Imagine your secondary school closing not long after you leave for pastures new; what happens to everything inside it? Well, a couple of friends and I decided to find out. Turns out nothing happens, and even a year after the closure of half the school, a lot remains behind ready for looting for... memorabilia. With the current Headteachers permission just three weeks before demolition, I had a reminisce fest...
For the sake of anyone else who doesn't really get redstone circuitry in Minecraft, here's how you wire up double-doors so you can have two levers either end operating them:
The green output goes to your double doors and you can stick your lever inputs anywhere with the help of some redstone repeaters.
Ohai there!
The past month has been a good mix of a hell of a lot of fun and the lowest parts of my life, this site and the co.cc one (now lost) were left to rot and I apologise for that, but let me lay down my excuse.
April started and ended for me very, very well, as I documented on the blog life was good enough for me to reboot the website using Pixel and start posting again, by the end of the month I had a few posts ready to future-publish in May, which I was very much looking forward to with my first year final exams and some very good gigs (music and drinking related) coming up.
At the start of May a hard-drive failure meant I lost the posts I'd put so much effort into writing with no backups available, so I let posting slide for a week or two, in the meantime I kept up having a rather good time of myself with my life going pretty well and exams seemingly going OK.
Flash forward to mid-May and something happened. Out in broad daylight on a walk back from a shop I, along with a friend, was attacked by a young guy out looking for a fight, with a mixture of shock and concussion (a witness statement said I was out cold at least one or two times) I stumbled through the next week or two feeling pretty shit about myself. I've seen in myself that I'm less confident in being on my own out and about, I nearly have panic attacks when walking past people my age in the street in fear of being struck again and I would rather not see the results of the three exams I sat that same week, not to mention the pain I can still feel every now and again in the left side of my body.
So then, that's the reason for the silence, I wanted to get this out in the open not for a sympathy parade or an apology, but so I can vent a little out of my system and hopefully finally move on, I know that I'm normally a very happy-go-lucky guy, and this did kind of knock it out of me a bit, but I know in myself that I can't let the actions of one twat stop me from being the person I want to be. Life lesson right there. Peace.
Here's one for you: are Jaffa Cakes biscuits, or as the name suggests, cakes? Before you tear your hair out like some people did in a Facebook thread on my news feed, here's wikipedia's answer:
In the UK, value added tax is payable on chocolate covered biscuits, but not on chocolate covered cakes. McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes in court, producing a 12" (30 cm) Jaffa Cake to illustrate that its Jaffa Cakes were simply miniature cakes.[1]
Speaking of Facebook, I've spent the past few days/weeks trying to lurk more on the site, this was helped by a trick my close mate gave me which has helped no end: load up your Most Recent feed and hit the end key on your 'board of choice, now make sure the setup on "Edit Options" is as follows:
this negates the new FaceyB default of showing only your most interacted with friends and pages, and instead displays everything you're connected to. Just like God intended.
Moving to the more me style of being completely fucking random HEY LOOK ALL CAPS here's something fun for the family, Nyan Cat, as my fellow geek flatmate asked me when I linked it to him "Why?", my answer? "Why not!?"
[2]. Nyan nyan nyan, nya nyan nyan!
Finally: shockingly, that's actual size. Resolution isn't the main feature of the HTC Wilfire, but break off Sense UI and it becomes a very nice Android phone which is very snappy at the basic apps. Just don't go gaming nuts on a non-rooted phone.
Fuck yeah, two blog posts in one day. Well, not really because although I'm writing this on the 21st alongside my Hello World post, I'm delaying the publishing until the 24th, go figure.
Why did no-one else see anything wrong with this scene?
I thought I'd kick off this fresh blog with some info on what I've been up to since I went for down-time in mid December, because surely I was doing something other than not having a (public) online presence, right? Right? Right.
Other than taking pictures of random traffic cones placed on pedestrian crossings in Huddersfield town centre (it's not random, what if a car doesn't see the traffic light? Exactly, that cone needs to be there) I have actually been doing some fairly productive stuff in my life, aside from degree work I've been spending more and more time doing completely random and out of the blue things; like watch Yeovil Town play Sheffield Wednesday. Bear in mind that I am a Leeds United fan. Living in Huddersfield. I don't know either...
"Your ground's too big for you!"
Of course this freedom/stupidity/randomness comes a lot of responsiblity, a lot of alcohol and a lot of debt; but my Holy Symbol is it worth it.
Enough about all that stuff though, let me finish with one of the tracks that's been getting me through the past few months:
Be grateful I didn't pick generic-screamo or, heaven forbid, Mayday Parade.
And that's about it, hopefully this SECOND POST IN A ROW is a good indicator of things to come. Again, hopefully.
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