Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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And I’m Off
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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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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 …
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Paedophile-Luring And Artificial Intelligence Ethics
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Fun in the sun.
Kit and I had an idea for something like this a while back, and we were … -
Little Balloon Animals
Little balloon animals;
Pretty little things that catch your eye,
After a few drinks, money changes hands.
An evening’s entertainment for the price;
Of a lager or wine or a whiskey on ice.
Little balloon animals;
Craved when you were a just a boy,
Now in control; new in your palms.
Smooth and warm from the artist’s touch;
That in your youth you wished … -
I Want One Of These
Some professor has invented a device that uses on-the-fly destructive sound wave interference to cancel out the whine of computer fans. Wow! Toy! Want! Estimates suggest fans with these could be made available for just $20 more than the price of regular fans.
In other news, does anybody else find it scary that this site selling … -
Sliding Doors, My High School Crush, And Wierd Dreams
Last night I had a weird dream which I've therefore decided to share with you. As usual, written first-person and present-tense:
I'm 16 and back and high school in some kind of 'sliding doors'-esque alternate reality in which things went somewhat differently. In this one, I actually ask out Marguerite, a girl at school who I …