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Tweets on 2009-02-13

  • Tech supporting IrfanView over the phone. Watching heavy #uksnow in NG1 8/10 #
  • @notttwestival heading over now. #
  • @nottstwestival ah… You’re upstairs. #
  • @RichardJenkins it was really lovely to meet you. Hope I didn’t talk at you too much. #
  • Right. I’m going to have one cup of tea, and watch one episode of Law and Order. *Then* I will have an early night. #

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Wretched 25 things meme

There’s a meme doing the rounds on Facebook where you have to write 25 things about yourself, then tag 25 people to do the same.

Several people have been kind enough to tag me, and I have lost track a bit of who. I am also not at all on top of who’s already done this and who hasn’t.

1 When I was going to the gym briefly four years ago, I discovered I actually quite like running.

2 Although music is really important to me, and I consider myself a singer, I almost never listen to music. No concerts, no music radio, rarely any CDs in the car. It’s Radio 4 and speech podcasts all the way.

3 I think I know roughly what I will be doing with my life until approx 2015, but I have no idea after that at all.

4 In the words of Acorn Antiques: “I go bellringing on Wednesday nights.” Actually, I go Fridays and some Tuesdays. I have been ringing since 1989 but haven’t actually got any better since about 1993.

5 I am not remotely interested in any sort of sport. Following it, doing it, nope, just don’t care. Cricket, rugby, football, meh, whatever.

6 There used to be a sign with my family name on a street corner in my hometown. My forebears on that side of the family were preachers and corn merchants and a distant relative was once mayor.

7 I really don’t want to be an MP, although everyone assumes I do when they hear I am a councillor at the tender age of 30.

8 I like camping – and I like it all the more now that I take two duvets and can stay toasty warm all night.

9 I can cook tasty food but it always looks a bit odd.

10 I’m too clumsy for arts and crafts.

11 I can’t draw or paint despite years of art lessons in my formative years. I can’t play tennis either. I think my parents just wanted us out of the house on Saturday mornings.

12 I used to think that beer and Radio 4 were the only things keeping me in England, but now I’m not so sure.

13 I regret not insuring my cats.

14 I love bonfires.

15 I am clinically obese. My diet is atrocious and I take next to no exercise but I don’t seem to be getting any fatter.

16 I played tuba, euphonium, trombone at school and I still occasionally get out my recorders from sopranino to tenor, but my fingers never stretched far enough to play bass recorder.

17 I can’t read bass clef without counting the lines and working it out by analogy to treble clef.

18 I went to three different secondary schools.

19 I have recurring nightmares about taking final exams for French/German literature I haven’t read, and about standing in the wings about to go on stage to deliver lines I haven’t learnt. I’ve sort of done both of those things in real life.

20 I can play the following guitar chords: E Em G C A D Am D7, which is enough to play well known songs like Hallelujah, Jolene, Ghostriders in the Sky, and quite a lot of the songs off the Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs album.

21 GFA BASIC on the Atari ST taught me some of the fundamentals of computer programming but I don’t know any computer languages that are commonly used today.

22 IRC taught me to type at 60wpm but these days if I do that too much my wrists and hands hurt.

23 I live in chaos and squalor and half think that owning a copy of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen will help me get on top of things.

24 I love reading, but mostly just read trashy crime novels. When I was doing my A Levels, I worked for a library alternate Saturdays, and borrowed as many books as I could. These days when I borrow books from the library I can rarely read them fast enough to get them back before the due date.

25 I would not be where I am today if it hadn’t been for Nick Clegg.

Tweets on 2009-02-11

  • Smirking over a typo in someone’s 25 things: Guf Stream. Ho ho ho. #
  • @rfenwick you don’t get “Maximum mailbox reached, please clear down your saved messages” yet? #
  • EARS, how I love thee. Let me count the ways. Current error message “BAD BIRTH!! = J!!” #
  • Kittehs can count. An accidental extra meal yesterday has led to unrealistic expectations of food today. #
  • Eek, they’re going to talk about Twitter on You & Your Whinge, R4. #

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Tweets on 2009-02-10

  • Full Council well underway. Expecting a long meeting today. Interesting presentations from economics professors. #
  • @ramtops eek, tread carefully! Doesn’t Lemsip CONTAIN paracetamol? #
  • Beginning the debate on the Nottingham City Homes scandal. #
  • Lib Dems moving amendment demanding police involvement in housing scandal. #
  • Now moving on to approving the Council investment strategy. New strategy should rule out future £42m Iceland probs. #
  • Discussing economy. Labour deputy leader acknowledges “St Vince” was right. #
  • @nottstwestival will it be poss to buy tickets on door? #
  • Cute snow tigers, courtesy of BBC: http://tr.im/fhyo #
  • @miketd The Wire is ace. Did you know the actor who plays Jimmy McNulty is from Derbyshire? http://tr.im/fi1z #
  • Amazed how much snow is still on the ground after all those hours of rain. #

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Tweets on 2009-02-09

  • Cleaning the kitchen. A sure sign I should be writing speeches. #
  • @jamesgraham http://twitpic.com/1e1rw – I was so hoping when I clicked it that it would be a real muppet 🙂 #
  • Not beating @alixmortimer in the nerdiness stakes and scoring worryingly high as a dork. http://tr.im/fa83 #
  • Eating leftover beansprout chow mein with leftover chicken korma. #
  • @helenduffett well… there are still leftover olives needing a home… in reply to helenduffett #
  • Ooh, Nottm Eye in Market Square is now round. No gondolas yet tho. #
  • Standing on the stairs in the St Peters tower. Can feel the walls swaying cos of the bells. #
  • Getting a lot of good-natured ribbing for turning up to ringing things after about 3 years of not doing so. #
  • Attempting to defend our pub quiz title. #
  • Losing our pub quiz title. And watching all the more snow fall. #
  • #uksnow NG5 2/10 Enough to make driving on residential streets and hills a pain, but no more than that. #

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Tweets on 2009-02-08

  • Overnight low was -5.7 – at least a degree away from last year’s low http://tr.im/f4y5 #
  • @lordbonkers Bonkers Hall not investing in grit and salt? #
  • @cllrtweeps re your website: Cllr Walsh works for Nott City but represents Chesterfield BC. #
  • Heading to West Bridgford St Giles for district ringing meeting. #
  • Electric signs say some city car parks are full today and the streets seem as thronged as ever. #
  • One of those churches where the ringing gallery is open to the church and consequently never warms up. Brrr. #
  • My bus home suddenly joined by hundreds of footie fans leaving Trent Bridge. Wonder who won. #
  • @mjmcport Librivox is excellent and they always welcome new help – do join in! in reply to mjmcport #
  • I don’t make omelettes like this: http://tr.im/f7pr #
  • @willhowells @libdemvoice @jamesgraham I’ll run a linky piece in the morning with edited highlights of the list. #
  • @willhowells @libdemvoice @jamesgraham by which of course I mean I will write it now and make it run in the morning. #

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57% nerdy


Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test…

Tri-Lamb Material

57 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 52% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Dork, earning you the coveted title of: Tri-Lamb Material.

The classic, “80’s” nerd, you are what most people think of when they think “nerd,” largely due to 80’s movies like Revenge of the Nerds and TV shows like Head of the Class. You’re exceptionally bright and smart, and partly because of that have never quite fit in with your peers or social groups. Perhaps you’ve realized, or will someday, that it is possible to retain all of the things that you like about being brilliant and still make peace with the social cliques around you. Or maybe you won’t–it’s really not necessary. As the brothers of Lambda Lambda Lambda discovered, you’re fine just the way you are and can take pride in that. I mean, who wants to be like Ogre, right!?

Congratulations!

Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you’re interested in any of the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professional Wrestling

Love & Sexuality

America/Politics

Thanks Again! — THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST


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