my vacuum cleaner's blowing out instead of sucking in.

[baratron]

Having a blah day. Lonely, for no particular reason, and it seems to be National Don't Answer Your Mobile day amongst my friends. Actually, although I've sat here going through my address book compulsively a few times, I haven't actually rung everyone that I consider a friend, because a lot of them are people that are too distant for me to feel entitled to bother them just because I'm lonely, if you see what I mean. I suppose it could be questioned whether or not any of them are actually friends in that circumstance, but what other name is there for people that you like who like you back, but with whom you don't hang out with every week as a matter of course?

Went to the Game On exhibition at the Barbican yesterday. It was good, but not worth £11. We'd expected a lot more than 150 computer games thrown together in a room with minimal explanation - a lot more things to look at and read, rather than just game after game after game. Most of the games I wanted to play were ones we already have at home, which says something, I'm not sure what. Tim and Peter aren't coming round today because they're cleaning their house. I can't do the same, though I tried on Friday, because our vacuum cleaner is resolutely broken. Okay, it's not actually blowing out instead of sucking, it's simply failing to suck - but I like that line!

Richard is busy painting his paintball gun - you'd have thought this was a waste of time, but it's all part of his 1337 X-Treme sports dude image, apparently. Anyone who has ever met Richard or seen a photo of him will know just how un-1337 X-Treme sports he is. I've just decided that in lieu of cleaning the house, I should clean up my hard drive - it's down to 450 MB free, due to ridiculously large amounts of Sims downloads - and I'll need something like 950MB free for the new Sims expansion pack that's coming out in a month or so.

Hmm, well - it's taken me nearly 2 hours to write this entry (because I keep being interrupted), and I'm feeling much less lonely than I was earlier - but I suppose I'll leave the mood set as it was at the beginning because my social bar is still way too low :)

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A Linguistic dilema

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

Is it not a bit of a paradox that when trying to clean the house a broken vacume cleaner dose indeed suck muchly

PS it's nice to be concidered the kind of person you phone when needing someone to phone.

NP: Big Brother - Diamond Dogs - David Bowie

[elisem.livejournal.com]

What does 1337 mean, please?

signed,
curious and ignorant

a slightly longer answer than my earlier one

[baratron.livejournal.com]

If I got it right, it means "leet", short for "elite". As in "1337 haX0r d00ds" ("elite hacker dudes"). I'm trying to take the mickey out of the sort of people who go in for so-called extreme sports (note also "X-Treme" there). Actually, paintballing has been around a lot longer than kiddies with spiky hair and baggy pants who think they're wonderful because they're doing something vaguely dangerous, but so have skateboarding and BMXes, and they're still the subject of far too many Nu Metal songs and Playstation games.

Richard, apparently, has been paintballing for years. I had just failed to notice this until recently, when he started buying all his own equipment, from companies with names like "Piranha" and "Anaconda". (Note also that piranhas and anacondas are "X-Treme" animals, coming equipped with teeth and poison and things.)

The plural of VAX is VAXen.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I have clearly been around linux gurus - actual hacker dudes, as opposed to the kids who merely think they're hax0rs - far too much, because I had an urge to write "BMXen" there.

Re: The plural of VAX is VAXen.

[barty.livejournal.com]

I audably chuckled when I read that. Mind you, I have caught myself using the word grep in everyday speech.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my mobile's had a flat battery since Friday night because I can't find the charger. Useless, aren't I?