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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, #27:

    (1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a "Cool Things". Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three "Cool Things" to help make up for it.
    (2) Be …

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    • posted 24 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:

    Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read "drinkabout") four times their weight in lager. As a result I'm probably going to have to (originally read "tpo") …

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    • Article
    • posted 21 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #25:

    Start a collection of 20p pieces, for use in the laundry. My wallet's side pocket now contains 16 20p peices. Combined with a few pound coins, that'll keep me laundered (ooh-err) for at least two weeks. =o)

    The 'cool and interesting …

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    • Article
    • posted 20 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:

    Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, …

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    • posted 19 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #23:

    Leave a club, and, in a drunken stupor, decide that it's a sound and logical idea to take £120 out ot a cash machine, because it'll save you from having to do it later. Realise this tommorow morning, and replace …

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    • Article
    • posted 18 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #22:

    Realise, to your horror, that it's not physically possible to exist on a diet of Pot Noodles alone.

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

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    • Article
    • posted 17 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #21:

    Desperatley try to find a reason not to get a 'professional' domain name (e.g. www.avapoet.com), and fail. Panic, and write to your current service provider, asking questions which you're sure they'll answer unfavourabley, to save yourself from the urge to …

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    • Article
    • posted 16 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #19:

    Get very drunk, and fall asleep up a tree. Wake up at sometime after 3:00am, in the rain, and wonder where the fuck you are, before climbing down and going to bed... Realise that a search party had been organised …

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    • Article
    • posted 15 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as …

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    • Article
    • posted 14 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #17:

    Attend a lecture in a shirt and tie, and carrying a bag full of clothes, and leave 20 minutes before the end, to catch a coach to Aberdyfi, and sit on it and sing! (actually, this hasn't happened yet - …

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    • Article
    • posted 13 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #16:

    Realise that you've got over 970 songs on MP3 format, taking up over 3.25GB of hard drive space. Decide that you need to find a new (cheap) hard drive on which to store them all. Mention this in the "Cool …

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    • Article
    • posted 12 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #15:

    Find a quaint little shop in the middle of nowhere, in a quaint little town in the middle of nowhere, and buy a really awful tie. Truly awful. Plan to wear it to a (course-compulsary) team-building weekend to take the …

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    • Article
    • posted 11 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #14:

    Go to a "Traffic Lights Party" organized by the students union, where you're supposed to dress in a colour that dictates your availability status. Red is "Taken". Yellow is "Maybe available". Green is "Desperate". Wear yellow. Fail to 'pull'.

    The 'cool …

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    • Article
    • posted 10 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #13:

    Have somebody who you went to college with disbelieve that the cool things that you state that you have been doing since you got to Univeristy are true, when you've only got to #9... The sad boring individual.

    The 'cool and …

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    • Article
    • posted 9 October, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #12:

    Download the entirety of that fantastic film, The Matrix, on to your hard drive, and watch it, wondering why your PC is running so slow until you realise that the film is occupying 1.4GB of the remaining 1.5GB of your …

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    • Article
    • posted 8 October, 1999

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