Things I learnt yesterday
- When playing Laser Quest with a group of ten year olds and you’re the only adult, they gang up on you.
- The back door into Border’s requires pushing.
- When you want to go to bed early, starting to watch TV with your parents at nine thirty doesn’t help.
- The easiest way to waste a day off is to assume that you’ll find something interesting to do online in just a couple more minutes.
- Taking self-portrait photos in a tiny bedroom with no remote switch or assistant is more trouble than it’s worth.
Currently listening to Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.
Matthew @ 18:40, March 4, 2006 to Top Five | Comments (13)
Comments:
Cat
This is why emo kids use the tried and tested mirror method :P You look like you’re about to kill someone/something…
Comment added at 19:29, March 4, 2006
Matthew
Brilliant! That was my intention!
*ahem*
Comment added at 19:55, March 4, 2006
Sheepie
Number 4 is very true.
Comment added at 15:42, March 5, 2006
Rory
Number 4 is my life.
\cries\
You look pretty mean in that self-portrait…
Comment added at 09:32, March 6, 2006
Rory
And I even get my escape characters the wrong way around…
*cries*
Comment added at 09:33, March 6, 2006
Matthew
Wow Rory – I thought you were even less likely to do that than me…
Comment added at 12:54, March 6, 2006
Rory
Yeah, escape characters were always the bane of your code, hehe. I’m not familiar with Markdown, that’s my excuse.
Comment added at 13:23, March 6, 2006
Matthew
The escape characters are identical to Bash, PHP and so many other languages! It’s a simple \! :)
Comment added at 13:26, March 6, 2006
Sheepie
Then why did Rory’s “cries” come out with back slashes…?
/cries/ *cries*
Comment added at 15:54, March 6, 2006
Sheepie
Aah, he did use back slashes but put them after the asterisk.
\cries\
Comment added at 15:56, March 6, 2006
Salmon
That’s what I always used to do. *mutters irritably* ‘Markdown, simpler and better’ indeed…
By the way, did you really lightproof your room, or just wait till it was dark? If it’s the former, I want to know how you did it.
Comment added at 21:40, March 6, 2006
Matthew
Come on, compared to learning HTML it’s a lot simpler. The only confusing thing is escape characters, but they’re the same in almost every programming/markup language except HTML (which for some reason uses &)
Comment added at 10:00, March 8, 2006
Matthew
Oh, and I have blackout curtains, so I just erected a white projection screen to cover the wall with the window to block the light coming through the sides. It wasn’t a true blackout, but it was good enough for second-long exposures and less.
Comment added at 10:02, March 8, 2006
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