This Mess We're In

Gaiman Rocks

2009-05-13T08:26:48Z

You should check out Neil Gaiman's latest blog post: Entitlement Issues

He responds to a fan letter asking for his opinion on delays in book series, making very specific reference to George R. R. Martin.

Neil's response sums up my feelings on the matter, is to the point, and encapsulates it perfectly in a single phrase:
George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

Start the T-shirt orders now :P

rockstarwookie @ 2009-04-14T21:31:00

2009-04-14T20:33:31Z

90 mins gone in Chelsea v Liverpool and it's one of the most exciting games I've ever seen.
Error strewn, but enthralling.
2 teams who both believe they can win. Twists and turns all over the place.

Amazing.

Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit

2009-02-06T17:09:03Z

Several levels of awesome

FANGASM

2008-12-03T16:31:59Z

OH MY GOD!

From David Benioff and Dan Weiss to the Westeros.org board

Thanks again to everyone who has posted their casting suggestions and a special thanks to our excellent hosts here on the board for their synopses, which save us a great deal of time. It is encouraging to see that our actor/character ideas often match those of the board, and it is helpful to learn about a whole slew of actors we weren’t familiar with before.

The age of the actors is a significant issue; trust us that this is something we’ve discussed with George since our earliest conversations (well over two years ago). None of the characters will be radically aged.

The location has not yet been finalized, but we’re getting close. With any luck, George will be giving you an answer to that question before the end of the year, or very early in 2009.

Shooting dates have also not been determined yet. We’re impatient, too, but as you can imagine this is an elaborate production, with large sets to be built, a huge cast to be filled, etc.

For those who would like to send resumes, videos, etc.: we hope to have a casting director in place within the next month. When we do, we’ll let you know his/her name and where materials should be sent.

One last thing: our focus at the moment is on casting the pilot. So we’re only worried about characters who appear in the pilot. Just so you know the pilot parameters, here’s the first line of dialogue:

“We should start back.”

And here’s the last line:

“The things I do for love.”

Sound familiar?

We think you’re going to like it…

D&D

I thought I was excited before, and we all expected that somewhere around about that part would be the end of the pilot, but to actually know that that is going to be THE LAST LINE!
For some reason, that makes it all the more real, and it makes me think that people watching it will really want to see what happens next.
Also, I think it's cool that it implies that a fair bit of the pilot will be spent establishing the characters.

Happy Birthday Neil!

2008-11-10T14:28:13Z

Happy Birthday joskination!!!!

Here's hoping you have a great day!

Holiday! Celebrate!

2008-09-24T17:59:43Z

So, as mentioned before, Dawn and I are going on holiday to Scotland.
We're taking the ferry from Larne to Cairnryan on Saturday (27th) afternoon and going to make our initial base of operation in Oban, Argyll, where we're staying in a B&B for two nights.
We haven't gotten any concrete plans for that Sunday, but after hereward77's suggestion of Skipness castle, we may head down into Kintyre.
A day trip to Islay was something we'd have liked to do, to visit a few distilleries, but at this juncture, it seems like that might take too much time. Who knows though?

The only other part of the holiday we've planned is at least 3 nights in Edinburgh, from Friday 3rd October. We've booked into this place that looks really nice in West Coates, not too far from the city centre.
So if any of the crew are about, let us know, cos we'd love to meet up :)

Looking at it from here, our general route is likely to be a circle of the country, going up the west coast, through the highlands, probably to Inverness, maybe up to the far north, definitely visiting distilleries in Speyside, and then back down to Edinburgh.
We're not bothering with a time-frame for anything and are just going to play it by ear.

So, a few of you folks made mention of a bit of craic if we did go ahead with this. Well, consider this your notification.
Anybody up for the craic?

Help Firefox 3.0 set a World Record

2008-06-05T16:00:21Z

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Basically, Firefox 3.0 is coming out. I've been using the beta for a few months now and it's much improved over the 2.x releases.
It's faster and more lightweight. It's tailored to be faster with many Big sites.
Gmail positively flies along with it.
There are a few issues with many addons not working for it yet, but that should be sorted by release or soon after, i think.

If you follow the above link and pledge (giving your email addres) and they'll email you on the day Firefox is released (this month) with download links for it. The idea being that as many people as possible download it on release day to set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

Ah xkcd, how you brighten my life

2007-10-10T09:47:46Z

I'm wouldn't be surprised if all the techie/geeky people on my flist check xkcd all the time, but just in case, I'd like to point out today's delightful entry.
It had me laughing embarrassingly loudly in work this morning.

(It really is a rather geeky joke, so if you've never encountered SQL before, it'll do nothing for ya)

Date with Bill O'Reilly

2007-04-08T03:07:38Z

I posted this on the board, but i thought I'd put it here too for those that might miss it there, but be interested (like possibly yagathai, I just know that O'Reilly is more ammunition for his hatred of the Irish. In our defence, I'd just like to say that I find a very real difference between the Irish and Americans who identify themselves as "Irish" :P)

I found out the other day that that most fairest and ~~prettiest~~ balancest of all ~~princesses~~ journalists, Bill "too loud to hear when he's pwnd" O'Reilly is coming to spend an evening with the Dublin University Philosophical Society this coming Thursday, 12th April (look here under April 12th).

Seeing as it's my alma mater and that I'm not far from it, I'm thinking of heading along to it with a mate of mine to go and watch with popcorn.
I was wondering if any of ye had any requests you'd like me to make to Bill or anything like that.
If I make it, I'll try to remember as much as I can of it and post back here after the event.

Scary Mary

2006-12-06T22:20:36Z

Stolen from Neil Gaiman's Blog

Paging Mods

2006-10-19T19:59:24Z

I'm starting to suspect that Os is attempting to achieve some sort of record for number of threads closed or something.
AND YOU GUYS ARE MAKING IT HAPPEN!!!!!!
Maybe if you stop closing his threads he'll give it up. But right now, the dude is on a rampage of absurdity.

j/k

EDIT: I swear to God that I did this before I saw the "RIP The Decent Thread" and OsRavan's Mod policy threads :)

For those who made it to the EuroCommie Party in Dublin, Novemeber 2006

2006-09-27T10:31:04Z

The Dutch Gold Appreciation Society
Ah, finally, a place where like-minded individuals can share their appreciation and experiences.

Those of you who haven't experienced the phenomenon that is Dutch Gold, especially as a student in Ireland, I don't think it is possible to explain it. It is something you have to experience for yourself.

Furries in Culture

2006-09-19T14:03:31Z

The Dublin Fringe Festival is on at the moment.
I've always been really crap at going to these culture festivals (I've been here for 7 years now, with a year and a half hiatus and I haven't gone to a single event), but i went to a play last night which was good and just now, at lunch time, I saw Bear Hug, a comedy play about a Furry.

Was very good. It was in an old church, which was done as one large open room, the way from the entrance to the seating area was marked by a load of plushies lying on the ground and the audience were all given a bag of marshmallows and sat on cushions right next to the performance.
There were three characters, the middle-class mother and father and their son who had turned into a bear, who they had put into a Zoo and was now coming home to try to live with them.
Makes you think.
:P

And you thought MySpace was weird

2006-09-13T13:06:39Z

I'm signed up to another social networking site called Bebo. Basically every single Irish person is on this thing.
I rarely sign in to mine, but I got a friend request email today, so I signed in to respond to it.
Bebo has it's own internal mailing system and I had a few messages on it, so I checked them and found this charming mail.

Guy: "Can we have sex right now?"
Girl: "Can we do what?"
Guy: "You know, can I be your first, finally?"
Girl: "Um.....no."
Guy: "Why?"
Girl: "Because, 1. you have a girlfriend, who happens to be my friend......."
Guy: "So, if you don't tell, I won' tell."
Girl: "Besides that, I'm waiting for someone special. Someone that I want to be with for the rest of my life to be my first."
Guy: "I'm not special to you?"
Girl: "You're my friend. That's all."
Guy: looks forward and keeps driving.

5 minutes pass.......

Guy: starts to run his hand up the girl's thigh.
Girl: moves his hand, "Don't touch me?"
Guy: tries to kiss her.
Girl: screams, "Would you stop."
Guy: continues trying.
Girl: moves to the back seat

Guy: parks on an abandoned street and gets in the backseat with the girl. Starts to kiss her.
Girl: pushes him off and scoots over, "Please, don't do this."
Guy: "Don't do what, I know you want it, I can see it in your eyes." Moves over to her and starts to unbutton her pants.
Girl: pushes him harder and says, "No, don't."
Guy: getting aggravated, punches her and tells her to stop "playing hard to get".
Girl: crying, continues to fight.
Guy: punches her harder, pulls her pants off, and holds her down.
Girl: screams as he penetrates her, "NO, please don't do this to me!"
Guy: puts his hand over her mouth.

An hour passes.........
Guy: pulls back and wipes himself off.
Girl: sits on the corner of the seat, sobbing.
Guy: looks at her and says, "You better not tell anybody about this. If you're really my friend, you won't tell anybody about this. You know I love you." He reaches out his hand to touch her cheek.
Girl: pulls back, "Just take me home, now."
Guy: says, "Alright." Gets in the front seat and drives her home.

2 months later.........
Girl: "Doctor, what's wrong with me. I haven't had my time of the month in 2 months."
Doctor: looks at her, "You haven't been having your "time" for a reason."
Girl: looks at him and says, "Why?" dreading the answer that she was sure to receive.
Doctor: "You are pregnant."
Girl: faints.

The story gets out that she is pregnant, and people start looking to the Guy. He claims that it isn't his because she was sleeping with every guy in the school(which was a lie). He goes to her and tells her, "I'm telling you, if you lie to people and say that I raped you, I'll kill you."

The Girl is completely devastated. First, he took her virginity and got her pregnant....then he lied about it. So completely depressed......the girl commits suicide by drug overdose.......

Girls, if this story touched you, repost it as "That's Fucked up"
Guys, if this story touched you, repost it as "I'll kill any fucker who does this to my girl or any girl"

Admittedly, most of the people on bebo are teenagers, but shite like this goes around all the time on that site. I guess this is what the chain mail has evolved into.
I want to know who the hell wrote this tripe and why the fuck did they do it?
And is it just me that is a bit weirded out by this and finds it rather distasteful or is it just teenagers being fucked up as normal?

Wherever there is danger he'll be there

2006-09-05T15:34:00Z

Man, I'm useless at posting on this thing, I hope to write a quick post on my exploits at LA soon (before I forget it all) and also tell you about my weekend at Electric Picnic, but in the mean time, I just saw this and I had to post it. I know that several of you will appreciate it :)

Cartoon secret agent Dangermouse is returning to television after the BBC bought episodes of the series to broadcast in its daytime schedules.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the character and his bumbling sidekick Penfold, who joined forces to defeat evil Baron Greenback in 1981.
Last year the show was third in Channel 4's poll of the best children's TV.
The show has been seen in more than 80 countries, according to Fremantle Media, which owns distribution rights.
The secret of the programme's success was the bizarre scenarios in which the pair found themselves, said Mark Hall, co-founder of production company Cosgrove Hall, which produced the show for Thames TV.
"The adults watched because of that kind of anarchy," he told the BBC earlier this year.

"The kids watched it because they just loved the stories and the absolutely stupid gags."

He also praised the actors who had voiced the characters. Sir David Jason was "fantastic" as Dangermouse, he said, while the late Terry Scott provided a "wonderful" Penfold.
"Dangermouse was a sort of cross between Bond and all sorts of things," Mr Hall said.
"He was supposed to be suave but he was a mouse with big ears."
The cartoon was first aired on ITV in the UK and attracted an average audience of 3.5 million, Fremantle Media said.
No transmission date has yet been set for the re-runs on the BBC.

Man, I loved this show so much. I recently bought a whole load of episodes of it on DVD, but I haven't gotten to watch them. I'm really glad to think that a new generation of kids will get to see this classic :)

rockstarwookie @ 2006-07-27T11:50:00

2006-07-27T11:16:11Z

Happy Happy Joy Joy? I know this facade will crack some day soon and I will have a break down from which I shall not recover.

Nah, that aint gonna happen :)

You scored as XIX: The Sun. This is the happiest card in the deck. It is full of joy and optimism, everything is right with the world. We are as innocent children playing in the fields without care. The Sun brings success, well-being and happiness in all spheres - material, emotional, spiritual -wherever our desires lay.When this card appears in a Tarot spread it indicates success, joy and happiness. Obstacles will be overcome, goals achieved.When badly aspected, it can indicate a stagnation through over-indulgence, too much of a good thing.

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XIX: The Sun

94%

XI: Justice

88%

0 - The Fool

69%

XIII: Death

69%

X - Wheel of Fortune

63%

XVI: The Tower

56%

I - Magician

50%

II - The High Priestess

50%

VI: The Lovers

44%

III - The Empress

44%

VIII - Strength

38%

XV: The Devil

38%

IV - The Emperor

19%

Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You?
created with QuizFarm.com

rockstarwookie @ 2006-07-12T22:40:00

2006-07-12T21:44:45Z

Your Driving Is is: 52% Male, 48% Female

According to studies, you drive both like a guy and a girl.
This means you're a pretty average driver, with typical quirks.
Occasionally you're frustrated and or a little reckless, but that's the exception - not the norm.

Do You Drive Like a Guy or a Girl?

Man, sometimes I think I'm much too normal.
Why haven't I got issues like all you other people. It means I never have anything to talk or bitch about.
:P

The Band

2006-07-11T18:46:24Z

Despite the fact that three of our members do not know it yet, we are forming a band, consisting of:
2pumps, furriebarry, silanah, zakalwe7, zollo_the_fat and myself.
We need suggestions for a band name, so get cracking.
The Tarlys was the first thing that sprang to mind. Let's top that.
(I hope to hell we do :P)

I'm on TV

2006-06-25T18:27:01Z

It's in bloody Real Player format, but here's my tv appearence.
http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/228-2151482.smil

You can see me for a moment about a minute in or so. The camera pans from the wall behind me to show me. While it pans, you'll see a black square on the wall beside the window in the background.
That's the "WWRTD?" poster.
Ah well, there goes my 15 minutes of fame.
At least until I become a rock star :P

rockstarwookie @ 2006-06-25T01:18:00

2006-06-25T00:20:46Z

You Are Whiskey

You're a tough drinker, and you take it like a man
That means no girly drinks for you - even if you are a girl
You prefer a cold, hard drink at the end of the day
Every day, in fact. And make that a few.

What Alcoholic Drink Are You?

Happy Solstice

2006-06-21T13:47:18Z

I know that there was a thread for this on the board AND that I'm not a pagan, but...
1) Mo said she'd check LJ every so often, so there's better chance of her seing this here than on the board
2) It's always great to wish everyone a happy day

And seeing as today is the longest in 2006, I hope it's fantastic for all of you and I hope you enjoy yourself today too, Mo, if you read this :)

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE

Title Suggestions

2006-06-21T00:06:57Z

Ok, I've just discovered that I made Council Member earlier on today (with a post about David Beckham, no less).
So I'm now entertaining suggestions for what my custom title should be (or at least, my first one)
Mr. Nice Guy?
Rockstar Wookiee?
Bard of the BwB? (although, I'm more than a bit shit at one rather important part of being a bard. The writing.
Sex God? (though, while apt, this one's a touch too arrogant, and just not really me) :P

Please. Help a bro in need. All suggestions welcome, serious or frivolous (actually, especially frivolous ;)

rockstarwookie @ 2006-06-09T22:28:00

2006-06-09T21:28:25Z

Some of you were asking what my WWRTD? poster looked like. Took a picture of it today. S'not very exciting. I went for the plain and simple route, but for completeness' sake, here it is:

LA here I come

2006-05-18T15:38:14Z

Yes, you read it right.
The Wookiee bard of the BwB is going to WorldCon in LA this August.
I've just booked my tickets.

W00000000000T!

Mormont, I'll be availing myself of your offer of a room, if it's still available.
:)

Yay! Roll on August!

But will I be able to last until August???
Surely we can have some meet up before then. And I dont think I'm the only one who thinks this.
LET'S GO!

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/

2006-05-11T12:17:48Z

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/

The white, emo nothingness is calling me.

It wants to burn away my pain with it's healing light.

I refresh, but it is still there.
I cannot look away.

It is calling me.
Whispering my name, like a lover's soft caress

I cannot resist.
I do not want to resist.

Why resist the warm embrace of emptiness?