Kind: Articles
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A Brief History Of Me
[the following was originally posted to AvAngel.com in 2001; a copy is archived here]
Like an autobiography, only without about 99% of it being here...
Babyhood
I was born unexpectedly on 8th January 1981, in Inverness. Actually; that's not correct. I'm pretty sure that my birth was pretty much certain for almost nine months … -
Postcards to Grandma
Dan sends some postcards to his grandmother from University.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #55:
In a fit of inspiration, after people keep on coming in to your room, in particular the guy in the room next door, and wiggling the cord of your wind chimes, much to your irratation, threaten that next time they … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as …
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #53:
Get an advent calendar! (the least said, the better)
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #52:
Ride a train through water several feet deep, at 5mph, after the station at Dovey Junction becomes flooded, and, using traditional Welsh logic, it is decided that it makes far more sense to plough through it (making waves, for God's … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #51:
Spend all night playing e-mail tennis with somebody cross-campus, simply because it's 2:40am and you haven't got anything you'd rather be doing (except sleeping, but I'm not sleepy, soo...).
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #50:
Sit up 'til 5:00am coding for a project that doesn't have to be in until a week on Friday. On the up side, discover the root cause of the bug that was holding back the progress of the Group Project, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #49:
Tear apart a pile of stolen computer keyboards to make a cool name plaque for your door, with real pressable buttons for each letter of your name, and not-pressable ones that say Enter, and Compose Character, and Do, and Lock, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #48:
Discover, by sheer coincidence, that one of your more recent aquaintances down here (Claire) went to the same high school as one of your longer-running friends up North (Faye), and that they know one another! Freaky but completely true: the … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #47:
Steal some old VT-320 keyboards from the skip outside the Llandinam Extension and smash them up to make a cool nameplate for your door out of the keys. It reads:
[D][A][N][I][E][L], then lower, [Enter], and then by the lock, [Lock]. Not … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #46:
Go for two days on minimal sleep (a catnap on the train) and maximum alcohol (the secret joy of the London nightlife)... Well? It's two of my friends birthdays!
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #44:
Phone your father... That's right - until today, I hadn't spoken to him since he 'deposited' me in Aberystwyth. I have now. Well: there's a first for everything.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #43:
Meander down to the prom at about midnight, after seeing a hell of a lot of artifical light coming from there from the top of one of your many nearby hills. Yeh - it only turns out to be a … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #42:
Count your 20p piece collection (see "Cool Thing" #25). Realise you have exactly £6 (that's 30) of them. Do your laundry
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, …