about Jon

Biography
Jon came into this world with no knowledge of what a computer is or what its main functions are. This quickly changed, due to Jon being raised locked in a windowless room in central England with only a BBC Micro and a copy of Citadel to entertain him. Soon growing tired of being unable to prevent the hero becoming a Werewolf Jon set about learning how to program himself so never again would he have to rely on 3rd parties telling him what his goals were. On your journeys around the internet you may have actually met him, but you would not know it, as he never keeps an SN for long forever changing and adapting to the modern zeitgeist. Jon says if he could be any fictional character it would be Will Riker as he loves the beard and the trombone - but isn't completely sure he is fictional.
Details
| Age: | 26 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 5 days. |
| Born: | 28th December 1983 |
Music — What I have been listening to recently
- Dismemberment Plan [30]
- Engine Down [28]
- Caspian [25]
- Cursive [25]
- And So I Watch You From Afar [24]
- The Weakerthans [23]
- Battles [17]
- Her Space Holiday [15]
- Mount Eerie [14]
- Maritime [13]
- Grizzly Bear [10]
- Sebadoh [9]
- Sage Francis [7]
- Cocoon [7]
- Meshuggah [5]
- The Promise Ring [4]
- Panda Bear [4]
- Sunny Day Real Estate [4]
- Small Leaks Sink Ships [4]
- Plus Minus [3]
- Deftones [3]
- Destroyer [2]
- Thee More Shallows [2]
- My Vitriol [1]
- The Bug [1]
- Dieselboy [1]
- All The Way Rider [1]
- Erasure [1]
- Careers In Modeling [1]
- Arcwelder [1]
- Mogwai [1]
Twitter — What I have been twittering about lately
- @Liam this drink cannot come soon enough.
- I need to wake up. I have so much to sort. coffee. please? anybody. -sigh-
- i had the most vivid dream last night, with its own soundtrack. as a direct consequence i am listening to anything/everything by jon brion
- … :|
- running, returning // on and on it goes // to a place // where love begins to grow // and I am away // to where I've always been
- feel sick. too much diet coke. i should sleep.
- cheeeep cheep cheepy cheep cheep chiurp chirp WARK WARK WARK WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -dies-
- .
- ~respeck knuckles~
- so apparently they're making a live-action version of the kurosagi corpse delivery service in the US. urgh.
- @Liam surely that would take foreverrrrrrrr :3
- fuck Mal?v for sitting me by you @Liam. Now all I can think about is fucking Sifl & Olly. (link)
- @Liam that's the one! haha i forgot about that
- propel you and I / around the LHC / smash together our atoms / let us be free
- fuck the world
- possibly the most gorgeous pixel art I have ever seen (link) #pixel
- this is the greatest feeling in the world
- Jeff Bridges. I need more Jeff Bridges.
- #firefox firefox 3.5.x and 3.6 render the padding on INPUT elements differently. Apparently 3.6 now uses the same renderer as chrome
- new tron legacy still (link) #tronlegacy
- to be fair to the guy, miranda kerr is *ridiculously* hot.
- Punxsutawney Phil still won't tell me what the deal is with the barman. That damn barman knows something.
- Sudden urge to watch TRON again…
- the United Kingdom's trending topics on twitter are incredibly depressing. welp, guess it's time to kill myself
- sphinx docs: "a 1000-pound gorilla might eventually come out of your display and start throwing barrels at you. You've been warned." WTF?
- heh heh: "Wenn das dach rostet ist der keller feucht."
- support for sql server 2005 and 2008 in PHP whilst using codeigniter 1.7.x #php #codeigniter (link)
- weird fact of the day: Bob the Builder has five fingers in Japan to quell fears amongst the Japanese that he is involved with the Yakuza.
- sometimes I wish javascript had a native sprintf function.
- officially commit number 500 for the e-commerce software I've been working on. Code quality is 'mixed': such is the power of hindsight.
- 2010 bug in #SpamAssassin for any webhosts out there. Check the official site for the fix.
- I don't like putting my hand in the huge bag of teabags in the work kitchen… I always imagine it to be full of poisonous spiders.
- @Liam I bet it was better than Leicester ?(link) per sheet to be bound -_-
- Just spent my evening playing with openLDAP on the freeBSD server. Got it working finally… LDIF is really starting to give me a headache.
- so, can ANYBODY tell me why you'd use csh over bash? I seriously can't see a reason. I couldn't type pkg_add -r bah quick enough.
- wow that's annoying. log rotation failed on Aeons, so named's log munched all the space on /dev/sda6. I should really set up monitoring…
- I said 0x5F375A86 is a magic number.
- :(){ :|:& };: — if you're havin' 'nix troubles i feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems an' a fork-bomb ain't one, ROOT ME.
- was pitied at work this morning for looking like one of "Jon & Edward", due to my 'tall' hairstyle. FML… haircut time.
- was pitied at work this morning because I look edlike one of "Jon & Edward" due to my hairstyle. FML haircut time.
- I really really hate renewing SSL certificates.
- I wish we had PHP 5.3 on our development server. using preg_replace_callback is really making me pine for anonymous functions here.
- @ethan surely the stains just add to the flavour… like a good wok!
- I hate Follow Friday.
- anybody got a rackmount server or two for sale? drop me a direct message with spec & price.
- despite them clouding 'code legibility' somewhat, doing all this VBScript is making me miss/appreciate ternary operators.
- today marks the start of my 4th year working my current job.
- the speed at which the SSL certificates expire on my servers really emphasises how quickly time flies.
- @anthony you need to get a vent-foot-cat scenario for ultimate comfort. Unless your cat is like mine and likes to lick your feet.
- vbscript doesn't even have a min function. being forced to use it is like scripting with one arm tied behind your back.
- "The shoemaker's children are often shoeless". I've never heard this proverb before. I have a feeling it's going to come in handy!
- why am I so hungry? why have twitter banned my insult robot? why do I have pins and needles in my arm? so many questions, so little time…
- I really want that snake charmer costume for Hallowe'en - I wonder if they ship to the UK. #halloween
- the childhood scar on my chin is back again // that old jump over my own leg dance move has to end…
- I can't actually feel my toes. Freaking cold this morning.
- I can't believe my bot has not been banned yet. 12,028 tweets & 1,000+ followers now…
- I has a kit-kat.
- every now and then, I REALLY miss the UK source scene. Just for a moment. Then it passes.
- @Liam it's hella gay when it's ALREADY late and they terminate it early. It's a double-rage. :(
- There's nothing more metal than a \m/ METAL SPLINTER \m/
- So I had the #red5 WAR running within Tomcat… but I think I better scratch that and run it standalone whilst I'm learning its intricacies
- I finished Full Metal Alchemist #7… but all the others are packed in a box ready for the move. It'll be an incentive to unpack quickly…
- Piss Lightening. Shit Success.
- Dear Maxis. Please play ANNO 1404. Then once you've finished, take that "feel" and apply it to a new Sim City game. Thanks, Jonnykins. X
- ladies in traditional bavarian dress? hell yes. Praise be #oktoberfest
- I'm so fed up of refactoring code by programmers that use hungarian notation.
- Over 400 people are now following my twitter bot that does nothing but insult twitter users. Now what does that say about people in general?
- Anybody else nerdrage when they hear the "Murphy from North Wales" advert on Spotify? If I ever meet you Murphy, I'm stomping on your dick.
- I will not give you fashion advice. I will however eat my own weight in curry.
- hurrrrr #chrisbrownsbowtie hurrrrr. *dribbles*. I fucking hate trending topics. Who gives a shit.
- why do women like free tote bags so much?
- @Liam sweet - the manga has the first 18 i wanna check out that comix and see if anything changed. sorry for tweeting you @yen so much :(
- Craving a burger right now… no idea why.
- @Liam whoops my bad! sick, I take it he's starting from the beginning again? Where does the first comic go up to?
- watching people get wound up over my twitter bot is super awesome fun
- just made a 2:1:1 tequila/cointreau/lime margarita with anna…doesn't taste right! not enough lime! ran out though.
- SPF needs more 'real world' exposure. I think it's an elegant solution sat on creaking foundations (i.e. DNS), but we haven't much else.
- I don't think my arms can take another 4 hours of Firefighter. *click* *pop*
- ? satan is! my friend from hell! kill yourselves! you might as well! ?
- Heh heh. (link)
- so so so tired of working with ASP now.
- wow.. the difficulty curve on Disgaea DS kinda sucks.
- My hands hurt.
- coffee time.
- gotta slew dem
- Paul Robertson is my hero.
- @anthony Yes! Get writing my man. I shall endeavour to write more too, I don't know if the world can take another "double griven" post.
- @Liam I see what you mean. Also, fuck you, I really need to see it again. That film (+ "The Thing" has the "deus ex reinstall" quality.
- 24 hours without a net connection. Starting to visibly dribble now, I might not survive much longer.
- Time to become a new man via the only way I know how: A good haircut and a close shave.
- @anthony I finally got around to fixing twitter on (link) - plus I added in support for vimeo! I have appeased the masses.
- Happy Birthday Patrick Stewart!
- everyone in the #chatworld is a dum dum apart from jorn.
- @anthony I'll have a look at it today. :]
- My twitter parser on dovka is broken. Meh… cba to fix
- Poor Roddick.
- I'll moan about the heat if I fucking want: I never claimed to like the Summer, nor did I moan about the cold in the Winter! tldr: fuck you.
- @Liam also I have a graze from where ollie pulled the chair out, its half way up my back :3
- @Liam i only started to get drunk at about 10:00 when that vodka kicked in… i feel like death :D a good time was had.
- @ethan "please die again". Also… a baby sock? Eerie as hell… especially if when you pulled it out there was "toybox" music behind you.
- My neck hurts so bad. I need to get this monitor on a box or something, it's too low down.
- I can't believe I never knew about 'within-group aggregates' in SQL
- If somebody fused Coda and Textmate into a single app… I think I'd have the perfect mac PHP IDE.
- brain is melting from 4+ hours of "Enigmatic LIA 3" on loop. I was surprised to see JAKAZiD's name in the credits… c-c-c-c-cillit bang!
- @ethan happy three-oh !
- hmm… I've decided I want some black jeans.
- RT #reddit not working for you? clear your cookies for that domain and try again - worked for me! :)
- bah. reddit is down.
- I saw a graph of codesize/speed for modern programming languages (with "C" being the control). Suprisingly PHP and Python were quite close.
- pretty slow week.
- yes eto'o, yes messi! well deserved man u played like dogshit. mancrush on xavi and iniesta for how well they played.
- @Liam nice one, I *think* borders have a copy. 4 week delivery though, boo.
- flying to Amsterdam in 4 hours. Looking forward to a holiday :3
- @ethan I have a huge string algae problem. Any recommendations? :( I've had 3 fishy deaths in as many days from trying to sort it.
- I think we're settled with the team name "Quiz on my face"… it didn't get the pop I thought it would. Perhaps "Quiz on my tits" instead?
- #manga anybody know where to get "Welcome to The NHK Vol 1" online for less than like… ?30 including delivery to the UK? Having no luck :(
- house hunting is gay
- "Air Man ga Taosenai" is addicting…
- I got soaked. Biking through the rain really sucks.
- todays batch of work is brought to me by the letters A, S and P, and by the number 500.
- best game ever. take a photo of a client that is balding, mirror it horizontally, to produce a "forbidden egg".
- slightly addicted to "Combat Arms": (link) (add me to your messenger, handle: "jonTzy" if you sign up).
- woop! specialized store just rang, my bike came in
- cold ears, so cold i've got an insta-headache.
- I am s/h(im)e[r] as you am s/h(im)e[r] as you are me and we am I and I are all our together: Our collective consciousness? psychogenic fugue
- On our way back from shrewsbury, it's dark. I'm tired.
- drop tailoring, pick up jewelcrafting? tempted…
- What is taking Amazon so long… they are so slow these days.
- Water… I need water…!
- watched an old ZP today. ((link)) - the comment about Picard in Oblivion is a great one… that always really annoyed me.
- thinks that Sambuca did the trick. Also, looking forward to Scott Pilgrim 5 this week.
- don't worry internet, I am fluent in the ceremonial ways of batt?jutsu.
- needs to be in two places at once, really.
- @anthony you sound like a risk analyst :o
- is glad he found his wallet. Worried I lost all my EEK for a moment.
- there is a dumb lag on "Lips" for the Xbox 360. Why on earth the developer didn't ship it with a "calibrate" feature, I'll never know.
- @ethan buy me a betta…!
- wouldn't mind getting the new Prince of Persia game… although I didn't play Sands of Time as much as I thought I would…
- can see the text "(link)age" in front of his eyes when they're closed.
- could do with a new project.
- is having a slow day in the office today.
- feels as dry as a dog biscuit.
- is trying hard to think of a quiz-team name that is suitably disgusting. I don't think I can top Neil's delectable "Jim'll fist it"…
- has eaten too many Oreos
- is tired of this cough
- needs to start revising again.
- could really do with a nice cup of coffee.
- has a great idea…!
- is bored of these headaches now. Hurry up eye-test.
- feeling the cold today. Why don't you have anything to warm? Take one, making you better feeling.
- I am Jack's unrelenting headache.
- sat in a q&a session with patrick stuart and david tennant. (link)
- fuck you, tower of souls. you have been defeated!
- hungry. I already can't wait for lunchtime.
- can't get up
- just spotted my first doizabizzler of the season.
- Time for island bar. Red hookers all round
- @anthony …totally agree with you there
- work is slow today…
- time to go and meet my very own cyborg
- another scientology protest in Edinburgh . Seems to be getting lost amongst the swarm of people though. *tsk* cancer.
- also has a meeting… with mr. budvar. who knew leave from work could be so productive?
- is off to Edinburgh for the weekend.
- I shouldn't have eaten that chocolate muffin…
- Tell me why (I don't like mondays)…
- I will be taking a no-thorn route into town
- Why will it not stop raining…
- Nggge… Don't want to get out of bed yet :/
- Hello saturday. Hello hangover.
- I'm at barry's pad
- I'm going to get rained on… I just know it
- finally finished integrating twitter into dovka
- I just drank my weight in exotic fruit juice. Not a good idea.
- Can't find my win xp disc anywhere…

