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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
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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 …
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Who’s A Little Stresspuppy? Is It Me? Is It?
Argh bluh fuckshit arsebanditwankers.
Work stuff. Tuesday stuff. Home stuff. Student Skills Competition stuff. Name change stuff. Bills, code, letters and stuff that chases them all. Suddenly finding yourself using skills you probably should have forgotten. Drinking the wrong amount. Eating the wrong amount. Being ill for a whole weekend and a bit. The … -
Kid Radd
Have just read Kid Radd, a webcomic that ran for a few years awhile back. It's a story told from the perspective of - and through the medium of - retro video game sprites. And it rocks. It's moderately funny and sometimes clever, but it's full of fantastic random geekery that tickled me quite a …
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Plans For The Weekend
Paul's outlined the plans for the weekend, but I'll repeat and elaborate on them here for the benefit of anybody who might read my blog but not his (who is that, anyway?). And 'cos people are probably used to me announcing this kind of crap by now.
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Wanted: Wingman
Wanted: Tech Support Wingman For Student Skills Competition
Owing to a change in career plans by the previous position holder, a vacancy has opened for a Tech Support Wingmanf for the 2007 Student Skills Competition. The successful applicant will ideally be a confident computer user and a good communicator, and be comfortable with working in a …