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Another Fab Weekend
Geek Night (must finish that web site) was great on Friday. JTA and Ruth were away in Shropshire, and so I thought I might stand some chance at Settlers Of Catan (now with the Cities & Knights Of Catan add-on. But Jimmy came, and - despite it being his first ever game of Settlers - …
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How To Sell May Ball Tickets
Every year the Students Union here in Aberystwyth puts on the May Ball, an excuse to dress up and party if ever I saw one, for students. For the last few years this has been held on-campus, in the Arts Centre, Students Union, and the concourse in-between the two. Live music and shows, dancing, and …
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9 Songs
Hmm. Watched 9 songs tonight at a special screening at the Arts Centre cinema.
Synopsis
A couple meet at a concert and go on to have lots of sex and go to other concerts. Their relationship is threatened at a point, when they stop having so much sex and start actually talking, at which point they realise … -
9 Songs
Troma Night regulars (plus Sundeep) only invited to an exclusive cinema screening of 9 Songs tonight at 10:30pm. Send me a text message - or meet me on the RockMonkey ChatRoom - for details (times, places, arrangements).
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Barbeque
As Sundeep recalls, last night was fab. We lit a fire and tried to hold back the tide with it; then, just after high tide, it started coming in again, wildly, and threatened to extinguish our fire, so we moved around the coast a little way. But we ate cheeseburgers and waffles and things, and …
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Sundeep/Katie Burning
As you all know, Bryn's nemesis and everybody's favourite pseudolesbian are having a birthday burning and unchristmas party on the beach tonight. More details here, here, and here (can you tell they've been planning this awhile?).
Anyway; in order to make sure that people know, I'll post this message here: I'll bring all the barbeques you … -
GMail Accounts
People have asked me for GMail invites again, but one of these people's @aber.ac.uk e-mail address doesn't seem to be working, says GMail, so here are some "ready to pick up":
Invite 1 (used) Invite 2 (used) Invite 3 (used) Invite 4 (used) Invite 5 Invite 6 Invite 7 Invite 8 Invite 9 Invite 10 … -
SmartData’s Almost-Free Pens
I've just seen haggling taken to a new level. A marketing company called us up and offered us 100 executive-type pens, branded with our company information, with no commitment to buy. They delivered them, and they're... okay... but they really don't fit the company image. The total value of the pens is £290, and we're …
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Hollywood Pizza And BT Online Billing
If only BT.com online billing provided an XML feed... we could integrate our Hollywood Pizza order call times and lengths into the Troma Night web site.
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Confusion
Don't you hate it when you can't draw the line in your memory between your dreams and waking life: I'm very hazy on last night, and can't remember whether a conversation took place or if I just dreamt it.
I'm more certain, however, on a nightmare I had last night: Claire and I bought a villa … -
Productive Weekend… Perhaps
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Not quite so productive a weekend as I might have hoped, but still - plenty got done. Geek Night on Friday is best described by Ruth. Saturday saw me interviewed by some Theatre, Film & … -
Frustration
Tried to post from my mobile, but it lost the post. Tried to post a summary from my mobile, but that died too. So here's the short, short version:
Just witnessed frustrating argument. Not least because I felt 'banned' from it. That may be for the best, because if I'd have participated I think Claire would … -
Curry With Alec And Suz
Alec and Suz are visiting Aberystwyth at the moment, in a hunt for a place to live next year and possibly over the summer too. Suz has a final year to go in her degree (having spent this academic year, and the next few months, traipsing around Europe as part of her course), and Alec …
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Google Wants Your DIY Porn Videos
Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.
In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, … -
Black Holes “Almost Certainly Don’t Exist”
A brave physicist claims that black holes don't exist at all, but what we are interpreting as the existence of black holes - where stars have collapsed into tiny, superdense masses with an event horizon within which matter/energy escape is almost impossible - are actually... dark energy! (yes, yet another dark-matter/dark-energy claim)
It's a good one, …