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Busy Busy Busy
It's going to be one of those weeks. I can tell: I haven't finished stuff I was going to do on Monday morning yet. It's not helped by the fact that we've had various computers fall over and we've got two French students (as part of the Leonardo da Vinci scheme) who need leading-by-the-hand for …
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Geek Night
Last night's Geek Night was fab: thanks to everybody who came. I didn't win a single game, but that's not what it's about at all, really, is it. Kings & Things was fab, and it was great to get to play Tigris & Euphrates again (and lose for a change, damnit, at it). It was …
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Hollywood Pizza
Hey, I was just looking at Troma Night's last Hollywood Pizza receipt, and I've noticed that they've stopped writing the full address at the top of the receipt for the delivery driver. Now they just write "Cambrian Place".
After 75+ Troma Nights, we've finally managed:
To be their only customer in Cambrian Place: or, at least, … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II - Results
Great turnout for Dan's Dingbats Challenge II. Thanks for playing, all of you who did! Here's the scoreboard:
Position Player Time Taken Right Answers Total Time 1 The Amazing WonkoBest score, great time to boot... beat Jimmy by just three seconds. 3mins, 42secs 13.5 4mins, 2secs 2 JimmyFastest overall time and a very good … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II
Hot on the heels (that'd make a good dingbat!) of Dan's Dingbats Challenge I (results and answers here) comes Dan's Dingbats Challenge II! The dingbats are, on average, a little easier (and a little more logical), but the penalty for skipping one or getting it wrong has been increased to 40 seconds added to your …
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Paul Is The Most Fucking Random Person In The World
Paul M: fucking nutter. The most random person you're ever likely to meet. But you've got to love his sincerity.
This morning, I'm happily sat at my workstation, staring, as I do, at program code and pausing from time to time to check the RSS feeds of the usual crew, when the phone rings: Matt answers … -
Some Pictures From My Phone
Some pictures I just extracted from my phone:
ASSA are branching out. Not just (experi)mental music, they do locks, too!
This sticker was found in the ladies toilets underneath the library on Llanbadarn Campus. I think it might be a little out of date... look at the phone number!
Paul & his dragon. I'm not sure whether or … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge I - Results
I'm glad to see so many people took part in Dan's Dingbats Challenge I; hope you all had fun. As promised, here are the results (and the answers). Don't forget, the total time is the time taken plus a 30 second penalty for every wrong answer or skipped question. I did award a number of …
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Dan’s Dingbats Challenge I
Think you can think laterally: think again!
Remember Dingbats, that board game with the cards with the phrases on them, expressed through cleverly laid-out words and pictures (a bit like Catch Phrase, that old TV show [is that still running]). Well, anyway, it involves pictures a bit like this:
The picture shows the word "somewhere" mysteriously suspended … -
Build Library Here (Or Else!)
This last few days, Claire and I have been listening to a hell of a lot of the new Pagan Wanderer Lu album, Build Library Here (Or Else!). And it's such an impressive album that I've decided to write a little about it here, in the hope that some of you who've never heard of …
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All Looks Well
I can appreciate how Andy feels: all seems pretty 'well' in my little corner of this little corner of the world.
Friday's Geek Night involved a four-hour long, six-player game of Knights & Cities Of Catan, which Andy won, perhaps contributing to his good mood.
On Saturday, Troma Night was particularly laid-back and relaxed. This was, of … -
Knightmare Night
The plan for this evening, for all those that are interested:
Knightmare Night will be running from 8pm to about 11:15pm: we'll be watching season 2, episodes 10 through 16. BYOB, etc. I've even tidied the flat... a little. And Claire's done the washing-up.
But before this, at 7:20pm, we'll be doing a "bottle bank run", to … -
Big.McLargeHuge Lives
Nobody on Earth, not even Gareth, knows or understands what happened to cause the server problems on Big.McLargeHuge yesterday, but, as usual, everybody's blaming me. My apologies to everybody who was inconvenienced by the problems. It's amazing how much damage can be caused by a MySQL server going down... almost all the sites on McLargeHuge …
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Another Knightmare
Peter and I, this time joined by Matt, JTA, Ruth, Andy R, Sian, and Katie watched another eight episodes of Knightmare (the first half of the second series) last night. Highlights include:
First ever winning team: they sucked up, they bribed, and they otherwise twisted the NPCs around their little fingers. Having seen this … -
Spellcasting: A-L-C-O-H-O-L
Last night, Paul, Claire, Pete and I sat down, beer and gin and Dooley's to hand, and watched the entire first series of 80's kids TV game show Knightmare, taking a drink every time:
Team gives directions to dungeoneer that they can't possibly follow. ("Go through the door.")
Team gives wrong directions to …