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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
OK, I'm back after a long time without posting a single beep...sorry about that... ---- It's now a week after I should have been handing in my thesis, but nope....no thesis produce, so I've now postponed it to June :-( I hoped I would be done by now, but nothing happened and the days went by...I was (and am) in the thesis swamp as it's so charmingly called. ---- Enough of the bad news.. I wanna use a little space to congratulate Ulrik with his 30th birthday...Ulrik visited me a couple of weeks ago with his boyfriend Lasse. It was really nice to see some friends from Copenhagen. Then a HUGE applause for Klaus, who defended and passed his doctoral dissertation - I'm SO proud... On the other side it means that he soon will be off for San Fransisco and I have to find someone else, who wants to borrow my apartment. That shouldn't be that difficult, I reckon. And I PLAY again!!!! Finally I got back in to the EQ-spirit, and it paid off: Zaxyen got into the Valor Knights guild ---- I've found two replacement series, so I can stop obsessing Star Trek: Taken and Farscape - they are very different, but VERY cool to watch! (And there's gotta be an Alternate Reality Game inside that Taken-site, or....i don't know....it jus have to be there...the signs are all there...well, still looking! Please mail me, if you are that smarter that I, so you figured it out...) I've got new books, and I got hold of the mailman this time, so I don't have to go ALL the way to the other end of Leeuwarden. I got "The 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" by Fannie Farmer (link to Amazon) It contains a lot of useful wisdom - f.ex.: "HOW TO BUILD A FIRE Before starting to build a fire, free the grate from ashes. To do this, put on covers, close front and back dampers, and open oven-damper; turn grate, and ashes will fall into the ash receiver. If these rules are not followed, ashes will fly over the room. Turn grate back into place, remove the covers over fire-box, and cover grate with pieces of paper (twisted in centre and left loose at the ends). Cover paper with small sticks, or pieces of pine wood, being sure that the wood reaches the ends of fire-box, and so arranged that it will admit air. Over pine wood arrange hard wood then sprinkle with two shovelfuls of coal. Put on covers, open closed dampers, strike a match,—sufficient friction is formed to burn the phosphorus, this in turn lights the sulphur, and the sulphur the wood,—then apply the lighted match under the grate, and you have a fire." (Who can live without this knowledge?) The second book is for my thesis and is "Trigger Happy" by Steven Poole (link to Amazon) The book is meant as a history of the videogame and as an insight in the revolution of the entertainment industry connected to these. I of course hope to gain some knowledge for my chapters about the histories related to my project ("The History of the Game", "The History of the Roleplaying Game", "The History of the Online Roleplaying game", "The History of the Multi-Massive Online Roleplaying Game" etc.) ---- Following is a way for me to get out of the thesis swamp...I will list all the more and less rediculous things I do instead of studying... List of things I did today instead of working on my thesis - laundry (towels turned into different shades of light blue, because I accidently threw in a pair of blue socks) - dishes (needed to do that, so that is not really an action of thesis-avoiding, is it?) - showering (definately needed that) - staring at the wall (well, ok that time could have been used for something a little more creative, but it's a nice wall) - watching Garden- and Houseinvaders on BBC (don't really have an excuse for that one) - - - *sigh* *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:50 PM ---ooo--- |
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