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Andy

I am here for Networking

About Me

I have all the usual appendages and more!
Japan so far:

The Japan Ep3:

The Japan Ep2:

The Japan Ep1:

Andrew --
[noun]:

A level headed person who always makes the wrong decision

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?'

My Interests

Crusades, Quests and Adventures - but not necessarily in that order.

I'd like to meet:

An actual Giant - Preferrably in excess of 30 feet, non-cave dwelling and without an appetite for human flesh. Any eye/hair colour ok."Giants" under 20 feet need not apply, as - technically speaking - you are more of a Troll or Ogre.

Music:

Grand National, The Delays, Crystal Method, Kasabian, Chemical Brothers, Interpol, The Editors, The Strokes, Frou Frou, M83, Dirty Vegas, Death in Vegas, Bloc Party, Royksopp, Vast, Coldplay, Dido, Duran Duran, New Order, Elastica, Gorillaz, Lightning Seeds, Mansun, Postal Service, The Music, The Organ, Deftones, Death Cab for Cutie, Prodigy, Robert Post, Above & Beyond, Gabriel & Dresden, Johnny Cash, Chicane, Protokoll - go to Last.fm and find 'Agent Chuck'

Movies:

The Count of Monte Cristo, Gattaca, Empire Records, Collateral, Legends of the Fall, English Patient, Layer Cake, Dodge Ball, Wedding Crashers, Princess Mononoke, Serenity, Varsity Blues, Any Given Sunday, The Prestige, Interview with a Vampire

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Scrubs, Smallville, Arrested Development, 24, Lost, Nip/tuck, Extras, Top Gear, Black Books, Coupling, Peep Show, The Office, Farscape, Father Ted, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, The Wonder Years, Game On, 15 Storeys High, Desperate Housewives, The OC, Two Guys and a Girl, Two and a half men, My name is Earl, QI

Books:

The 'Adrian Mole' series by Sue Townsend, The 'Wilt' series by Tom Sharpe, 'The Straw Men' trilogy by Michael Marshall.

Heroes:

Captain Planet - naturally.

My Blog

Hiroshima

My trip to Hiroshima and Miyajima:Part 1Part 2- enjoy :)...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:47:00 PST

My blog has moved...

I have decided to move my blog away from myspace as I have found a more suitable home for it - my blog can now be located at: http://LightningJack.blogspot.com  ...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:01:00 PST

Lots about nothing

Ugh what idiot invented the cold.  I feel like death.  My head is slowly filling up with fluid - feel a bit like Thom Yorke in that Radiohead video (think it was Street Spirit), only le...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:45:00 PST

Why is Peter independent?

That's the million dollar question - find out at http:....www.kabalarians.com/cfm/your.cfm.  It's amusing what utter bollocks you can find on the internet without any real effort.  It's a gr...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:07:00 PST

Broadband (Part 2)

At last - I have just returned from my weekend at Hull and broadband has been connected.  I no longer have to live with the utter lameness that is a dial up connection. As I have mentioned, I wa...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:18:00 PST

God bless the internet and all who sail in her!

I know - two posts in one day seems a little excessive; this is a follow up to the phone debacle.  I decided I would have a scout around online to see if anyone else had a similar problem - lo an...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:34:00 PST

Cursed

I am cursed - it is the only explanation I can think of for my unrelenting bad luck.  I went to retford (again), went through the lengthy proceedure to start a contract with O2 (again) - which wa...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:09:00 PST

I would be a rubbish Knight

Once again, another of my quests has gone awry - hence why I am glad I am not a Knight.  They are forever questing and mine always go wrong - I would probably have been dragon food long ago. ...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:24:00 PST

"Being a freak is so easy - no wonder they're ten a penny"

I have named this blog after a qoute from Peepshow in honour of its utter brilliance - what an amazing show. Anyway, back to.. I dunno, other stuff.  Just got back from a weekend in Leicester vis...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:55:00 PST

Broadband

Not much going on really.  Havn't fully started applying for graduate schemes yet.  Just ordered broadband, which should be sorted in about 2 weeks which will be nice, as life back on dial u...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:39:00 PST