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I forgot to say that today is, of course, International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Avast!

Haven’t seen this test for a few years – had to take it and see my current score.

Heh.

A nice little meme ganked from Mel: Google “(your name) is…” and pick the first 15 results that please you. And here are mine:

1. Clive is a symbol of the Act I’s major theme: Oppression.
2. Clive is in good, and well interestingly famous, company. *
3. The night arrives when Clive is due to arrive, with Daphne dressed as dowdy as possible to say to Clive “no romantic signals”…
4. Clive is blowing it.
5. Angelina Jolie’s lips take up way too much of the screen, but Clive is riveting as a doctor on the edge.
6. Clive is a bassist, vocalist, songwriter, recording engineer and record producer.
7. Clive is also a Reiki Master and is available for healings on request.
8. Sir Clive is just a big loser.
9. CLIVe is the Community Learning & Information Vehicle.
10. Clive is a Man Among ‘Children’.
11. Clive is trying to find the owner of his painting “THE ARSONIST”!
12. Clive is a city located in Polk County and Dallas County, Iowa.
13. Clive is very sexy.
14. Clive is currently Head of Section: Drug Research.
15. Clive is capable of making the most innocent aside comment seem like it moves mountains of flesh.

Cor. Of course I have the very successful and alluring Clives Owen and Barker to thank for most of those, but #5, #9 and #12 amused me particularly.

Make your own!
–c.

* This one comes from a page showing someone selling a camera to Nikki fucking Sixx of Motley Crue! How rock is that?! See the page here!

stuff + cats = awesome

(image looks nasty as I’ve had to resize it to fit in here…)

What guitar are you?
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Simple premise – type each letter of the alphabet into your browser’s location bar and note down the first URL it suggests for each. I ganked this from Blogapotamus, and there are many like it but this one is mine.

• A is for audioscrobbler.com/user/earthman/ – My audioscrobbler output. See what I’ve been listening to! HOW FASCINATING.
• B is for blogapotamus.blogspot.com/ – Postulations of a native Potamus. Also the place I found this meme. Hi Galatea!
• C is for clivemurray.com/ – My site. You’re here. If you need more explanation than that then you’re probably the person in the plane who watches when they do the belt bit.
• D is for doodie.com/whack.php – Relieve tension by killing the boss. Virtually! Not really! Put down the monit… oh.
• F is for flickr.com/photos/24617592@N00/11019025/in/photostream/ – Can’t remember where this link came from. It’s a pic of a scared kitty.
• G is for giggingsimpleton.blogspot.com/ – The Simpleton is in fact married to Blogapotamus, and he envies the Little Monkeys setlist.
• H is for homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html – BAHLEEEEETED
• I is for indigodown.com/ – Rock has come back. Jez’s band do indeed rock mightily.
• L is for lostfrog.org/111.html – I will find my frog. Who took my frog?
• M is for memepool.com/ – You wouldn’t believe some of the shit you can find here.
• N is for news.bbc.co.uk/ – I believe EVERY WORD DAMMIT.
• O is for onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/02/19/php_foundations.html – Dull PHP learning stuffs. Not dull to me, but probably to you.
• P is for psimpson.net/ – Paul Simpson – mate, guitar player, effects freak, and all round top geezer.
• R is for rfbooth.com/ – Dr Booth – mate, guitarist, singer, mathematician, teacher, and more!
• S is for snurfer.org/jibba/ – Matt Jones – another top feller, and inventor of the CCDB.
• T is for tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html – I need this one a lot in my work, and I can never remember the damned syntax.
• U is for update.mozilla.org/ – Mmm. Juicy. IE bad, Firefox good. Extensions make even better.
• V is for validator.w3.org/check – More worky work.
• W is for waferbaby.com/ – Home of the never-sleeping Daniel Bogan, Aussie code freak.
• Y is for yamaha.co.jp/art/basist/miki/img/mik-pic-001.jpg – Someone in IRC posted this pic as an example of the bass she’s holding.
• Z is for zeldman.com/ – The daddy. Accept no substitutes.

…another meme that every single person I know is doing…

1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A SECOND HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?
Rome. Damn straight. Like wine? Like food? Like city life? Like culture? Like entertainment? Rome.

2. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLES OF CLOTHING?
I love my long leather trenchcoat, but that’s a bit outer, clotheswise. My shiny black shirt would probably be top of the list.

3. THE LAST CD YOU BOUGHT?
“Purple”, by Stone Temple Pilots. I’ve loved “Interstate Love Song” since we used to cover it in Strange Machine, back in about 1995 or so, so it seemed like about time to get the album it came from. It’s great, too.

4. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?
Weekdays: first alarm goes off at 7.15am, second one at 7.31am, usually hit snooze once and get up at 7.36am.
Weekends: Saffron’s alarm on her phone goes off at 10am, though I’m normally awake by then. Her alarm doesn’t need to go off at all at weekends, but she never remembers to switch it off.

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE?
We just got a dishwasher. It has returned peace to a once-troubled kingdom.

6. IF YOU COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Aside from the one I already play, I always fancied drums. HIT STUFF! HIT STUFF HARD!

7. FAVORITE COLOR?
Yellow.

8. WHICH VEHICLE DO YOU PREFER, SPORTS CAR, MOTORCYCLE, or SUV?
Sports car, probably in yellow.

9. DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE?
Not sure. Logically, no, but… can this really be it?

10. FAVORITE CHILDREN�S BOOK?
When I was small I loved a little book called “The Forgotten Bear”, though even remembering it now breaks my heart a tad. This bear got forgotten and lost, and… it was really sad. I’d probably say the first Harry Potter book. They were originally intended for kids, you know.

11. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON?
Summer, man. Damn right. Van Halen: “Summer nights and my radio, that’s all we need baby, don’t you know?” Yeah.

12. IF YOU HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT?
Grim reaper, right shoulder. Paul is my tattoo brother – he has one just the same.

13. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPERPOWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I wish I’d thought of “Luck” as an answer, but Justin beat me to that one. It would have to be Invincibility or Flight. Both, ideally.

14. CAN YOU JUGGLE?
Nope.

15. ONE PERSON/PEOPLE FROM YOUR PAST YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK AND TALK TO.
My old flatmate who, through a seccession of misunderstandings and weird circumstances, won’t talk to me any more.

16. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED.
Shoes. Spare bedding. The Holy Grail. A unique and new breed of microscopic monkey that lives in the carpet. David Soul. Some books. John Lennon’s favourite sunglasses. A living effigy of Zippy The Pinhead. Your mum. Not all of these are true.

17. WHAT�S YOUR FAVORITE DAY?
Saturday, for all the most obvious reasons.

18. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER?
You don’t know me very well, do you? Hamburger, though I’d prefer a pizza all things considered.

19. FROM THE PEOPLE YOU WILL POST THIS TO, WHO�S THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
I don’t think there’s anyone left who’ll see it who hasn’t already done it.

20. WHO�S THE LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
The Pope. Very unlikely indeed.

21. WHO DID YOU RECEIVE THIS FROM? OR TAKEN FROM THEIR LJ?
Everybody in the western world.

22. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER?
Flower? Those are the coloured things that grow in vases in other people’s houses, yes? Some of the yellow ones are nice.

23. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MEAL?
For many years it would have been pizza, but nowadays I think Chilli Con Carne, as conjured by Saffron. Or a good carbonara.

24. WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?
10th of January.

25. DESCRIBE YOUR PJ�s.
Haven’t worn any in years.

26. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BREAKFAST?
Bacon sarnies and a strong cup of coffee. It’s the only way to fly.

27. DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB?
#@&%^�$$$! WTF???!?!1?? NGH!! To be honest, it could be so much worse. I’m indoors, using my brain, and there’s no heavy lifting involved. Sometimes I do contemplate throttling people though.

28. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM JOB?
Rock star, plainly.

29. WHAT AGE DO YOU PLAN TO RETIRE?
Age 45, having made it as a rock star, somewhere in France.

30. WHERE DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE OR SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
She was stalking the singer in a friend’s band. I talked her out of it.

BONUS: SOMETHING YOU�D LIKE TO DO THAT YOU�VE NEVER DONE BEFORE?
Wake up and realise that I’m loaded and I don’t have to work ever again.