drills (FFFFUUU) and one actual fire (which interrupted my 1 vs 100 playing) at halls.
I love it. =)
Last post ever probably, Twitter is where it's at. =D
To finish, the four YouTube videos. The last two are my favourites. =)
And of course, if you're reading on Facebook, those videos: first, second, third, fourth.
Plans for the near future: procrastinate more, eat lots, go out with friends, then start working. Woo. =)
October in Derby, in words.
Soo I'm in Derby.
And have been for 38 days now. Mad really.
Anyway, I appeared to not be bothered to post all through October, so I thought that I'd just do a retrospective today, on my birthday. I'm 19 now. =)
Since the last post, I've done quite a bit. The shopping centre lockdown being one. It wasn't very good. Did get some free Schuh bags, loads of free pretzels and lots of free Vitamin Water though. And I did see Vernon Kay from a distance.
Next thing was the following Thursday, October 1st, as we went out to see The Final Destination. Which was as hilarious as Final Destination movies are. However, that day was also pretty shit as I had spent the day running around Derby, Keddleston and Halls, causing me to lose my debit card and therefore access to my money. Clumsy idiot.
Friday brought another Mosh, which was also great fun. Saturday did not bring a Ghost Walk, as the SU fails.
Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday brought socialising at Mr. Adam Biddulph's, of course. Tuesday was extra interesting as Sophie, Ryan and I went into Derby for food and shopping, they had mexican food, I wish I did. Then the socialising afterwards was mainly based around watching Eden Lake, to which I will withhold my opinion.
Friday was another evening at Mosh (with Police and everything), then I had a nice, calm weekend. When I felt quite ill. Fail.
The next Monday (12th) was a day in Derby town with Adam and Dave, then Adam made stir fry which was nice. Wednesday the 14th was a great day, as we went to see Up at the cinema. Aaand, this was also the day my replacement debit card arrived, so I could start spending money on food again. Good times. Up was brilliant, by the way. Pretty damn stupid it aired in America in May, in my opinion, but whatevers. =)
The day after that was pretty eventful too. This was because I was in university from 11-8, then I was drinking from 9-1. I'd have to say that was the most drunk I've ever felt, probably was the red wine I downed. Anyway, I then fell asleep around 4am, which probably wasn't the best idea knowing I had to be in a lecture at 9am the following day. Even worse was that the lecture was quite interesting but I really couldn't pay much attention. Ah well.
That weekend was also pretty eventful. Spent almost all of Saturday at either my flat, Sophie's flat or Add's flat, and my Sunday was spent out with my parents, or out drinking with Adrian Harris for his 19th birthday. Good weekend. =)
Tuesday 20th was a fun day, loads of us went down to Westfield to enjoy some Noodle bar goodness, but I couldn't cope with that, so I had a Chinese box, which was still scrummy.
Thursday was then another mad evening. As Beth came up for the weekend, Sophie had a little get-together that was to evolve into a night out in Derby, which it never did. Ah well. Lots of people consumed far too much alcohol, but good times were still had, and it was really nice to see Beth again. Also, pizza at one in the morning is awesome.
The Friday was not so good to start with. As I didn't leave until about 3am, I didn't really fall asleep until after 4am, and as always I have to be in Keddleston on a Friday for 9am. So I get up at 7am. I did get up at 7am, but then I fell asleep. Whoops. I got up 15 minutes before I had to be at university, thank fuck the bus arrived on time I must say. =) However, one problem with so little sleep was that through the oh-so-very detailed and complicated lecture, none of it made any sense. Bit of a fail. Did get better though, scored 100% in the second BMT test and got myself a score of 324,350 on Bejewelled Blitz (proof biznatches), which was awesome. Then I hurried back to halls, got everything ready to spend a weekend at home. Which was different, as in the past five weeks my room has been completely redone, with me now having a double bed, wardrobe, new carpet, new colours. Madness. I also had my hair cut so it's no longer madly long, thank fuck.
Then the Saturday was great fun, went over to Lichfield with parents and sister, nom nommy breakfast in Wetherspoons. Then the evening was spent in the Garam Masala in Chadsmoor. Gawd, I ate so much food. But it was so gorgeous. Back to Derby on the Sunday. And Sunday evening was spent reinstalling Snow Leopard and Windows 7 retail (both sexy operating systems baby).
Monday the 26th was a nice lie-in, then went into Derby with Adam, Dave, Peter and Sarah. Bought the last part of my Halloween costume (beard and moustache), another sexy sexy Ferrero Rocher milkshake from Shakin' It, and just a generally nice day out. I also made an omelette. I decided that it was nom nom, therefore and om nom nomelette.
Yesterday was quite standard, did head over to Add's for a bit to talk with Dave and Sarah.
But now it's my birthday. As I'm actually writing this at like one in the morning, I'll put what I expect to be doing today. At 7am I'll wake up, watch Diggnation, get ready then head over to Nottingham with some people (Adam, Sarah, maybe some others) for today's GameCity stuff. As recommended by our Ludology lecture, we're going to see Something Splendid. (event), then maybe having a look around the IndieCade gallery and I really wanna play some Projector Games. I'm then heading around Nottingham going shopping for a bit, then heading back for Computer Architecture. I then think people might be coming to my flat for cake, Lips and Rock Band, then we should hopefully be heading to the cinema to watch something. Then I'll rest.
How close that'll actually be followed I'm sure I'll tweet through the day. =D
Anyway, I'mma now gonna talk about what I've been doing in my university modules. As I feel I should.
In alphabetical order, Basic Mathematical Techniques is first. So far it's been quite simple to me, and I'm so glad I took A2-Level Maths. Gonna start getting harder soon with differentiation, but I'm sure I'll cope. =)
Computer Architecture is next. Has been some interesting lectures in it, but it's also hella confusing. It's all about how data is stored and how computers function, which is quite interesting, but difficult when we're programming some processor. Maybe, I must say, haven't done it yet.
Third would be Ludology. I'm really enjoying Ludology, I must say. So far, I've learnt how to use Game Maker (sort of), given two presentations (one about Perplex City which was successful, one about the SNES which could not have gone worse) and created an iPhone prototype game, an accompanying economics report and a pitch video. It's great fun. Apart from the SNES presentation, that was so embarassing. 45 minutes to prepare a presentation about something no-one in the group doesn't know about when lots of other people in the room do know is mean. Ah well.
Fourth is Software Development I. This is probably my favourite so far, as I love the programming. Doing completely mad and random things in it, but it's really quite enjoyable.
And finally, there's The Computing Environment. Nothing much to say here, I see it as useful as my A Level in ICT.
Anyway, more stuff!
If you so wish, you can download a copy of my Game Maker iPhone prototype game from here (Windows only, I don't claim to own the images). Promise I'm not trying to give you viruses. If you're so interested to find my pitch video, you can find it here. I refuse to show you my economics document. =)
As I'm sure my friends from Wyrley and Derby know, I love videos, and I prefer them to photos personally. More life. Anyway, so far, I've created two and a half videos from my time in Derby, with the half becoming whole this weekend. The two videos are below (or this link and this link).
To finish off, I'd like to say thanks to UoD for letting me on the course, a note of if you want to survive at halls you really need an ethernet switch, Facebook and Last.fm on the Xbox are awesome, and finally I love my friends. =)
(I need to do these more regularly, as I'm probably forgetting big important things. Ah well.)
The past whatever, 28 days.
Fun 28 days or so. That mainly orientated around A Level results.
I got a D in Physics (346/600 UMS), a D in Maths (339/600 UMS), and a B in ICT (476/600 UMS). I was quite annoyed with the 4 UMS I was off an A in ICT, but it doesn't matter any more, as I'm going to my first choice university. Which I'm really happy about. Like, ecstatic. =)
Still, my student loans aren't in the best standings. Though I do have a loan confirmed, it's not means tested, so I'll not be getting the grant, so I won't be able to eat. SLC say they're working through stuff sent in at the end of June, so we should have our stuff re-evaluated for the third time soon enough. Hopefully in the next three weeks.
Also applied for a Natwest Student Bank account, I mean - who hasn't? That five year railcard is just so appealing. Thought I'd messed it up by trying to open a savings account which needed me to make an initial deposit from my Natwest account, which I didn't have yet, so I cancelled it, but the forms arrived no problems this morning, so that's all filled in and I've just sent it back.
Starting university in three weeks and two days should be fun, if hectic. I've got most of the things I need now. I'd be tempted to say I've got everything I need. Can't wait though.
One problem with moving in is the mass of stuff happening in the weeks I move in. Namely, Joe Brooks has a gig on the Sunday, The Mission District has a gig on the Monday, Halo: ODST comes out on the Tuesday, Scribblenauts comes out on the Friday. Then two weeks after that, KH: 358/2 Days comes out. Television-wise, The Big Bang Theory and Heroes starts the Monday after I move in, Desperate Housewives starts the Sunday after that, and Ugly Betty starts the same Monday that KH comes out. And Mythbusters starts again in October.
However, I'll be far too busy partying or doing work to care.
Mmm, this is a nice omelette. What a strange word.
Anyway, other stuff.
In the past few weeks, I've been to Chasewater three times and had some nice sandwiches and fed some ducks with friends. Plus we took over the fort and were awesome. I've got some photos that I need to upload actually.
I've also been to Newhall Farm, Mill Farm, Jimmy Spice's, and The Village Lodge. Still can't cope with paying for poppadoms (I care not for the 14 other variations Wikipedia suggests) at that last one. Plus the meal didn't taste very nice. They did do a good keema naan bread though, I will give them that.
Regarding my iMac, ohmigah it died. My HDD started clicking far too loudly, giving me loads of "fun" new error messages. Thank fuck for AppleCare, £5 for a university student was the best thing I bought with my iMac. Got my screen replaced, HDD replaced, and my disc drive too. All within a week.
However, that week was spent on Ubuntu. I hated every minute. I could never just get into it and enjoy it, or be able to use it. It took me about half an hour to install Flash. Anyone who says Linux is the future, is plain and simple wrong, unless you're in very specific circumstances. It's just too un-user friendly.
Anyway, back to Apple products, I'm quite excited over Snow Leopard coming out this Friday. Though it means I'm down £25, it does mean I get some new sexy features and some hard drive space back. I'm probably just gonna stick Snow Leopard on top of Leopard, as it's been installed for two weeks now. I've always got my Time Machine back ups anyway.
Also bought into a 1Password upgrade. Clearly the best application on a Mac, I use it everyday, so £12.62 to keep it running sounds like a good, sexy bargain (The version 3 interface being the sexy component, of course.)
Games wise, I bought two XBLA games and one XBLIG, those being Trials HD, Shadow Complex and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1.
Trials HD is a wonderful game, I just need more people on my friends list that play it. It's great fun, and infuriating. But it's very addictive game play, really enjoyable.
Shadow Complex was a game I wasn't expecting to buy, but then really enjoyed the demo, so I bought it. Another fabulously fun game, lots of 'splosions and stuff. But anyway, just buy it. =)
Finally, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is another fun game. But it only costs 80 MSP. Look at this gameplay. Come onnn, that's like 69p.
This week, I had some sexy free fruit and nuts from Graze.com. I got some grapes, dried pineapple, pecans, and some banana coins. Though it usually costs £3 per box, I used a promotional code (AF8PPXY) and then you get a free week, and one week 1/2 price. You do have to provide a debit/credit card details but they don't charge for a free box and you can cancel anytime. I did. And my box was yummy. =)
Today was the day I learned that Panic at the Disco had lost two of it's members. Which sucks. But Panic! at the Disco (huzzah for retuning exclamation marks) has a new single that is quite awesome. Plus, P!ATD still has the better two members. The members that left and formed a new band also have a new song, but MySpace doesn't want me to be able to hear that one. Ah well.
That's about it.
Apart from Lostprophets!
It was an awesome gig. The Dead Formats were a bit creepy. The Young Guns were okay. Lostprophets were great! Fun songs. Bloody loud though. And lots of jumping. Had to get out by 10.15 as it was really quite hot and my knee started killing me. Bit mad really, but still a great night. Plus Kids in Glass Houses and The Blackout just appeared to turn up. Quite crazy really.
And that's about it. Probably another month of blog silence ahead. =)
Four weeks.
That is the amount of time since I last posted here. Which probably explains why my Google Analytics are showing lower numbers than usual.
I'd post more, but I haven't really done anything substantial. Plus, I've been tweeting more and more, kind of reducing the purpose. (Did you know that my top five tweeted words are fun, good, tomorrow, played, and yay?)
I've done a few things though.
I've been to the cinema three times in the past two weeks, seeing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince twice, and The Proposal once, and all of them were really good fun. The Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince game was alright, not as length as others in the series, but did fill in story bits that the movie obviously missed out. I've also started reading the Harry Potter books again, for fun. I'm also listening to the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince soundtrack, as I'm awesome. It's awesome too. =)
School wise, I've been to two events, being the school's summer concert and the school's awards. Both were good fun, must say.
Open University wise, I've completed my second course today. Though the other had Molymod, this was more interesting. Really good fun, think I've done alright, but I probably did give up towards the end of the written questions.
That was because my iMac started dying strangely last night, which was probably the worst time it could have happened. But it did. The clicking sound that has existed for some time was getting quite a bit worse recently. However, last night, Leopard started crashing and restarting, and took about 10 minutes to boot up. And I'm getting errors on the Apple Hardware Test. So I'm gonna call AppleCare tomorrow and get it picked up or whatever happens with Apple servicing. Good job I bought the AppleCare when I did, really.
Oh, as well as calling AppleCare, I'll probably go into Cannock. Why? Because I love Twitter! I have somehow managed to successfully redeem two Marketplace codes for Gears of War 2. Though I don't own it, who would turn down a Gold-Plated Lancer which is like a limited edition exclusive, or the new All Front DLC (which contains 19 multiplayer maps and another campaign level) costing 1600 MSP. All through Twitter. I think those are the only codes I've gotten off Twitter, but they're pretty damn good. Anyway, because of owning all this content, and due to the fact that I'm running out of games, I'm gonna buy Gears of War 2, and some AA batteries from Home Bargains. The AA batteries because I think my dad is noticing the AA batteries are going quite quickly.
Ooh! I could buy a black Play & Charge Kit. Depends on the prices, I suppose.
Strange, my iMac has now been fine for the entire time of writing this post so far. I don't care, I still want it serviced. The clicking is pissing me off.
Firefox's British Dictionary is missing the word movie. Strange.
Anyway.
Found some old and fun DigiCook audio outtakes that once existed on digicook.co.uk, but that website ceases to exist. Anyway, here is the lemons outtakes: (mp3 link)
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And here are just some more general outtakes: (mp3 link)
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These are obviously in addition to the healthy extras we have on the DVD itself. Hah, Young Enterprise. What japes.
I may paint my room. The blue it currently is ain't too fun. Plus, there's dust everywhere, which ain't good.
Hmm.
I'm running out of things to say.
Oh!
YouTube. From our trip back home from the cinema when we saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, I recorded 30 minutes of video. From prom, I got about six. Put those together along with Katy Perry and you get my first YouTube video of July.
And the second one is when you just condense the video footage back from the cinema and have no other music on the back. Which is this one.
I think I'm done now.
I've missed posting. Might do it more if I was doing more interesting things. Oh well, results day in three weeks and Lostprophets in four, can't wait. =)
Harriet, no, Elliot Minor + The Mission District.
What a fun day it's been.
After what I believe was a night of no sleep, I arose from my room around 12, and cleaned my room some more. Spent about an hour trying to get my books to stay on my shelves right, but they're still constantly falling off. How persistent and annoying.
Anyway, got dressed and ready for the gig tonight, which would be Elliot Minor + The Mission District.
Had McDonald's.
Queued.
Saw David from The Mission District. He was awesome. He gave us a leaflet.
Then we were inside.
It was oh, so very hot. (Almost like there has been a heatwave recently.)
Anyway, The Mission District came on. They were awesome for many reasons, mainly for they sang awesome songs (including the best Lady Gaga/Rihanna/Michael Jackson mix you ever did hear), and they were awesome. They were also sweaty, as jumping + thrown water + bad ventilation + lots of lights was true.
Elliot Minor were on next, obviously, as they were headlining. They came on to Jessica, which somehow caused me to go from basically the back of the room to essentially the front. Which made the evening a lot more enjoyable, I must say, Played some good songs, a few new songs, maybe a few too many, but they were still very good.
Also, fun merchandise. Signed Elliot Minor poster for £5 was a bargain and is awesome. Also got David from The Mission District's signature. May go see them live in September, if I can drag my self away from Fresher's fortnight at Derby.
Then McDonald's again, but only for a drink this time.
Then we were on the Last Train Home, (Lostprophets in 2059 hours baby).
That was an experience, I must say.
So we're (Aimee, Adam and I) sitting around a table, as you do, then Calvin comes to sit with us.
And we were terrified by his speech, the self harm marks, the fact that he was smoking, was drunk, and was talking about being nice.
He also didn't believe us about Elliot Minor (or as he kept on saying, Harriet Minor), though we had three tickets, about ten flyers and a big poster.
Which scared us all. Thankfully, he left at Tame Bridge.
Then Aimee drove us home, which was nice, and now I'm finishing this blog post after having a shower to remove the sweat from my person.
Farewell!
The past week.
Starting with Thursday, Prom. Was a fabulous evening, meal was alright, tunes were fabulous, and more importantly I won the Accessorize award. Oh yes.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday went past quite quickly really. Most of the time was spent playing Monkey Island 2 and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. And I've finished both of them. Starting Curse of Monkey Island later.
Yesterday was strange, had a fun time un-networking and re-networking in different areas, and being introduced into four new Playfish games. Which are very exciting. And addictive.
Today has been pretty boring too, however my 1 TB hard drive arrived and I have lots of space available to me for the first time in months. Lots of good times.
Boring week really.
Gig, day out and parties in the next few days though, so that should be fun.
Farewell!
The last few days.
Thursday was good fun, went to the pub with Chemistry and Physics teachers and got a free drink and dessert from them, and got a meal for £3.50, which was lovely.
Friday was also fun, as I went to Ikea and came back with some frying pans and a spatula for university, which was exciting.
Saturday was also very, very good fun, as there was lots of bouncing involved. This was because Aimee had a bouncy castle at her 18th birthday party, along with a barbecue and booze. There was lots of bouncing, even to the point where after the party it felt weird that I wasn't bouncing. I'm alright now, though, which is awesome. But it was a fantabulous evening.
Today should be pretty mediocre in comparison, as I'm probably going to end up sitting here, playing Burnout all day, along with sifting through the 120 photos from last night. Alright times.
Wednesday the 17th.
Uploaded a new blog header image that was more appropriate to my current circumstances. Unless you're currently on Facebook. Which is cool. But you're so missing out.
Today was great, went off to Birmingham. Traded in my Wii and an additional remote and nunchuck for £110 trade in at Gamestation, which was nice. I then used that credit to get me a Microsoft Points Card and Lips, with brought me down to £60, which is still a lot of credit that can be spent on some other games later.
Went around, can't quite remember when. But anyway, bought Aimee's birthday presents, bought Alan Carr's autobiography and Russel Brand's latest book, hardcover, £6 for both, which was awesome. Also got some Sharpies to replace the black one that died in November. And they have a fine-liner tip, which I thought was pretty ninja to be honest.
Then we headed home and I played Lips for about five hours. And as expected, spent an entire points card on DLC songs. Got another one coming tomorrow/Friday though, which I'm not going to spend. It's going to sit there until something I actually want comes online.
Anyway, a photo of me revising Physics is shown to the right (or just somewhere on Facebook). Isn't it so fun.
In other news, oh my god Sree is so annoying why don't the bloody housemates nominate him so he can go awayyyy, and they should stop nominating Halfwit as I find him amusing.
That's about it.
Pub today for lunch, pub tomorrow for something. Should be fun whatever happening. Slightly feel a bit bored that I've not got anything planned for Friday. I'm sure I'll cope, I do have access to about five games I want to finish, Scrabble Live, Bejewelled Blitz (if it ever comes back from maintenance), and Zynga Poker.
Oh, and Restaurant City. That's become quite addictive.
I'm bored, or am out of things to say.
Therefore: fareewell!
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