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Happy Birthday luthien67! Hope this is the start of great year for you.

Just drove a manual (stickshift for the Americans?) car for the first time in 8 years or more. Oh dear. I did get my licence on one, but that's hard to believe now, as I rode the clutch, grinded the gears and stalled. And this was just a test run around the block. I'm now eating leftover pavlova to calm my nerves.

More OLFC

Apropos of nothing, but Monday night's are my favourite tv night. Newlyweds, Queer Eye and Queer as Folk.

Some more OLFC clips (previous bunch here). Please right click/ save, and no direct-linking to the files. Please do comment if you download, it helps keep track of bandwidth, and what stuff people are interested in. Webspace is courtesy hnix and sinbrat.

+ backstage1-T1.wmv - Nick sings, camps it up, and is complete adorable, Howie refuses to do a Britney impersonation, AJ tries to get free stuff sent to him (and he and Brian are wearing the ugliest shirts ever). 8.3 meg.

+ brian_nose-T1.wmv - Frick and Frack forever! Brian's patience is shown with Nick's drawing of Brian's huge nostrils, complete with attempted demonstration of trying to fit things into them. 1.6 meg.

+ coming_back-T1.wmv - Nick is all kinds of cute with his blanket. And there's something about cake in an ear. 2.3 meg.

+ h_bday-T1.wmv - Howie's birthday. Singing! Hugs! Insults! Cake! Make sure you check out what's on the cake *g*. 2.4 meg.

+ joking-T1.wmv - Filming the (second) Drowning video. AJ sings a little song about gay friends who want to rock Nick's world. The downside of bus school is revealed: the alphabet game. 8.2 meg.

+ ranch_clip-T1.wmv - Kevin and Howie have a rugged manly vacation at a dude ranch. At one point, Kevin is incredibly camp, and the innuendo is coming thick and fast. 6.5 meg.

+ tape1-T1.wmv - Filming the blindfold version of the "What's Going On" video. Let's tape Howie up! 8.9 meg.

Icons and downloads

Whoa, I'm in a spammy mood today.

Gacked from everyone - cartoon of me (well, sort of - I tried but even with automated thing like this, I suck at any sort of drawing *g*).


And one of dreads!Chris, cause it turned out quite cute, I thought :)


Gacked from kirsch, Wrestler!Erilyn (from here)


Also thanks to kirsch, a couple of nifty programs for converting dvds to avis. Just rip the vob files to hard drive with something like SmartRipper, and these will convert to avi in one step, using codec of your choice.

+ VirtualDub (with mpeg-2 capability) + AC3ACM (you need to install this as well for audio) - great program, some good instructions to get started using it are here. This might not always work with commercial dvds (there are other methods outlined at that site if this doesn't work), but should be good with home burnt ones.
+ DVD2DIVXVCD - one step conversion, but without virtual dub's features like cropping, resizing etc.