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Are you free on Tuesday?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:13:09 +0000

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Hey, are you in London at 6.30pm on Tues? Fancy coming to a pub to see a run-thru of a new idea? Me + 2 great guests! If you do, email is

livefromtheapocalypse {at) gmail (dot} com . Tickets very limited so only apply if you're pretty sure you can come! It'll be fun and shonky. Promise

Over-18s only, sadly. Not because it's rude. Because it's in a pub. x
4 minutes ago via web

@misterwallace

I've asked for a couple

[Edit to add] Unfortunately as space at the venue is at a premium, entry is limited
to the first 25 people to register by email at this address. You must
be over 18 to apply. One ticket only per email application.

[Edit again] All gone!

The Kindness Offensive

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:06:12 +0000

I thought people on the forum might be up for signing this - thank you

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/please-award-the-routemaster-bus-to-the-starting-out-charity/

The Kindness Offensive will use the Routemaster to continue helping dozens of charities and everyday folk around the UK.
They hired a bus for their big Xmas event a few years back, so if they win it, they can ferry all the toys and food that they give away to needy people, and can ferry all their volunteers in one go to these events.
Plus they can extend the work they do beyond the M25 so they can help more people in the UK!

More information is on their website or just down here with some examples of what they have done so far:

TKO hit the headlines in October 2008 for giving away twenty-five tonnes of non-perishable foods to fourteen soup kitchens and drop-in centers across London. Some of the recipients included four branches of the Salvation Army, The Women�s Asylum Seekers Together, and the Muswell Hill Churches Soup Kitchen.
The 'Vinspired Kindness Offensive', (22/12/08), saw them team up with Vinspired and take a 70-strong team of volunteers to help TKO give away over thirty-five tonnes of presents to people across London. They handed out 3,500 hampers and over twelve thousand toys, as well as high-end electrical items and gizmos. They contributed to twelve different charities and community groups the day of the event, including Great Ormond Street Hospital, as well as taking presents door-to-door across London.
In August 2009, staged 'The Everyday Kindness Awards'. The Awards celebrated the everyday acts of random kindness performed by normal warm-hearted members of the public. There were three 'disciplines'; the first involved helping a stranger up some stairs with a heavy bag; the second involved helping a stranger collect a stack of dropped papers; and the third involved offering a lost tourist directions to a landmark.
In August 2009 TKO delivered several hundred toys to children�s Hospitals around London in celebration of Ramadan. A Youtube video entitled �Kindness Offensive toy run� chronicles the giveaway, and has been viewed over 30,000 times world wide.

RAoK Challenge: 03 September

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:29:53 +0000

I'm off to the Cinema tomorrow, and to play games with Dave Gorman on Sunday, so here's a RAoK involving both those things.

I'm going to pick up a postcard from the Cinema's rack of free of free postcards, and address it to:

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The Postman
My Street,
London.
PO5 7CD

And write a big THANK YOU in the letter section.

(If you want to hear where I nicked the idea from get the DVD).

{ETA: Go on, you give a go too!}

Vanquish

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:05:57 +0000

Truly absurd third-person shooter - like Gears of War, but played at a million miles an hour, with a guy who can do rocket-propelled powerslides on his knees with a transforming gun fighting honking great mechs.

Needless to say, I bloody loved it.

Does anyone have a copy of Fitzcarraldo?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:13:32 +0000

I was wondering if someone had this movie from 1982 that they woudl consider lending to me??

We are slowly working our way through the top 100 films and we don't have this one. Cant afford to buy it at the moment so if someone would please consider lending it to me I would send them a small prize in leiu of the postage cost (and of course I would post it back).

Pretty please??

xxx

My external hard drive is causing odd things to happen

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:52:24 +0000

I have a 7-port USB hub, into which are plugged a Freecom external DVD-RW drive and a Western Digital 1TB external HDD.
I only plug the hub into the computer (HP Mini-note 2133 WinXP) when I need to use one of the drives and when I just had the DVD drive it was fine.
But yesterday was the first time I plugged the hub in with *both* drives connected and weird stuff started happening. I got an error message about a 'Delayed Write - Failed' to F: (the external HDD). Also a load of tweets were missing in Tweet Deck and reappeared when the HDD was unplugged.
Today, it decided to repeatedly crash Chrome and refuse to play any plug-ins, especially Flash. Again, unplugging the external HDD has resolved it. The HDD currently holds a backup copy of my doucuments and programs.
What's it doing and why and how do I stop it? Is the computer trying to read a program from C: and F: at the same time? Or two conflicting programs?

Own an iPhone 3GS/4 or a newer iPod touch?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:21:57 +0000

Today was Apple's new iPod release day, yada yada yada. But in amongst all the usual guff and new, slightly smaller iPods, was a little demo of a bit of software now available for newer iPhones/iPd touches. It'll doubtless be mainly used for games, but it's more than a little impressive and is available to take a look at for yourself:

1. Download Epic Citadel from the app store (free)
2. Pick up jaw from floor

Seriously, this is a tech demo and just a little village thing you can wander round, but it looks *phenomenal*. As in PS3/Xbox 360 good. And it was programmed in just 8 weeks.

Amazing.

Belgium broke my MP3 player

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:15:09 +0000

Discuss.

Slightly more detail: Belgium got the last laugh as always, and broke my MP3 player. It's a Creative Zen. I've never ventured into the world of ipods before, but I am not adverse to doing so. My budget is unspecified, if it's something a bit awesome I don't mind spending money on it. I don't have many (any) toys, so this might be my chance.

Having said that, I'm aware there's a new ipod out today. I don't think I really need to be THAT up to date....!

I mainly just want to listen to music that I already have on my computer. A few other fancy features might be nice (I have a old phone with no fancy features, and have no plans to get a fancy features phone anytime soon, so I am currently fancy featureless.)

Anyway, commence the pro/anti Apple bickering..... NOW.

Thank you

Joinverness 7 - thanks, apologies, general postscript

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:10:35 +0000

Slightly belatedly, a big thank you to the brave band of joinees who made it north for Joinverness this past weekend. It was immense fun as usual, and even more laid back and unplanned than usual, which I think we all felt was a strength! Thanks in particular to James and Marcus, fridgeless this time, for driving such a long way and for my sluice valve sign!

And apologies for not having done a bit more to promote and organise the meet. For various reasons (all good), I've not really spent much time in the Join Me sphere of life, nor in Joinverness planning. I'm not even convinced I'll be around this time next year, or even if there will/should be a Joinverness in the future. That's not to stop people coming up any time they like, but it's hard to predict the future right now (or, frankly, at any point in time, unless you predict it backwards, but then that's not really the future is it?).

Anyway.

Thanks.

And sorry.

And stuff.

Joinee Varwell, on 01 September 2010 - 02:10 PM, said:

I'm not even convinced I'll be around this time next year...

Crikey, that makes it sound like I've got a terminal illness.

I meant to say that we might be abroad at this time next year but are not sure.

Does this count?..

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:32:19 +0000

I have no money. Told my mum over the phone I wouldn't be able to get her anything for her birthday, and she was fine with it "just another day," as she always puts it. I think this is rather sad. Everyone should enjoy their birthday, especially mums.
I literally have noooo money, but when I did I somehow managed to spend over �500 on dvd's and other expensive guff in hmv.

Idk if you guys have a purehmv rewards card, but I do, and I'm bloody glad I do. I've been saving my points for something super duper special for absolute ages, but my mum deserves a birthday present, so I've traded in my 50000 points for some silly little Elvis Presley film cell montagey thing she's sure to love.

Now if only they wouldn't cock up the delivery..

Look out! It's the future!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:30:31 +0000

I was telling Kieran about this thing a couple of weeks back, and found it again, so thought I'd share.

A prediction of how the future will go.

Some of it is really interesting, although I imagine a lot of it will be bollocks. A good read though, if you can be bothered to invest the time. The 23rd century sounds great.

MoT
HJCotW

Happy Birthday Worm

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:15:39 +0000

Happiest of Happy Birthdays James.

Hope you have a wonderful day dearest brother of mine

Samantha
xxxx

Parenting advice

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:29:48 +0000

As me and Chez are expecting the arrival of Godzilla "Danger" Ranner in two shakes of a crying baby, I thought it would be a good time to ask for advice...

I do have the ultimate advice of the late, great Linda Smith -
"Everyone says parenting is hard. It's not - just remember not to put your thumb through the soft bit on top of their head and you'll be fine"

I was wondering if anyone had advice of a similar nature...

Dost thou Tweet?

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:21 +0000

Britt's Twitter

xoxo

Happy Birthday, Distant Joinee Mandoran!

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:56:59 +0000

Hope you have a great day!

Dark Nebula

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:30:02 +0000

I've been playing this on and off for a few days now, and it's rather ace - it's a ball-rolling game that uses the accelerometer, but really slickly done with fabulous graphics. The first episode (12 levels) is now free, and the sequel (another 16 levels) is the absurd price of 59pee. I've played full-price games that have had less attention to detail and thought put into them than this. Well worth a look!

HELLO?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:47:25 +0000

YEAH, I'M ON A TRAIN.

I SAID I'M ON A TRAIN!

London this bank holiday weekend

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:34:17 +0000

I shall be hitting london from thurs-mon. Gdad wants to see his siblings and I've been hired to show the lil cousins around basically. think saturday I'm doin a big sightseeing tour with em, and sunday will probs be goin nothing hill but if anyone fancies doin out fri evening/night that could be cool Never been past highbury so wanna explore our capital.
maybe this cock place if someone would tell me where it is or is it like a mi6 secret?

anyways holla :0)

Mobile version does not show latest poster

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:42:20 +0000

On the mobile phone version of the site, on the thread list pages you get:

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Last post on by

where it should be .

Cheating in online gaming..

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:31:14 +0000

Just read this article on the BBC news website and it got me thinking!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11061244

As someone who has spent possibly an unhealthy amount of time online I think a ban on cheaters isnt a bad thing at all! Most of us take gaming pretty casually however there are people out there who take it seriously and a few who even make a lot of money from it!

In the case of the Modern warfare series of games. the first one became plagued with people flying, and so people looked to modern warfare 2 for salvation only to have "boosters" etc ruining games by hiding in a corner killing eachother over and over just to improve stats. as a result all the hard work they put in to creating a system whereby you can see peoples achievements is largly flawed as many of the people you play hame simply cheated their way to the top!

on a side note. this brings me to the subject of age related games. should children found to be playing 18 games online be banned? In the case of the Playstation network you have to have an account to log on and play online. so it wouldnt be impossible to refuse access for underagers. I'd be totally behind this. the ammount of kids ive found playing games that are too old for them is disturbing. Online its not just the content of the game that is the problem but other older gamers (with no morals) sitting there insulting really young kids using language that is normally reserved for rapists and murderers!

Congratulations Paula, Marius and Poppy!

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:01:47 +0000

Just wanted to congratulate gorgeous old school Joinee Paula on her gorgeous new baby Poppy!

Can't believe she's already here...even though your preggy belly was massive when I saw you last!

Big loves,

Ems xxx

Any joinee's going to the DULWICH PARK, LONDON, GHOSTBUSTERS screening on Sep 5th?

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:08:09 +0000

Will any other jonees be attending the screening of Ghostbusters at Dulwich park on September 5th? I am so gonna be there as it is very much in my top 5 movies (It's joint 1st place with the sequal) and I was wondering if anybody else is going. Are you?

Here are the details http://www.thescreenonthegreen.com/#/dulwich-park-se21/4533441718

who ya Gonna call!!?? (Not 118 thank you!)

hey

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:56:11 +0000

a friend recommended that i join this site.sounds like a great place to be.good to know there are still nice people in the world

Anyone need any scart cables?

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:25:32 +0000

In our house we have nothing that needs a scart cable, but at a conservative estimate we have around four million of the things.

If anyone wants/needs scart cables for anything, let me know and you can have them.

I also have some of those scart boxes for putting multiple scart inputs into a single lead.

I will be dumping them next week...

Action Failed

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:10:56 +0000

If I click on a persons name to go to their profile page and then want to click 'topics' or 'posts' to see latest things from that person I get a box coming up saying 'Action Failed'

Is this me or the forum? I have tried it with lots of different people so it's not just certain joinees.

M

RAoK Challenge: 20 August

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:41:38 +0000

Erk, didn't post a challange earlier in the week again.

My challenge to you and me, is to try and make eye contact with pedestrians / commuters, smile, and maybe incline your head slightly if the mood takes you.

Facebook places

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:35:28 +0000

In an effort to beat foursquare at their own game of alerting burglars as to when you're not home and stalkers as to where they can hide in bushes to observe you, Facebook have launched their own idiotic check-in service. Which for all members is turned on by default, and - and here we have the most glorious chunk of stupid I've witnessed in a fair while - it also allows your friends to check you in somewhere whether you're actually there or not. So potentially, a "friend" (a.k.a. anyone you're linked to) could make it look like you'd e.g. gone to a pub when you were supposed to be at work but were home ill, thus skanking up your life good and proper.

Anyway, here's how to turn this particular work of genius off:

http://lifehacker.com/5616395/how-to-disable-facebook-places

It's a TRAP!

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:23:39 +0000

Saw the cast list for this and almost did something embarrashing ..... *blushes*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701991/

IT LOOKS AWESOME!

Happy Birthday

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:09:40 +0000

Have an awesome day!

Days Out With The Kids Suggestions Please

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:05:38 +0000

Hi Guys

Its been ages since I have stopped by how are we all?

I need a favour if possible and I know you lovley people will come up with something

Still got 2 weeks of the school holidays and am looking for something diffrent to do with the kids (William was 7 last week and Abigail 4 1/2) Over the past few school holidays we have pretty much exausted the Central London stuff Science Museum, Natural History Museum, London Zoo, British Museum, London Eye, Aquarium, Tussauds, etc...and the more local stuff to us Hampton Court, Kew Gardens etc etc...
I am looking for something within easy reach of M25 so Surrey, Kent, Essex, Sussex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire etc...We were looking at Whipsinade Zoo but at �18 each to get in its a bit expensive can anybody help

The Basic Criteria I am looking for

1.Easy reach of M25/M4/A3 (see above) happy to drive 1-2 hours if needed
2.Reasonably priced budget of �40-�50 for 2 adults/2 kids (less if possible)
3.Preferably (Although not essential) with some sort of animals.
4.Suitable for a 7 year old boy and a 4 year old Girl, lots of places we have looked at suit one or the other not both.

Or even better if anybody could point us in the direction of BOGOF or Child Free vouchers for Whipsinade then that would be great too

Thanks So Much , See you all soon

Richard