October 2010 – Page 5 – Personal blog of Peter "Sci" Turpin

Twitter Updates for 14-10-2010

In the hour I've spent trying to send a message to the admin thru tonne of broken html & PHP, have ended up finding track pirated on a blog. 02:44:15, 2010-10-14
@AdriOfTheDead Because they always figure out you're not really from the FBI in the end. in reply to AdriOfTheDead 02:46:10, 2010-10-14
Oh wait, it's working now! 139Mb download. PHP script breaks the link so won't download in Orbit. Hope the DL doesn't get interrupted then! 02:50:49, 2010-10-14
@AdriOfTheDead Maybe an Evil Egg got to it..? http://caramel-kitteh.deviantart.com/art/Origins-of-an-Egg-78568739 in reply to AdriOfTheDead 03:26:00, 2010-10-14
Nothing back from Freegle yet. One small freezer spotted. Need bigger tho. One on ebay for a tenner, good cond but 12yo. Suitable. 15:46:58, 2010-10-14
Sticky-back plastic for my RBW outfit has arrived! Except the sample sizes AREN'T sticky-back. Would have been good to know before buying!! 16:57:16, 2010-10-14
Bid on the ebay freezer. 1 week to go, can collect immediately. 16:58:35, 2010-10-14
@rbwcon Just saw footage from an electronics con. Had venue maps printed on the back of the badges. Seemed like a good idea! 18:04:54, 2010-10-14
Feeling very off today. Shivering and shaking. 18:36:59, 2010-10-14
@ShemaLioness No, it's anxiety again.. in reply to ShemaLioness 18:52:33, 2010-10-14
@ShemaLioness Not that are working very well right now. :/ in reply to ShemaLioness 19:18:04, 2010-10-14
@kitsunesoftware It probably has a "low" setting they used for the benchmark under optimum conditions. in reply to kitsunesoftware 20:08:36, 2010-10-14
When there's no more room in the workshop, the projects will walk the bedroom. #zombies #projects 21:54:41, 2010-10-14
@AdriOfTheDead It's your phantom tail syndrome. One of usssssss.. in reply to AdriOfTheDead 21:55:14, 2010-10-14
Bedroom is a mess. Yet have moved turbomolecular pump up here. May try making antiprotons. #scienceitworksbitches 21:56:31, 2010-10-14
"Hey, let's name the event after this acronym I heard, that'll get it extra attention. No it doesn't matter what it already means, does it?" 21:59:07, 2010-10-14
@song_in_heart That's a very big hat. *hugs* in reply to song_in_heart 22:21:50, 2010-10-14

Twitter Updates for 13-10-2010

The meet on sat topped up my socialisation levels, so have been keeping to myself since. Trying to push myself to keep it up instead now. 01:27:41, 2010-10-13
Holy shit. Service train just went past the back of the house trailing showers of sparks! o_o; 02:05:02, 2010-10-13
Hope that means they're grinding the rail-tops or something. Never seen that before. 02:06:46, 2010-10-13
Lesson to self: Keep your camera where you can find it at all times. 02:07:15, 2010-10-13
"Futile 98" mix only available on US release of VAC's "Fun With Knives album. As such is also missing from Amazons mp3 sale list. 03:24:07, 2010-10-13
It's the only tune I want & it's been made specifically unavailable. Hunting US ebay for 10yr/o CDs that will ship to UK. 03:25:20, 2010-10-13
And all ebay listings using Amazon's broken track listing that says it has 66 tracks. All past 11 are "unknown". Ugh. 03:26:39, 2010-10-13
Want to buy track from band, but can't. So got to get 2nd-hand. Can only think with DRM it'll be worse in future. 03:27:45, 2010-10-13
STOP LIKING ANY NEW MUSIC. Soon if you miss getting a copy at the time, you'll never be able to again. Save your frustration. 03:29:43, 2010-10-13
The Clangers communicated by nuclear magnetic resonance. Thankyou wikipedia. 12:09:39, 2010-10-13

Twitter Updates for 12-10-2010

Stupid ebay, stop selling things that sound like a bargain! 00:14:16, 2010-10-12
Auction 260675624035; 668 sound chips for £50. Do three siren tones & a machine-gun sound. 00:16:39, 2010-10-12
Could make a tonne of annoying audio-throwies? 00:17:07, 2010-10-12
My ferret is done! Sending for quote now. Might get them for RBW yet! 03:06:47, 2010-10-12
Right, costume bits all ordered, emails have been sent. Just need to grab a few hours sleep. 04:23:18, 2010-10-12
New T-shirt design, woo~ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4618638/ 04:40:30, 2010-10-12
New blog post: New T-shirt design: "Got Ferret?" http://www.sci-fi-fox.com/?p=424 22:36:22, 2010-10-12

New T-shirt design: “Got Ferret?”

Finally, an original T-shirt design is on it’s way!

Finally I’m starting to push out my own shirt designs to go alongside the UKFur logo shirts I already sell.
This one was by far the most popular of my concept sketches, so of course has been first to get cleaned up and vectored.

Yesterday I sent off the design to the shirt printers. It’s cutting it a little fine, but with luck this shirt may be available to buy at my RBW dealers stall on November 6th & 7th.

I’m looking at having it as a cream and brown two-colour screen-print on unisex khaki shirts to start with, followed by specifically ladies-fit sizes. Pricing will likely be around £15, but may change if other costs come up in production.

Many thanks to pub-going ferret Frettchen for being inspiringly cute!

Twitter Updates for 11-10-2010

It's 2am. Naturally, I'm installing Ubuntu. 01:49:07, 2010-10-11
@BaiSheep *hugs* Just try and put it out of your head. o_o in reply to BaiSheep 02:11:32, 2010-10-11
Ubuntu installed. Pretty smoothly, even if I did need some details refreshed via google. 02:12:28, 2010-10-11
Also adding "(no caps)" to the username selection menu would save unclickable-button frustration. 02:13:26, 2010-10-11
Box should be good to go tomorrow as new workshop machine. 02:14:06, 2010-10-11
Going offline to do graphics work while new box does the updates thing. 15:50:45, 2010-10-11
"Igor" is now in the 2nd pass of security updates for the Windows partition. Am logging on from it now. Next, Ubuntu updates. 18:47:18, 2010-10-11
1hr on, Igor has almost finished installing the 2nd pass of updates. 19:46:34, 2010-10-11
@AdriOfTheDead This is why I installed Chrome. Soley for watching youtube well. in reply to AdriOfTheDead 19:47:40, 2010-10-11
Meanwhile on the main PC, I've almost completed drawing a cute vector-art ferret for a T-shirt design. 19:48:40, 2010-10-11
@trystykat That's more than my total weekly food budget. I think maybe you need to shop somewhere cheaper? in reply to trystykat 19:49:47, 2010-10-11