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Leigh

leigh46137

About Me


Good news, everybody. I'm back in Durham. If any one still lives here get in touch!

My Interests

Watching Ice Hockey (EIHL, NHL) Newcastle Vipers , Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada.

Ice-skating at Billingham or Whitley Bay.

Guitar, drums, philosophy, psychology, art, animation, film special effects, karate.

I'd like to meet:


With a crowbar:

Thatcher
Dubya
Powergen
NTL customer services
The E4 target audience

Without: Orwell, Hendrix, Oscar Wilde.

Music:

Tool, A Perfect Circle, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, 65daysofstatic, Don Caballero, Kyuss, The Bad Plus, The Dilinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Apocalyptica, Tortoise, Tori Amos, Foo Fighters, QOTSA, Incubus, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Audioslave, RATM, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Mars Volta, Slayer, Clutch, Ani DiFranco, Silverchair, Kerbdog, Chevelle

Movies:

Shaun of The Dead, Natural Born Killers, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Life of Brian, Michael Collins, Slapshot, Taxi Driver, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, The Shawshank Redemption, LOTR trilogy, The Wickerman, anything by Pixar.

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, Black Books, Still Game, Cheers, Channel 4 News, Mind Body & Kick Ass Moves, Henry Rollins Show

Books:

Crime and Punishment, 1984, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Meditations, The Prince, Ecclesiastes, History of Western Philosophy, The Timewaster Letters, Dilbert comics

Heroes:

Di Vinci, Maynard James Keenan, Buddha, Seneca, Hendrix, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, Richard Dawkins, Bryan McCabe, Mats Sundin, Jonathan Weaver.

My Blog

Focus

If one more bastard application steals the focus while I'm trying to type I swear I'm going to headbutt someone's computer (not mine - I need it for work).If any of you people ever write an applicatio...
Posted by Leigh on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST

One of those lame quizzes

    I was bored. You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism:  You choose the meaning and purpose of your life."Man is condemned to be free; ...
Posted by Leigh on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:41:00 PST

Web comics

http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/welcome.htmlGood stuff.As is...http://www.jesusandmo.net/Personal favourite...http://xkcd.com/c222.html
Posted by Leigh on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:37:00 PST

The D word

You know those blogs where people post a random link to a "good" cause, offering little by way of explanation, but encouraging you to sign up regardless? Well this isn't one of those.  I do think...
Posted by Leigh on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:20:00 PST

How can people still not know?

I discovered an interesting thing when I called home yesterday. Apparently, hanging off the back of the architectural disaster that is the "big thing on the back of the library, next to the theatre", ...
Posted by Leigh on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:14:00 PST

A return to myspace

    Right. This has been overdue for quite a while now. Between avoiding myspace, messenger and leaving my phone off I never seem to know what the hell's going on, so here goes. Hello t...
Posted by Leigh on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST

Self-censorship

I was going to post a blog relating to work, then I realised that this is, in fact, a stupendously dumb idea. Lets not do that.
Posted by Leigh on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:09:00 PST

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Found this on boingboing today... http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/r/dryfoo/www/Fu nny-pages/republic-dogs.html
Posted by Leigh on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 04:55:00 PST

Myspace, eh?

"Leigh has 0 friends." Thanks for that. Really good for self esteem. A small corner of the web is now dedicated to cynicism, misanthropy and nihilism... like it wasn't already. Funny idea on TFM tod...
Posted by Leigh on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:37:00 PST