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Heroes Night?
Following the recommendation (LJ friends-only) given by Rory the other day, I've acquired the first few episodes of "Heroes." Anyone who fancies it ought to gather at The Cottage this evening and we'll see if it's any good (i.e. good enough to keep us amused in-between Crystal Maze Night and Troma Night, now there isn't …
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Invisible Girl
Last night I met the most invisible person ever. She was sat in the Ship & Castle with some of the regulars when I introduced myself. "Yeah, we've already met," she said. Some way later into a conversation, we'd determined:
I'd seen her before at the Ship & Castle, and looked right … -
Treehouse Breakfast; Q (Again); Troma Night
Claire, Jimmy, Paul and I just had breakfast at The Treehouse. They were doing an "all you can eat" Fair Tade buffet - basically; heaps of muesli, organic bananas, breads, and other hippy goodies. It was nice to do something different, but I'm not sure it was worth the fiver it cost.
Overheard a … -
A New Generation Of Grafitti
For the second time today, I saw some grafitti which contained a myspace URL. Is this what all the cool kids are doing these days? It's just that it seems to me, with many of these pages containing full names and photographs, that this might be a bad strategy when you're doing something illegal. Just …
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Q
A couple of deeds poll later, and Claire and I are half-way to having changed our surnames. Our new surname: Q. I hereby declare this blog post to be the official FAQ of the Dan/Claire name change. So there, Ms Q.
1. You've changed your names?
Yes, we've changed our names. I'm now … -
A Determinist Atheist’s Story
I find it amazing that people look at the chaos and the beauty of the world and somehow come to the conclusion that there is a god. I know that sounds like it's backwards, but I mean it. The other day I was watching a spectacular sunset. The sun hung low in the sky and …
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Away For The Weekend
Apparently I'm giving a presentation at 9am tomorrow morning in Keele about a bit of software I've been working on. Suppose I ought to pull my finger out and decide what I'm going to say.
In any case, this of course means that Troma Night this week will be hosted by Paul (if it's … -
Philosophical Health Check
Came across a survey that was floating around the blogosphere, which attempts to challenge you to think about the tensions in your own personal life philosophy. It's pretty simplistic, and it doesn't seem to have been designed to tell you your beliefs are wrong or hypocritical so much as to make you think about the …
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Armadillo Run
Over the last few days, I've mostly been distracted by Armadillo Run, a fabulous little shareware game (Windows only... for now) somewhat reminiscent of The Incredible Machine. It's great fun, and the download is under 2MB, which makes it a reasonable download even if you're on a modem (who does that, these days?).
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Abnib Breaks Stuff, Fixes Stuff, Keeps Ticking
As you might have seen, the new version of abnib went live this afternoon. Just so I don't keep getting the same comments over and over:
Right now, it's a little fixated on the PST time zone. I'm not sure why this is, but I'll fix this soon.
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What Did Matt Leave This Time?
Last time Matt visited, he left his mobile phone charger. It wasn't all bad: it gave him an excuse to come back again.
This time, he left his razor and a can of deodorant. That's all we've found so far; but we're convinced that he's trying to move in by installments. This gives him … -
Scotland Revisited
Wind conditions were better the second day, but not on Cairngorm, so we took a drive out to The Lecht where we were at least able to get some skiing in. We booked my sister's friend Jemma and Claire into ski school, which gave Jemma her "first time" taster and gave Claire the confidence … -
Mobile In Scotland
I'm posting this from my mobile phone from a youth hostel in Scotland. I'm sure you'll forgive me for any predictive-text-based typos!
Snow conditions are reasonable, but gale-force winds closed the mountain so we haven't actually managed to do any skiing yet. Instead we've spent today cantering about the countryside on horseback, firing … -
Ski Time
Claire and I are off to Scotland for a spot of skiing while there might still be some snow left. We're leaving tonight and we're back at the weekend (probably on Sunday). In the meantime, we're leaving The Cottage, Mario, and Luigi in the capable hands of Matt (Hat variety). We'll be in Preston Wednesday …
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Guess This Makes Me “Sad”
I guess it makes me pretty much the geekiest person at Troma Night to have, when watching Daredevil, been pissed off mostly not by the shoddy acting or the over-obvious CGI or the physics-defying abilities of the sight-deprived... no; what ruined the film the most for me was that the main character was able to …