Tuesday Jun 08, 2004

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Ok well my Download pics are up. Apologies in advance but I'm not photographer material and my camera is rubbish anyway.

Had a fab time though. Weather was marvellous and the lineup of bands was the bestest and heaviest evar! ARRR!!! ARRR!!!

Failed miserably to meet many people though as it only occurred to me when I got there that I didn't have anyone's numbers except Tubesound's...
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kungfuvoodoo:
Making your own Megalithic Yard
These ancient builders marked the year by identifying the two days a year when the shadow cast by the rising sun was perfectly aligned with the shadow of the setting sun. We call these the spring equinox and the autumn equinox that fall around the 21st of March and 21st September respectively. They also knew that there were 366 sunrises from one spring equinox to the next and it appears that they took this as a sacred number.
They then scribed out a large circle on the ground and divided it into 366 parts.
A megalithic circle was divided into 366 equal parts, which is almost certainly the origin of our modern 360 degree circle. It seems probable that when mathematics came into use in the Middle East they simply discarded 6 units to make the circle divisible by as many numbers as possible. The megalithic degree is 98.36% of a modern degree.

When the late Professor Alexander Thom surveyed over a thousand megalithic structures from Northern Scotland through England, Wales and Western France he was amazed to find that they had all been built using the same unit of measurement. Thom dubbed this unit a Megalithic Yard (MY) because it was very close in size to an imperial yard, being exactly 2 feet 8.64 inches (82.966 cm). As an engineer he could appreciate the fine accuracy inherent in the MY but he was mystified as to how such a primitive people could have consistently reproduced such a unit across a zone spanning several hundreds of miles.

The answer that eluded the late Professor lay not in the rocks, but in the stars.


The MY turns out to be much more than an abstract unit such as the modern metre, it is a highly scientific measure repeatedly constructed by empirical means. It is based upon observation of three fundamental factors:
1. The orbit of the Earth around the sun
2. The spin of the Earth on its axis
3. The mass of the Earth
Many ancient mysteries remain because of the lack of perspective. The folks of the day, we today, were just trying to understand and harmonize with the cosmic order/chaos to be able to blend with the substance of God.
Greetings and Im welcoming my self aboard. I am glad to meet a compatriot.
Hi, I hope my contribution will contribute to the collective.
tiberius:
Ha! No, Riddick ain't Dune. Though there were certainly some visual similarities here and there, it's a different beast. I know I'm gonna get clobbered for defending it, but what can I say?

Saturday Jun 05, 2004

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Wow thanks for all the comments everyone, that must be a record! I guess I'll have to watch myself otherwise I'll be in danger of getting a rep for apparently sage and wise posts... biggrin

Just prepping myself for a busy weekend. Due to London Transport being s*** (again) I need a crash at a friend's to put me within reach of Victoria by 8.00pm tomorrow...
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cherry:
Ooo hopefully I'll bump into you tomorrow wink biggrin

Cherry xoxoxox
october:
no i'm not frown i really was i could though! hope you have an amazing time!

Tuesday Jun 01, 2004

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Well, another year older, and surprise surprise I don't feel any different. Perhaps more concerning though is the big three-oh is in sight now, and it doesn't look good.

There was a time once when I thought that adults reached a threshold, where they they find their place, some kind of meaning in their lives, some kind of marked achievement which could satisfy the necessity...
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fpkk:
It's very simple really, the necessity has to be pressing indeed. Then you don't care so much about the money any more.

I am now very poor.
vicky:
The forecast says cloudy but reaching highs of 22 degrees c by Sunday!!! See you there (i will be the one drooling and staring like a perv while the Burlesque show is on) wink

Monday May 24, 2004

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Computer update: New Tosh is fine, and insurance company says they'll probably replace the Vaio too, although not until they've seen it, which means I need to copy the HD, which I can't do until I can plug it into a normal PC IDE slot, which I can't do at home because my ma's PC has gone AWOL - motherboard probably fried thanks to the...
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adam73:
I hope he'll be ok.
We used to have a pet rat which loved beer, every friday we would pour some in his bowl, which he'll polish off (equivalent to a bathtub full of booze for a human being) then he'll run around in circles in his cage and then pass out till the next morning. Very heavy metal! smile
the_mad_monk:
So what games you like???

Wednesday May 19, 2004

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Well the new Tosh is doing ok so far - seems to be another case of third time lucky *touches wood* (and no, not that kind of wood) wink

Finally got around to catching Last Samurai on DVD. Turned out to be a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Very sad that the Japanese turned on their people and their old way...
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nonchalance:
Hmm, whats the keyboard like? I wanna get rid of a slighlty cheaper than a Les Paul Epiphone and a battered Yamaha 112 which is indestructible, if you are interested that is. Also i can include a 15w practice amp and a couple of pedals, one being compression/sustain and the other is distortion.
october:
thanks smile i'm almost half way through now - 6 more to go! enjoy download - i wish i could go!

Saturday May 15, 2004

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Well at first there was more yayness as my employer decided that after not giving me a raise, ignoring me and generally taking me for granted for the last year or so, they would resolve my lack of laptop by buying me a new one.

Except they then went on to say it wouldn't actually be *mine* but the company's, for my personal use for...
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big_dave:
^^^ my tosh has been fine since I bought it 18mths ago, but admittedly it was the 3rd one I had in the space of a fortnight confused

Lodgers etc seems like a good idea till I realise that I would very quickly come to hate and then murder anybody I lived with. It happens with people I love/get engaged to, so it'll happen all the sooner if they're just paying me rent and annoying the tits off me smile
black_rider:
I would be interested in your friend's film. I am an actor with a fair bit of experience. Get your friend to send me details and I will see if I am available.

Monday May 10, 2004

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Yay! My ADSL is fixed!!!! biggrin biggrin biggrin
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partiallyblind:
well that's why it's called Python...

does that count? biggrin
fpkk:
Excellent ADSL news man. Now you can check out my site smile

I note that you joined after me and yet you have loads more friends... hmmm, maybe you had the better idea not writing a novel and spending loads of time on here...

Sunday May 09, 2004

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Arrgghh my coonnneeccttioonn iisss soo sloowww whenn wiillll thiisss miisseerrryy ennddd..... frown
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munch:
what "classic tunes" were on in the pub on Friday?

i seem to recall "Born To Lose" coming on, but I don;t think thats what Vicky means... wink

was good to briefly see you on Friday - got a tad packed for my liking, which is why i ended up by the bar! biggrin
fpkk:
Monsieur Hermes,

Ta muchly for the kind words on SGUK... I hope I manage to avoid the label of bumbling twatness.

The novel is finished but... well, it's started to get complicated. Check me out at www.leostableford.com *my site - pride* to see more. And that goes for all you strangers reading this comment too!
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