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richy rich

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

About Me



Q: what do you get if you cross the missing link with a monkey, a neandertol, a lucky bastard, a genius, an unlucky bastard, a thick shit, a visionary, a dreamer, the guitarist from 'the who', a man of scientist, a man of faith, an athiest, a non-conformer, a traditionalist, a geek/nerd, Lister, a LARGE amout of curiousity, a small amount of alchohol, Rimmer, organics, green fingers, a thinker, a dope, the seven dwarfs, Kryten, time displacemnet, a random nuber generator, a small amount of the buddist belief system, a conspiracy theorist, a lack of the red spectrum, a member of the LUG, a savage beast listenening to music, a metaphor, a perfectionist, a bodger, empathy, apathy, a replicant, an accident, the bemused, a muse, a maze, cellotape, confounded, unfounded, whats all around us, 50% - 70% water, carbon and one large tub of PVA glue.

A: me

My Interests

Guitars, music, books, Computers, Linux and things to take apart. Occasionally you'll find me on Enemy territory and CS:source, and in forums aboot weed and linux.. alas under different alter-egos...usually.

I'd like to meet:

Tony Robinson
Richard E Grant & Helena Bonham Carter (at the same time)
Philip Kindred Dick
Ridley Scott
Paddy Hopkirk
Howard Goodhall Richard Burns Colin Mcrae

My Guitars (well me 2 favorites):

If you play guitar, you must have a wooly hat....
Thats the rules

Movies:

Blade Runner
Italian Job (60's)
Ringu
History Of The World Part 1
The Jungle Book

Television:

Lost
Red Dwarf
UFO
Spaced
Band of Brothers
The Tripods
Terrahawks
Street Hawk
Quantum Leap

Books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik, We Can Build You, The Man in the High Castle, We can Remember For You Wholesale, A Scanner Darkly, Time Out of Joint - PKD

Heroes:

Linus Torvalds
Philip Kindred Dick
Dennis the Menace
(and gnasher)
Kurdt Kobain
Marko Martin
Mama Cass Elliot
Paul Mccartney

My Blog

Come and get yer wallpaper here

rics wallpapers here.Been making wallpapers, the theme is nature (well flowers and fungi)... A few on so far with lots more to be added. Most shots took from Chopwell Woods.Hope you like....
Posted by richy rich on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:14:00 PST

Raping AOL... the experiment

AOL along with M$oft, in my opinion, are two companies to avoid at all costs.. Im not going into M$, we could be here for weeks... but AOL... force you to use their own software to connect to the net,...
Posted by richy rich on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:37:00 PST

updated myspace

Ok, I think my myspace is now done.. again...(till next time)first person to figure out where my background originates... I'll personally buy them a creme egg.good luck... I know you want the egg!...
Posted by richy rich on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:58:00 PST

How not to light a cigarette, or How to quit smoking

Lost me lighter... so after scavanging round the cupboards I found a clipper with no barrel, and a clicky electric blowtorch kind of lighter.step 1: dismantle clicky electric lighter, dispose of every...
Posted by richy rich on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:50:00 PST

updating myspace

Ive reverted to bog standard myspace coz I though my design was gay... but so is the standard one.... new look coming soon
Posted by richy rich on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:40:00 PST

my profile song

I couldnt find the one I was after.... The Mariners Revenge... but this ones the next best...shiver me timbers
Posted by richy rich on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:01:00 PST

My linux primer

Linux is the worlds largest community project. It doesnt cost a penny, it runs on almost anything, Ipods, mobile phones, PS2, Xbox, Mac, PC, Amiga, Robots even the bar code scanning machine in Nettos ...
Posted by richy rich on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:25:00 PST

Download youtube/googl/etc/videos

I get problems running youtube videos in my browser (Konqueror, Firefox works fine)..It was getting irritating..damn Adobe/macromedia and their delayed release of Flash...anywhoo... I found this site...
Posted by richy rich on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:53:00 PST

Worlds first open movie

Elephants Dream is the worlds first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Crea...
Posted by richy rich on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:30:00 PST

A Scanner Darkly the movie

PKD's book 'A Scanner Darkly' has become a movie/cartoon hybrid and is set for release on 7th July, no doubt this is the american release. God bless bit torrents.
Posted by richy rich on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:05:00 PST