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Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
You get to your third day of an exercise that your body isn't used to and you hit the wall: the point at which your body runs out of all it's immediate sources of energy and has to start the complicated chemical reactions that break down fat into sugars.
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Farmer at Berneray warned us that Stornoway, where we'd be tomorrow night, was a bed of sin, with young people drinking at taking drugs (this is a town barely larger, and more isolated, than Aberystwyth). He'd lived his entire life on this tiny island, and knew everybody on it, and it therefore stood to reason …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Just wrote a fantastic piece about the islands we visited on our second day's cycling only to have this shitty device eat it. So here's a summarry:
Barra - small. Cycled over mountain, took ferry North.
Eriskay - tiny fishing community.
South Uist - long, flat, full of highland cattle and sheep. Heavily Catholic.
Benbecula - picturesque.
North Uist - … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mission
The keyboard on this tacky little GPRS device is crap, and I just lost this entire entry to bad user interface design (if you press the biggest button on the device, it throws it all away):
My dad and I drove to Glasgow, arriving this morning at about 2am. Then, up at 8am for the first … -
And I’m Off
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[additional fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Off to Scotland, that is, where I'll be spending a long weekend cycling and island-hopping. I've got a brief stop in Preston … -
Chicken-Heated Atomic Weapons, And Quake [TM] For Those Who Miss Text-Based Adventures
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[further fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Two fantastic bits of funny news for you this April Fool's morning:
1. A seven-ton atomic landmine, designed to prevent Soviet advance through … -
Operation: Anticipated Container
To those who remain in Aber:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire as many cardboard boxes as possible in anticipation of Kit's upcoming mission in Stirling. Boxes selected are to be at the operatives' discretion, and from targets of oppertunity. Suggested primary targets include Somerfield, Safeway, Lidl, and Kwik Save. Suggested … -
My New Work Computer… Won’t Be Delivered Today…
It turns out that there's been a huge fire in a BT service tunnel, knocking out 130,000 phone lines and numerous data links in the Manchester area.
This, in turn, has caused Microland UK to be unable to process our credit card details and deliver me my new work PC, a swanky-looking Athlon 64 3GHz box.
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Free Parking Jackpot
Am I the only purist here?
I am, of course, referring to Monopoly. Pretty much everybody I know doesn't play Monopoly by the correct rules, as laid down by Waddingtons. And how many arguments does this cause? It's unbelievable!
What's even scarier is the number of people that honestly believe that their particular variation of the rules … -
I’m Still In Aber. Yay.
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I'm still in Aberystwyth, which I thought was a good thing even before people who don't have the same benefit complained [Alec complaining, Ruth complaining, Adam complaining] about it. … -
All We Need Is A Microsoft-Hating US Judge And…
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First, some info for the non-geeks out there, so you can truly appreciate the irony in what's to come:
Lindows … -
Windows XP Box
This is scary. This guy's managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box... inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It's a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained …
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Hooray! I’m Sexy! Official!
Just got a text message from Liz:
Stay sexy! Lx
Not sure if that's supposed to be for me or not... hmm......
Update (20 March 2012) - Crosslink: Not long after I originally wrote this post, Liz wrote about sending these texts out.
Update (23 March 2019): To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the "Stay sexy!" text, … -
Nightmare!!!
A (1) nightmare and a (2) just-plain-freaky dream last night. My brain's playing up:
1. Claire and I, older, are in a train. She has a heart attack; I try to get and then, failing that, provide, help, but fail to and she dies. Then I woke up.
2. Strange semi-futuristic post-apocalyptic world, reminiscent of The Postman … -
A Week Less Busy
Phew. Survived running the tech. support side of the Student Skills Competition. Winners were mostly what I'd have expected. The technical side all went pretty much to plan, albeit with a lot of stress, mostly caused by teams bring in presentations on CDs etc. at the last miunute, and expecting me to be able to …