Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn - wendyhousehttps://www.bennee.com/~alex/2004-11-22T00:23:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital nativeEvents dear boy, events...2004-11-22T00:23:00+00:002004-11-22T00:23:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2004-11-22:/~alex/blog/2004/11/22/267/<p>Well that was a pretty busy weekend. Well busy-ish, I came up with
some half arsed excuse to laze around at home of Friday night instead
of going to the gym, but otherwise busy :-)</p>
<p>Went to <cite>Wendyhouse <http://www.thewendyhouse.org/></cite> in Leeds for
<cite>Geoff's <http://www.livejournal.com/users …</cite></p><p>Well that was a pretty busy weekend. Well busy-ish, I came up with
some half arsed excuse to laze around at home of Friday night instead
of going to the gym, but otherwise busy :-)</p>
<p>Went to <cite>Wendyhouse <http://www.thewendyhouse.org/></cite> in Leeds for
<cite>Geoff's <http://www.livejournal.com/users/echo_echo></cite> birthday. My
planned "new look" hair which involved half a tube of Black Light
glowing hair gel was marred slightly by the fact in ran very quickly
once I started dancing. Apparently large chunks of my face where
glowing. All I could see was glowing hands, despite having washed them
several times. I may try for spikes next time and just highlight with
some of Lee's stuff instead of going for the all in one solution.</p>
<p>Some of my compatriots from the evening seem to think I was under the
influence of pharmaceuticals. I can assure them all I wasn't, the big
grin on my face was due to cute goth chick dancing with me to
Aerosmith/Run DMC's "Walk this Way". In fact I was remarkably well
behaved all round. I have to thank <a class="reference external" href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/angelic_angie/">Angie</a> for biggin' me up
to all her single friends although I think she may of hammed it up a
little ;-)</p>
<p>After one session in the Mutate room (which seemed to have gone glow
stick crazy very quickly) and spent the rest of my time on the main
dance floor. They kept putting on such good tunes it was hard to find
a chance to go and drink and cool down.</p>
<p>I did get a chance to play with the night mode setting of the new
camera. You can take pictures that start with a flash and then hold
the exposure for a time to get the background image. This is great
with glow sticks :-).</p>
<p>I had such a good time I'm seriously considering going to the
Christmas one in December. I think SoS is probably going to have to
wait until the new year before I get back into LARP proper.</p>
<p>My bed beckoned around 5.20 this morning with me being woken by the
offer of free food in the evening by Sheila. I'd already answered yes
before realising I was due to be teaching my house-mates how to cook
toad-in-the-hole. I guess I'll teach Karen tomorrow and Andy will have
to do without the lesson (however he is from Yorkshire so should be
conversant in the basics).</p>
<p>I headed over to Bolton UGC to see <cite>The Incredibles
<http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/incredibles/></cite> as part of Andy's
birthday celebrations. The film itself was entertaining enough -
certainly darker than previous Pixar films. One of the things I
noticed though was the homage's to various films. The Star Wars
influences in some of the scenes are very apparent, including the
empire comms code sound effects. Certainly worth seeing but not the
greatest Pixar film yet. Technically it was as usual good although the
wet hair wasn't convincing enough for my mind. The water splashes
where quite good though, they must be getting good at fluid dynamics.</p>
<p>So tomorrow I'm off to see Sting. I may attempt KT Tunstall on Tuesday
but I'd better check if I can get tickets. Friday I fly of to Prague
for a Stag. I think we get to play with guns. I assume we won't of
started drinking by that point :-)</p>
<p>Message ends.</p>