Month: May 2004
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Lariam Dream The Third
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[more of this post was recovered on Friday 24 November 2017]
Another weird dream last night. Surprisingly similar 'cast' to some previous ones.
Some friends and I, and my mum, are … -
Dan’s Best Impression Yet
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Want to see me do my impression of a coconut?
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World’s Highest Bridge Completed
With it's road surface 270 metres above ground, and 2,460 metres long, this bridge could be visualised quite well if you imagine a bridge joining the tops of Pen Dinas and Constitution Hill, in Aberystwyth. Just another impressive feat of engineering I thought I'd share with you. I like bridges. Read the full story here.
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Claire Doesn’t Seem To Know What To Do With Herself
Claire doesn't seem to know what to do with herself. She had her last exam for the year this morning.
Previously, she'd play computer games in an effort to procrastinate on revising. But now she doesn't have to revise, so she can't find anything to procrastinate from doing.
Perhaps I should give her something to do.
And in … -
Lariam Dream The Second
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[further content was partially-recovered on 13 October 21018]
Another somewhat trippy-themed dream since I've been under the influence of lariam:
I am at my mum's house, and I'm watching some live … -
Mood Swings
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Fucking hell; this stuff is weird.
For those who might think to the contrary; no, it's not usual for me to snap at something which wouldn't usually have bothered me, … -
Blimps… In Space
Now here's a funky idea - sub-orbital spaceflight in enormous helium balloons, up to a two-mile wide sub-space station (a permanant facility at the very boundries of our atmosphere). This could be used to carry spaceship components for assembly in orbit, and then launched using ion drives at a fraction of the price of rocket …
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My Final Exam… Like… Ever
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I feel kind of odd. And no, I'm not just referring to my (still kind-of burny) Lariam headache:
I've just had my final exam. And I mean ever.
I know I'm … -
Lariam Dream The First
I'd been warned that this stuff could give you weird dreams. Last night I dreamt entirely in anime. Which is pretty impressive, I thought. I was a character in a Studio Ghibli-esque anime flick (it was dubbed, so I was moving my mouth in Japanese and somebody else's voice came out in English - the …
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Stuff... and other stuff...
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
Yesterday morning I finally got around to going to visit Mark Ratcliffe. Apparently he never got the email I sent him the day I made the decision, which explains why he never got back to me.
Nearly broke down crying whilst talking to him, which … -
Lariam
This stuff is seriously trippy. Since mid-afternoon I've felt nauseous. Now I have a killer headache (paracetamol seems to be kicking in, now, though), and I can hear a whistling in my right ear. I'm still in the list of side-effects I don't need to tell my doctor about, so all's well.
Weird stuff, though. I … -
Hide & Seek
Claire, Paul, Bryn, Ruth, JTA, Andy and I went to the beach this evening to play frisbee and watch the sunset. We even got Bryn participating, which is somewhat a rarity for any of this fun outings that involve physical activity. Everybody seemed happy to be taking a break from exams. Aber is wonderful this …
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My Blog’s Been Kind-Of Quiet Of Late, So Here’s Some Crap
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[more of this post was recovered on 13 October 2018]
You can blame Paul for this, but here we go:
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, … -
Sex, Sexuality, Friends, Family, Defecation, Unfamiliar Places, Familiar Places, Failure, And Other Things To Make Freud Blush
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Oh your god. What a dream! It's been years since I've dreamt anything so 'out there'. Perhaps a result of all the Hobgoblin I drank last night. Perhaps caused … -
How To Use SSH Tunnelling To Allow Services To Pass Through A Firewall
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Paul has been stuck with a problem of late - he's now living in university accomodation, and he's found that he can't connect through the university firewall to his …