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Tag: cool thing of the day

  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #42:

    Count your 20p piece collection (see "Cool Thing" #25). Realise you have exactly £6 (that's 30) of them. Do your laundry

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, …

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    • posted 8 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #41:

    Discover a major security flaw in the university network, that provides any user with half a brain, a computer in their room, some practice, and a lot of patience, the means to get the password of anybody else on your …

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    • posted 7 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #40:

    Fail to get elected as one of the two student representatives of module CS12320 (Concepts In Programming). What else could I expect? I was nominated against my will, gave an awe-inspiring speech, that declared that "if I get this position, …

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    • posted 6 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #39:

    Climb a nearby hill with the intention of finding a forest that you've heard is on the other side. Fail. Check maps to verify that the forest is there, and climb the hill again, looking for the forest. Fail. Check …

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    • posted 5 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #38:

    Recieve an e-mail criticising the way you send your e-mails. It appears to be from some big-headed student, who thinks they know it all (which they can't, 'cos then they'd know that I already knew that they didn't know <sigh>, …

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    • posted 4 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #37:

    Actually make use of the sowing kit that your mother insisted that you took to University with you. The zip detatched from my jeans. Comments welcome as to how I may have achieved this, but they won't be verified!!! <G> …

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    • posted 3 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #36:

    (1) Recieve an e-mail from your Personal Tutor, asking to see you in his office in ten minutes. He knows I check my e-mail 1440 times a day, but dragging me to this level of nerdity is ridiculous...
    (2) ...make it …

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    • posted 2 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #35:

    Raid a skip outside the computer labs, filled to the brim with semi-defunct equipment. Steal several cables, some dumb-terminal keyboards, and a PSU (which was funtional, but later caught fire). Spend much of the remainder of the afternoon taking broken …

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    • posted 1 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #34:

    Go into Burger King, and ask for an nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic duck-burger, with medium fries and a Sprite. Get rather upset when they refuse to serve a nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic duck-burger. Ask them what kind of establishment they are, anyway, …

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    • posted 31 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #33:

    Consider a Pot Noodle to be an adequate substitute for breakfast, after you discover that your bread has been stolen and your milk supports more cultures than the United Nations.

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location …

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    • posted 30 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #32:

    Go on a tour of the lesser-spotted pubs. End up in a club. Finish drinking at 1am. Still have a hangover twelve hours later. Still have a headache twenty hours later. Realise to your horror that there are a lot …

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    • posted 29 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:

    Pass your first exam... with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my …

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    • posted 28 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #30:

    Gather together a werewolf and an irishwoman, and, together, climb an unlit hill with a treachorous unmarked cliff, in an unfamiliar nearby town, in the darkness of the night, during a storm, and watch fireworks while clinging to a hundred-year-old …

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    • posted 27 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:

    Stay in and do some work.
    Scary but true - this theoretically means that I haven't done this until now. Eek.

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during …

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    • posted 26 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #28:

    Escape from your hall's "Punch Party", and go to a bonfire instead, because you *know* that if you start drinking vast amounts of free sub-cocktail you'll just *keep* drinking and you've got to be up before 9:00am the following morning …

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    • posted 25 October, 1999

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