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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2006-02-05 11:27 pm

Very civilised weekend

Saturday morning and Sunday evening got me a reasonable way along the path to effective fruit-fly orthogonalisation; I suspect I may be using the wrong sort of model for the regions involved, but I've a Cunning Plan to fix that which will still use most of what I wrote today. Tomorrow I need to figure out the interfaces to ImageJ so that I can work with real images; I'm currently displaying everything as large square blocks of characters, in best BBC Micro style.

After Saturday lunch, a lovely walk up on the Magog Heath and Wandlebury, with [livejournal.com profile] ewx, [livejournal.com profile] beckyc, [livejournal.com profile] naath, [livejournal.com profile] hsenag, [livejournal.com profile] stephdiary and [livejournal.com profile] sonicdrift; then to Becky's for tea and cakes, red wine, more cakes brought by [livejournal.com profile] mobbsy, episodes of Xena, Haribo (macht Kinder fröh, und Erwachsene ebenso!), pasta, more red wine, more Xena, port, even more Xena, and back home before I fell over.

Sunday morning and lunchtime occupied with a walk round the back of Anglesey Abbey, along disused railway lines and past an exceptionally playful free-range hound. Sunday evening, dinner with Mum and Dad of pheasant casserole followed by apple crumble.

It's not Friday, and I'm not an American political blogger, but this sign on a Kuala Lumpur recycling bin seemed too good not to share:

[identity profile] ladykate63.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hey there. :) I was idly cruising the Web in search of Xena references and stumbled on your blog. So you're a Xena fan, eh? Always nice to meet another one of us! :D

[identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Not really a Xenite myself; the afternoon was more intended as an indoctrination session, and possibly the first half of series six wasn't quite the right place to start ...

[identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Indoctrinate? Moi? I merely happened to invite people over to watch my new DVDs ;-)

[identity profile] ladykate63.livejournal.com 2006-02-08 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes, the first half of Season 6! don't tell me you had to suffer through the Mephistopheles and Lucifer episodes. :( No, not the best intro to the show. But we Xenites do love to proselytize. ;)

[identity profile] womble2.livejournal.com 2006-02-08 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose it's a deliberate reference, but I couldn't help being reminded of "Don't be a dick. Recycle. (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Kitten_huffing#The_cupped_hands_approach)"