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A Neat Trick
Posted May 23, 2010
Ok I'm going slightly mad revising, so am procrastinating like crazy. So why not try this :
1) Go to this page : A68770047
2) Press the Ctrl key and the minus (i.e. - ) key together until you've zoomed out all the way (alternatively you can do this via your menu). If you get lost remember to press Ctrl and 0 together to reset it.
3) Guess who is looking back at you 
4) Press Ctrl key and 0 (i.e. the number zero) key again until its reset.
Et voila! Cool huh? :D Try it out. Amazing what you can do with Hootoo. If you want to do the same thing to yourself Create a new guide entry go in to GuideML mode, and put in there. Now find a picture you want to use, go to this site : <./>http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/</.> and enter the picture you want to use. Set the settings to how detailed you want it to be, and it will output a piece of ascii code art, copy that and plonk that in between your code. Et Voila. :D Let me know if any of you guys tries it!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Posted Jan 1, 2010
And may you all enjoy 2010, let it be a great year for you and your family! 
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Recruitment drive for stories and poetry in The Post
Posted Dec 15, 2009
Right you wonderful people, I'm looking for anyone and everyone - no matter what they think their skill level is in regard to writing and poetry - to start writing fiction and/or poetry for The Post! 
With the Post back in its weekly slot, we're running out of stories faster than usual, so I thought now would be a good idea to start a recruitment drive. Now sadly I suspect that at least half my friends list has now Elvised. So if anyone knows or suspects someone who might want to write a story for the post (long or short) or write poetry, then please point them this way. Or even better write your own journal asking people for stories, if you feel so motivated!
So let those creative juices flow, its writing time!
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Latest reply: Dec 15, 2009
Head Explode *splat*
Posted Dec 13, 2009
Its annoying.
I've 101 things to do, not to mention things I want to do for people on h2g2 *waves at friendly post people*. But my brain is so full of stuff to do with doing a 5000 word essay for my Masters degree, that I'm somewhat paralised.
Yeah I know, I'm lucky. I'm in education in a time of economic crisis - people are hardly going to feel sorry for academic boy. Although the money situation is hardly cut and dried, but that's hardly the subject for h2g2.
I have a problem with focus. Okay anyone who has ever dealt with me on h2g2 probably has that vague idea. To clarify I appear to have a problem focusing on more than one thing. My girlfriend seems to do this rather well - she volunteers for so many things I've almost lost track! And that's the problem - I like to volunteer for things, but in contrast I seem to struggle. I get - for want of a better word - scared. For want of an even better word I get terrified.
What's bizarre is that my h2g2 time was born out of a period when I was in the midst of education. Some of my best stuff was when I was a student first time around.
However wisdom has granted me the perspective to see that I have some fairly major gaping flaws. I wish that I could just control when the motivation can actually produce something productive. Well the rediculous thing is - is that it is entirely possible for me to control it. I just seem to let my emotions get the better of me. Sadly I am not a vulcan - not even half of one. I'm half Irish and half English, so I should at least be half lucky. So something should come up.
The most annoying thing is I find it rediculously easy to write this sort of crap, instead of something useful. This in a way is, I guess a way of procrastinating. And a good procrastination is sometimes needed to get the intellectual juices flowing.
I just wish I could just switch it on and off at times, you know? But then perhaps I wouldn't be human. I'd be a machine. Still, this is why I returned to education. To get my brain working again. To challenge myself. And by and large its worked! I just hate essays. Unless of course, it's something that I've done myself - but then isn't that what all the great historical figures in science have done? Write about their own work - not someone elses!
Okay I'm moaning now. Trying to make excuses. Better just get back to looking at that word document and hope that words magically add themselves... it only has to be in on Monday! 
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For the glory of Kronk
Posted Oct 27, 2009
I have no idea what Kronk is, or stands for. It is currently a name with a huge void behind it. The idea of building this up to something huge amuses me, so I thought I'd see what people thought Kronk could mean (other than certain Disney characters I randomly found while searching google)...
For the Glory of Kronk!
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