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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.
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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
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Hemi-Demi-Semi-Drabbling
You're probably already familiar with the concept of a drabble (if not, where were you in February?), a piece of fiction of exactly one hundred words. Today, I was introduced to the concept of a hemi-demi-semi-drabble: that is, a piece of fiction totalling exactly twelve-and-a-half words. Seeing as, no matter how I try, I can't …
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Troma Night - 9th December 2006
The next Troma Night will take place on Saturday at The Cottage. Following last week's success, we'll be following a similar structure this week. But; there is a difference: all Troma Night folk (and everybody else, for that matter) are invited to start early this week at the Arts Centre to see The Host. The …
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My Favourite Criminals
Sometime over the weekend - probably on Sunday night - my Nintendo DS Lite, DS-Xtreme, and a pair of Claire's sunglasses were stolen from her car, parked outside our house. We noticed this on Monday morning when we found Claire's car door ajar and her glove compartment emptied onto the passenger seat. Needless to … -
The Independent Scrutineer
Today I have mostly been listening to The Independent Scrutineer, Pagan Wanderer Lu's new EP. It's very highly recommendable, and well worth the fiver I paid for it.
Unlike his previous releases, The Independent Scrutineer comes on a properly pressed CD (rather than a CD-R) and in a shiny jewel case with full-colour printing, … -
Last Night’s Troma Night
I was going to write a post about how brilliant last night's Troma Night was, but Jimmy's beaten me to it.
The highlight for me must have been when the commanding officer of the "special" forces team in Primal Species shouted at his team after a training exercise because they took 15 seconds longer to complete …