Month: March 2007
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Troma Night CLXX
Troma Night tonight is at The Cottage. We'll be kicking off at the earlier-than-usual time of 7pm to watch the first episode of the new series of Dr. Who. At 8pm, we'll start again, with Sex Madness, a short film from 1938 that acts as a cautionary tale against the dangers of parties, pre-marital sex, …
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Another Window To Dan’s Subconscious
As you know by now, I enjoy sharing with you all the more memorable of my typically trippy little nocturnal slideshows. I didn't sleep well last night, but between waking up at strange intervals I recall the following fragments of dream, which my near-waking brain has somehow tried to wrap together into a single episode …
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A Good, Long, Troma Night
Last Saturday's Troma Night was really great: it's been a long time since we've had such a long, energetic Troma Night. We opened with They're Made Out Of Meat, a very short film we'd discovered on YouTube almost a year ago. We followed with Ele's recommendation, Serial Mom, the ludicrous Reign Of Fire (with an …
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Many, Many Letters About My One Letter…
I'm not sure I've ever sent out so many letters in one batch before, but this morning I sent letters to my credit card company, the Inland Revenue, the National Insurance Contributions Office, my electricity company, my gas supplier, my water/sewerage supplier, my mobile phone company, my telephone company, my ISP, the TV Licensing Authority, …
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De-Stressing
Now that Paul and I have finished our work with the Student Skills Competition, I've recovered (mostly) from my cold, and the conversation I'd been apprehensive about this morning is over with, a lot of the stress I was experiencing earlier in the week
has become managable again. There's still plenty on, but it's all looking … -
An Experiment I Want To Try
Scott Adams has just written an article proposing an experiment that I'd like to try. Research has shown that people are significantly more likely to believe something that conflicted with their previous beliefs if they write about it: in the experiments that lead to this discovery, volunteers were asked to write about a viewpoint other …
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Who’s A Little Stresspuppy? Is It Me? Is It?
Argh bluh fuckshit arsebanditwankers.
Work stuff. Tuesday stuff. Home stuff. Student Skills Competition stuff. Name change stuff. Bills, code, letters and stuff that chases them all. Suddenly finding yourself using skills you probably should have forgotten. Drinking the wrong amount. Eating the wrong amount. Being ill for a whole weekend and a bit. The … -
…Sitting In A Pub, K-I-S-S-I-N… Ub?
My apologies to anybody who - through kissing, licking, finger-sucking or just by sharing drinks - last night, I have infected with the cold I've got.
On the other hand, a good night out. Who knew that Tom would be such a great song-and-dance man? Or that Helen could have so many birthdays in … -
Kid Radd
Have just read Kid Radd, a webcomic that ran for a few years awhile back. It's a story told from the perspective of - and through the medium of - retro video game sprites. And it rocks. It's moderately funny and sometimes clever, but it's full of fantastic random geekery that tickled me quite a …
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Plans For The Weekend
Paul's outlined the plans for the weekend, but I'll repeat and elaborate on them here for the benefit of anybody who might read my blog but not his (who is that, anyway?). And 'cos people are probably used to me announcing this kind of crap by now.
Visitors - There are people … -
Wanted: Wingman
Wanted: Tech Support Wingman For Student Skills Competition
Owing to a change in career plans by the previous position holder, a vacancy has opened for a Tech Support Wingmanf for the 2007 Student Skills Competition. The successful applicant will ideally be a confident computer user and a good communicator, and be comfortable with working in a … -
Heroes Night?
Following the recommendation (LJ friends-only) given by Rory the other day, I've acquired the first few episodes of "Heroes." Anyone who fancies it ought to gather at The Cottage this evening and we'll see if it's any good (i.e. good enough to keep us amused in-between Crystal Maze Night and Troma Night, now there isn't …
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Invisible Girl
Last night I met the most invisible person ever. She was sat in the Ship & Castle with some of the regulars when I introduced myself. "Yeah, we've already met," she said. Some way later into a conversation, we'd determined:
I'd seen her before at the Ship & Castle, and looked right … -
Treehouse Breakfast; Q (Again); Troma Night
Claire, Jimmy, Paul and I just had breakfast at The Treehouse. They were doing an "all you can eat" Fair Tade buffet - basically; heaps of muesli, organic bananas, breads, and other hippy goodies. It was nice to do something different, but I'm not sure it was worth the fiver it cost.
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A New Generation Of Grafitti
For the second time today, I saw some grafitti which contained a myspace URL. Is this what all the cool kids are doing these days? It's just that it seems to me, with many of these pages containing full names and photographs, that this might be a bad strategy when you're doing something illegal. Just …