luckykaa

So, have switched from Livejournal to Dreamwidth. Not sure I'm all that happy about it. Feel I've been pushed away by the Kremlin. And I was never all that convinced about the drama that cause DW to happen in the first place.

Importing was a relatively painless task, although it did take a while to get round to admitting it failed and letting me retry when I put in the wrong username.

Still, this is me. Feel free to add me as a fiend.

Platypuses:

They're just so delightfully weird.  Egg laying mammals with a duck's bill!?  Who came up with that one?

Amber Benson:

Amber is lovely.  At cons, she chats to the fans, is a lot of fun, and generally really makes sure she never lets anyone down.

Anecdote 1: I was at a convention.  It was horribly overbooked and there wasn't enough time for everyone to get an autograph.  The exception to this being Amber.  She stayed as late as possible so that everyone could see her
Anecdote 2: Another signing - she had to leave early because she was ill.  Someone called the copany organising it to see if he could stillg et an autographed photo from them.  They said "sure, by the way, she's here.  Would you like to talk to her?"

And she giggled lots!

And has a great singing voice. 

I realised my interests were horribly out of date. I still had The X Files there and I got bored with that by season 5!

So, this is the latest list (subject to change)

42, 80's stuff, alyson hannigan, amber benson, amigas, ancient civilisations, anime, bacon, beatles, black, black books, blondie, books, brighton, bristol, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, cartoons, cheese, chinese food, chocolate, cider, comedy, computers, conspiracies, cooking, costumes, cuddles, cuddling, dogs, douglas adams, dragons, dvds, films, fire, firefly, futurama, geeks, geektoys, indian food, internet, japan, juggling, korea, larp, lego, maths, neil gaiman, pink floyd, pizza, platypi, platypus, platypuses, pratchett, purple, queen, randomness, rats, reading, real ale, redhair, rem, rocky horror picture show, rodents, rpgs, sci-fi, science fiction, snow, spaced, star trek, star wars, steampunk, sushi, terry pratchett, tetris, the princess bride, trapeze, world domination

Ask me about any of them. I feel like waffling:)

Yeah. I'm bored.

Wondering whether a few of my userpics are kinda obscure or if I'm just underestimating you guys.

( So, what's what? )

For completeness I've discovered another con write-up I did on another site.  Thought I'd add that to LJ.  So here it is.

I wanted to complain about that. 

I thought I'd post to LJ.  Oh.  I couldn't

I wanted to complain about that.

I thought I'd post to LJ...

And by often, I mean once or twice...

Why luckykaa?

And like many of these questions, the answer is exceedingly dull.

I normally use squigs. Luckykaa is just a back up name. I needed a username on a forum. Squigs was taken, so I picked Lucky Kaa as an arbitrary character from the book I was reading - Startide rising by David Brin.

The name squigs is from usenet. I needed a signature, and as a placeholder used the unix-y ~neil/ People started calling me squigly neil slash, then Squigly Neil. Then Squigs Neil. It seemed to fit.

So now you know.

Since the character of luckykaa a genetically engineered dolphin, it makes #6 from this list rather bizarre.

Funny isn't it. How when I spend a long time between entires I seem to have nothing to say. Has nothing happened?

Well, no... Not really.

I've had a week off work. I was looking forward to having the place to myself. Sadly, I wasn't in on Monday, Flatmate was ill and so in on Tuesday and Wedensday, other flatmate was ill on Thursday and Friday, and third flatmate is at home doing his dissertation. Bloody students.

I spent a lot of this time waiting for passports and getting my own game engine to behave. After spending way too long trying to work out where a ray hits a landscape (Basic operation is easy. Optimisation is hard), I've finally got all the collisions detection I ever expect to need working. So it's time for a hiatus while I contemplate my next move.

My passport arrived on Tuesday. While I was in. Seems the delivery guy didn't want to disturb me though, so didn't knock too loud. Wednesday it was actually delivered.

I also have a nice shiny new credit card, 0% interest free credit and a £2400 limit. I really should buy something with this. My computer needs an upgrade. Perhaps I could buy a laptop or one of those cute little Mac minis, but really a new main PC appeals. I just need to decide what to buy.

Those shuttle cases are rather tasty, but a new motherboard and processor is a much cheaper option and I can always buy the case at a later date. So I think I'll probably be looking at a AMD 3200. Rather annoyingly, the less you pay for a CPU, the better the price/performance ratio. So on that basis, the slowest chip is the best. Also I'm a bit concerned about XP's activation complaining, although I'm told that it shouldn't be a problem. So I guess the bits I should buy are an AMD Athlon (who the hell comes up with these crappy names?) a reasonable quality motherboard and a gig of RAM. Now I just need to find a justification to buy it. It's not like I'm a big gamer after all.

Whaddya think?

And this it my first diary entry. always felt it's best to make the first entry a little bit plain. People who wish to know me will learn who I am through later diaries. Still, I feel we need a marker for the first diary. This can be it. i wonder if I can backdate stuff. I have some great diaries my holiday.