Fats Domino on the radio.

[reddragdiva]

• "Use the Plot, Luke!"

• "As you know, the Hugo Awards are named for the father of modern science fiction — that tireless self-promoter, prolific journalist, pioneering inventor of television and the steam-driven automatic pencil, and editor of the world's first real f-s magazine: Victor Hugo."

• The simple ones are always best. (courtesy ogw)

Up at the crack of arse this morning (and yesterday morning, but they're not open Sundays) to procure LCD monitors for people. I got there at 8:45am and they opened at 10:15am, but I got to listen to two and a bit albums' worth of Australian '80s indie rock on my MP3 CAMERA. Black suits, pointy boots and bass guitars. I still want to be Chris Walsh when I grow up. Whatever happened to him, anyway?

They had three left, so I bought 'em. I had neglected a prior claim from Tony Sidaway, who tipped me off to them in the first place, so one goes to him. The other two in the queue are cookwitch and flavius_m. The guy said he'll be trying to get more in, and I asked him to notify me promptly if he did, so vampwillow and ewtikins might be in luck later.

In the meantime, I still have this 21" Sun CRT free to the first person to take it away. I'm tempted to join Freecycle just to offload it ...

Friday's B-Movie pics are now up. They all came out a bit bluish; I'm tempted to fiddle the colour balance. Or put a slightly yellow-tinted transparency over the flash!

I'm sure I had a million important things to do today, but I think I need more coffee first.

Comments

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Umm - your link to the photos is actually to my journal, which is friends locked. Did you mean to do that? :))

[reddragdiva]

I don't know what you're talking about. (ahem)

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

*sniggers*

Well, I thought I'd best let you know.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

To explain: if one puts in an html link tag but does not include the actual URL, LJ automagically and for no readily apparent reason shows it as a link to the jounrnal of whoever is reading it.

[reddragdiva]

It is in fact in the HTML spec: an empty a=href link points to the current page.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Aha! That would explain it....

[bootpunk.livejournal.com]

Someone once went mental at me for "linking to his page" when I left a link empty on LJ. Matter of fact he defriended me. What a muppet.

[reddragdiva]

Saved you some effort then!

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Aaah.

Good piccie of you and Teh Shiny btw.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Shiny! Shiny!

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

We must do lunch or something sometime my dear btw. *grin*

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

We should.... If only I didn't have this bloody going-to-work thing that Dr P makes me do! Bah!

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Well that's just a shame. I do evenings you know.:) The next few Tuesday seem to be free - up until the bank holiday weekend I think.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Evenings are sleepy time....

Let me get back to you. Possibly not in Diva's LJ....

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

'k.

Sorry Diva!*bats eyelashes in apology*

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I'm on Freecycle, if you want me to post on your behalf?

I like the photo of me with my scarf swirling. That was one outfit we can definitely say Worked.

[reddragdiva]

If no-one on LJ wants it, that would be marvellous!

And yes, it did :-D Wear it out and about the high street any day it's cool enough, and people can try to work out what country has corsets as part of its everyday dress ;-)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I'm sure you mentioned something we were supposed to be doing today?

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Cheap LCD monitors?! childeric will be in the market for one of those soon as his CRT is on its last legs. Could you let one of us know if more come in please?

[reddragdiva]

Will do. He's also entirely welcome to the 21" CRT if he can find automotive transport to carry it from Walthamstow to Haight-Ashbury.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I have pointed him at this thread, he's not reading LJ today. Cheers!

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Oo, ta, but no thanks, I don't think. My current monitor is on the way out, but I think I'll stick with it until it goes and then grab an LCD. If you know of cheap LCDs kicking about, then I'd be very interested.

[reddragdiva]

Morgan has 17" 1280×1024 LCDs for £160. VGA input, looks like, no DVI.

[childeric.livejournal.com]

That's not at all bad! Thanks. Shall go and count shekels. ;-)

[reddragdiva]

Actually, you probably don't want one without DVI - your current PC might not have it, but your next one almost certainly will. Morgan also have some that do have a DVI input for £199.

(If it's an LCD, you really want DVI if at all possible. You can really tell the difference between analogue and digital input.)

[bootpunk.livejournal.com]

I've just picked up a 17" from Dabs for GBP140. I know, it had better work or it'll take me a couple of months to get Dabs to replace it.

I didn't go for DVI - I just needed desk space Right Now, as have tons of studying to do in the next few weeks.

Pity that photo of me from BMovie is crap - the shadow makes my hair look, er, odd.

[vampwillow]

Watford Electronics (www.savastore.com) have a wide selection some at reasonablish prices with DVI inputs too ...

(though not at £85, sadly)

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that shipping would cost considerably more than just buying one of the damn things for me. Thanks for the props, I was quite proud of myself for having the wit to think of it. Also, how many cool points do I get for receiving vegemite and a dirty picture from docbrite?

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

I curse my lack of a car. Of course, whether my desk is deep enough for a 21" CRT is another matter...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

How's your budget? My electric bill has gone up by 25% since I added a 21" CRT to my collection of electric consumables, from £30 for last quarter to £40 for this.

The gods only know what it'll be like next quarter - two monitors, a desktop PC, a Mac and the laptop....

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

Atm, we run 2 laptops during evenings, and a desktop occasionally. I have a dead laptop i'm trying to breathe life into to act as a server, lower power consumption. *sigh* I want flatpanels, I just can't afford them.

But yeah, with budget as a consideration, which is tight, it'd probably be a bad idea. Bah Humbug.

Or should that be cloves?

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Big smooches for photos of people I like, yay!

Re: Or should that be cloves?

[reddragdiva]

You probably would not believe the degree to which I am already jonesing for more Gudangs in anticipation of the ones you got me last time running out. PLS TO BRING MORE GUDANGS KTHX MISTRESS.

[denalyia.livejournal.com]

Hello! I was browsing by, and saw you'd put the photos up. I hope it's all right if I put the pic of me up on my fotopic site?

And was nice to see you guys there!

[reddragdiva]

By all means! Email me (dgerard at gmail dot com) if you want the original camera JPEG and think you can do better with it ;-)

[denalyia.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

And I don't think what you have on your site can be improved :) But thank you for the offer. :)

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

The blonde in the background of this (http://reddragdiva.fotopic.net/p18862444.html) looks like someone I know from school (http://www.swarthmore.edu/), but I'm pretty sure she's teaching in Germany now.

(I had to view that one for what-the-fuck-are-those-boots reasons.)

[reddragdiva]

No idea who the girl is. Those are particularly silly legwarmers rather than boots.

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

I don't have the impression that warming one's legs at that event would be exactly a good idea.