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  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I'm playing around on this Mystery Google thing. I just dialled up two strangers in America and sung True Colours down the phone to them. I love the Internet.

Future-vision Song Contest

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 10:02 PM
The newest battle tournament is going to be...

Favourite Futurama Song!

The idea to do Farnsworth inventions won the vote, but I would like to compile a proper list of them before doing that, so while I'm working on that, a short battle tournament that many of you wanted to do anyway seemed like the best option.

Begins Tuesday, twice-a-week again and should last only a few battles.

Included is any original song or version of a song where pretty much the whole song is different except for the tune.

If anybody would like a particular song included, please comment and mention the song, otherwise, the following is the final list (in no particular order).

Futurama Intro Song
Leela: Orphan of the Stars
My Broken Friend
New Justice Theme Song
Into the Wild Green Yonder intro
Popplers
Robot Hell
Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
Single Female Lawyer Havin' Lots of Sex
Street Song (Lars Loves Me) - Bender's Big Score
Toyshop Goes to War - Bender's Big Score
TV Party Tonight
Whalers on the Moon
Bureaucrat Song - How Hermes
Don't Mess With Earth - Taste of Freedom
Bee Happy
Robo-Routers Theme
Elves Go Back To Work Today - Tale of Two Santas
4th Day of Xmas
Gronka Lonkas
I Want My Hands Back
I Love My Mommy (Greeting Card Song)
I'll Shoot Her With My Raygun
Blue Tailed Fly (Cracked corn) - Bendin' in the Wind

Comment to add more...

And the winner is...

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I know, I know. You have all been on tenterhooks for days! Days! Whilst I steadfastly refuse to reveal to you whose customer service is the worst of all. What is a tenterhook anyway? Without Googling, a vague recollection tells me it's butchers' hooks for hanging meat on. But I might have just made that up. If you happen to be writing an exam today and the question "What is a tenterhook?" comes up, I have two pieces of advice:

1. Don't rely on me for an answer
2. Perhaps you should choose a more sensible qualification. What sort of fucking stupid exam has the question "What is a tenterhook?" for fuck's sake?

Anyway, I digress.

Without further ado... (even though half the senior management where I work insist on saying, "without further adieu" every time and it fucks me off to the extent I have to hold onto my chair to stop myself storming onto the stage and correcting their poor English)...

Sorry, digressing again.

The winner of the Worst Customer Service Award is....

IKEA!

What follows is a very long story that may cause you to lose the will to live. I take no responsibility for Ikea-induced death. Therefore, I shall break it up into manageable portions and spoon-feed it to you over the course of a next few days. As management clichés go, this is the best way to "eat the elephant". Don't ask.

OK. Ikea. Part one.

TheBloke (TM) and I had seen some wardrobes we liked in Ikea. However, at 2.5m tall, it was unlikely they would fit in the Mini. Therefore they needed to be ordered online for delivery. Ikea, unlike John Lewis, whose delivery is free, charge £35, but it could not be helped.

Using the special flyer we'd picked up in store, we input the product codes of both the wardrobe and the wardrobe doors into their online ordering system. The wardrobe base was ordered no problem but the codes for the wardrobe doors were void. So we put in the product name and selected the appropriate doors, using the price as a guide (i.e. the flyer we'd picked up said the door was £45, so we picked the door with that product name at that price). Done.

Fast forward ten days, and the wardrobe and the doors arrive. Within ten minutes of delivery we realise the doors are about half a metre smaller than the wardrobe. We check the order. We've ordered the wrong size doors. How did we manage this? Because apparently the flyer handed out at the Ikea store was out of date, and although we did match the product prices, all the prices had increased by £5, and in a spectacularly bad bit of pricing design, they had made the smaller doors the same price as the larger doors used to be, if that makes sense.

Still, technically our own fault for not checking the size of the doors and we took it on the chin. And Ikea did collect them for free, which is something (though this is an anecdote in itself). However, we still needed doors the right size. And of course, would have to pay another £35 to get them delivered. So we decided to order a bed for the spare room too, to lessen the frustration of paying £35 for something we'd already had delivered.

Tune in soon for Ikea, part two.

Merlin Secrets & Magic

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Only t'other day, I was commenting in reply to something [info]gem_pinkeh had said that John Farnham's You're the Voice is a song you don't hear enough of nowadays.

And then yesterday's Merlin - Secrets and Magic comes along and... *giggle* What a bizarre coincidence. What a bizarre sequence... *g*

And I still haven't seen the actual episode yet, so I'have that (with bonus Georgia Moffett, so *yay*), not to mention The Real Merlin and Arthur (which sounds like being an absolute blast) to look forward to...

But I think I'll be rewatching the You're the Voice a couple more times... *g*

Obligatory Christmas card post.

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 7:40 PM
If anybody would like Christmas cards from the Sarah!David gestalt entity, leave a comment (which will be screened) with your name and address and something will be sent to you. If Sarah gets me organised enough, it might even hit the post before last posting day... If you've ever filled in one of these in previous years, I expect we'll send you one anyway. Unless you'd really rather not, in which case just say so.

And if you've done one of these posts, could you point me to it so I can let you have our address? We'll be spending Christmas day here together, but all the decorations are buried somewhere in the lock-up in Barking, so it would be nice to have something to add a bit of seasonal cheer to the place! (So far, we've received two cards; one was from the postman and the other was for a previous resident...)

Sarah gets me organised.

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Actually, that's not entirely true. I bought the first four Christmas presents yesterday without any particular prompting from Sarah. Heck, one of them was for Sarah.

However, that's probably cleaned me out for the rest of the month. *erk*

Blackberry =/= iPhone

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I have an iPhone.

Sarah has a Blackberry.

On the - admittedly not too frequent - occasions when I have cause to borrow Sarah's Blackberry, it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to remember that, unlike the iPhone, it doesn't have a touch screen.

:o/

Saturday 28th November 2009

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I really did intend to get up quite early and make some early headway on AIOTM 8, but my body rebelled. Not only did I sleep in til midday (having stayed up late watching three episodes of the Wire after getting home from the cinema at midnight) I couldn't build up the energy to go to the gym as I'd intended. Or even to the newsagent for the papers. I stayed on the sofa, failing to even write my blog and just watched episode after episode of Battlestar Galactica. I can't even tell you how many I watched. Fucking loads of them.
Have spent the day helping set up lighting cues for the school production of Hairspray. At least, I thought I would be doing that, but the afternoon mostly consisted of babysitting the drama teacher's dog. He brought her in because there was no-one at home to look after her, but the builders working at the back of the stage made a racket and she got spooked, so I walked her around the school.

Does anyone else on my f-list know Bare, the musical about the Catholic schoolboys? I'm curious, because hardly anyone seems to ever have heard of it. I finally got round to downloading the soundtrack last night, and I think it's definitely one of the best musicals I've ever heard. I hope it gets a run on Broadway some time, because it really deserves it.

Also: man, I'd forgotten how much I love a good kink meme. XD

Friday 27th November 2009

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I went to see "A Christmas Carol" in 3D at the IMAX tonight. I have to say it was more out of a desire to see some a 3D film rather than because I wanted to see Jim Carrey's take on this Dickens classic. It is a story I am more than familiar with, my favourite version being "The Muppet's Christmas Carol" which stayed true enough to the story, whilst adding a large degree of humour to what can be a bit of a dry and sanctimonious story.

Wallpaperrrrr

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
The rules are:

1. Anyone who looks at this entry has to can post this meme and their current wallpaper at their Livejournal.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!
Read more... )

Lux....Calor.

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 6:48 AM
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No, the world has not gone topsy-turvy. (Well, maybe a little.) Dear[info]alovelyfix has graciously switched posting days with me, as I was originally slated for December 6th. (Gratias tibi ago,Casee!)

....the light, the heat, I see in your eyes... )

Some brief videos

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 11:21 AM
This trailer - for a new season on BBC4 - looks interesting. Not sure about Charlie Brooker's assertion that BBC Micro owners were "posh". For that matter, it wasn't Spectrum vs BBC - I owned one of each... (Maybe that does make me posh...)



♥ this trailer for the latest series of Top Gear...



And this from the latest ep of HIGNFY...I've no idea what it actually is (beyond not being Channel 4's new children's character), but...I want one... *craves*

FIC: Drinking From An Empty Cup

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 8:43 PM

Author: GeekByNight

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica 2003

Characters: Gaius Baltar, Felix Gaeta, Sweet!Eight

Pairing: Baltar/Gaeta/Eight

Rating: R

Warning: Mild Sexual Content (A chaste threesome?! I know it's madness ;)

Summary: It wasn’t just the two of them anymore. Gaeta wondered if it ever really had been.

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or make any money from these writings. These characters belong to David Eick, Ron Moore and the Sci-Fi channel.

Gaeta silently lay between them; a lone witness to what could only be his downfall.

Fic: Two Kisses In

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Title: Two Kisses In
Series: Courtship of Felix Gaeta (Set during Parts 1 & 2)
Show: Battlestar Galactica
Spoilers: An AU Occupation - Collaborators
Pairing: Gaeta/Leoben
Rating: FRM (although series as a whole is FRAO)
Warnings: Leoben in all his variations remains one creepy Cylon. Because this is set during the occupation of New Caprica there are issues of consent.

DISCLAIMER: All characters, rights, and revenue remain with the wonderfully creative team that created this show.

Felix offered the first kiss...

SatUdre!

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 11:33 AM


With the holidays now upon us, Udre is wondering what to get his girls for Christmas!

What is this Black Friday? It should be Black SatUdre, da? )

Happy SatUdre, sistahs!

A different kind of Rhapsody...

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 6:06 PM

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Meme

  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Another meme, 'cause I'm bored and waiting for the sekrits.
One long ass meme )

Kitty!

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Time for cat spam! This is Felix, or as he is better know, Mr Weffs.

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KITTEH! )

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