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Thursday 13th Aug 2009 23:52:20
 Perseids?
Well, according to Wikipedia, those stupid Perseid meteors peek on 12th August and, even then, you wanna be watching just before dawn but then the light from the moon will probably ruin everything anyway. Thus, I wasted about half an hour tonight checking the very clear skies, hoping to see 'something'. img_2082.jpgComplete waste of time. Instead I experimented with various bizarre modes on my camera (64 second exposure anyone?) before realising that a cheap camera cannot be expected to take decent pictures of the night sky. It just ain't gonna happen. I could also rant about Freecycle, although it's not really a rant . . . loads of our stuff has recently been taken away via Freecycle. I woke up at 4am in the morning the other day and spent the next two hours going over the details of a web-based, database-driven version of Freecycle. But then I started thinking about feedback and it got very confusing. I think I fell asleep at that point. I only say this as the next thing I could remember was a dream that wasn't there before. A dream that wasn't there before?! Well, you know what I mean. I had the memory of a dream that wasn't there before, which had nothing to do with Freecycle. img_2086.jpgAnyway . . . So strange people turn up at our door, saying things like, "Hello. I've come to collect [whatever]. From Freecycle?!" then there's usually a pause and then I state their name, with a question mark at the end. They go, "YES!" and I hand over some bag of rubbish that they usually get all excited about. Christ, you could write a Dave Gorman style of book about all this, although you would probably need rules set out from the outset, which I haven't done. Hell, it's not like I can be bothered to write said book anyway. It's just a thought really. What am I doing? It's gone midnight. I should be asleep. Hello?

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  • Name: Former Line Manager
  • IP address: 81.132.202.187
  • Date/time: Monday 24th August 2009 22:52:43
  • Comment: It must have been less cloudy over here, we went out at about 21:00 on 12 August and saw a few perseids. With this having been said, it wasn't uncloudy enough to stick our camera on the tripod and keep firing-off 15 second exposures until we caught a few of the dusty little blighters. We did see some satellites while we were out, though.
  • Name: jonath
  • IP address: 192.168.0.22
  • Date/time: Tuesday 25th August 2009 19:51:28
  • Comment: b****** Perseids. Everyone else will see them; I'm doomed not to.

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