Andy Cooper

Phone

2009-12-28T18:28:01Z

The phone has since turned up in IC bag - wasn't expecting it there as it is OC.

So reactivated today. :-D

Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T10:16:32Z

Merry Christmas One and All. A time to spend with family and freinds, regardlesss of religion.

I am currently posting from my parents house. The original plan was that I was going to drive Gran and Aunty Sue over this morning - but I managed to drain my car battery by leaving the cd player plugged in after drivng home from work on Wed. At least now we are in the Christmas close-down period until Monday 4th.

The battery has been taken out of the car, since jump starting failed to work, and it is on charge at Granny's. Dad will take it off charge when he picks them up this morning.

I am also without a mobile phone at the moment - I think I left it in the HopeWastes (Chisslehurst Caves in London) but I'll have another check of my costume when I get home. I have rung them and got a call bar put on it.

This year was the Christmas of Dragons. I got given one by Cathy, and gave one to Lorraine and to Mum.

:-)

100 Years ago today.

2009-12-03T17:36:08Z

The Ellan Vannin Tragedy - Hugh E Jones (Source Hughie's Ditty Bag)

Snaefell, Tynwald and Ben-My-Chree,
Fourteen ships have sailed the sea.
Proudly bearing a Manx name,
But there's one will never again

Oh, Ellan Vannin, of the Isle of Man Company,
Oh, Ellan Vannin, lost in the Irish Sea.

At one a.m. in Ramsey Bay
Captain Teare was heard to say,
"Our contract said deliver the mail,
In this rough weather we must not fail."

Ocean liners sheltered from the storm,
Ellan Vannin on the wave was borne.
Her hold was full and battened down,
As she sailed toward far Liverpool town

With her crew of twenty one Manxmen,
Her passengers Liverpool business men.
Farewell to Mona's Isle, farewell,
This little ship was bound for hell.

Less than a mile from the Bar Lightship,
Ellan Vannin by a wave was hit.
She sank in the waters of Liverpool Bay
And there she lies until this day.

Few Manxmen now remember
The third day of the month December
That terrible storm of Nineteen-Nine,
Ellan Vannin sailed for the very last time.

"The Ellan Vannin was originally built as an iron paddle steamer and named Mona's Isle". Constructed in Scotland by Tod & MacGregor at Meadowside, Glasgow in 1860 at a cost of 10,673UK£. She had a gross tonnage on building of 339 tons, top speed of 12 knots and an overall length of 63.09metres. She was launched on 10 April 1860. In 1883 the Mona's Isle was converted to a twin screw steamer by Westray, Copeland and Co. of Barrow and renamed Ellan Vannin on 16 November 1883.

(From the Middle Bar Email List - but I knew the song beforehand as played by the Spinners.)

Lol!

2009-11-29T15:45:07Z

Serious geek out lol.

http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/7795380.html

Off to Aya '09 Convention - Warrick University

2009-08-14T09:52:46Z

Off to Aya '09 Convention - Warrick University

NO ONE PIECE THIS WEEK

2009-07-14T15:10:59Z

I'm probably going to join Will and watch the new Harry Potter film (5:30 - assuming I can get there in time).

NO ONE PIECE THIS WEEK

2009-06-17T11:01:14Z

Taking Gran to WI and back. And watering Tomatoes (Parents are walking the coast path)

The Hunt for Gollum

2009-05-17T10:37:20Z

CatMint and RebelFilms will really like this link (unless they've already seen it).

http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x9b6d1/video/x93zji_the-hunt-for-gollum-hd-version_shortfilms?hmz=74616272656c61746564

(From the appendixes - A very well made fan-film)

Gaming

2009-04-28T09:34:11Z

Henge-Youkai tonight for just me and Tom, then One Piece tomorrow.

No One Piece today (Easter Holiday) - However there is Star Trek

2009-03-25T07:26:16Z

Hi all.

I'll be running a Star Trek game instead, set after all the series' and after all but two of the novels.

Today will be character gen, back-story and the lead up to the plot, with the main plot due next week. I'm off on the canal boat for a week, then I'll bring the mini-game to some sort of conclusion the week after.

Then it will be back to one piece with the new term starting at uni.

So, start thinking about a Federation Starship Engineer you'd like to play.

a3_pilgrimmm @ 2009-01-26T22:55:00

2009-01-26T22:57:29Z

IVFDF

One Month Tomorrow!
Website: If puzzled click here.

I cast Summon Bigger Fish!

2009-01-20T21:25:50Z

Cast the spell!

Made a trailer

2009-01-03T21:10:15Z

Click on the following link to view the video

New Years

2008-12-30T15:16:53Z

So I'll be at the party at Will's for new years.

Afterwards...

One Piece games starts again first Wednesday of term. I believe that is the 7th?

Edit - I believe wrongly, first Wed of term is the 14th. So Warewolf on 7th then One Piece the following week.

Yes there is One Piece today.

2008-12-03T15:08:53Z

So I've updated the friends only group.

Especially after the wonderful Grand Cosplay Ball in London on Sunday night into Monday morning. Which I went to as Luffy.

a3_pilgrimmm @ 2008-10-15T07:37:00

2008-10-15T06:42:50Z

Nicked from [info]Jane_olive cause it looked cool.

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Rosie Victor

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavour, favourite type of shoe): Vanilla Black

3. Your Native American name (favourite colour, favourite animal): Blue

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Richard Exeter

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): cooan

6. Superhero name (2nd favourite colour, favourite drink): White Lemonade

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Lennard Samuel

8. Stripper name (the name of your favourite perfume/cologne/scent, favourite candy): Triple Protection Chocolate

10.. Spy name (your favourite season/holiday, flower): Spring Daisy

11. Cartoon name: (favourite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Satsuma Shirt

12. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favourite tree): Pain au chocolat Oak

Roleplayer - being dead isn't going to stop Korthain!

2008-10-06T22:01:38Z

Your result for The Which Ancient Language Are You Test...

Older Futhark

You scored

Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Thirty symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There's only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago.

Take The Which Ancient Language Are You Test at HelloQuizzy

One Piece

2008-10-06T21:43:05Z

The One Piece game will try to resume again on Wed 8th.

I am thinking of possibly making it every other week. Then people can go off and do other things and not have their characters phasing out of the story, or getting knocked unconscious for some flangey reason.

Much silliness should occur.....and we will be playing a fun game as well!

See you guys then.

Plotting.........................................

Dance then where-ever you may be

2008-10-06T21:39:34Z

So, Thursday was Morris.

Friday was Warewolf - not dancing, but one of the characters is called "Waltzes to war"

Saturday night I went to Totness for a Ceilidh, Dartmoor Pixie Band were calling, and apart from starting and ending with Circassian Circle, the dances were complicated but flowed well and were fun. I was dancing with Sarah - who is also an experienced dancer, so we were able put in lots of flurishes and extra spins. :-D

Sunday was fresher's fair at the University. I was supporting Folk Soc. - very busy and loads of people.

Sunday night was an amazing session at the Fire House.

Monday night was a session in JCR, followed by dancing. Nice easy dancing, with lots of new faces, but even higher energy per dance. :-D

I will be glad of tomorrow's scheduled rest evening.

So how many are folk? and will anyone get the anime ones?

2008-09-23T19:08:33Z

Step 1: Put your media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: ~~Bold~~Strikethrough the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is wrong. Wrongwrongwrong.
Step 6: PROFIT!
Step 7: If instrumental add 1 more to the number to do

Stolen from various people.
* Those I actually listen to regularly

*1: nagaredashita hito gomi no jidoukaisatsu wo (The crowd of people poured out of the ticket gate,)

*~~2: There lies a little farm house away across the moor~~ tivunel Fill up the cider cup (The Yetties / Trad)

3: -Can't make out what the first line is and I don't know it- (skip)

3 (try2): In <FOIP> there lived an old saint

*4: ~~Three jolly coachmen sat in a Bristol tavern~~ Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl (The Yetties / Trad) catmint 1984

5: <FOIP> Just cos I'm dead and gone

*6: oo ooo oo oo oo totemon ureshi ka dio

7: An I don't wanna know ?mish kane wans come fear?

*8: <FOIP> Singing is the thing tivunel It's a fine thing to sing (The Yetties / Trad)

*9: <Instrumental Track> Title = Buttered Peas (Trad) catmint 1984

~~10: De le ??? de l'epoulet <or something like that> on parti du village. (not from that cd, but I can't actually remember what it was!)~~ La Cuisiniere? Perhaps can't remember, definately La Bottine Souriante though tivunel

*11: <um another one in a language I don't know, welsh I think> Title = Athair Ar Naimh by Enya, Memory of Trees Album tivunel

*12: Now when I were a young man my father did say Good English Ale, the yetties tivunel

13: Its a neet, there's a neet <?not sure>

14: Miserable <FOIP>, Oh don't strike me Dorin. <Not a song, an audio book chapter appeared instead!>

*15: <Instrumental Track> Title = Umi no Namamono

*~~16: Fair thee well to my dream~~ Silly old Fussel, the yetties tivunel

~~17: <Really corrupted track - I think it starts with> Some people wait till it stops but I just keep on singing~~ - Wombling in the Rain! (ish tivunel )

18: <FOIP> and <FOIP>, Firelight and shawl

19: <Instrumental Track - that audio book again!> Title: Opening and <FOIP>'s theme (<FOIP>)

*20: <Instrumental Track> Departure of the King of Pirates

21: The shadows of the night,

22: Yeah come on flat top, grooving it up slowly

23: Oh you close your eyes, theres a frightened cry

~~24: Oh the sharp thing has such teeth there~~ Mack the Knife tivunel

25: <Instrumental> Title: The Manchester Hornpipe / Maggie Dickie's / The De'il Among the Tailors <- but what instrument?>

26: It's good, Isn't it grand, Isn't swell, Isn't fun, Isn't it <FOIP>

27: Through the <FOIP> lanes of time from the safety of now

28: It was like honey, no one else could fill his shoes

29: ~~<Instrumental> Title: Amon Hen~~ From The Fellowship of the Ring movie sound track catmint 1984

30: ~~"You know what? I never did find out what kind of shop it is that sells outfits for nurses and maids" <Sound clip from?>~~ Fruits Basket (actually Tohru not Yuki) tivunel

*31: 'ej HumtaH 'ej DechtaH 'Iw <I think - answer this one if you can anyway> Some strange klingon thing? Yep! tivunel (Kor's song that he sang one DS9 episode)

*32: We were sailing up the coast of Forinya Do you speak norsican?, The Bricks (over troubled mortar) tivunel

*33: Quand on est parti de Ste-Mélanie Par un début d'après-midi Bouttine Souriante tivunel

*34: All together <FOIP>, Last year on the villiage outin' Singing all the Way, the yetties tivunel

*35: <Instrumental> Title: Polskas Artist: Stomp Album: __________________

36: <Instrumental> Title: Nejimaki Shima no Houkai

*37: <Ed's voice is too high for me to make out the words>

*38: As the sun sets beyond the pyramid

Bento

2008-09-14T17:21:44Z

I had a go at cooking bento lunch-boxes today.

Windows XP failure

2008-09-07T14:43:15Z

Now getting blue screen of death on my other main PC. Can't seem to get it to boot or find my install CDs. Damn.

(C) Hard drive now scandisked and defragged. Backed up to new USB drive. Main storage disk also needed scandisk. Seemed to work.

New wireless link up and runnning on this PC so I can access the internet and post. No sound working as yet.

So, searching through more boxes to try and find that CD - or the other one from the PC before... probebly together!

Larp

2008-09-01T06:36:55Z

Went to larp on Saturday, and played for the first time in a long while. Really enjoyed it - but my dwarf character Korthain died. His chain was down to 1point of protection and he took a 6 point hit to the chest at the begining of the final fight - cutting through his leather and fur and taking him down to -ve 3. Then he bled out from there to -8 and died.

Anyway his soul didn't go to Dakron, so Vajel is in trouble over that. It should have gone to the Albore which means Rowan will get a chance to play a character with Korthain's memories - he was considering a male human telerfret. I need to write up Korthain's memories for him and the refs.

Oh found this and thought it was funny:
http://www.geocities.com/doireanne/explicitlyrics.html

a3_pilgrimmm @ 2008-08-22T17:35:00

2008-08-22T16:37:00Z

Well I've been continuing the big tidy up of the flat, some of the old computer cds are now sorted... though I think I'm still keeping too many that I won't use.

Back online

2008-08-18T19:10:56Z

Okay, so the nose operation went well, (a week ago tomorrow) although I'm still recovering and off work I have now moved from my gran's to my parent's place and hence have access to the internet again.

Although I'll be breathing through my mouth for at least another week or so - so I won't start seeing the benifits for a while yet. At the moment it just feels like a big bruise under my nose and a slight headache.