DaSkirril's life

PackRat for the Android (Google phone) made by Jens :D

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:28:34 GMT

Jens has been working on this a while to enter it in the competition that Google is holding for android, http://bit.ly/46Li1

His friend has made him the wonderful icon you see here (the same guy who made the cup a soup pics Jens shows), with PackRat you scan your cds, dvds, games and books etc (really any media) and then when you are out shopping and see something and you aren't sure whether you have it or not you can scan it to check if you do :D You can also search through what you have in various ways.

Back in sunny Britain

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:51:39 GMT

So here we are back, safe and well, in sunny Britain.
And yes, it is in fact sunny today :p

The move was pretty ok, if exhausting (many flights of stairs to old top floor flat ><, and 10 hr drive from there to here), the buns, though stressed, did fine and have settled in, even though they are only in a cage still :( We haven't managed to set up an enclosure for them as space is different here. It's a good sized cage though so it isn't too bad. Right now though there are still dozens of boxes all over the place >< Mostly Jens' books and cds >< And admittedly a few sacks of cuddly toys. I am going to get rid of some cuddly toys, there just isn't enough room for them all :/ So some which don't have good memories attached will go to charity shops. Luckily there is even an RSPCA shop just down the road ;)

It's sooo good having a nice variety of food available from shops again, and nice fresh veggies, in German shops they always seem to be larger and older :/

The garden is huuuge here (well for a rented house of this price), though it's a mess, bit of lawn, 2 scrubby bushes, some mud and some paving and bricks. Would be good for BBQs etc, but I can't see us ever doing that :s Oh well.

Hope everyone is doing ok, looking forward to seeing some people this year.

Best pressie evah!

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:17:00 GMT

Finally got the birthday pressie Shrimpy sent months ago which got sent back to her >< Silly mail men :/

And wewt! Best present evah! hoody with Plymouth on the front, Skirril on the arm and "someone in NH loves you" on the hood :D :D :D In a nice dark green...

ZOMG!

And lots of little birthday sorts of things :D And a photo of Shrimpy + pony, but the hoody is <3

Aaaand we have a house to move into, rented, at least I hope we do there is paper work blah blah, but hopefully this time next month we will be in Britain :O

So stressed with moving related stuff ><

Memage

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:26:38 GMT

The rules are easy, just post 6 things that recently made you happy!
Then tag 6 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in awhile.

1. Pics of fuzzy creatures. cute overload, icanhascheezburger, and 2 lolrat sites (not lolrats.com though) make me warm and fuzzy inside.

2. Seeing my bunnies, snuggling my bunnies, watching them hop. Everything about them.

3. Jens. Always Jens.

4. Seeing my pumpkin and thinking of carving it, we will do it this weekend. I love pumpkins, just the look of them, not really sure why. Sadly this is somewhat tainted now, we will take pics of the bunnies with the pumpkin, but the plan was with Piggy too :( That was why we'd put it off a bit.

5. Thinking of moving back to Britain. I want to be back there so badly.

6. I can't think of another :/

No tagging do it if you'd like :)

Happy birthday Blackthorn :)

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:35:40 GMT

Have a good day :D

New comp!

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:39:22 GMT

First new comp I have ever had :D 24 inch monitor, er, I don't know any of the other stats :) Anyway NEW!!!

Earthlings

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:02:36 GMT

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxKnys7Ryw

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sRiH_Owq9U

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8U9dw-9U4E

There is a full one on Google video as well, but the links I have posted split it into 3 parts.

I would like to think that people can watch this and allow themselves to think. It is about human relationships with animals and the planet (though mostly animals). About how they are used and the ways they are treated.

It covers a lot, I suspect few people will want to see it, but I think it is well done, and worth seeing.

I stopped considering death a terrible thing years ago now, it isn't the death of animals for us which bothers me, it's their life. The time leading upto their death is obviously a part of that life, but I think it is not so bad if lives are short, if they were good lives. I know most people will probably disagree with me on this, I understand that it is not a nomal point of view, never the less I believe it. Of course if someone dies young that is terribly sad, of course if a pet dies young it is sad too. But if they had a good life it is sadness at my own loss and not really sadness for them. If they suffered greatly in their life, then the sadness is for them.

I know it is hard to look at some things, but surely it is better to see and know than to choose ignorance? Again here I think I don't share this point of view with many.

Think outside the norm.

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:48:06 GMT

Guitar solo with a twist.

http://www.sugarjar.com/media/52968/

Cute overload

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:22:42 GMT

Just incase anyone doesn't know it, http://www.cuteoverload.com
Sometimes I don't like a couple of things, but on the whole it is teh cute.

:(

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:07:00 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

In May I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). In November gracefulshrimp and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). Last Tuesday I committed genocide... Sorry about that, wideawakewesley (-5000 points). Last week I gave proctalgia a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to kaonamai in a life-saving procedure (300 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-4313 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal!

Sincerely,
skirril

XD

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:39:08 GMT

Had to share: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/A_thousand_monkeys_all_using_typewriters

Friends cut.

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:23:40 GMT

Friends cut.

I have removed some people, the main reasons are lack of contact with these people for a long time, or having little in common.
Well the reason for removing anyone at all is that I want to spend more time commenting and posting and keep up to date with my friends list, but if there's more than a little it just feels overwhelming to me.

It's possible I will remove more people shortly, I odn't know, I will have to see how thing goes.

Heh, this is the biggest friends cut I have ever done :/ And I have never had a large friends list...

Sorry :(

More news.

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:53:58 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5210708-103681,00.html

Huge surprise there.

news

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:26:41 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1501394,00.html
Interesting.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=645071
I fucking hate Bush! He's just so dumb :/

"Between 1990 and 2002, the carbon dioxide emissions of the US increased by 13 per cent, which on their own were greater than the combined cut in emissions that will be achieved if all Kyoto countries hit their targets..."

News

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:19 GMT

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=644275
Interesting.

News

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:02:17 GMT

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=643673

Heh, yeah, the human race won't wipe iteself out, honest.

Cute squirrel pics

Tue, 31 May 2005 23:43:56 GMT

This is cute: http://www.sugarbushsquirrel.com/index.html Perhaps just a tad OTT on the Patriotism and religion for me, but the squirrel is so cute.

News

Sat, 28 May 2005 23:50:36 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4578357.stm

*sigh* :(

And I am thinking of Manny and Bailey. Best of luck to both piggers :(

Interesting

Sat, 28 May 2005 02:05:19 GMT

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625011.900

Very interesting, Jens will certainly be interested.

News

Wed, 25 May 2005 23:30:49 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html
Heh.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=641172
Erm, yeah, scary.

News: GM corn

Mon, 23 May 2005 01:27:30 GMT

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=640430

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=640402

About GM corn. Interesting.

Intersting site.

Sun, 22 May 2005 02:16:38 GMT

This site looks great: http://www.ethiscore.org
Sadly I don't know how much it would help us here, but I should tell my Mum about it, it doesn't cost a lot to subscribe, and they want to be ethical. I bet they didn't know about sodding Green and Blacks :/

I found out about it from this: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=640099
Some people on my list might find it useful :)

Seal slaughter.

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:08:43 GMT

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1446278,00.html

The canadian seal slaughter.

"Permission has been granted by the Canadian authorities for at least 319,500 harp seals to be shot or clubbed to death over the next month. About 95 per cent of these will be less than three months old."
"However, news emerged yesterday that appeared to contradict claims that this week's culmination of a three-year programme to cull 975,000 seals would never be sanctioned again. Instead the Canadian authorities appear to be on the verge of announcing a five-year culling plan which critics believe could involve the slaughter of more than a million animals"
"We believe it will continue to increase"
"Some seals will be killed using hakapics, a wooden pole with a metal spike at the end... footage last year suggested young animals were left convulsing after initial strikes failed to kill them instantly."

God I hate some people.

Well, fuck...

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:12:42 GMT

Things were going so well, Lemmy is possitively pigging his food down, Jens has been offered a job at his old company in Cologne and is going on friday to negotiate pay etc and see if he really does want to go back, the beasties were all doing so well....

Tonight Jens cut his hand open and had to go to hospital for a tetanus jab and 4 stitches (he does get a couple of days off work though :P). It's bad, deep and between the finger and thumb so it's easy to open it up again :(

And just after that I noticed Hoggy wheezing. His breathing was really bad, so when Jens got back from hospital we took him to the emergency vets.
It came on really suddenly, because he was just fine yesterday, so I am really worried :( Plus I have never had a piggy with breathing problems, so I just don't know how serious or treatable it is... :(
All his lymph glands are swollen and he had an injection for his breathing and one with antibiotics....

I'm so worried about him :(

Heh, and I was just telling my parents an hour before how well they all were doing...

Brell is dead.

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:24:08 GMT

Brell is dead.

It was my fault, it was Lemmy's fault, it was his fault.
No one's to blame.
It was a horrible, terrible accident.
He was sleeping in his tent, it is well ventilated, it has the whole of the top as a mesh, but we gave them teatowels which they loved to nest in and snuggle in. And he loved to sleep on his head.
He was sleeping on his head, snuggled in the teatowels and Lemmy came into the tent and snuggled with him.
And suffocated him.

He must have died quite a few hours ago, Jens found him this morning, limp and cold, and only slightly hard, and that was fading, not getting worse.

If they hadn't have had the tent, if we hadn't have given them the teatowels, if Lemmy hadn't have slept on him squashing his face into the teatowels, smothering him he would still be alive.

He was healthy, he was well, he was still young.

He had another good year before him.

But he's dead.