| Housewarming |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|12:38 pm] |
By unanimous tickyboxes, the housewarming will be on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th April. Contact me (or Susan) if you don't know where Normality is. Turn up for as much or as little of the weekend as you like. Some crashspace (floor / fairly comfy sofas) should be available. |
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| Housewarming |
[Mar. 1st, 2008|10:48 am] |
We've been at Normality for just over six months now and we still haven't had a housewarming. Admittedly, the house is warm anyway (at least when the boiler hasn't gone out), but we feel this is somehow missing the point, namely, an excellent excuse for a party, ideally lasting all weekend, of the open-house variety. Without further ado, a poll:
Poll #1147011 Housewarming dates
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9I am free on the weekend of
Edit: Please comment if you know of any big events that will clash. |
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| Ruddigore singthrough, 8pm tonight, Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|02:17 pm] |
I might or might not be able to make it myself, but I thoroughly recommend it. To be notified of future Gilbert & Sullivan events, join the soc-gands mailing list. |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rocketjon's party, tomorrow (Saturday) 8pm, here |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|10:01 pm] |
Party! Come one come all, to Normality (near the Carlton). For those who like to dress up, there is a theme of esoteric superheroes.
Call me on 07786 888749 (or contact me some other way) if you don't know where Normality is. |
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| Snippets |
[Jan. 3rd, 2008|12:58 pm] |
- Snow! I predict that by the time I want to get home tonight, there'll be a crash somewhere and the A14 will come to a complete stop, followed as usual by all of Cambridge.
- Stomach bugs! I predict that some kind soul will give me (or worse, Susan) this
gift that keeps on giving at some point.
- On a more positive note, for anyone else who's been looking for the blunt instrument required to persuade all ALSA applications to use, say, card 1, which in my case, at work, is my USB headphones (Last.fm is particularly problematic and baulked at the few .asoundrc tricks I tried), a fairly easy way is to set the environment variable ALSA_CARD to 1 (e.g. by putting ALSA_CARD=1 in /etc/environment).
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| New Year's Eve? |
[Dec. 30th, 2007|03:06 pm] |
Susan and I are wondering what to do. Where's everyone going? (comments screened) |
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| # A terrible disclosure has just been made |
[Nov. 23rd, 2007|10:55 am] |
I've been turned down for Pirates of Penzance at the Arts Theatre next term. Can anyone recommend any other interesting singing opportunities for a tenor after Christmas? They needn't actually be on stage, but bonus points if they're G&S or similar, because otherwise, given that three weeks at Minack would be rather too many days of holiday, my next G&S show will be this time next year. :-( |
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| Ruddigore, Pirates, The Orange Box |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|12:20 pm] |
 Ruddigore, Wednesday to Saturday next week, 8pm at the Robinson College Auditorium, £7/£5. Also, if you play an instrument and are free on any of those nights, get in touch with Debbie Murray (email dfm30) as we'd like a slightly bigger orchestra. I'll be in the chorus as usual.
Also, next term's show is The Pirates of Penzance, which was my first encounter with G&S back at Warwick and is, I think, my favourite of those I've seen. This one will be at the Arts Theatre and will be a lot of work, but very much worth doing. :-) Auditions, if anyone else wants to take part, are 7:45-10 tonight at Catz Chapel, and tomorrow (7:45-10) and Friday (7:15-10) in the Lloyd Room at Christ's. Not sure when I'm going yet.
In other news, I can thoroughly recommend The Orange Box. I recently finished Portal, and loved every minute of it, especially the ending song, Still Alive. Even better, that and Half Life 2 (so presumably the other games too) work fine in Wine; I've been playing them on Ubuntu. :-) |
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| More last-minute filmage |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
Ratatouille, 8pm tonight at the Grafton. I'll need to eat somewhere beforehand. Would anyone like to join me for one or both of these events? |
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| Ruddigore; Pirates singthrough |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|05:09 pm] |
The university term has started, which means I have some convenient, enjoyable singing opportunities again, with Cambridge G&S soc. This makes me happy. :-) I'll be in their chorus for Ruddigore, which will almost certainly be in the week beginning 19th November in Robinson Brickhouse theatre. There's a Facebook group where updates should appear. Also, they have a singthrough of Pirates of Penzance tomorrow night which I thoroughly recommend; it's at 8pm in the Blythe Room at Clare Colony (south from Castle Hill).
Singthrough directions update: you need to use the Chesterton Lane entrance. From the crossroads, go past the church and the tall brick building on your left, and THEN turn left and left again to head towards the triangular building. There will be signs up & the doors will be open! |
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| Bourne Ultimatum, tomorrow 21:30 at the Grafton |
[Sep. 23rd, 2007|10:19 am] |
Who's with me? |
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| We have net access |
[Sep. 18th, 2007|11:40 am] |
At 07:06 today, our doorbell rang. I think I might well have just slammed the door shut again had it not been ParcelFarce with something plausibly router-shaped. As of 07:22, we have 4544 kbps downstream and 416 kbps upstream. I've even persuaded my Linux desktop to speak WPA. I'm happy now. :-) |
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| Newspaper wanted |
[Sep. 17th, 2007|02:56 pm] |
We're making a start on the painting (well, Susan is) and we could do with some newspaper, at least a box full. If you have some you want rid of, shout; I'll happily come and pick it up.
Also, we still have no net access. We're waiting for the router to arrive from Sky via ParcelFarce; let's see if they have a tracking number... |
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| More heavy lifting needed |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|10:50 am] |
Our shiny new washer-dryer was delivered today, but to the wrong room, which is completely my fault. We desperately need some help, preferably this evening between 18:00 and 18:30, to move it from the kitchen, through a slightly narrow door, over the large ridge of the front door, over some grass/concrete and into the utility room (well, the ugly concrete room where we're putting a washer-dryer for the moment). If anyone has a hand truck or similar they could bring along, I imagine that would be very helpful.
Edit: done, thanks. :-) |
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| We have Normality |
[Aug. 20th, 2007|01:35 pm] |
I hate wasps. There was a nest (possibly under construction) in the wall near an air vent in the bedroom; wasps were going in and out of the outside surface of it fairly constantly. I was stung thrice; the first sting was on my left wrist and woke me up at 6am on Saturday. I had nothing in the house and had to drive to Tesco to get something to treat it (which obviously took a while), so my hand has since blown up like a balloon. It's now very slowly deflating, but I'm still having to type this one-handed. In related news, I can recommend Cambridge Environmental Services for all your wasp-poisoning needs; they were effective, prompt and professional. :-)
Also, we lack many things at Normality, including internet access. We're considering Sky broadband (ADSL available to Sky TV customers for £5 - 10 /month), since we might want Sky anyway, but I hear scary things about 100:1 contention ratios and incompetence. Is there anyone reading who has used them and can (dis)recommend them? Also Virgin broadband (cable, formerly NTL), same question, especially anyone with recent experience of them. I always used to hear very variable reports of NTL and its outage frequency, but outages, when they happened, seemed fairly universally to last days rather than hours, which, if it's still true, is probably a deal-breaker for me. This would therefore mean ADSL, since I don't know anyone else doing cable in Cambridge (please correct me if I'm wrong). The question then would be whether to get it from Sky or not: obviously the price is attractive, but I'm worried that you get what you pay for.
Edit: thanks for all the information; we're going with Sky broadband (just as soon as our phone line has been activated for long enough to be ADSL-capable, grrr) |
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| A moving weekend |
[Aug. 16th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
Yesyes I know I should have posted this earlier.
I'm getting keys to my very own (well, jointly own) house tomorrow. :-) We'd very much appreciate any help, mostly with heavy lifting (I don't think we need additional vehicles), for any and all of the time between tomorrow (Friday) morning and Sunday evening, especially Saturday daytime. Bribes of drink, hugs, etc. will be available. The source houses are both 1.1 miles away (in different directions), we're only aiming to finish my move this weekend and this will be accomplished using a 3-seater standard Renault Trafic [sic] from the van rental place I used a while ago. |
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| Recommendations |
[Jul. 8th, 2007|02:36 pm] |
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- The French market on Parker's Piece, if it's still there. Mmmmm, cheese.
- The Northfield Farm trailer, also on Parker's Piece.
- Ditsch, at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Jesus Terrace, which I'm very glad is still there, despite gerald_duck worrying for a while after it opened that it wasn't doing very well.
- Die Hard 4.0. Ridiculous technology but, as with the rest of the series, Bruce Willis makes the film worth seeing.
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| Sorcerer venue CORRECTION |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|09:59 pm] |
They lied! It's actually in Sidney Sussex Chapel (still at 1:30pm on Wednesday 20th June, and the garden party is still thereafter in Newnham gardens). |
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| Sorcerer venue |
[Jun. 8th, 2007|09:48 am] |
People who asked where to come and see the Gilbert & Sullivan society's performance of The Sorcerer (on Wednesday 20th June): It's in the Octagon Room Sidney Sussex Chapel and will start at 1.30pm. After the show we head over to the Newnham gardens for the partay, which I think starts about 3pm.
Also, Maelstrom starts this evening and new group and not ready and not enough time and not packed and aaaaaargh... it'll be a lot of fun though. Interesting developments include the well-known singing wemic Gin Tang having apparently gone missing. I hope she reappears; otherwise a lot of people will miss her and joining her songs around the camp fires. |
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