I’ve been interested in the idea of checking my own facial symmetry for a while so when I found a website that did all the “hard” work for me, I thought I’d give it a go. Then I found out I had to have some silly plug-in to make it work so I did it myself with layers in the GIMP instead.
Not a great photo for checking it out on, but here goes…
This is a photo of me from our trip to Burano, Venice on Christmas Day 2004…
Spent the weekend in Wolverhampton at LUGRadio Live 2006 with around 350-400 other people, which is quite a feat for an anti-social freak like me. John did a talk about the webcomic he writes (well, we write, he “draws” and pimps), Everybody Loves Eric Raymond and we also sold some of our ELER and Knuth tshirts thanks to Gareth on the FSFE stall. I mostly lingered and sweated.
As the official documenter of our trips, I’ve written up a detailed account of our trip (below).
As it is rather too detailed, as per usual, here’s a summary: hot, good food, clammy, nice people, sweaty, interesting talks, did I mention it was above average temperature?, RedHat flying disc, stupidly warm and stuffy, well worth going.
As part of a research project I’m taking part in at the Leeds Dental Institute, I’ve just had my first ever scale and polish. I thought it would be a nice gentle procedure but it feels like I’ve been punched in the mouth about ten times. And at least six of those punches were delivered with a very thin, sharp object poked directly to my gums. Those type of punches hurt the most.
However, we’re having a curry tonight so all will be well once again.
Ok, it’s taken me 10 days to get these photos sorted but I’m back-dating this post to the day in question because, well, it makes me look more organised.
My good buddy Katherine got married to her John on Sunday 16 July, at Hollins Hall, just north of Bradford.
It was a beautiful sunny day but rather hot - Katherine bet me £1million that however hot I was, she was hotter though.
As anticipated, Katherine cried like anything through the vows and consequently sounded rather sarcastic as she said them: “yes, yes, to have and hold, whatever, get on with it before I have to blow my nose on the train”. (I paraphrase slightly).
I did a reading just after the “I do” bit and hopefully didn’t sound sarcastic (my default mode). I also had to avoid looking at anyone I knew (so, just Katherine, my John and Dan) in case I laughed or accidentally swore, neither of which I thought would go down well.
We hung around in the sun for a bit after the ceremony (while Katherine and John had some, nudge nudge wink wink, “alone time” in the wedding car) and then went inside to hide in the air conditioned bar/reception area. I took lots of photos of the photos being taken.
After the speeches and dinner, we managed to snag a couple of sofas and from there, watched Dan trying to woo both of the bridesmaids. It was simultaneously both hideous and amusing : )
I’ve put a couple of photos on here but there is a slightly wider selection on my Flickr account. The one up there at the top is of Katherine and John cutting the cheese (phnar) and the other one is of Dan in a bridesmaid-sandwich (also phnar). Click them for bigger versions of both.
You truly haven’t seen anything in life until you watch a grown man chasing flies around the room with a vacuum cleaner.