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Castle Master Meets Dan In Bed
Time for another episode of Dan's bizarre dreams. Here's last night's:
At least to begin with, the whole dream was animated like an early 3D computer game - with a certain Castle Master feel to it - but became less and less like a game as the story went on. I was in some kind … -
Upcoming Events For Aberites
Here's a round-up of some of the things we expect to be doing (and we hope you'll consider joining us for) in the near future. Yes, there'll undoubtedly be extra stuff that isn't mentioned here. You know what to do:
Wednesday, 7pm (tonight) - Jeramiah Night: post-apocalytpic fun. BYOB, although there's still … -
Ready To Challenge The Crystal Maze?
Now I've got you excited with an interesting title, I'll make you wait until I actually tell you what it's about with the following announcement: beach fire and barbeque tomorrow evening; usual affair. Right, next...
A little while back, several of us, inspired by an idea of Pauls, discussed a special outing this month. … -
40 Days On Facebook
I've been playing with Facebook for the last 40 days or so, to see if it's any good. Here's some of the things I've observed that I like (and don't like) about it, followed by my conclusions:
Observations
In no particular order.
Nice. It's a good platform for keeping up-to-date with your friends for … -
The Seven-Year Itch
You know that famous photo of Marilyn Monroe - iconic of the golden years of the silver screen - trying not-too-hard to hold down her dress against the wind effects of a subway train passing underneath? Well, apparently the film it's from is a romantic comedy called The Seven Year Itch (1955), which is … -
Dan, Inspired By Hippies, Gets Out Balls
Claire's dad and his wife visited us this long Easter weekend, and we took advantage of the stunning weather to do some of the usual touristy things that you only bother to do when friends or family come by - the cliff railway, the camera obscura, etc. - and so we ended up at the …
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Best Conspiracy Theory Ever
This has to be the best conspiracy theory I've ever read: this guy believes that the Galileo space probe that NASA crashed into Jupiter in 2003 (to avoid it being left in an unstable orbit and potentially crashing into Europa, which could affect the scientific value of the moon) is starting a nuclear reaction that …
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Troma Night CLXXI
Well, it's that time of week again, and despite Bryn having left town (oh yeah, I promised to put a blog post up for him, didn't I - okay, well: this is it: Bryn's left, we filled up the van on Thursday night and set him off to his new home and new job) and …
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Another Wonderful Troma Night
Like last week, yesterday's Troma Night was another good old-fashioned long one. I'm amazed by the sudden splurge of Troma Night stamina that people have started exhibiting. Dr. Who at 7pm, then at 8pm, the first episode of Psych and some music videos, Sex Madness and They Live. The pizza was delivered on time and …
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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 …