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dabbling

i’ve entered the realm of movable type tonight. a few initial teething problems were sorted out by the self-titled mt-meister, and now i just have to sort out templates et al. i think i’ll be on blogger for a while yet!

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2002 / 12 / 27 – 20:26  | Top

is that me?

found this when i was at my mum’s. it’s a self-portrait i did when i was about 17, as part of my a-level art course, for which i ended up with a grade d. i kinda like this pic though — quite proud of the hand holding the bowl. the mouth’s a little askew, but then so is my real mouth.

dvd by dvd

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2002 / 12 / 27 – 17:24 | Comment [1] | Top

back in leicester…

…and it’s freezing in my flat. i’ve got storage heaters, which build up a reserve of heat overnight and release it during the day, so they won’t start radiating until tomorrow morning. in the meantime i’ve got my little fan heater working up a sweat [though sadly it doesn’t seem to have the same effect on me].

nice load of cards were awaiting my return, containing a grand total of 45 quid — result! [silly people sending real cash in the post though — my granddad in particular cannot seem to accept that i am 26 and have had a bank account for many years. he’s never sent me a cheque, always cash.]

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2002 / 12 / 27 – 15:42  | Top

non-intellectual leap

mrtn is imogen’s older brother! see?

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2002 / 12 / 26 – 11:10 | Comment [9] | Top

merry christmas everybody!

‘nuff said.

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2002 / 12 / 25 – 10:21 | Comment [3] | Top

officeathon

just watched the entire second series of the office*, and have to say it was better than i previously thought. the eps i missed first time round were, ironically**, the funniest imo — the whole motivational seminar build-up and execution was genius.

*courtesy of mrtn and his video recorder. cheers dude!

**and finally, i will be able to read exactly what the dave eggers sense of this is, now i have the page numbers in this, again courtesy of mrtn. hey, he’s doing me a lot of favours lately…what’s he after? ;)

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2002 / 12 / 24 – 23:46 | Comment [2] | Top

ow

strong curry last night. bottom hurts. thanks mrtn!

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2002 / 12 / 24 – 10:54 | Comment [4] | Top

can this be feasible?

order what you like, and only pay £4.50 p&p — all actual items are free? that’s how they do things at secretspider.com.
mind you, i don’t think i like the idea of using a strong magnet to hold my phone in place. magnet. electronic circuitry. not sure about that.

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2002 / 12 / 23 – 11:41  | Top

i was just wondering

you know those people who announce what programme is about to start on the telly, e.g. ‘coming up now we have another visit to the office’? is that their whole job? i mean, do they do anything else, or is that it? it always seems to be the same few voices, so it must be a part of what they do, but is that their entire profession? and do they have a script [which may need approval] or do they just ad-lib everything?

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2002 / 12 / 23 – 11:29  | Top

*cough cough*

so it turns out i was getting slightly ill after all: bit of a sore throat making it hard* to swallow**. still, i had a most excellent weekend, watching ttt [and agreeing with the universal opinion: it rocks] and drinking plenty of wine, bailey’s and sambuca at jo’s housewarming. i really should take a couple of days off from the drinkage, but i’m meeting up with these two excellent chaps this evening.

*fnur fnur

**snigger

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2002 / 12 / 23 – 09:38  | Top

mounting

i’m almost certainly going to see ‘tLotR: tTT’ this afternoon, which is very very exciting. and this evening i’m going to a friend’s housewarming party, where i shall try my hardest not to make the obvious ‘i’ve brought the matches’…

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2002 / 12 / 21 – 13:16 | Comment [3] | Top

ding-a-ling

as a fully paid up member of the mobile phone revolution, being given someone’s home phone number seems like a real honour. because mobiles offer the chance to reject the caller without answering (unless they’re sneaky enough to call from…

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2002 / 12 / 21 – 01:20 | Comment [3] | Top

willpower update update

digital camera now safely in mum’s custardy custody until christmas day. i did come close to opening it, but in the end i managed to restrain myself. ‘twas quite like that bit when frodo offers galadrial the ring. i went…

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2002 / 12 / 20 – 20:12 | Comment [3] | Top

watch yer mouth

i’ve clearly been in the company of my peers for too long. i was watching the countdown final with my mum this evening, having come down to london earlier today. i’m not very good at the ‘letters game’*, so i…

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2002 / 12 / 20 – 20:09 | Comment [1] | Top

willpower update

i have not yet opened my digital camera christmas present, despite being alone in my flat with it for several days now. i am most proud of this. although the ‘alone in the flat’ thing is a little depressing….

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2002 / 12 / 20 – 12:16 | Comment [3] | Top

mpfree

anyone know anything about mp3.com? if i submit some tunes i’ve written, what happens then?…

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2002 / 12 / 19 – 16:47 | Comment [1] | Top

2 + 2 = doh!

i’ve just this minute realised that my aching joints — in particular, the fact that my right shoulder kills when i lift my arm — could well be attributed to lifting that ridiculously heavy box the other day. yay, not…

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2002 / 12 / 19 – 15:06 | Comment [1] | Top

fuddland readership reaches dizzying heights

rick, mr head of department himself, has been reading fuddland. at this rate, fuddland readership should be into double figures by, oooo, 2018. top tip for new readers: see where it says ‘comment’ on the bottom of each entry? click…

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2002 / 12 / 19 – 14:35 | Comment [3] | Top

i ache

all over. joints. and in my back. shooting pains. ow….

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 21:46 | Top

numb numbs

anyone know any recipes that involve bonjela in the ingredients? i think it’s yummy!…

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 15:21 | Comment [2] | Top

the mayor, i presume?

i’ve always thought ken livingstone rocks….

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 13:59 | Top

shock news

tell me, honestly, do i look like the maurice shock medical science building? i know i’ve been putting on a bit of insulation lately, but really, a whole building? i think not. so why was a heeeeeeuge box addressed to…

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 13:45 | Top

lead me not into ripping open the packaging

yay, my digital camera has arrived. some might say that getting it delivered here instead of to my mum’s place means i secretly know i’m going to open it before christmas day, but those people are completely right going to…

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 13:26 | Top

putting it my way

it’s really very nice to go out and have a good old getting-to-know-you kind of chat, especially when you genuinely want to get to know them. that is all….

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2002 / 12 / 18 – 02:19 | Top

plan of distraction

it’s still difficult to think about doing any fudd-like work. luckily i’ve got lots of marking to do over the holidays, so i can remain busy (and get paid for it too). i’ve also got round to sorting out presents…

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2002 / 12 / 17 – 11:32 | Comment [5] | Top

as if!

the dvd i ordered for my sister’s christmas present has been delivered to de montfort university’s maths department. such a kick in the teeth….

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2002 / 12 / 13 – 10:18 | Comment [1] | Top

tits et al

trying to settle an argument by finding out the name of the tune that tom hanks and his boss play on the huge piano in the film ‘big’ [not chopsticks, the other one]. okay, you try downloading the dvd-rip without…

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2002 / 12 / 13 – 01:44 | Comment [1] | Top

it’s snowing

just a few flakes. and the ground is wet, so it probably won’t settle….

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2002 / 12 / 12 – 12:48 | Comment [2] | Top

professor will light

in the first semester of my third year as an undergraduate at leicester university, i opted to take a course entitled ‘approximation theory’, not really knowing what it was about. the course convenor, prof will light (also known as pwl),…

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2002 / 12 / 09 – 12:58 | Top

fact of the week

sounds of 165 dB would cause a person’s hair to catch fire from the frictional heating caused by air undergoing such intense compression and expansion….

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2002 / 12 / 05 – 01:00 | Comment [6] | Top

how overpriced are text messages?

did you know it costs £700 to send 1 Mb of data via sms text messages? me neither, until now….

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2002 / 12 / 04 – 23:19 | Top

caught by the fuzz

random drug searching going on at leicester train station this afternoon. a poor girl, who couldn’t have been more than 17 or 18, was singled out of the queue she was in by a sniffer dog, and escorted away by…

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2002 / 12 / 04 – 17:24 | Comment [1] | Top

hidden insults

the government’s new terminology for ‘homosexual’ in anti-discrimination laws is ‘orientation towards people of the same sex’, which will probably be shortened to otpotss. i notice that this happens to be an anagram of tosspot….

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2002 / 12 / 04 – 15:57 | Top

say what?

i’ve just realised, after all these years, that the lyric is i can call you betty, not i can call you eddie. i’ve been mishearing this for 16 years! still doesn’t help explain wtf the song is about though….

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2002 / 12 / 04 – 13:38 | Comment [6] | Top

quotation of the day

‘so I decided to explore randomness and some of the principles of quantum mechanics, through poetry, using the medium of sheep.’ can you find where it’s taken from?…

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2002 / 12 / 04 – 10:49 | Comment [6] | Top

loose end

absolutely nothing to say. suppose i’ve got things to do, but those can wait until tomorrow. or maybe even thursday. if any of you see this man, please ask him why he hasn’t done the paperwork for my grant cheque….

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2002 / 12 / 03 – 15:08 | Top

you couldn’t make this up

anyone who is in doubt that the world is a wonderfully crazy place should take note of this….

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2002 / 12 / 02 – 16:34 | Comment [2] | Top

mental note: some people do not understand my sense of humour

the following exchange was made via kazaa. mr hummer had obviously perused my music collection. i am whizzy@kazza. hummer@KaZaA: Hi. Do you know the band: campsite? whizzy@KaZaA: no, are they like the village people? hummer@KaZaA: don’t know village people… they…

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2002 / 12 / 02 – 14:18 | Top

is it over?

i am becoming increasingly irritated by cds with a ‘hidden bonus song’ after the last listed track. it would be fine if the extra song was on a new track [as, to pick an example off the top of my…

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 22:35 | Comment [2] | Top

milestone ignored

i’ve just checked out my comments stats, and it says there have been 1083 comments on fuddland. so the magic 1000th comment must have been ages ago, since yaccs has started archiving old comments and removing them from the count….

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 14:00 | Comment [5] | Top

the fun never starts

marking finished at last. just got to do two hours of maths help [hopefully no-one will drop-in this week — last week i had two visitors, a veritable rush of people], and meet with pwl at 4:30pm. only then can…

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 13:03 | Comment [5] | Top

cover yourself up

in general, i like cover versions. i mean, i like the concept of covering someone else’s song. i suppose there are essentially two ways to do this: either stay faithful to the original, and so the new version becomes a…

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 10:01 | Comment [7] | Top

tenacious d sums it up nicely

it doesn’t matter if it’s good, it only matters if it rocks….

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 09:12 | Top

the space between

sitting in the pub last night, we were discussing shortening of names [with me again making it clear i do not answer to ‘dave’]. i asked alex if he minded being called al, and he said i could call him…

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2002 / 11 / 29 – 05:24 | Comment [3] | Top

failed

the plan was: to go back to the department after french [which finished at 7:30pm] and do a shedload of marking, thus freeing up most of tomorrow. as it happened, someone [alex] said the magic words ‘pub, anyone?’ at the…

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2002 / 11 / 28 – 23:19 | Comment [2] | Top

it’s oh so quiet

damn. i busied myself with preparing breakfast, and missed what happened. i don’t know if the police have given up, or gone to call someone with a door-breaking-down thing, or if the guy downstairs did eventually open the door [he…

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2002 / 11 / 28 – 09:37 | Comment [10] | Top

latest

sounds like he has been spotted, as the cops can be heard talking to him, trying to convince him that he really does want to open his front door. [can i be accused of being too nosey? ah fuck it,…

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2002 / 11 / 28 – 09:11 | Comment [2] | Top

more action

well they’ve not got the door open yet, but they have opened up his car and are looking in it….

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2002 / 11 / 28 – 09:09 | Top

exciting stuff

ooooooooooooooooooooooh. at this very, very moment, the police are banging on my downstairs neighbour’s door, and one of them has just shouted ‘if you don’t open the door, we’ll have to forced our way in’. holy shit! i wonder what…

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2002 / 11 / 28 – 09:02 | Top

snigger

is it too childish to be amused that my lemma can be summed up thus: ‘it doesn’t matter what size your balls are, so long as you’ve got the right set-up’?…

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2002 / 11 / 27 – 16:58 | Comment [1] | Top

french test result

87%…

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2002 / 11 / 26 – 00:38 | Comment [4] | Top

sense of achievement

it’s always nice to have proved a corollary by mid-afternoon on a monday isn’t it? UPDATE [20:35] corollary now a lemma, due to non-triviality of proof. ha!…

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2002 / 11 / 25 – 14:47 | Comment [5] | Top

in and out

time from reaching the city centre to finding, trying on, and purchasing a new pair of trainers: 10 minutes. proof, if proof be need be, that i am not a girl….

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2002 / 11 / 24 – 13:28 | Comment [9] | Top

contradictory contradictions

i’ve bought a variety pack of chillis, and since i don’t want them to go bad before i get a chance to use them up, i’ve frozen them for defrosting one at a time. so i’ve got hot chillis, which…

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2002 / 11 / 24 – 00:52 | Top

don’t panic

just watched panic room — i don’t think i’ll sleep without checking all the doors are locked and cupboards are empty of people for about a week. i didn’t realise it was directed by mr fincher, otherwise i’d probably have…

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2002 / 11 / 24 – 00:23 | Comment [1] | Top

at least copy someone who’s done it right!

rob and i caught a couple of plagiarists due to their own stupidity. we’d never have known except they both put the same comment: when astronomer wants to comment some actual data in order to predict the forecast rainfall. it…

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 14:39 | Comment [2] | Top

dodge those falling rails!

the conclusion reached by as190, verbatum: the bar graph clearly sows that there has been a decline in railfall in 2001 as compared to 1991. apart from from that of on month. which is obviously in september. this is in…

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 13:11 | Top

the staggering conclusion

see how useful statistics can be? without investigating the data, how would we know that there are some months that there will be rainfall ie winter and there will be sunshine (summer) ? thanks user aka8 [btw, you’ve also predicted…

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 12:14 | Top

standing out

head and shoulders above the rest of the mistakes so far is the person who predicted negative rainfall for next year. anyone ever seen the rain travelling back up into the sky? it’s an amazing phenomenon….

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 12:05 | Top

tedium^2

another weekend of marking ahead of me, albeit only half as much as last time. still guaranteed mind-numbing boredom though….

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 10:03 | Top

pigging out

the world’s longest captive snake has died, which is obviously very sad [for some people]. but how can you fail to laugh at the caption beneath the photo of the pig in the bbc report?…

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 08:11 | Comment [1] | Top

signed in

but no-one to tell: i had a good evening. still, the fact remains….

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2002 / 11 / 23 – 01:15 | Comment [1] | Top

overheard just outside my office

A: ‘hi, how are you?’ B: ‘not great. jen’s tried to kill herself four times in the last month.’ person B obviously not familiar with the term sotto voce….

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2002 / 11 / 22 – 10:24 | Comment [1] | Top

my thought for the evening

fucking fuckity bugger piss wank shite. that is all….

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2002 / 11 / 21 – 23:46 | Comment [1] | Top

qu’est-ce que ça veut dire?

buggered if i know….

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2002 / 11 / 21 – 17:50 | Top

getting testy

french exam in about two hours. well, i say ‘exam’ — it’s really only a test, but over the last week it’s undergone an apotheosis in my head, and thus has been elevated to exam status. i’m currently once again…

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2002 / 11 / 21 – 16:27 | Comment [6] | Top

spot the difference

subtle redesignage happened this morning. not sure about the position of the comments link. UPDATE [15:51]: moved the comments to the bottom of the right-hand column, thus contrasting the “posted @ xy:zw” feature….

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2002 / 11 / 21 – 13:00 | Comment [4] | Top

neighbourhood watch

bit of a sleepless night last night, due to drunken activities of the student house in front of my flat. i’m guessing they’ve got a new fridge\freezer, because there’s been an old-looking one out in our communal yard for the…

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2002 / 11 / 20 – 13:26 | Comment [7] | Top

fuck

fuck….

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2002 / 11 / 19 – 23:25 | Top

the next logical step?

trainspotting too hard for you? why not become a train station spotter instead, like this guy? it’s much easier to spot these….

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2002 / 11 / 19 – 14:09 | Comment [1] | Top

alan back at the beeb?

anyone else think the first three paragraphs of this article hark back to vintage alan partridge? ap: “glen, i’m in a bit of bother this week, i’ve got a confession to make. i actually stabbed a senior academic to death…

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2002 / 11 / 19 – 12:37 | Top

radiation free

i’m not sure what annoys me more: the fact that i’ve left my mobile phone at home by accident, or the fact that i’m annoyed that i’ve left my mobile phone at home. i used to be pretty anti-mobiles — …

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2002 / 11 / 19 – 10:42 | Top

puzzle of the day

can an insurance company take out reinsurance with itself? and if it then needs to make a claim, does it go bust or become ultra-rich? *puzzle occurred to me in conversation with imogen….

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2002 / 11 / 19 – 00:03 | Top

wanna see something shite?

then check this out. wanna know something shite? i’ve been asked to contribute to the next issue….

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2002 / 11 / 18 – 17:05 | Comment [8] | Top

of the essence

ryanair are currently offering flights to loadsa destinations for 1p each way, so i’m wearing a trench in my office waiting for my dad to reply to my text message, in order that i can go ahead and book a…

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2002 / 11 / 18 – 17:00 | Comment [1] | Top

mr popular

i’ve received not one, but two invites to dinner this week. hmmm, i wonder if i owe these people any money…?…

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2002 / 11 / 18 – 16:51 | Comment [1] | Top

friday night, in pictures

after meeting steve and friend for a couple [4, in fact] of drinks, i went on to meet some other friends [ooops, inadvertantly called steve a friend just then*] for more drinks. the rest is shown below… *tee hee, only…

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2002 / 11 / 18 – 14:24 | Comment [6] | Top

mr contradiction

it just took me three attempts to print out a two-page document double-sided — on the first two attempts, it came out single-sided. so my effort to save paper by printing on both sides used up 2.5 5 times more…

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2002 / 11 / 18 – 11:18 | Comment [3] | Top

off

to london again this weekend, for birthday celebrations and meeting up with this guy too [but not this guy — he’s spent all this week devising the most elaborate plan to avoid meeting up on friday evening]. last night i…

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2002 / 11 / 15 – 08:42 | Comment [2] | Top

*ouch*

i wonder if i always rub my upper lip this often, and i’m only noticing it today because i’ve got a tiny cut from shaving that hurts like hell everytime i touch it?…

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2002 / 11 / 14 – 12:26 | Top

more good news

just received this email about today’s seminar: > Dear All, > > Due to the FBU strike, the much of the London tube has been shut > down. Our seminar speaker has spent about 2.5 hours trying to > just…

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2002 / 11 / 14 – 11:38 | Comment [51] | Top

wet, but excited

sorry, couldn’t resist that innuendo-laiden title. got a bit soaked on the walk into uni, having left both my umbrella and my hat here over the last few days. but in my pigeon-hole was this, which i have to wait…

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2002 / 11 / 14 – 10:57 | Comment [3] | Top

on the third day…

…i woke up even earlier. was in the shower when my alarm went off — realised i didn’t know if it automatically turned off after a certain amount of time, or just keeps beeping until i stomp up and down…

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2002 / 11 / 14 – 09:04 | Top

tide turning

for the second day running, i’ve woken up before my alarm and immediately wanted to get up, get ready and go to uni to get some work done. i wonder how long this will last?…

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2002 / 11 / 13 – 07:51 | Comment [7] | Top

doh!

ordered a dvd from play.com for my sister’s birthday — got it delivered to her home to save sending it in the post twice. forgot to change delivery address back to original setting. my fotr special edition sent to my…

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 23:16 | Comment [1] | Top

in hiding

apparently there’s a bit of a backlash happening with regards to the marking i did last week — people not happy to be given zeros in some categories. no-one’s come to me directly though, this is all on the grapevine,…

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 17:03 | Comment [5] | Top

careering

just finished using prospects planner to try and help me figure out what job i’d like to do after failure completion of my fudd. here are the options it managed to whittle my answers down to: gchq graduate management trainee…

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 16:39 | Comment [2] | Top

filling in the blanks

in response to anna’s post, i present the beginnings of the jokes that i think i recognise. can anyone else help with the rest? 1. a bloke with a tangerine for a head walks into a pub and orders a…

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 14:26 | Top

yet more

okay, just what is going on with all these surprises. i was doing a bit of work, and took a quick break to read up on the latest developments in comovedy, psyt and recimo. it was at this moment of…

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 13:16 | Comment [1] | Top

unexpected

the day has already thrown another surprise at me, but this one was most welcome. in fact, i am tempted to tentatively say ‘yay!’ or ‘huzzah!’ — i’m not going to commit to both just yet, it is only 9:30am….

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 09:32 | Comment [5] | Top

on the hot side

i left my trainers on the radiator last night, as they’ve got a little soggy over the last couple of days from all the rain. i just went to put them on, and the bloody soles have melted. totally-warped-and-coming-away-from-the-rest-of-the-shoe-type melted….

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2002 / 11 / 12 – 08:23 | Comment [4] | Top

the surprising outcome

i shocked myself, to be honest, by actually going to my french lesson, and even managed to get a couple of my fellow linguists to come to the pub for a couple of pints [although not everyone unfortunately :( ]….

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2002 / 11 / 11 – 21:34 | Comment [3] | Top

the other dilemma

trying to find someone who wants to see the new harry potter film with me….

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2002 / 11 / 11 – 18:12 | Comment [6] | Top

the current dilemma

go to french lesson or go to bed? UPDATE [17:40]: bed is winning. must….be……strong……..

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2002 / 11 / 11 – 17:21 | Comment [4] | Top

as i suspected

non-stop work this morning. i was woken by a text message from rob [cheers mate :P] asking if i could do his teaching at 10:30, which i agreed to do because i’m so lovely. got to uni about 9am, glanced…

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2002 / 11 / 11 – 14:14 | Comment [3] | Top

the ‘king is dead

finished all my marking about an hour ago, *phew*. looking forward to a nice evening of nowt, before the week begins anew and i have real [i.e. ph.d] work to do. pwl wants something written up by the end of…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 17:52 | Comment [1] | Top

make tea, not war

some sort of anti-war protest going on just outside. people with cardboard-cut-out guns and the usual stereotypical-terrorist get-up. they’ve built a kind of soldier effigy thingy, with loads of guns at his feet, that’s about twenty feet high. i wonder…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 14:19 | Comment [4] | Top

it gets worse

and in the very next document: that piechart look familiar to anyone?…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 12:45 | Comment [2] | Top

what i’m up against

somebody [username withheld] reckons this is what would be found in a typical national newspaper report about the recent sniper attacks in the united states:…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 12:35 | Comment [2] | Top

if your name is mark king…

…then don’t speak to me, you’ll just remind me that i’ve still got shedloads of marking to do. i wonder if we’ll have another person as creative as oeg1 [somehow i doubt it :( ]…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 11:17 | Comment [3] | Top

a note to bar staff

if someone has been drinking since 2pm, do not, at 10pm, fill a pint glass with every drink from the optics and give it to them on the house, even if it is their birthday. it just ends up getting…

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2002 / 11 / 10 – 11:15 | Comment [2] | Top

momentary relief

congrats to oeg1, who actually used his imagination when creating a newsletter for me to mark. highlights include the following stories: Terror in London Onlookers were sent into a state of shock last week as 30,000,000 geese descended upon the…

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2002 / 11 / 09 – 14:40 | Comment [3] | Top

keeping me company during the long, lonely marking hours, we have…

…dave matthews, damon gough, stipey & co, and some bloke who keeps popping up on im. taking a break now, having marked everyone from aabm1 up to, and including, mz17….

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2002 / 11 / 09 – 13:38 | Comment [1] | Top

worldcom and you

a double-helping of simulvisits just now. interesting eh?…

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2002 / 11 / 08 – 12:06 | Top

lunchbreak

been working all morning, but a man’s gotta eat. and so do i….

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2002 / 11 / 08 – 12:01 | Comment [1] | Top

feet

this is the earliest i’ve been on campus in months….

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2002 / 11 / 08 – 08:31 | Comment [2] | Top

good news\bad news

for the last four years or so, my mate and i have never had a girlfriend at the same time. he’s just broken up with his, which is obviously sad for him. but…come on, where is she? i’m waiting……

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2002 / 11 / 07 – 19:17 | Comment [6] | Top

where do we go from here?

i met with martin p, careers adviser a-go-go [i added the ‘a-go-go’]* this morning, to discuss possible options for life after fudd. i know it’s a bit early, but given that i didn’t enjoy the career i opted for last…

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2002 / 11 / 07 – 11:05 | Comment [4] | Top

a clear sign that i’ve lost it

i like spiders. i think they’re very useful and i don’t mind the odd one here-or-there in my flat. i was at my kitchen sink just now, quenching my thirst with a glass of water, and i noticed a small…

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2002 / 11 / 06 – 23:42 | Comment [2] | Top

feeling testy

to all those with up-and-coming exams, the very best of luck! did i mention that i don’t have to do any exams during the course of my fudd? ha!…

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2002 / 11 / 05 – 13:47 | Comment [2] | Top

result!

a newcastle win means i’m 27.27 quid better off than i was a few hours ago [it transpires the free 30 quid has been lost somewhere along the way — i may figure out where when i’m sober, but fuck…

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2002 / 11 / 05 – 00:34 | Top

down the slippery slope

i bought a case of wine from virgin wine the other day, and as part of a special offer in conjunction with blue sq, i was given a 30 quid voucher for a single bet. never having placed a bet…

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2002 / 11 / 04 – 18:01 | Comment [4] | Top

movie mis-quotes

me sooo hungry. me love you longtime [if you nip out and get me a sandwich]….

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2002 / 11 / 04 – 16:56 | Comment [2] | Top

back, with some questions

do i have a right to dictate what others can put on their own sites, when that information happens to be personal information regarding myself? is there such a thing as taking a joke too far? can anyone understand my…

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2002 / 11 / 04 – 16:07 | Comment [1] | Top

a warning

if i appear to have gone a bit mad this week, it’s because the monotony of marking 300 bits of coursework for this module has finally sent me doolally. please be patient and just help me tighten the straitjacket….

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2002 / 11 / 04 – 10:42 | Comment [2] | Top

who am i?

in order to answer this, i consulted googlism. this is what it found: i am not my real name i am a neurosurgeon with a particular interest in neurovascular surgery i am an associate professor of art at fort lewis…

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2002 / 11 / 02 – 15:29 | Comment [1] | Top

stupid annoying lyric i can’t get out of my head:

‘and then i go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like awoogawooga ger panger poopoo’…

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