Peter

Plushie pics

2006-01-15T19:33:06Z

Foxtrip

With thanks to windiain for the lovely web tool :).

gerwinium @ 2005-11-23T22:40:00

2005-11-23T22:40:53Z

Growl?

Sorry it's huge

gerwinium @ 2005-11-23T20:59:00

2005-11-23T21:12:09Z

Some pictures from the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands from Sunday:

Strange igloo
Jardin d'émail
While standing on top
And another one
Random bit of art
Another random bit of art
Bit of art involving metal beams
The park around the museum
Another one of the park
More park
Strange mist effect due to flash
We weren't sure whether this was art or not :)
Lots of stones forming art work
Metal tower from below
From the side
I've been told it's called tensology
Taken from top of random stairs
Random stairs and person halfway being a bit tired :)
More view from the top
10 seconds of sunshine that we got that day
And the stairs from below
Cool butterflies

This probably would've been more informative if I'd written down the names of the works of art :)

The surreality...

2005-05-21T10:48:45Z

Cr...Chromium
You scored 15 Mass, 13 Electronegativity, 59 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!

Oooohaaaaah.... shiny! You probably have an incredibly stable and
well-maintained group of friends... that probably also don't get out
much either. You're not one to get bogged down by a problem. Of course,
I'm basing this upon Chromium's ultra-low water-exchange constant and
its corrosion-resistant properties, and I wouldn't be too surprised if
the analogy doesn't even apply.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 2% on Mass
You scored higher than 5% on Electroneg
You scored higher than 69% on Metal
You scored higher than 0% on Radioactivity

Link: The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus on Ok Cupid

Anti-phonetic alphabet

2004-11-03T22:34:20Z

While having a discussion in the pub about the phonetic alphabet (alpha-bravo-charlie-delta-echo-etc...), as you do, we got the idea of creating an anti-phonetic alphabet containing words that start with the letter but don't sound like they do. Examples are 'knife' for k or 'gnat' for g.

Here's the ones we got so far

a - aeon
c - champagne
g - gnat/gnome
h - human
j - jalapeno
k - knife
l - llewellyn
p - pneumatic/physics
q - qatar
s - sherry
w - whole
x - xylophone
y - yvonne

Anyone have any other suggestions? Pretty pointless I know, but most pub conversations are like that :).

Ah, and we have new foxy! :)

gerwinium @ 2004-10-25T13:19:00

2004-10-25T20:20:39Z

Growl!

Note the baaaaaabyanimals halfway down the page :) Awwwww!

Hmm...

2004-10-08T22:17:27Z

Thought I'd make a foxy icon. :)

I'm still alive

2004-10-08T22:01:52Z

Just thought I'd let people know, although it might not come as a complete surprise :).

I've started drawing again. I'm attempting to read this to help me along. I've been told it's quite good. One of the first exercises is to draw a self-portrait, a drawing of someone from memory and your own hand. I've done the first and did the last about a year ago. I tried the second, without much success. For some reason all I draw now ends up looking like manga (not necessarily bad, but annoying if you're going for realism). Aw, well...

I've also joined a gym. I'm hoping it'll strengthen my chest a bit more so I can breathe easier. I don't know if this actually works, but we'll see. It can't really harm much to get some exercise (except for it costing money, but that's life for you...).

At least it's Friday. Yay! :)

gerwinium @ 2004-07-07T21:21:00

2004-07-07T20:22:02Z

Happy birthday mustard76 :)
Good day to have a birthday on.

Pedants of the world, unite!

2004-03-31T19:20:07Z

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!

How grammatically sound are you?
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gerwinium @ 2004-03-28T11:00:00

2004-03-28T10:20:21Z

I haven't updated in a while, mostly as my life's not been very interesting...

We got our new TV yesterday, which is now taking up half (okay, slight exaggeration) of our living room. I'm not entirely sure yet what we'll do with our old TV as it's a bit dodgy. I think the channel buttons need looking at as it will change channels in mid-air. Still, we may wish to keep it in the bedroom.

I celebrated yesterday by watching the Generator Gawl DVD that I'd bought ages ago and hadn't watched before. It looks quite good, the drawing style seems to be akin to NG Evangelion, but the characters are more mature. Add to this a very obvious shounen ai set-up and you may agree with me that it's worth watching :).

We watched the best british sitcom on BBC 2 last night as well. More a case of sitting through than watching, actually as it dragged on and on. There's only so many times that you can hear Jonathan Ross make bad jokes and hear David Dickinson say that Del Boy is such a lovable cheeky chappy (*gag*). They should've just had it over with in the first hour and then show episodes of the first three, I think it would've had more people watching.

gerwinium @ 2004-02-23T22:08:00

2004-02-23T22:09:18Z

Hmm... Is Valdemar fubarred for everyone or is it just me...?

gerwinium @ 2004-02-11T22:16:00

2004-02-11T22:17:03Z

You are a wolf or fox furry! You are food
motivated. Youre not the one too have a
million friends but are very loyal to the ones
you have. YAY canines!

What kind of furry are you?
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(Shouldn't that be "yay vulpines"?)

gerwinium @ 2004-02-10T21:45:00

2004-02-10T21:45:22Z

I've visited the counties in yellow.
Which counties have you visited?

made by marnanel
map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data
by permission of the Ordnance Survey.
© Crown copyright 2001.

gerwinium @ 2004-02-10T20:23:00

2004-02-10T20:32:41Z

I purchased two new albums today. First of all Room on Fire by The Strokes. I mainly bought this because Reptilia kept is one of the worst earworms I've encountered and I wanted to be able to play it at will. It's rather messy rock music with loads of nice guitar riffs, although it does seem the kind of music that I need to hear a few times before I actually like it.

The other album that I bought is Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand. I think their music is best described as camp rock. I knew a few of their songs, specifically Darts of Pleasure and Michael (which can only be described as homo-erotic). It is made more bizarre by the singer having a slight German accent (he grew up in Germany), although it fits quite well.

I'm feeling a bit wheezy today, I think it may be the cold trying to hit my lungs as they usually do. Hopefully an early night tonight and not too much stress over the next few days will help.

gerwinium @ 2004-02-09T21:22:00

2004-02-09T21:22:23Z

*meep*

gerwinium @ 2004-02-09T20:10:00

2004-02-09T20:16:49Z

I haven't posted in a while, mainly as life has been rather boring. I've been ill at home today as I've got a bad cold. Luckily it's not hit my lungs this time, but it does make me feel tired/headachy/nauseous. I'm feeling a lot better tonight than this morning though.

I've recently discovered BBC 6 music, which actually occasionally plays music that i like. I find most of the stuff played on Radio 1 is rubbish with only the odd song being a bit better and although there are songs on there that I don't like, most of it is okay.

Anyway, I'm going to do some random web surfing again.

gerwinium @ 2004-01-29T22:00:00

2004-01-29T22:02:01Z

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

gerwinium @ 2004-01-23T22:02:00

2004-01-23T22:03:19Z

This caused much enjoyment at work this afternoon :)

gerwinium @ 2004-01-21T19:50:00

2004-01-21T19:51:27Z

Hmm... Remarkably green all of this...

create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

gerwinium @ 2004-01-08T22:22:00

2004-01-08T22:29:47Z

I have just been fencing for the first time in my life. Some of my friends are going every week and asked if I wanted to come along. It's quite complicated and I don't think I've quite got the hang of things. A lot of it is going against your natural reflexes, such as not pushing your competitor's sword down but to hit it away to the side instead. Also standing "en guarde" is quite tricky, a lot more difficult than it seems as you have to use your stance to balance yourself and sit quite far down. I've been given "homework" to practice this over the next two weeks, then I'll join in again. For now I'm hurting badly and I'm going to take a quick shower before sleep.

gerwinium @ 2004-01-07T21:43:00

2004-01-07T21:43:52Z

Take that in any form you'd like. You could be a DJ, you could paint, you could write, you could even code. Still, you hold whatever you do as Art. You are passionate, and you can also try too hard.

What kind of goth are you?

Created by ptocheia

gerwinium @ 2004-01-07T21:37:00

2004-01-07T21:38:29Z

(Nicked from gypsyriver)

gerwinium @ 2004-01-02T21:53:00

2004-01-02T21:54:15Z

Surreality... may contain hints of French.

Yay

2003-12-30T22:21:09Z

New cute wuzzie & lego dracula icons :)