http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:CL-IT&section=today deviantART RSS for by:CL-IT en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:13:30 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/11734347/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/11734347/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:03:05 PST
While I still plan to keep in touch with my friends here and look in to see what they've been doing I don't see any reason to keep my stuff on this site anymore.

Since I've been reading Paul's travel blog and I've liked what I've seen I've decided to sign up for a free blog with wordpress.com.

I've already a flickr account and while I'm still figuring out what I'm doing I'm writing without a regret, something that I haven't done since Jark was pushed out the door here.

Read this or suffer mediocrity

When I joined dA, it was exciting: it was one of a new breed of websites that was making me rethink what the web could teach and do, how it made me think and feel.

dA as it stands now, dA seems like a parody of what it once was. But it wasn't entirely to blame. While I got into a routine of checking dA as I once checked my email (I can remember when something as powerful as a free email from Yahoo! was so exciting I thought it must be some kind of new scam), I stopped looking for other emerging websites.

Alot of exciting stuff happened whilst I was just practicing tunnel vision: last.fm, makezine.com, instructables.com, skype.

My point is this: If you love dA: STAY but don't stay quite. This site was great because great people invested a great effort into it. When something that happens you disagree with RAISE HELL. Otherwise you're a doormat.

And if you're sick of dA, as I am: do right by yourself and LEAVE, there are plenty of alternatives to join or build yourself, and RSS feeds make it easier than ever to see what your friends are up to on the site anyway, and easy for anyone who stays to check up on what you're up to too.

Pick your fight and win your fight.

Me on flickr, me on wordpress.

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]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10960937/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10960937/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:54:46 PST
On that note, don't let the bastards grind you down, and instead of whining about how commercial things have gotten, do something about it.

Peace and goodwill to all suffering from headaches.
Anto.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10900392/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10900392/ Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:43:44 PST The power point is in your inbox Alan.

Along with a bloody long email too!

I'm tired.

I'm gonna eat some junk food.

but I don't wanna get diabetes! :(

Coming home this weekend (See my family)

Coming home this weekend (See the traffic)

Going to Barcelona in February. YAAAAAAAAAAY!

Deadlines :(

Is anyone getting a Wii? They look fun. And I've no shame and will not feel the least bit self conscious using the funky controller, so if anyone gets one but is too embarished to use, send it to me and I will spare you from throwing it into the land fill. Yes!

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10875072/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10875072/ Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:59:47 PST This morning, a cryatal ball was
thrown in through my open bedroom window.

It landed softly on my bedside locker.
"Wake up Anto!" It said
before losing it's temper before tormenting me
with insults of hamsters and elderberries.

"WTF?" I replied, wondering if muttering half asleep
was the opposite of talking with a gun in my mouth.
(No vowels for me)

"I bring an important message!" Replied the ball:
"today you're going to have a shit day!"

"F.CK Y.." I replied, grabbed it and threw it back to where it came from


This morning I woke up.
And my window was open,
and my alarm clock was missing.

A strange sort of burglary I thought.

(Until the chilly walk into college, where I found it's polyamide brains dashed out next to a parked car nearby.)

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10718752/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10718752/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:48:35 PST
I should perhaps be more concerned about the hand-ins I may have to come up with today, but f*ck it. Also, I've decided against the placement to Finland, just not enough notice to go ahead with it.

Woke up this morning with a plan of making a Master Chief (NOT MASTER CHEF) costume, perhaps for next Hallowe'en, but I don't think it's for any other reason other than we've a vacforming machine in the college and we don't have to pay for the plastic.

Poor Ann is flipping over the lack of RTÉ 2 here, so I'm going to ask: SERIOUSLY, DOES ANYONE HAVE A LEND OF A REMOTE CONTROL FOR A FAIRLY NEW DAEWOO CRT TV? We've tried getting a bunch universal remote controls, but the problem is they can't tune in RTÉ 2. Although we can now change the channel and volume without getting up, which I think is progress.

I'm gonna look for tech drawings of master chief's armour now. Perhaps even head up to class. Bwoy bwoy.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10710320/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10710320/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:58:23 PST Get Your War On.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10631894/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10631894/ Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:54:48 PST
I'm tired. Had a boring weekend down here, studying for a gawd-awful marketing test. I've powerpoint printouts as study notes.

(And there I was thinking that the one perk of not having a laptop was not having to deal with MS bullshit at home)

Marketing is actually pissing me off enough to make me want to take a different module. The definitions we're learning to recite (yes, like a dictaphone or a damn parrot) are so impractical and full of execuspeak I could spit.

As the courses are becoming modularised, I'm going to try and get out of marketing and into economics. At least there's some changes afoot in that field. (Read Freakonomics and true cost economics if you want to know what I mean).

Anyway, in the mean time I'll try to make lemons out of lemonade, but that doesn't mean I'll pretend to like it. I've to sit this damn test at 12, and that means I need to get some cramming in.

Later.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10580893/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10580893/ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:25:19 PST
Now I'm going home to eat pork chops (I'd never make a good Jew/Muslim), soon as I've finished this entry.

I lost my camera last weekend, the one I'd found on a bus. Before anyone pipes in with a remark like "HA! KARMA! PWNED!" I should point out that I found it again.

It was in a pocket, with some permanent markers. Oops.

Anyway, since I found it again, I had the shower photos again, and I was about to upload my photos of the shower and model, but I've given it some thought and decided not to. The work is for a paying client, and sticking up without asking is just Bad Form (capital b, capital f).

I'll try and get in touch with them to see if I'm allowed, but til then I won't chance it. The reason we were asked to design the shower in the first place was because shower design ideas are stolen left right and center. Think about the last shower you saw, can you honestly say you haven't seen 100 just like it?

No wonder they want original designs.

Oh noes. I need sleep. Hope it isn't raining out there.

Watched Pretty Persuasion on DVD (Excellent, excellent film, highly fucked up, highly recommended), and I have to get an Xtravision card. We may not have RTÉ 2 but at least we've a DVD player.

PS. Anyone know if Soumi really is that hard to learn? Because I've still not ruled out a Finnish Spring.

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES! JEEEEEEEE AIIIIIII JOOOOOOOOOOE!

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10556212/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10556212/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:23:17 PST MWUHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA...

Oooh. My belly aches. And my conscience is murdering me. I mean, yeah, there are people starving to death every day.

And I know that, and I do give a damn.

But my God, it is funny. Suddenly in the scheme of things, I'm not the one with too much time on my hands.

PS Friends who mail Pocky ROCK. You know who you are!

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10513288/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10513288/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:23:09 PDT
Have final presentation for the damn showers at 11:30.
I feel beyond caring about it. The model we painstakingly built could explode like a prop from Team America and I wouldn't give a damn.

I just want the bad man to stop. Go giraffes.

|1922

The nice people at Image Showers decided they liked my teams design the best. €200 prize money () was split five ways. This was difficult, as I had to take €40 out of a AIB ATM, then another €40, then another €40, THEN ANOTHER €40. Though I do now have 2x €100 bills in my wallet and a "With compliments" slip from Image Showers.

Naturally the ATM queue behind me wondered WTF I was doing. (I should have just taken out €80, then another €80.)

I need sleep. Instead of sleeping this morning I collapsed on my bed at 3:20AM after drawing like a slave, stared at the ceiling paralysed and in some degree of pain and waited for 7:30 to come around. Fun it was not.

I've prize money to burn on drink, but all I wanna do now is sleep.

GO GIRAFFES! ~GiraffesAreMoreFunThanRhinos

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10496363/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10496363/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:00:58 PDT Anto's thought for the day:

"No matter how eager I get, I can't flap my hands enough to fly. I've been trying for weeks now. I should have kept pimping up that old landmower."

OK. The lecturers are interested in doing an Erasmus swap with some whizbang polytechnik in Finland! (YAY!) It'd happen in January, and would go on for 10 weeks I think.

I'm very, very tempted to add my name to the list of interview candidates.

Also: D DAY is this Thursday. After Thursday, anyone whos asks me to design a shower gets stabbed in the face with a giraffe. YES A GIRAFFE, I AM DEADLY SERIOUS.

Also: more foreign travel news: possibly a week away on a cheap flight for some foreign design Grand Tour thing too: downside, the lecturers want to coincide it with rag week (rag week is a written off week anyway, their thinking is you may as well get wasted in a foreign country... interesting development that.)

I AM NOT JOKING ABOUT THE GIRAFFE STABBERY. END TRANSMISSION!

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10443040/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10443040/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:40:15 PDT

Dublin tomorrrow. YAYSNACKS. (Like haystacks, wait, no, not really)

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10420006/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10420006/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:25:14 PDT
Thursday night, I'm drinking with mates.

"I can only stay out for a few, I have to be up for 4:30AM on Friday, I have to be in Templebar at 9 tomorrow, there's a conference and my bus is leaving at 6AM."

A "few" later

"Oh, wait, I have to make lunch for tomorrow."

Imagine walking home from Tesco drunk at 2:30AM Friday, making lunch and getting two hours sleep.

4:30 Friday. Alarm

"I'm tired, 2 minutes more!"

For 2 minutes I doze off and wake up. It's now 5:51 AM

"Crap. Crap. Feck. Fudgesticks! May as well sleep in."

9AM
Get stuff together. Even though I've probably missed the important bits of the conference, I get my kit together and head to the bus. I stop at the town library and go on the web. Turns out the conference goes on all day: And I'll sneak in during lunch.

11AM
On the bus I realise my drunken crafted sahmwitch (deliberate typo) is still hiding in my fridge.

"Damn it! That'll be mouldy when I get back on Sunday night!"

[ _obus bus bus_{o o}]

On the bus, thinking I'll be cutting it close to sneaking in during lunch, I start formulating The Big Lie.

This is basically my bulletproof excuse for being late / not getting the first bus at 6AM.

It goes: "One of my (fictious) housemates got WASTED on vodka and red bull last night, I had to wait with them while they were in hospital til their parents arrived, they had their stomach pumped and they're going to be fine, but yes; yes I'm having a very shit day and what do you mean I can't go into the seminar, I don't care that registration ended at 9:30!!! RAWR RAWR RAWR!!!

After coming up with that, I head over to Cultivate (it's just 2 minutes from Karma) and walk in.

"Err... is the design seminar on here?"

"Sure. Up the stairs, end of the corridor."

"Err... OK"

I felt a little annoyed that I could just have walked in to this. What a waste of a perfectly good lie.

The seminar itself was great. Some of the Carlowovians had fallen asleep during some of the lectures (6AM?! Insanity). Lots of talk on stuff that I think is interesting that would bore everyone else to tears.

(If you really wanna know, I did a workshop where we redesigned an entire business that was dependant on oil to produce it's polyers to run without using any oil in it's production or polluting the local enviroment. Also names of inspiring design books and manifestos were dropped. Problems were recognised. 22c biodegradable starch cups, designed to replace polypropylene cups were demonstated, with cheap fairtrade tea and coffee sold. And chocolate too! )

There was an evening seminar that went down too, in that workshop we were give a bit of a doomsday scenario.

- On the 18th December, a family (mam, day, little boy & girl, gran, and grandad) find out that on the 25th December, the power will go out and stay out for 14 days.

We came up with some plans that would make it the most memorable Xmas ever for the right reasons.

[My plan involved ripping out the upstairs bathroom's ceramic sink and using it as a hearth in a downstair south facing room. You'd never guess I was a student living in rented accomodation, would you?]

[PS the biodegradable cups and their starch were prototypes: they're too expensive to be real alternative, plus if you leave hot tea in them too long you'll see they biodegrade a bit too quickly... ]

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10412782/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10412782/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:48:43 PDT
Thursday night, I'm drinking with mates.

"I can only stay out for a few, I have to be up for 4:30AM on Friday, I have to be in Templebar at 9 tomorrow, there's a conference and my bus is leaving at 6AM."

A "few" later

"Oh, wait, I have to make lunch for tomorrow."

Imagine walking home from Tesco drunk at 2:30AM Friday, making lunch and getting two hours sleep.

4:30 Friday. Alarm

"I'm tired, 2 minutes more!"

For 2 minutes I doze off and wake up. It's now 5:51 AM

"Crap. Crap. Feck. Fudgesticks! May as well sleep in."

9AM
Get stuff together. Even though I've probably missed the important bits of the conference, I get my kit together and head to the bus. I stop at the town library and go on the web. Turns out the conference goes on all day: And I'll sneak in during lunch.

11AM
On the bus I realise my drunken crafted sahmwitch (deliberate typo) is still hiding in my fridge.

"Damn it! That'll be mouldy when I get back on Sunday night!"

I'm getting kicked out of the library now, they're flickig the lights on and off and it's annoying me. I'll continue the story tomorrow.

PS Irish Sign Language = GIGGLES.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10399547/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10399547/ Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:05:40 PDT Oh man. What a weekend
Best Friday 13th ever.

FINAL SCORES!

The crazy
The good
The bad

WINNER: CRAZY

Will talk more about it on Monday. Don't have time to write about it now, have to pack bag to hope on bus to CW.

]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10354898/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10354898/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:57:15 PDT Saw Team America: World Police.
LOL
Realised I never had that on the damn list (feck!)
Haven't made it to the gym once this week

Going to Sustainable Design Seminar...
...On Friday 13th!
I have to get up at 5AM to get the bus to it
Going to be in Dublin for Fri 20th for Jove Album Launch! ...
+
+
+Payback schemes in the pipeline for noisy slapper neighbours!

FINAL SCORES!

The good
The bad
The crazy

The damn list of damn must-see flicks I damnwell still have to see...

A
-About Schmidt
-Adrift
-Aladin (Or Sequels)
-Alive
-American Pie 2 or 3
-Anchorman
-The Aristocats
-Austin Powers: Goldmember
B
-Bambi
-Batman Begins
-Batman Forever
-Beauty And The Beast
-Belleville Rendezvous
-Ben Hur
-Blade Runner
-Blue Velvet
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
-The Butterfly Effect
-Brazil (Or Sequels)
C
-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-Cars
-Chicago
-Children Of The Corn
-Childs Play (Or Sequels)
-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
-Citizen Kane
-Cliffhanger
-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
-The Corporation
D
-Dances With Wolves
-T... ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10119160/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10119160/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:27:08 PDT http://www.the1secondfilm.com/

I really want to take part in this.

But even more importantly I want to get a heap of Dave Gormans to take part. Maybe even get Chuck Norris to take part. Or if he's not available, someone who changed his name to Chuck Norris.

It would rock. ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10111794/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10111794/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:24:19 PDT
My current brief is for drawings of digital cameras, camcorders, mobiles, discmans and mp3 players. I need to have fully rendered redesigns of each for this Thursday.

Also I've now seen Dodgeball () and Scary Movie 3 (Which would be total shit if it weren't for Leslie Nielsen as the US president)
(1 down, a billion more must see flicks to go. It doesn't help that my house has no telly in it right now)

A
-About Schmidt
-Adrift
-Aladin (Or Sequels)
-Alive
-American Pie 2 or 3
-Anchorman
-The Aristocats
-Austin Powers: Goldmember
B
-Bambi
-Batman Begins
-Batman Forever
-Beauty And The Beast
-Belleville Rendezvous
-Ben Hur
-Blade Runner
-Blue Velvet
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
-The Butterfly Effect
-Brazil (Or Sequels)
C
-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-Cars
-Chicago
-Children Of The Corn
-Childs Play (Or Sequels)
-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
-Citizen Kane
-Cliffhanger
-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
D
-Dances With Wolves
-The daVinci Code (nor have I read the book! )
-Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
-Deep Blue Sea
-Dirty Dancing
-Dumbo
-Dracula
-Dr. Strangelove
E
-Easy Rider
-The English Patient
-Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
F
-Fantasia
-Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
-Finding Neverland
-Forbidden Planet
-Fried Green Tomatoes
G
-The Gangs Of New York
-The Graduate
-Godzilla
-Gone With The Wind
-Gothika
-Grease
H
-Harry Potter (Or Sequels)
I
-I *heart* Huckabees
-The Incredibles
-Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers
-The Iron Giant
-IT
J
Jeepers Creepers (Or Sequels)
K
-King Kong (Neither Original Or Remake)
L
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Lilo & Stitch (Or sequels)
-The Little Shop of Horrors
-Lupin III (ANY Lupin Film)
M
-Mad Max
-Manhunter
-Mary Poppins
-Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
-Meet The Parents (Or Sequels)
-Men In Black 2
-Metropolis (Neither the anime nor old sci fi of the same name)
-Minority Report
-Mission Impossible 2 / 3
-Monsters Inc.
N
-Napoleon Dynamite
-Neverending Story
-1984
O
-Oliver!
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Others
P
-Philadelphia
-Pi
-Planet Of The Apes
-Psycho (Original or remake)
Q
-The Quick And The Dead
-The Quiet American
R
-Red Dragon
-Reign Of Fire
-Road To Perdition
-Rocky II, III. IV or V
S
-Saw (Or Sequels)
-Scary Movie 2
-Schindler's List
-Scream (Or Sequels)
-Seven Years In Tibet
-Shakespeare In Love
-Sideways
-Signs
-Sin City
-Singing In The Rain
-Sleepless In Seatle
-Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
-Spartacus
-Starsky & Hutch
-Star Trek (Or any of the sequels, with the 1 exception of Nemesis)
-Star Wars: Episode II or Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-The Sound Of Music
-Superman (Or any of the sequels)
T
-The Thing
-The Third Man
-Three Colours Red/White/Blue
-The Terminal
-Toy Story
-Turner & Hooch
-24 hour Party People
U
-U571
-Underworld
V
-V For Vendetta
W
-West Side Story
X
X-Men 2 / X-men 3
Y
-Yellow Submarine
-You've Got Mail
Z
Zatoichi ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10037755/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10037755/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:13 PDT
(I want to beat my landlord's face in with a slippery wet fish.)

The man is a pain.

When he's not being a weasel, he's moving the goalposts, when he's apologising for moving the goalposts he's giving me the wrong day to move into the house, when he's given me the wrong day to move into the house he's in the wrong country with his phone turned off, when he's in the right country with his phone turned on he's ringing me to tell me that he neglected to mention that while I'm in the right room, I'm in the wrong house on the estate.

I WANT TO BEAT MY LANDLORD'S FACE IN WITH A SLIPPERY WET FISH.

I'M THINKING HADDOCK. ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10012899/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/10012899/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:39:04 PDT
I say mercifully, because if I hadn't crossed paths with the faces I've met in Colaiste Íde, BCFE and IT Carlow, I think I'd be a far less happy, far more insecure person. Neither in school, clubs, sports nor employment have I managed to find people who I simply feel entirely comfortable around.

But enough with the introspective: lets get to the fun:

Differences between me and the rest of society (and possibly the universe) OR Reasons why I'm weird.

In todays installment: I like films, yet all the notable/landmark films I've never seen is staggering. (If I've only seen a few minutes of a film, it will make this list.)

A
-About Schmidt
-Adrift
-Aladin (Or Sequels)
-Alive
-American Pie 2 or 3
-Anchorman
-The Aristocats
-Austin Powers: Goldmember
B
-Bambi
-Batman Begins
-Batman Forever
-Beauty And The Beast
-Belleville Rendezvous
-Ben Hur
-Blade Runner
-Blue Velvet
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
-The Butterfly Effect
-Brazil (Or Sequels)
C
-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-Cars
-Chicago
-Children Of The Corn
-Childs Play (Or Sequels)
-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
-Citizen Kane
-Cliffhanger
-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
D
-Dances With Wolves
-The daVinci Code (nor have I read the book! )
-Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
-Deep Blue Sea
-Dirty Dancing
-Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
-Dumbo
-Dracula
-Dr. Strangelove
E
-Easy Rider
-The English Patient
-Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
F
-Fantasia
-Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
-Finding Neverland
-Forbidden Planet
-Fried Green Tomatoes
G
-The Gangs Of New York
-The Graduate
-Godzilla
-Gone With The Wind
-Gothika
-Grease
H
-Harry Potter (Or Sequels)
I
-I *heart* Huckabees
-The Incredibles
-Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers
-The Iron Giant
-IT
J
Jeepers Creepers (Or Sequels)
K
-King Kong (Neither Original Or Remake)
L
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Lilo & Stitch (Or sequels)
-The Little Shop of Horrors
-Lupin III (ANY Lupin Film)
M
-Mad Max
-Manhunter
-Mary Poppins
-Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
-Meet The Parents (Or Sequels)
-Men In Black 2
-Metropolis (Neither the anime nor old sci fi of the same name)
-Minority Report
-Mission Impossible 2 / 3
-Monsters Inc.
N
-Napoleon Dynamite
-Neverending Story
-1984
O
-Oliver!
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Others
P
-Philadelphia
-Pi
-Planet Of The Apes
-Psycho (Original or remake)
Q
-The Quick And The Dead
-The Quiet American
R
-Red Dragon
-Reign Of Fire
-Road To Perdition
-Rocky II, III. IV or V
S
-Saw (Or Sequels)
-Scary Movie 2 or 3
-Schindler's List
-Scream (Or Sequels)
-Seven Years In Tibet
-Shakespeare In Love
-Sideways
-Signs
-Sin City
-Singing In The Rain
-Sleepless In Seatle
-Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
-Spartacus
-Starsky & Hutch
-Star Trek (Or any of the sequels, with the 1 exception of Nemesis)
-Star Wars: Episode II or Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-The Sound Of Music
-Superman (Or any of the sequels)
T
-The Thing
-The Third Man
-Three Colours Red/White/Blue
-The Terminal
-Toy Story
-Turner & Hooch
-24 hour Party People
U
-U571
-Underworld
V
-V For Vendetta
W
-West Side Story
X
X-Men 2 / X-men 3
Y
-Yellow Submarine
-You've Got Mail
Z
Zatoichi

FAMOUS TV SERIES I'VE NEVER SEEN A FULL EPISODE OF
-Dallas
-Dragonball Z
-The Dukes Of Hazard
-Invader Zim
-MacGuyver
-Speed Racer
-Starsky and Hutch

Obviously this list is far from complete. I... ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9848944/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9848944/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:35:06 PDT
After looking for "Game Girl" for about 5 mins, I eventually remember that I need to be searching for "Game Grrl", and find the page I'm looking for. (Incidentally, here it is if you're curious: [link] )

At this stage, my router starts acting up: Creepily it sounds almost like someone whispering. It stops after about 30 seconds. I put down to my imagination.

So I ignore it and start to think: What I really want is a portable arcade machine, probably because to *happienoodleboy's last shindig involving zombies and nazis and Metal Slug.

No luck. But I found something a bit better: the one thing cooler than a portable arcade machine.

[link] - errr... an arcade machine that ISN'T portable (Yeah, OK, I know that makes no sense, but it's the truth)

So I read this, and wonder about what Ben did with the Insert Coin bit of the machine: As much as it adds to the feel of the machine, surely he'd not want a jar full of change next to his BEAST, right?

Wrong, wrong, WRONG. But he had a real Blackadder of a Cunning Plan_TM. It does take coins. And it's all wired to keep count, of all money going into it. Why?

Because the same counter of coins divides the total in US Cents by 1600.

Ie. How many crates of beer can we buy with the shrapnel!!! GENIUS. So I think of sending Ben an email, going along the lines of:

You know what you really want next to your arcade machine.

[Image of Japanese Beer Vending Machine Here]

So out comes google, in goes "JAPANESE VENDING MACHINE" And then come this. [link]

The wonderful thing about Google is, when it doesn't work, it sometimes finds something more interesting. The urban myth of the Japanese Used Schoolgirl Panty Vending Machines.

Long story short: it's not a myth. At least, it certainly wasn't in 1993. :shudder:

But then, I think I hear the router again. But it doesn't sound like whispering now, it's altogether something scarier.

AERIS' THEME SONG FROM FINAL FANTASY SEVEN.

OK, its coming from the speaker, NEXT to my router. I turn up the volume to suspend my disbelief. Because of the page about J.U.S.P.V.M. I am NEVER playing that game again.

Or at least thats what I thought for about 30 seconds.

Then I look at my applications.

WINAMP HAS A FULL HARD DISC PLAYLIST RUNNING. THE WHISPERING WAS A BILL HICKS COMEDY TRACK.(D'oh)

I had listened to George Bush Doesn't Like Black People (Notorious K.O. featuring Kanye West) earlier and forgot to shut WinAmp, so it played my next song.

I'd turned it down to answer my phone. (My weasely landlord is trying to "move the goalposts" on my accomodation for Carlow. I'll keep you posted).

So maybe I'll play FF7 again. But I won't researching Japanese Vending Machines again anytime soon...


edit - 1 Geeks, this is why it's OK to let X-zibit borrow your bike. ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9758171/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9758171/ Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:30:45 PDT http://www.dublinwaste.ie

It's like eBay, except

1) It's only for Dublin and

2) Everything is FREE.

Hopefully this might take off nationwide. If only I had a car, I could score some free hi-fi separates... Oh well.

(I wonder if stuff from this site is gonna get taken by someone who'll then hawk it on eBay... Summer job, anyone?! ) ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9741116/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9741116/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:06:45 PDT hacker article page.

One detail which doesn't feature on the current wiki page is common beliefs and values held in hacker subculture: in particular the right to fork.

This in turn linked to the Fork (software development) article on wikipedia.
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In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package.
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I remember (vaguely) a Wired Magazine article talking about the origin of Firefox, how if came from Firebird and Firebird came from a stripped down version of Netscape Navigator after it's source code was released. As FF has been my browser of choice for years, I say software forking has its merits, software forking has given us some nice goodies.

This must have been in the back of my mind, as I hit the Update journal button today, looking at the titles of my previous posts. (ie v5 and v5.1).

dA's community seems to inhabit an atmosphere of dissatisfaction. Aside from v4 versus v5, many still haven't forgetten the termination of Scott Jarkoff. I've seen stamps on journals that read "I'm here for my friends" (Perhaps I'm wrong but that seems to imply that "I amn't here just because I especially like how the site is ran, it's just that all my friends are still here").
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By now you're wishing I'd get to the point: Fine, here it is.

No one here wants dA to turn into another MySpace clone, if they did they'd be on MySpace. Same goes for SheezyArt, for Bebo, for whatever

dA has offered something that isn't any of them, but if it doesn't what do we do?

Well °jark and °matteo once were in a not dissimilar predicament. As I recall they didn't stick with what they were unhappy with and start bitching to pass the time: they did something constructive.

I don't expect someone working for dA to commit some Mission Impossible-esque act of industrial espionage to copy dA's code to a Very Big iPod, so frankly forking is a non-runner. Nor do I expect some mass exodus of people deciding to vote with their feet.

What I'd hope is that small groups of people, circles of friends, would just start throwing around the idea of each chipping in a $1 of €1 to buy domains and host servers, get some content management systems up and running on them for a couple of people to set up user accounts.
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This would have 3 effects:

1). The circle of friends would enjoy a welcome break from using a service they aren't happy with, without necessarily quitting all activity on dA.

2). They'd also get a taste of activism, and at least they'd know if they'd like it or if it's too much work.

3). It'd light some fires under the backsides of a certain few who make decisions here on dA, perhaps even provide the impetus to improve (as opposed to a cosmetic redesign) the site that another complaint on the pile never could be.
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If you agree or disagree with any of this, please leave a comment: I'm eager to hear what others have to say on this. ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9728463/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9728463/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:16:47 PDT [link] )

I haven't tried blocking someone from my page so I don't know how well that works... so if anyone feels like being a prat, it would really help. OR if someone who watches me because they secretly hate my guts, now wouldn't be a bad time to let rip.

Anyone? No?

_{Ah fuck.}

Well regretibly $lolly says the hide comment functionality still isn't complete; by that I mean a visitor to my page is unable to choose to view hidden comments, which they will be able to do in the near future. So for the moment, I do have the power of evil dictatorship. YAY dA!

Actually this makes for a bit of a situation. Flicking through the page of comments left on my main page, it's tempting to just hide some on a whim: though will that piss off the commentors? Er... Who knows.

Maybe I'll need to draw up a policy on comments I'll hide... seriously.

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~CL-IT's Constition For The Oppression Of Rubbish Comments:
(or ~CCFTOORC for short)
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1) Any comment written entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS or with "OMG", "OMFG", "...!!!!!111"or any other annoying grammarcrap in it will get a hiding (unless I know it's being used ironically, although even if it is being used ironically I may still hide it if I feel like it).

2) Although when I someone's work and they leave a "Thank you for commenting on [link]", it doesn't bother me at all, but I probably will still hide the comment, not because of some half backed "Don't try and advertise on my page *rabble rabble*" ideal of mine, but because a load of "Thank you for commenting on [link]." comments on my page from people I don't know bumps off comments from people I do know well, who frankly just matter more to me.

3) Anyone who comes up with some "I can say what i want where I want, I have freedom of speach" or "I'll sue you" stuff, they get hidden, because pissing off someone who's already wound up is too much fun to pass up on.

4) Anyone who gets all defensive because I give them an honest critique: they don't get hidden. It's too much sending links to the conversation to everyone I know so they can join in on the giggles.

5) Duplicate comments: I'll hide one of them, hopefully before they both get commented on.

6) Danger! Explosive Fishermen on Tuesdays.
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As all the features for hiding aren't all together yet, I can't rate it, though idea seems sound, and it isn't a substitute for reporting posts through the same channels that have always been there.

And I haven't had the need to block anyone, though this may be because I do sod all art... hmm... better do something about that.

Anto signing off, mind the fishermen... ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9681142/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9681142/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:21:58 PDT bend over backwards; walk under the pole; lower pole; repeat; game.

Like Earl Hickey's definition of karma, my definition of limbo isn't perfectly accurate, but it'll do for explaining what's happening: I'm in neither a good place or a bad place. The problem is this middle-of-nowhere lacks inspiration.

Basically if I seeming to be not-quite-myself, it's because I'm having too much religion, not enough pole dancing...


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dA v5 issues review:
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Resolution: OK if you log in.
Shoutbox: Ala Jabba The Hutt
Speed: a little faster today ]]> !CL-IT http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9649129/ http://CL-IT.deviantart.com/journal/9649129/ Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:49:51 PDT
I've only been using it for maybe 15 mins, so I'm not about to slate it or beatify it so soon. dA's appearance may have changed, but rest assured, the familiar overemotional first comment whores are still in residence, let them all write about it...
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Things I already like about it I like:
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The logo in the top left
The old one looked so... jaded when I dragged the cursor over it it felt like I was waking up someone ("Huh....huh? What do you want? *yawn* Get lost, can't ya see I'm tired...") This one at least looks alot clearer.

The option to mood tag the comments
Hopefully people will use this: sarcasm and irony can be notoriously difficult to notice on the web. Though I still don't anticipate the death of the angsty bitch fight.

Nested comments on userpages
So simple, but instantly appreciable.
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Things that are already starting to chaff:
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Not all us lads can boast 19 inches dA
(I refer of course to monitor sizes!) dA's home page now requires sideways scrolling if you use 1024x768. Even though my monitor's 19"s and it's max resolution is 1600x1200, as I share this PC with my family, I cna't crank it up (it will effect all other profiles in winXP, and my mam can't see what she's typing... in short it's annoying.)

Seems the shoutbox just got a load more important
Why is the shoutbox now as wide as the journal? And why are it's avatars teenytiny?! Mine shrinks well (It doesn't have any fine detail to lose) but others look like scribbles.

Sloooooooooowwww... mooooootioooooon....
I appreciate the site won't be match fit so soon after a transplant operation, but the delay in loading pages in Firefox on a 1Mb broadbanana line is noticable: it must be something else in other browsers (BA and I are pitying the poor fools using Interweb Expunger on a dodo-up line right now). I really hope this is resolved. And quickly.
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So, to sum up
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Although I still say it's too early to judge, and strongly feel that the success of v5 is inextricably tied in with how dAs admins deal with inevitable glitches and annoyances, I feel v5 will neither be substancially better or worse than v4, however I feel the change in itself will be sufficient to keep me from bitching too much. ]]> !CL-IT