Present: Jonathan (Noodles), Mark (slef), Brett (iDunno), Martijn (mak), James (mChicago), Ashley (Ashley), Peter Onion (PeterO), Gareth (flux), Mike, Rob, flux' brother Graeme, James W, and Eli/elspeth (sunflowerinrain)
Mike's crimson machine which has refused installs of Redhat, Mandrake, etc. suffered various attempts to install Debian unstable which resulted in it booting into Win98. Brett re-partitioned and de-bootstrapped it and got almost all the way through the process of getting a working Debian before running out of time. Noodles got rid of some of his collection of junk ("anyone want a Psion 3A?") and acquired a printer. Peter's Elliot 803 emulator - the Noise Machine - was much admired, as was J's embryonic museum. Martijn/mak did a Xen demo of virtual machines - VNC onto Fedora and Debian; he also took mugshots with the clever idea of adding names, so we know who we are now.
We had tea, a filter coffee machine and an expresso machine, and many kinds of cake and biscuit, including Rob's home-made bara brith (tea bread, boyo) which was more fruit and nut than cake.
Suddenly time was up and we had to clear up and leave in a hurry. Some people went for fish n chips then on to the Fat Cat, where a Lisa joined us to watch geeks at play; finally a few went to see Constantine and the rest went home.
Good day.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:39:51PM +0000, Elisabeth wrote:
Suddenly time was up and we had to clear up and leave in a hurry. Some people went for fish n chips then on to the Fat Cat, where a Lisa joined us to watch geeks at play; finally a few went to see Constantine and the rest went home.
Bog-arses to me for having a migraine from hell (which has been going for about 3 weeks now, if anyone has a cure then there is beer waiting as payment) so not being able to attend sucked (i did try driving, but the migraine aura was too distracting to drive with after a couple of miles so i had to turn home) anyhow, glad to hear that everyone had a good time.
BTW, is Constantine shit or not? the trailers look 50/50
Adam
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Bog-arses to me for having a migraine from hell (which has been going for about 3 weeks now, if anyone has a cure then there is beer waiting as payment) so not being able to attend sucked (i did try driving, but the migraine aura was too distracting to drive with after a couple of miles so i had to turn home) anyhow, glad to hear that everyone had a good time.
Have you tried makingh a tisane from feverfew leaves? It's not entirely unpleasant, and tends, if taken daily, to prevent migraines. It's not a lot of good as a cure, I undestand. But for a long-standing one, it might work after a bit.
My mother used to get migraines, so her garden was always well-stocked with feverfew. Once there, it's self-propagating, and you never need worry about replanting. The bonus is that seedlings which appear where you don't want them are easy to remove.
BTW, is Constantine shit or not? the trailers look 50/50
Who Constantine?
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:17:56AM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
BTW, is Constantine shit or not? the trailers look 50/50
Who Constantine?
A new film with Keanu Reeves in it, adapted from a comic book as i understand it.
http://constantinemovie.warnerbros.com/ (be warned, flash ahead)
Adam
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:17:56AM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
BTW, is Constantine shit or not? the trailers look 50/50
Who Constantine?
A new film with Keanu Reeves in it, adapted from a comic book as i understand it.
Ah. I've actually *HEARD* of Keanu Reeves - but I couldn't put a face to him. Last film I went to see was when I took my mother's two Saturday gardening boys to see Home Alone II - or it may have been Sister Act - so you can tell how often I tend to go to the flics.
http://constantinemovie.warnerbros.com/ (be warned, flash ahead)
I don't have Flash enabled...
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:45:42 GMT, Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:17:56AM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
BTW, is Constantine shit or not? the trailers look 50/50
People I know who've seen it said it was good. So long as you are not expecting a slow paced, grey, turn-of-the-last-century, country detective story ...
A new film with Keanu Reeves in it, adapted from a comic book as i understand it. http://constantinemovie.warnerbros.com/ (be warned, flash ahead)
I don't have Flash enabled...
Even better - I have FlashBlock enabled.
Tim.
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