I'm doing science and I'm still alive.

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• The Greenpeace whale is now called Mister Splashy Pants. Go give him some money.

Lovely evening down the Pembury last night, guzzling pints with pndc and hazyjayne, who was particularly luscious. I fear I shall never participate in your Sunday geeky pub card games (if I want to play games where the rules change each move, I'll do more Wikipedia), but the beer and company are top notch. redcountess and I intend to be there for New Year's Eve, just a train ride away, while arkady and Freda are in Wales.

I've been cleaning out the eMusic account: Martin Rev first album and Clouds Of Glory and Killing Joke 25th anniversary live album. Many years ago, I was in a failed band. I'd come home after hours of musical torture and want to hear an actual good record that was rock'n'roll but didn't actually involve guitar, bass or drums. Clouds Of Glory is that record.

I have also been finding and playing every possible version of the Portal theme "Still Alive after playing the Weebl and Bob version for Freda. (Spoileriffic ending fight.) Lyrics and chords, piano 1, piano 2 (mp3), cello, indie rock, EBM (mp3), NES, 8-bit, Japanese, Swedish, Engrish, YouTubeSports (hear his voicebox disintegrate), YouTube stereotype, by the songwriter (in concert), transcription.

redcountess is playing Freda awful '80s charity videos. Hear'n'Aid, oh dear God.