Tom
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I got a Seagate external hard drive today, 500GB. Its really nice - virtually silent, compact and surprisingly pleasant looking too. I also bought some new suit trousers and 'Fables: Legands in Exile' which seems good so far.
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i'd be happy to post to Japan. As for time scale, I cant even consider doing this till next week, as currently all my music is trapped on a corrupted hard drive and i need to wait till payday to buy a new HDD and save my music. But i'm trying to plan Cd's now. I'm considering doing one filled with awesome and one with stuff so bad its funny.
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i'm in please. no-one send me crappy music!
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i think i'll give this a bash. i have several half started idea that I should actually get done, and this might help me get it sorted and provide a bit of an incentive. The longest thing I have written previously was about 15,000 words (written in about 2 weeks), but that could have been easily expanded to over 20,000. This'll be a big step up though.
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my fave is moon safari hands down. It's one of my favourite albums. Its the audio equivelent of a warm, sunday summers evening with a nice breeze. or thats how i feel anyway!
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6th H2G2 book in the works by some guy I don't know.
Tom replied to EchoDesiato's topic in General Chit Chat
This does seem strange, as Mostly Harmless did completely finish everything. The Salmon of Doubt was really starting to get interesting around the time it ended, so i'd far rather someone finished that. I really hope they do this justice though. It seems unnecessary, just trying to cask in on the name, like the recent Sebastian Foulkes 'Ian Fleming' novel. -
I have all my music/tv shows etc on a separate IDE drive connected via a USB adaptor. This system has been working fine for ages. Today I'm listening to my music, go to change tracks and it says the destination directory is corrupted and unreadable. So i try a different file, and then i try browsing the drive itself. It still says it's corrupted and doesnt see the drive as formatted. So i tried the old failsafe - turn in off and on again. Still no joy. Any idea whats up here? A hard drive cant just magically corrupt like that surely? Its cool, stationary and none of the files have been intentionally changed/added for several weeks. If it's gone, I will be very very very upset!
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i have spent most of my day falling in love with this will destroy you.
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i haven't read Rant yet, I will be buying it soon though. I have just finished re-reading Choke and I'm currently rereading Survivor, which I think is my favourite after Fight Club. I love his books so much, they really open up the mind and he has a unique way of writing. The shakespeare book is pretty good too, although IMO it lacks some of the Bryson charm of his other books.
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lotr does rock. i had a disapointing night. i have eaten something thats REALLY disagreed with me. I'm feeling so sick, and whilst i know this is a weird thing to mention, it's also a pretty big record to lose: I pooed on a public loo for the first time ever! so thats a 23 year streak just wiped out due to some bug or something. I hope i feel better soon. No idea what it is thats done this too me, although I suspect it's actually karma, as I pretented to have food poisoning to skip work for a job interview a few weeks ago, so I guess I'm owed some food poisoning.
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Thanks very much! That program is fantastic. It has found everything, i'm going to buy a new external HDD and restore it all to the new drive, as I dont want to risk anything going wrong.
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Unfortunately it's a laptop, so i dont have the option to connect it straight to the pc. However one of my other IDE drives is working fine via the adaptor, so the fact that its working fine also removes the adaptor from the equation. I'll try that program tomorrow, thanks.
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after 2 1/2 months living at my current place i have FINALLY finished unpacking looks much nicer.
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itunes comes perilously close to ruining the experience for me. its such a stunningly poor piece of software
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now that is a good idea! cheers - i'm off to cook.
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nice day today, although its a pity Hamilton had his win taken away. seemed a harsh decision as he let Kimi back ahead. I went to town to try and buy some record mailers to send out my vinyl I have for sale on ebay. I reckon I should manage to get around £200, which would be ace. still got that girl from friday stuck in my head. I'm going to have to try and see her again and hope she dumps her bf! although tbh i'm not sure that's likely. Not sure if she liked me anyway...
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i like this! btw j7, i agree with you on Charlie, it was a really brave move to do what he did (plus its was self financed too and cost alot). Plus he's produced to great songs, especially Palahniuks Laughter. anyhoo, moving on... my actual 5 people to meet: 1) Stephen Fry. For so many reasons - witty, interesting, intelligent and seems genuinely nice. 2) Douglas Adams. Creator of one of the great 'trilogies' of all time, but a very mulitfaceted character, with really diverse interests. Plus, like Fry, a major geek/technophile. 3) Noel Gallagher. Awesome man. Should have some good stories, plus I can bask in his wonderfullness. TBH not sure if we'd have too much in common though - i think he'd think i'm a posh twat, but oh well. 4) Regina Spektor. She seems lovelly! plus if the conversation starts to get dull I can just ask her to sing for me. 5) Hmmm... I am struggling by this point. Henry VIII would be very interesting, so would Hitler. But Tina Fey is wonderfull. But then Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson are sensible, interesting people. And, sorry to copy everyone, but Dave 'nicest man in rock' Grohl would be really interesting to talk to. However, on the few ocassions when I have been able to meet famous people who I respect I have generally just mumbled things allong the lines of 'mmm... hum.. thanks... for um.. you know, all those great books/songs/etc you have done... I really umm... like them...'
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enjoy! they are truly magical little boxes of joy
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i handed my notice in at work today i have just got home from a nught out. had a good time. I met a friend of a friend and I eally liked her. Its insanely rare (like not sine 2004) that i'll meet a girl and really like her. Unfortunately it turns out she has a bf. pretty sad really as it is so so so rare i meet a girl who i really like.
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dexter is WONDERFULL! glad more people are starting to watch it. I just put loads of my stuff on eBay i checked my balance on the way home and i was about £100 less than i was expecting. And I wasn't expecting much in the first place...
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sorry for trying to sell to you, but I have some ebay listings at the moment that some of you may like: The Mars Volta - Tremulant EP Mastodon - Lifesblood EP The Mars Volta - Bible and the Breathalyser The Mars Volta - Televators 10" The Mars Volta Inertiatic ESP 10" The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP 12" The Mars Volta - Televators 12" The Mars Volta - Live at the Electric Ballroom 2x12" The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute 4x12" glow in the dark
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still not had written confirmation for the job, really annoying, as i really want to hand my notice in!
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thanks everyone it's such a releif to have got the job. plus the recruitment agent said they were seriously impressed, so holpefully this'll lead to bigger and better things. ash - glad you have found somewhere to live, pretty essential thing to have sorted. have you checked out the neighbours?
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my week of major mood swings has continued. just to recap: wii and 360 not working, unable to get RAF job, hating current job, then mum goes to hospital, break my glasses, job interview with major mixed sugnals, then i had a great night out, then we get burgled. thats just a quick, edit, summary, but suffice to say this has been a pretty mental week. so, the week has had a big high finally..........i got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i see your point, but i'm certainly not going to swap my iphone for it! the phone looks like it's struggling too, the interface isnt smooth, especially juddery when he was 'pinching' the photo. on iphone everything is smooth and perfect