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Twitter Updates for 25-10-2010

@GreatDismal Sounds worryingly like justification for the rich to think themselves genetically superior. in reply to GreatDismal 14:29:29, 2010-10-25
Mass Effect 2 costs £10-15 to buy. The mp3 soundtrack is split across 3 album downloads. Upshot: Buying the music costs more than the game. 15:33:55, 2010-10-25
Even if you never play it, it's cheaper to buy the game and rip the music files out of it. This makes no sense. 15:34:45, 2010-10-25
@mothdust Wear it as a poncho? in reply to mothdust 15:43:08, 2010-10-25
Feel quite bruised from all the lifting yesterday. 15:43:38, 2010-10-25
@sorvall_sergal £9.98 at PCWorld and Currys. Pricing structure is very broken in games and associated content. in reply to sorvall_sergal 15:55:08, 2010-10-25

Twitter Updates for 24-10-2010

@JezzabelleNFC Believe me I am. It just keeps replaying. in reply to JezzabelleNFC 17:06:50, 2010-10-24
@artsyhonker Tactics: Council wasteland can be re-purposed w/ community action. Private wasteland will be cleared, also trespassing issue. in reply to artsyhonker 17:09:03, 2010-10-24
@artsyhonker Trees also difficult. Slow growth, structure damaging roots, easy to kill. Popular support required to resist clearance. in reply to artsyhonker 17:11:59, 2010-10-24
Time for some apropriate music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpPtL9nm20 17:12:35, 2010-10-24
Before the incident earlier, did find a fridge-freezer. One compressor, so I can cut thru and join the compartments. 17:57:59, 2010-10-24
Pump already gone too. Handy. I need more coffee atm tho. 17:59:41, 2010-10-24
*passes out* 19:31:20, 2010-10-24
Freezer is stripped out and in the shed. *pants* 19:31:45, 2010-10-24
Keep thinking of the cat.. 20:52:30, 2010-10-24
@song_in_heart Should I have tried to put him out of his misery? in reply to song_in_heart 21:05:29, 2010-10-24
New blog post: A horrible thing http://www.sci-fi-fox.com/?p=445 21:51:04, 2010-10-24
I don't want to die in that sort of confused pain. 22:02:11, 2010-10-24
Going in to clean up. Closing workshop for the night. 22:41:37, 2010-10-24
BTW, if anyone remebers Ulysses 31, go here: http://ns21.hosteur.com/~parall/9.ulysse31str/ulysse31str.htm The exe's are auto-zipped mp3s. 22:44:31, 2010-10-24
"Le cyclope et les moines aveugles" still inspires awe and fear in me. It was for so many years the "doom" music of life. 22:46:36, 2010-10-24
Parallax did a wonderful job re-recording the soundtrack. 22:48:15, 2010-10-24

Twitter Updates for 22-10-2010

1week to have everything completed for Expo deliveries and RBW. Due to building work before RBW, cannot assume will be able to use workshop. 15:06:28, 2010-10-22
Fuck fuck fuck fuck. 15:06:53, 2010-10-22
Sometimes you gotta accept these risks. http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20101011 15:25:23, 2010-10-22
Am in the workshop. My motor's barely ticking over tho. 16:47:14, 2010-10-22
2hrs later, the biggest bits of wood have been dismantled. Woo~ 18:40:33, 2010-10-22
Recessed with real-wood caps. Hard to find the screws. Plus wood a little swollen, so some holes too small now. Some splits. 18:42:27, 2010-10-22
With carefull planning, cutting and biscuiting, probably enough for most of a fancy desk. Eventually. Back-burner once all tidied away. 18:43:41, 2010-10-22
The incorect mill chuck is badly machined on the inside of the collar too! Collet clamping off-centere as a result! 21:18:01, 2010-10-22
Will have to put the collar on the lathe to fix it. Very annoying. 21:19:31, 2010-10-22
A well-stocked workshop is useful, because it's hard to procrastinate when all the tools are on-hand. 21:58:29, 2010-10-22
Securing nut/collar is almost turned down perfect now. Collet seats right, but dislike untidy edge. 21:59:12, 2010-10-22
Okay, can't do any more without making a special boring tool. 22:08:28, 2010-10-22
0.35mm at nut, 0.2mm at chuck, 0.1mm at bearing. Putting chuck in lathe tailstock tho, alignment is perfect. 22:31:58, 2010-10-22
Millhead bearings possibly? No, would just be offset, not eccentric. Must be the MT2 collet holder. Looks like a homemade part. 22:34:57, 2010-10-22
Spent longer fixing tools today than using them. 23:31:48, 2010-10-22
Have at least discovered roughly how millhead goes together. To dismantle will need bigger mallet. 23:33:36, 2010-10-22
Time to go in and shower. Will reassemble mill head tomorrow. 23:35:56, 2010-10-22
Chest's tight again. 23:36:22, 2010-10-22

Twitter Updates for 23-10-2010

@AlbinoKitsune Oh hai, thanks for watching~ :3 14:19:57, 2010-10-23
Listening to various versions of the Space Battleship Yamoto/Starblazers theme. 15:32:08, 2010-10-23
Fine, I get it. Only talk to people when I can be either mindlessly happy/inoffensive or useful to them. 16:19:16, 2010-10-23
Because I am not mentioning having constant heart palitations and breathing trouble, I am obviously fine again. 16:25:50, 2010-10-23
My internet persona must be doing great. 16:26:07, 2010-10-23
Reassembled the mill. Tollerances are still off. Think it's the MT2 taper in the spindle. 17:03:47, 2010-10-23
Still need a shaft with a 3" splined section. Must be a gearbox part out there. 17:05:30, 2010-10-23
I'm running out of time and I can't even move. 17:21:43, 2010-10-23
Hello internet. You've stopped talking back to me. Why? 17:23:32, 2010-10-23
Getting dark. Finding and collecting a freezer today now seems unlikely at best. My own fault for sleeping late. 17:47:49, 2010-10-23
I can no longer articulate how desperate I feel. 18:07:26, 2010-10-23
Took the grinder to lathe tailstock. It fits now. 18:24:10, 2010-10-23
Only thing I can do now. Tiny jobs, little fixes. Chest hurts. Going to eat chocolate. 18:24:51, 2010-10-23
@TimWakeham Budget cuts. Sadest pic is the unfinished frame sitting next to long since sun-bleached "New technologies" signage. in reply to TimWakeham 19:13:47, 2010-10-23
@TimWakeham For real fun, read about US congress making it *illegal* for NASA to persue the TransHab inflatable habitat design. in reply to TimWakeham 19:21:45, 2010-10-23
Naturally, the fucking mandrel's missing. Dangerous and unreliable alternative time. Woo. 19:35:15, 2010-10-23
And naturally it comes apart AND melts to the surface of the workpiece. 19:39:08, 2010-10-23
Didn't so much cut as melt thru from friction.. 19:43:00, 2010-10-23
Horn masters ready to cast tomorrow. Eye blank master collet ready. Surprise Expo gift #1 painted. 22:47:57, 2010-10-23
Going indoors now. Busy day tomorrow. 22:48:52, 2010-10-23

Twitter Updates for 21-10-2010

@ThrashWolf PM me your MSN then? :P in reply to ThrashWolf 12:41:52, 2010-10-21
@ShemaLioness "Oooh yes, a spanking, a spanking!" in reply to ShemaLioness 12:42:47, 2010-10-21
My guts are not full of happy bunnies today. 15:42:59, 2010-10-21
Odd suspicion we're going to see lots of powercuts this winter. Time to get a UPS on the modem too. Important things first. 15:47:11, 2010-10-21
@TinyTeaDragon Maybe if they were cooked bunnies.. in reply to TinyTeaDragon 16:00:24, 2010-10-21
4 orders dispatched, yay! 17:17:42, 2010-10-21
Whole mahogany staircase dragged home in bits. Arms going to fall off now. But still need to dismantle further before bed. 20:36:39, 2010-10-21
Also had surprise convo from dad about 2013 & the apparent solar EMP that'll knock the planet back to the middle-ages. 20:39:24, 2010-10-21
Buy up food, be prepared to move in with him for safety, find out what grade of electrics will survive "1 million atom bombs of EMP"… :P 20:42:53, 2010-10-21
I'm all for caution, but I've known a lot of doomers. I summary with this: Ends seldom come with a bang, far more with a whimper. 20:44:04, 2010-10-21
@bloophoenix No, nothing the gut-bunnies should have moaned about. Just home cooking. in reply to bloophoenix 20:46:38, 2010-10-21
@JezzabelleNFC Nooope, adamant it was 2013. NASA says so apparently. in reply to JezzabelleNFC 20:47:11, 2010-10-21
Got the proof back from Screens. Badly converted and tiny. Hope they provide me with revised very soon. Time running out. 21:56:30, 2010-10-21