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Dissertation Proofreaders Needed

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I’m looking for help proofreading my dissertation. If you’ve been invited to, or you’d like to help, please go to https://danq.me/diss/, download the latest version, and post any comments here.

You will need a password. To ensure that only invited parties can get hold of the password, you’ll need to prove your identity. The following groups are permitted to log in:

Members of Troma Night: go to the Troma Night web site and log in: the password will appear on the front page, underneath the words ‘Upcoming Events’.
People listed as LiveJournal friends of Fiona: go to this LiveJournal post by Fiona (you’ll need to be logged in and on her Friends list).
People who can guess the password – it’s the second half of the name of the project of my dissertation, in lower case, with the final letter replaced with the first vowel in the word that is the name of the logo of the organisation that benfits from my project.
Other …

Hedgehog Farming For Chez Geek Players

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[more of this post was recovered on Friday 24 November 2017]

[missing picture: chez geek card]

Confused? Read this news reports from news.scotsman.com!

Minutes Of The Incorporation Meeting Of Peter Huntley Limited

If you’re interested, you can read the minutes of the incorporation meeting of Peter Huntley Ltd., of which I seem to be a director: Minutes [PDF Format].

Oh! You’re Going To Malawi? While You’re There, Pick Me Up Some AA Batteries…

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As most of my readers will probably be aware, I’ll later this year be cycling around Malawi as a sponsored stunt with Cycle Tracks: “A Truly Charitable Bike Ride through a Truly Beautiful Country”. In any case; I’d never have thought that our group (11 of us) would be roped into so many other things while we were there.

Our team leader, Alistair, writes:

Eleven is also a fine number for a football team. So maybe at Phoka we could engage the local team in a game. Their handicap is that they are all under 12 and don’t wear boots. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be a walkover as we shall all be totally exhausted from cycling to Phoka and unable to walk never mind kick a ball.

You may be interested to know that we have been offered football strips, boots, footballs, gloves and goodness knows what else for the kids at Phoka. I haven’t figured out how I will get them out to Phoka. They are in 3 kit bags but I don’t know how heavy they might be. Might split it amongst the group for the flights.

Suddenly we’re delivery cyclists, too…

But that’s not all; we’ve got another mission while we’re there: a …

More Celebrations

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[chez geek card]

Yay. Now I’m in a fab bouncey mood and ready to crack on with the next 10,000 words of my dissertation.

People have kindly been offering to proof-read it for me on Sunday night – this is most welcome: if anybody else wants to, you can too: just drop me a comment or a message or something, and I’ll e-mail you it. I presume you’ll all prefer Acrobat .PDFs than PostScript .PS files, yeh?

On which note; everybody’s being really considerate of my need to get this thing done – leaving me to do it where they’re likely to be a distraction; not suggesting really cool things we could be doing right now (except for the above card, ahem), etc. Thank you all, guys!

In other news…

10,000 Word Celebration

I just reached 10,000 words in my disseration (the minimum word limit). Well, 10,003, actually. I’m having a celebratory can of drink and some nice, loud, Goo Goo Dolls.

Speaking of which, I’ve found a great internet radio station that plays all kinds of fab rock music – Radio Oiram, if you’re interested. It’s been keeping me amused while I’ve been hacking away at my diss’. Which is nice.

God, it’s good to be alive.

Killer Cyberloo Kidnaps Kiddie

As The Register reports, a Plymouth child was kidnapped on Saturday by a public convenience. Go read the story.

Distractions Are Important For Concentration

…and so I recommend you take a break from whatever you’re doing and go play Crimson Room, an online flash puzzle game. Some infuriating bits, but if I can solve it, so can you.

Have fun.

Lots Of Work To Do; Lots Of Dissertation To Do

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[chez geek cards]

I have heaps of work to do today. Then I’ve got to go home and get heaps of dissertation done.

There’s good news, however: our favourite among the folks who’ve been viewing the cafe under our flat has put a bid in. If everything goes well, he’ll buy it and we’ll still be able…

Chez Geek Card Of The Day

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I’m about a quarter of the way through my dissertation. I have to have it finished, printed and bound by Monday morning.

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Troma Night Makes LiveJournal’s Interest Category Lists!

Yay! Victory for I!

Take a look at the LiveJournal interest ‘Troma Night’. And if you’re a Troma Night person who uses LiveJournal, add it to your interests list, too!

Shower With Bryn

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[missing image: Chez Geek Card]

BTW: does Bryn know about his page on AberWiki?

PlannedChildhood.org

http://www.plannedchildhood.org/

Umm – what is with these guys? Are they anti-abortion, or anti-TV-violence, or anti-technology, or anti-drugs, or anti-pornography, anti-sex-ed, or what?

And the title: “Unborn babies poisoned by rocket launches” [sic]???

Still, this painting is pretty good.

Last Night’s Dream

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Last night’s dream was somewhat weird. Like so many of mine:

I’m travelling by train with Claire. We’re going to meet a guy who’s going to give us (plus some other folks we know) a desirable-sounding job. Upon getting there, we find that the other people starting work for him include Alec, Bryn, Liz, and some other folks. Our boss is a tech-geek-guru in a wheelchair. His computer is powered by the kinetic energy of people moving around the room, which is cool and environmentally friendly, I guess, but what happens if everybody stands still? Does he have UPS?

Anyway, we begin our on-the-job training. This involves rowing a one-man dinghy across the office (one side of which is half-filled with water – why it doesn’t flood into the other half I don’t know) to answer one of about twenty phones which are arranged in a crescent shape on a curved shelf at the other side. These phones are old, Bakelite, traditional phones (a …

Futurama’s Coming Back

Okay, it’s not certain yet, but Wired News reports that it, and Family Guy (also killed by Fox) will make a comeback on Cartoon Network, with new episodes sponsored by the channel.

Yay. And, indeed, hey.

And in other news, to celebrate the change of name from Lindows to Linspire, Lindows.com are giving away copies of Linspire. All you have to do is try to buy a copy of the BitTorrent ISOs from their online store and enter LINDOWS as a coupon code.