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Where Funny Meets Dan: A Little More Confident
Since the announcement that I'll be starring at this Sunday's Gorillamania 1, I'd been quite frankly shitting myself, until tonight. The Open Mic nights I've performed at previously have been a whole different ball game - after all, nobody expects anything from you at an Open Mic: they get what they're given. I've been bothered …
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Characteristically JonA
I got to work this morning and joined the #rockmonkey IRC channel. My IRC client said:
* Now talking in #RockMonkey
Well, that's nice to know: subscribing to the channel worked.
* Topic is 'Morning, homos.'
That's an unusual topic...
* Topic set by JonA on Monday Jan 22 08:39 am ...and it didn't really … -
Having A System That Works Against You
I have a system, and if you've watched me leave the house, you'll have seen me implement it: my strange little "tap my pelvis four times" dance is actually a sophisticated check that I've got everything I need. Whenever I go out, I like to double-check that I've got with me my wallet, keys, mobile …
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Game Theory Applied
A friend of mine recently posted the the following conundrum to his blog:
I found the deck of cards from a board game called scrupples (it poses you a dilemma and your opponents guess how you would respond) and I thought up another one completely off the top of my head:
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Black Sheep
We have to get this film for Troma Night: Black Sheep. It looks stupid enough to rival Isolation (angry mutant livestock!), which some of you saw last Halloween, but at least it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously. See the trailer:
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Troma Night CLXI - Tonight
CHANGE OF PLANS: All of the tickets for Pan's Labyrinth are sold out. For those that didn't get a ticket in time and for those that weren't coming to Pan's Labyrinth anyway, Troma Night now starts as usual at The Cottage at 8pm. Tell anybody who might not know.
Tonight is the 161st Troma Night (based … -
The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Well, that's Twilight Princess for the Wii finished. And quite a spectacular game it was too. Highlights [warning: spoilers] include:
Predictably Zelda: many of the best elements of Zelda games gone by made it into Twilight Princess, so much so that the predictability of some of the plot elements will make accomplished … -
Gorillamania 1 - Comedy Night - 28th January
Gorillamania 1 - the upcoming Gorilla Monsoon comedy night - has been announced! Three Cardiff comedians will be doing their stuff in the Coopers Arms, supported by two of Aber's own - Ben Poole and... Scatman Dan! Show starts 8pm on Sunday 8th January. Read more about the event on the official website.
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The Decline And Fall Of The British University
Here's one for the academics amongst you: an article by a Mark Tarver entitled Why I Am Not A Professor OR The Decline And Fall Of The British University. Without having had the decades in academia that the author has had, it's hard for me to easily agree with him. However; I suspect he's right. …
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Plans For The Weekend
For those of you that were wondering, here are some of the plans for the weekend:
Saturday (Tonight) - Troma Night
Tonight, 8pm, at The Cottage. We'll be watching Airplane, some dodgy Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Airplane II. Both Airplane movies in one night: surely, I can't mean it? Yes, indeed I … -
It Couldn’t Be You
Following up on my Lottery Winners Counter JavaScript toy, and on Andy's recent blog post about trying to rig the lottery using statistics, I decided to write a new software toy to help demonstrate exactly how impossible it is to do as he suggests and guarantee a profit through the strategic purchase of large numbers …
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My Mum On Christmas Day
As Paul indicated, Claire and I are out of Aberystwyth this Christmas: first with my folks, then with hers. As I'd threatened it yesterday, I'm sharing with you and the world in general this video of my mum on Christmas Day. She's had a few drinks already, and she's decided that she's suddenly able to …
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Otters
This morning, I saw a family of three otters swimming up the Rheidol. I've never seen or even heard of otters in Aberystwyth before, so I found this noteworthy and remarkable. In answer to questions in advance: Yes, I'm sure they were otters: I had quite a clear view from the riverbank. No, I don't …
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A Very Merry Troma Night - Tonight At The Cottage
Tonight's Troma Night will be held at The Cottage. It's the final Troma Night of the year, and it'll be our least Christmassy of the "Christmas" Troma Nights ever, we suspect! Here's the plan:
8pm prompt start - order pizza and start watching xXx Top Gun (we can't get hold of a copy of … -
A Wild Wiikend; Part One
We got our Wii at about half past seven this morning, and - excepting breaks for lunch, to attend Gareth's guest lecture at the university, and to handle tech support calls from my place of work - we've been playing it ever since. Here's some of what we've been up to:
Wii Sports
Comes with …