Slippy's Live Space Archive 2007
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01 April The times, they are indeed a-changing. I am happy in my new home at blogger. It's neater and easier than my Live Space.
I shan't be posting here any more. Well, maybe the odd one, but most of my posts will be at my new Blogger space "World of Slippy"
However, because this space is easily linked to by my messenger contacts, I shall keep it running. I have placed feeds from my two Blogger projects on this space, just above the blog entries.
There, now you can get to all of my online creations from here, or from blogger. Have fun following me around the internet - both of you!
31 March Yup, that's right. I've decided to try again with the Overseer story. I know what I was missing before, why I couldn't get started. That's why I'm reconceiving it as a Heroes fanfic. The central character is a guy called Lucien. I'm not telling you anything about him or his world, other than he's just started writing this online journal for reasons which will be explained in the next post. In the first post, he tells of an unsettling surprise visit he's just had. You can read it at http://lucien-overseer.blogspot.com. Enjoy! :-) 21 March Hey y'all - I've just added the latest pics from the Linderman Archives into my photo album.
You may also notice that the Herobase link on this space has changed slightly. I've tidied up the front page. Filling in the database itself is slow going...I'm only up to the beginning of Episode 4 so far, but I'm keeping it updated at the site, so go there as often as you like.
18 March I Love my Mum!
She's the best
She never made me wear a vest!
I Love my Mum!
She's so great
She'd put pancakes on my plate!
I'm grown up now
And doing fine
Thanks to Mum, loving and kind!
Love ya loads Mumsie, happy Mothers' Day!!!!!!
And to everyone else out there? PHONE YOUR MUM!
17 March So, you've got a flatbed truck and a big ol' digger parked on top. And no ramp. So, how do you get the digger off? Like this, of course! Seriously, I've seen diggers do some mad stuff in my time, but nothing like this. Filched from Neatorama11 March Version 1 of the work-in-progress Herobase Project is online. It will remain at version 1 until I've finished inputting data, then I may be making structural changes and prettifying it, making it searchable, queryable, etc etc. Until then, have fun swotting the data as I add it. There will be daily updates, but I won't be blogging about it. Instead, you can click the link over in the top left hand corner of my Live Space. There it is, just below the Accidental Festival link. That's the one, it says "Check out the Herobase project (WIP)". You can also get to it by clicking this link: www.zesticity.com/herobase It's a quick and dirty front page. Sorry! 10 March Allegorical Brothers' "Panic Brand" Freeze-dried Instant Coffee Granules
Brown and crystalline, nestled agin' my brothers,
Freeze-dried me, happy in my jar.
Unbidden comes the silver spoon,
To scoop me up, destination coffee cup.
Alone and at peace, thinking of my brothers,
A spoonful of freeze-dried me, contented in my cup.
A bubbling sound, a whistle and click,
Lifting me to turmoil, the water from the kettle.
Swirling, dissolving, hidden from my brothers,
Dissolv-ed me, spinning, burning bitter.
I settle and, again am stirred,
Added to by two spoons, granulated you.
Sweetened, happily remembering my brothers,
Complet-ed me, completing you.
The swirling, stirring, silver spoon
Stops stirring, our own momentum has us turning.
Gone now, tomorrow 'twill be my brothers'
Freeze-dried they, happy in their jar.
Fret not, my brothers for spoon or cup,
For fear is supped, and soon drunk up.
by Slippy (C) March 2007
Cower, foolish metallic object! Your atomic cohesion is powerless to resist my index finger! Of course, I had to wrap a plastic bag round my hand to put the spoon in the tub, or it would have liquefied all over my lounge carpet!  06 March You think we geeks and nerds are the victims? You think you have us downtrodden? Tell me, who owns the company responsible for the creation of this whole Live Spaces thing? Yes, a nerd. The ubernerd. Captain Nerdlinger. I say these things affectionately. He made computers, previously the sole domain of nerds, accessible to you all. Yet without us nerds, most of the content you enjoy reading on the net WOULD NOT EXIST. Because of this, I was inspired to write the following little fictional (?) diatribe....
The world has underestimated the power of geekdom for too long now, but not for much longer. Our plan is nearing it's peak phase.. Bill Gates, spawn of the devil that he is, has made us acceptable to the fatcats, whilst at the same time, made all the lUsers dependent on us for their accounts, their entertainment, their very LIVES. The business world now appreciates the power of geekdom, the idle public, blindly reliant on it. Soon, through a steady multimedia campaign covering every genre (yes, even cowboy movies and german porn), we nerds, geeks and our kith and kin will gain acceptance wherever we go.
We shall walk among them, and they shall know us for what we are.
We are the ones who brought to them the fruit of the tree of knowledge of the internet. We took our arcane magical command lines and girdled them round with colours and shapes, and called them windows. Windows to a way of being. We showed them the light of the monitor screens and they gazed in wonder. We taught them of MP3s and Torrents. We spoke to them of faraway lands where they could be ANYONE, and they longed for more.
Once they are all completely reliant on us for every aspect of their lives, why then we shall rule the world. We shall be elevated. We shall be the ones that tomorrow's youth aspire to.
Be wary of the kid with the broken glasses, he could own your very soul one day.
I can't be bothered to summarise, but it's mental. Here's the whole thing as found at International Business Times (via BoingBoing): Astronauts are always are on guard against toxic spills that could contaminate the international space station.But there is nothing in their training manuals about how to clean up flying wasabi.
The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crew members are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs.
Since everything is weightless, spilled food is no ordinary clean-up challenge.
"We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere," Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. "We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit."
Williams, whose father was born in India, has several Indian dishes in her bonus container, including Punjabi kadhi with pakora - vegetable fritters topped with yogurt and curry - and mutter paneer, a curry dish. The dishes are packaged to have a long shelf life in space.
Her U.S. crew mate, astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, is an even bigger "foodie." Lopez-Alegria, who was born in Madrid but grew up in California, had Spanish muffins known as magdalenas, chorizo pork sausage and latte in his bonus container.
"Psychologically, it's very important," space station dietitian Paula Hall said of the gourmet extras. "It's really important to have variety, to have surprises. It's important to have food that makes you happy, that makes you smile."
Unfortunately for Williams, the wasabi tube has been banished to a cargo vehicle where it will stay packed away.
"I don't think we're going to use it anymore," she said. "It's too dangerous."
My blog's readership seems to be expanding - in location, if not in numbers!
Yup, somebody arrived here this week by searching at tw.search.yahoo.com for "Outside my mind".
tw? Is that taiwan?
If you made that search query, and you're reading this, please do leave me a comment - you're officially my most distant reader!
btw - a couple more months and my blog will have reached a total of 1000 hits.....It seems that my goal to have the least-visited blog on the entire web will not be achieved after all.
Seriously guys, some of you are picking names which you think sound really "metal", when the actual meaning inherent in the name you've chosen is really not "metal" at all.
Examples:
Killswitch Engage :- This should actually be the name of a "safety-conscious" band. If the killswitch is engaged, then something has gone wrong and, for safety's sake, your engine's been turned off.
Queens of the Stone Age :- Guys, you are most definitely NOT queens. You're one of my favourite hard-thrashin' bands, but your name just puts me in mind of super-gay cavemen.
Any others? lol
22 February Check out these videos - found out about 'em watching Totally Viral on UKTVG2. I don't know how long the vid's been around, but I think it's MENTAL!! They're, apparently, powerizer pro jumpers. You gotta see the running somersault over the car - it rocks. 21 February Thinking about making a couple of videos to post on youtube - tincan candle and can-crusher gone wrong. Anyone wanna lend me a video camera?
Just flicking through the TV channels and there it was, the miniguide had it listed as "Terminator 3, Rise of the Mac" Hehe, I can see it now....little white box with a frowny face on the screen and Arnold's voice, "I am Terminator model SE30" 19 February Have you seen Heroes? The first episode aired on the SciFi channel here in the UK last week. Me and Zesty were instantly hooked. We've watched all 15 episodes that have so far been broadcast in the states....we did it in two sittings. Friday night and all day Sunday. Needing another fix, I got searching on the ol' interwebby for more info about it and found that, in the States, it's being aired alongside a whole online thing, which kind of gets you feeling involved with the program, and it's all still going on in the states. Episode 16 is airing tonight in the US, so the web content will no doubt be updated at some point, and the fan sites will explode with activity analysing all the little plot twists, coming up with theories as to what's going on and what's going to happen next. A site that I've particularly enjoyed is SuperHiro.org - The Unofficial Heroes Forum and Message Board. So much so that I've signed up and started contributing some of my own mad theories! There are some great people on there, so do stop by and check it out. Seriously, I love this program. Anyone that's put off by the whole superhero thing...don't be. It's not like that at all. It's a quite brilliant character-driven dramatic thriller involving people who have some pretty amazing gifts. It's all about how they deal (or fail to deal) with these gifts, and about complex seen and unseen interactions between them. It's not a superhero series. Heroes NBC Site, SciFi UK Heroes subsite, SuperHiro.org, 9th Wonders
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