Kind: Articles
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Car Gliding?
Was just looking at Gareth's blog to read about his recent car trouble and noticed an interesting quirk in the way his blog is showing "tags":
It would appear that the thing Gareth writes about the most is "car gliding". Cool. I want a go. I'm kind-of reminded of the Russian WWII Antonov A-40 experiment, … -
The Edinburgh Fringe And Related Stories
Wow. That was a fantastic week. If you can't read all of this on Abnib or on LiveJournal or wherever you read my blog, try the original post:
The Engagement Party
The Quirky Little Village In County Durham
The Fringe At Edinburgh
The Most Embarrassing Thing In The World
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We’re Back In Town
After a week of nudity, drunkeness, comedy, diversions, and unexpected board games, we're back from Preston/Durham/Edinburgh/Oxford/everywhere else we've been. Buffy Night is on, tonight, if you want to come join us. Stories will be posted here soon (there's some good ones you have to hear).
Here's a picture in the meantime of us all with Peter … -
It’s True: I’ve Got Baldness-Of-The-Chin
Dan, beardless - click for a biggy
It's true what's been implied on Dan & Alex: I am without beard. It's funny, 'cos I keep stroking my chin whenever I'm thinking about anything sufficiently hard.
For the benefit of Jon, mostly, there's a piccy to the left.
Other folks are making a bigger thing of this than … -
Curious Paul
As promised to him some time ago, here's the picture of Paul dressed up as a "The Man in the Yellow Hat" from Curious George while ushering at the Arts Centre cinema:
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Coding, Drinking, And Burying: Hilarity Ensues
This weekend Gareth and Bryn came over and we set up a computer lab in Claire and I's living room and spent most of the weekend hacking Ruby and Perl code (in between segments of munching coder snacks, drinking beer, watching films at Troma Night, and, last night, barbequing food on Ynyslas beach). We made …
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SmartData Wasn’t At The Royal Welsh Show This Year
Pity. From a BBC report:
A young woman's naked table-top dance in a cattle shed at the Royal Welsh Show has led to an official inquiry... One witness, who did not want to be named, said security guards rushed to the scene late on Tuesday, but had difficulty grabbing the woman because the water had … -
A Special Kind Of Conservative Stupidity
I really can't stand Ann Coulter.
I mean, her book, "Godless: The Church Of Liberalism" (somebody sent me an e-copy, which saved me from the bad feeling I'd associate with helping shower her with royalties) was bad enough, but this...
She's appeared on TV recently (video clip) to talk about the former US president, Clinton. Her claim? … -
Things That Aren’t Good About Today
The power keeps going off. It's awfully hard to build software in the dark.
I have a shedload of work to do and I've spent most of my day so far either cursing the aforementioned power cut or in meetings about how much more productive we could be (if, for example, we weren't … -
The Most Unusual Gift Idea Ever
Disappointed with the shape of your turds? Bored with "sausage-shaped" shit? Why not treat yourself to a pack of 10 Turd Twisters? Inserted carefully into the anus, they allow you to mould your faeces into amusing and interesting shapes. They're "one-size-fits-all", dishwasher safe, and come with their own special Safe-T-Floss Retraction Cord, just in case …
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Coolest Personality Test I’ve Ever Seen
As I've said before, I don't just jump onto every memeing bandwagon that crosses my path, but now and then, one comes along that really impresses me. This one is a 'smart' personality test that attempts to define you by asking a series of questions... yadda yadda... but this one learns from it's mistakes, and …
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Two Films I Want To See
Children Of Men, due for release this September, looks good. In the near future, all the women on Earth become infertile, and science is at a loss to explain why. By 2027, no children have been born in 18 years, and the future of humanity is bleak. There's a trailer about, too. It all looks …
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Dreams Of Trucks
Unusual dream last night. Gareth challenged me to a race: driving lorries (which fluctuated in size throughout the dream from mini-vans to huge artic' trucks) along a dirt track somewhere up in the Welsh hills. Jon was his co-driver, and Bryn was mine, but somewhere along the way to the racecourse our vehicle broke down …
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The Coolest “Learn A Programming Language” Tool. Ever.
Not only is it the coolest "hands on" tutorial to a programming language I've ever seen; it's also (technologically) quite impressive as a web application, too. I'm talking about tryruby.hobix.com, a stunning tutorial in the Ruby programming language that's simple enough for anybody to get started and doesn't require you to install anything. Everything is …
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And That Was That
Well; we've burned my gran (well, not us personally; our involvement in her actual cremation was limited to watching her disappear behind some curtains and resisting the urge to shout, "Uhh... a cuddly toy... a toaster oven... umm...") and we're on our way, by installments, back to Aberystwyth: we should be back in time for …