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Freyja's LJ
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2009.03.11 15.53
I need women!
More specifically, women aged 18-30 who are willing spend 5 minutes filling in anonymous online survey about altruism. It asks you to rate how altruistic you think 20 different activities are, and is preliminary work for a new research project. If you fulfil the criteria and can spare a few minutes, I would be very, very grateful for your time :D
The survey is here.
Thanks in advance!
Mood:  analytical
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2008.12.11 15.38
They seek me here...
So according to WikiDot's web stats, the most common phrases that people typed into search engines in order to click through to my wiki is as follows:
( (clicky) )
Could this be the basis of a novel personality typing test?
Mood:  okay
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2008.07.29 14.03
Whatcha readin' for?
Meme from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) beornwulf_saxon androseyphoenix
- Look at the list and bold those you have read.
- Italicise those you intend to read.
- Underline the books you love, and strike out the books you read but didn't like.
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2008.07.09 14.15
Why I'm not answering FaceBook messages
If I seem to be ignoring you, it's because I haven't looked at FaceBook in a very long time (i.e. bloody ages) and probably won't look at it again for the foreseeable future (i.e. bloody ages). And I just remembered that my LJ automatically imports to my FB notes so I can tell everyone that I'm not being antisocial (well, no more than usual), I just don't like FaceBook. So feel free to drop me an email with any news of great import, or just to say hello, as it would be lovely to hear from people without the hassle of FB. I'll definitely reply to emails :D
Mood:  Tending to Luddism
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2008.06.01 12.54
I had a lovely day yesterday. ingaborg and Paul took assorted Wychwooders on a mystery trip and I managed to hitch a lift from Bath to accompany then (after mysteriously-stopping trains, annoucements of fatalities, cancellations of all services and Wychwood deciding by popular vote that they loved me enough to make a detour to Bath). We went to loads of places I'd never seen before, like Avebury, Glastonbury Tor, Wells, Stoney Littleton Long Barrow and Nunney castle. The barrow was ace - you could crawl inside for a long way and sit in the little niches (now devoid of any bones). Wells cathedral was also cool as it had a clock from 1390 with lots of ornate dials and mechanised jousting knights that gallop around every quater hour. I also gawped at the amazingness of the embroidery on the altar frontals - I always get inspired by work like that to buy lots of shiny threads, which then sit in my sewing box and never get used. Also on a fibrous tangent, I collected a large amount of wool from the sheep at Avebury, which will be added to the big bag of fluff that I'm accumulating in readiness for the day I get around to doing some spinning. Such is my rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
In fact, the last week included several nice events. On Thursday I went to meet a couple of guys in Bristol for some fighting - I'd met them once before and had a great time, so I was looking forward to bashing swords with them again. We ended up fighting in some woods behind one of their houses - which doesn't sound particularly exciting but... these woods were on a hill on top of which was an iron-age hill fort and a Roman farm. And it was stormy and raining and atmospheric. Woo! I also had a very cultured time with frodomorris at the Bath music festival, where we enjoyed singing in the Abbey and west country lewdness with Ere Whacks. I also saw Waterson:Carthy with Lopez during the festival, which was brilliant. Must discover more live music around Bath & Bristol - haven't found anything goth/industrial yet, and I'm missing dancing stupidly to comically violent Euro bands.
In other news: I love King Bladud's pigs! These have been gradually appearing in Bath over the last couple of months and the city is now full of them. They rock! Somewhat linked to that last comment, I discovered that I like bacon. It wasn't quite such an amazing moment as my first post-vegetarianism steak & ale pie, but still... mmmmmmmm...... bacon. I think I'm now officially a rampant carnivore.
Mood:  calm
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2008.03.29 00.05
Journey to Niflheim
And so it came to pass that Olaf the Naked and his shoulder-companion Graegham Ragnvaldsson journeyed to the frozen wastes of Niflheim and there did battle with the mighty ice giants. Though armed only with short wooden staffs - for sharp metal edges are of no use in this realm - they channelled the heat of Muspelheim through a magical talisman. The icy crags towered about them, yet they fought bravely, attacking the iron-hard ogres until they yielded and fell to the earth. Even the frozen cliffs fell before their onslaught, the falling boulders melting at the adventurers' feet as they charged again and again with their staffs. Well were they contented with their battle, and they returned to Midgard with many tales.
In short, the freezer has finally been defrosted.
Mood:  cold
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2008.03.06 14.29
Riddle
fram deop to eorðan ic cam ænextan
fram utgarsecge to grene grunde
widlast widfarend, ic lyfte ymbærndede
ða ic forlet sunhate sæ
feower gesceaftena ic mæne, ond an me sylfum
saga hwæt ic hatte
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2008.01.19 14.49
And the nerdiness continues...
þrie hringa cyngum ælfcynnes heaum
in middangeardes grenholtum heanes to hrofe
seofon sincgiefum dweorgas of dunum
seo foldesbreost forhelest symbelhus stænen
nigon manndryhtnum guþweardum gumcynnes
wyrd sceol gescieran læne lif of licum
ond an thaem deorcan on his sweartan stole
in westnese mordores fæste forbræded
an hring ælce to wealdanne ælce to findenne
an hring ælce to bringenne þeowas in þeostre
in westnesse mordores fæste forbræded
(Version 2.0 with grammatical corrections and a couple of minor changes)
Mood:  hungry
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2008.01.14 22.49
Overheard on the way to work
While passing Magdalen College school...
Irate shouting teacher: "Will you pull your trousers up??? I'VE WARNED YOU!!!"
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2007.12.28 13.12
Anglo-Saxon thingy
I started to do some short pieces based on Maxims. As I'd got a copy of Owen-Crocker's Dress in Anglo Saxon England for Christmas (yay!) I began with such universal truths as
Het sceol on heafode
Socc sceol on fot
And then raised the tone with this:
Ecg sceol scir scinan
Scild sceol stedefaeste standan
Wiga sceol on scildburhe swith ond leafful
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2007.11.17 21.52
I'm here to kill your monnstahhh
So, frodomorris and I went to see the new Beowulf flick the other night. As expected, it was a delightfully silly piece of cinema that had the unexpected bonuses of a little Englisc dialogue and a new dirty song to learn. However, I'm not entirely sure which bits of the film were intentionally comedic and which weren't. Anyway, the story had been developed a little and, without giving the re-interpreted plot away, I actually approved of how this had been done. I also thought that the idea of the revelries at Heorot causing Grendel physical pain was was a good one. What I didn't like was the quality of the computer-generated graphics. On the whole I really don't think it was well done enough to justify making the entire film in this way - it might as well have been animated without motion capture as this really didn't add anything and seems simply to be a gimmick. So, on the whole, if you're in the mood for an evening of gut-spilling amusement, go and see it. If you're after a serious and well-made interpretation of the story, well, you'll probably be disappointed.
Oh, and one last thing... if you value your nipples, then wearing maille against naked skin is a really bad idea. Unless you're a pervert, of course.
Mood:  lethargic
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2007.10.18 09.29
Africans "less intelligent", says Watson
What a pleasant man James Watson (yep, the DNA guy) is. We all know he doesn't much like women and gays, but now we can add black people to the list.
BBC story here
A fine example of a robust and well-supported scientific hypothesis, I must say. The Science Museum have cancelled his planned talk, which opens up the perennial debate of whether it's better to deny people like this a platform, or to let them speak and challenge them publically. Personally, I would have had him speak but in a debate with someone who could wipe the floor with him. Showcasing the old race/IQ data would be a good example of how people can skew experiments to 'prove' what they believe is true.
Mood: ill
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2007.08.10 16.28
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I set the video to record The Leather Boys on BBC2 last night and watched it today to find out that I'd missed the end. Eep! Now I'll have to find the DVD... reading what happens on Wikiepdia just isn't the same.
Great film though. I thought Dudley Sutton was fantastic as Pete.
Mood: frustrated
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2007.03.07 15.16
Had a very nice time at the pub last night, celebrating Dom's birthday. Drunkenness abounded. Chips were consumed. Then frodomorris and I got home to find... SLUGS! Yes, not merely slugs, but SLUGS! In the kitchen! Many! Everywhere! Treading on a slug in socked feet was actually not an unpleasant feeling, and luckily it didn't squish, but stilll...
Mood: cheerful
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2007.01.24 09.59
Snow!
Yay!
Mood: Wintry
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2007.01.12 14.47
Wassailing into 2007
I am the back on internets! And in the lab. I am feeling ambivalent about the latter state of being. The period of the sine-wave of DPhil emotions has decreased to about six hours - one moment I'm feeling happy and productive and looking for JRFs, the next I have no idea what to do. *le sigh* But I do seem to have reached a few conclusions
In other news, I found out today that some of my students Googled me. It does feel very weird to be on t'other side of the fence at times... luckily all the LOTR fics were written using a pseudonym ;)
And so to my new year's resolutions.
Mood:  Up and down
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2006.11.28 10.15
Stop press
More news from the sweetener science guy - Stevia + water now = nuclear fission and the solution to the world's energy problems.
Wow.
Mood:  awake
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