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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.

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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’ joke. this may be impossible to avoid saying after a couple of hours of drinkage, but we’ve all got to have goals don’t we?

if i knew anything about football i’d be able to make some kind of snide remark about my team’s arch-rivals’ probable lack of goals, but i don’t have a team, nor any arch-rivals [that i know of], and as i’ve said before, i don’t do football.

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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 a private line, in which case there’s a certain amount of dare and intrigue, albeit a fairly lame amount in the grand scheme of amountages), giving a person your landline number nowadays contains the intrinsic message “i don’t mind when you give me a call, it’s all good”.

or am i reading too much into it?

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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 all green and deep-voice, and said scary stuff about being the greatest thingy ever. but i passed the test and so can continue to be queen of lorien. or summink. mmmm, tangental.

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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 was quite pleased when i saw a seven letter word. i called it out without really thinking. the word? fisting.

*where you have to make a word of nine letter or less, from nine randomly chosen letters, without repeating any of the chosen letters.

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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 getting ill after all! but booooo, i’m still in pain. :(

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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 that — then you can leave a comment, kind of like a visitors book in a hotel. say what you like [but remember i have editorial control :P].

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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 the maurice shock building delivered to my desk today? nope, i don’t know. but i can confirm it weighed 37kg, as i struggled up the stairs to deposit it in the secretary’s office for them to relocate*. not that i have the amazing ability to accurately measure the weight of something by carrying the object in question upstairs. it said it was 37kg on the box. if i was to provide my own guesstimate, i’d have probably said it was ‘heavy’. not in the hippy sense of course, although the entire situation could quite aptly be summed up as ‘heavy, man’. but ‘tis okay. i dealt with.

*not the secretaries, i don’t want them to relocate. they can stay.

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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 be proved wrong. i hope.

did anyone hear the box whispering ‘open me….open me’? no? must….be….strong…..

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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 and cards — including ordering this for myself, a kind of parents-pay-for-most-of-it-and-i-make-up-the-rest deal [i didn’t get it from amazon though, but from these lovely people instead]. will i be able to stave off temptation and not use it until xmas day?

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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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2002 / 11 / 02 – 15:14 | Comment [6] | Top

up, up and away

i thought it was going to be a bit of a shite day, since i’d arranged to come in to uni and meet pwl for the whole morning, in order to get a theorem proved. i got in at just…

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2002 / 11 / 02 – 14:07 | Comment [5] | Top

three cheers…

…for the lovely receptionist, who has just brought me a cuppa whilst i’m sitting here bored, doing this. she offers me a cuppa every week, but this is the first time i’ve accepted — mainly due to the miserable weather…

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2002 / 11 / 01 – 14:28 | Comment [10] | Top

lookie, lookie!

css! no more html table stuff! woo-hoo!…

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2002 / 10 / 31 – 23:22 | Comment [3] | Top

lazy bones

today i found a prime example of what the remote control has done to the human race. i was expressing my preference for gas cookers over electric, because you have much greater control over the temperature. when boiling pasta on…

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2002 / 10 / 31 – 21:39 | Comment [8] | Top

monkeybusiness

just hanging around for the next hour or so, waiting for my french lesson. i handed in my first piece of homework earlier today, in which i had to translate things like ‘where do you come from?’ ‘i come from…

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2002 / 10 / 31 – 17:42 | Comment [15] | Top

getting old

okay, i know halloween has become a rather american festival, but when i was younger we still painted our faces and did all the traditional games [bobbing for apples is the only halloween-specific one i can remember at the moment,…

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2002 / 10 / 31 – 11:54 | Top

swooooooosh! urk! thud

fuddland has got a whole lot more streamlined, due to removal of the [i just realised] utterly pointless right-hand column. now i only take up about half your screen [if, that is, you’ve got your monitor set to the myopia-inducing…

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2002 / 10 / 30 – 23:41 | Comment [17] | Top

death by embarrassment

or ‘oh, i thought a banana and a tube of toothpaste counted as one item.’ i really do think that, as soon as the tenth item’s barcode has been swiped at the ‘nine items or less’ checkout, a loud aaawoooooooooooga…

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2002 / 10 / 30 – 18:15 | Comment [3] | Top

qotd

foxey or foxy?…

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2002 / 10 / 30 – 16:02 | Comment [8] | Top

pertinent lyrics of the day [in so many ways]

i know that this is vitriol, no solution, spleen-venting, but I feel better having screamed, don’t you? - ignoreland, by r.e.m….

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2002 / 10 / 30 – 12:06 | Comment [2] | Top

the official conclusion

not depressed. just fed up….

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2002 / 10 / 29 – 13:56 | Comment [2] | Top

hot stuff

what is it with the direct correlation between room temperature and intensity of dreams? it’s the time of year to put the heating on, and since i’ve done that, i’ve had many more vivid dreams than during the summer. last…

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2002 / 10 / 29 – 12:17 | Top

happy days

i’ve been flipping through old photo albums lately. here are some of my faves….

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2002 / 10 / 28 – 23:38 | Comment [5] | Top

damn you mccartney

i spent a little while this afternoon trying to record a version of paul mccartney’s blackbird. however, it’s a pretty tricky tune, and i kept hitting wrong notes a lot of the time — which produced varying reactions from myself….

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2002 / 10 / 27 – 16:28 | Top

you found me

hello, user of kingston communications, searching for fuddland with google. you obviously know me, using my full name in the search box. but who are you? intriguing….

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2002 / 10 / 27 – 14:11 | Comment [2] | Top

stormy weather

the words lashing and torrential will no doubt be bandied about today, and with just cause. it’s pissing it down out there. a good day to stay indoors with your new dvds….

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2002 / 10 / 27 – 09:50 | Top

split weekend

the good: i found a fiver on the tube. the bad: absinthe. gah….

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2002 / 10 / 26 – 23:49 | Top

bored

bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored…

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2002 / 10 / 25 – 14:13 | Comment [3] | Top

simple pleasures that no-one admits publically [part 1 of an occasional series]

putting on a pair of pants* that have been warmed on the radiator. *of either variety…

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2002 / 10 / 25 – 11:41 | Comment [4] | Top

time well spent

my notes from today’s seminar:…

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2002 / 10 / 24 – 16:30 | Comment [6] | Top

in my inbox this morning

i think i’ll pass — hope they spend my share on a word-processing package with built-in spell-checker….

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2002 / 10 / 24 – 12:32 | Top

irksome

i really hate it when plans that have been agreed for weeks get changed. bah….

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2002 / 10 / 24 – 12:14 | Top

well, i thought it was funny

x: how do you know how old i am? y: you said that thing happened 4 years ago, when you were 22. x: a lot can happen in 4 years….

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2002 / 10 / 24 – 11:17 | Comment [2] | Top

i have the power

just come back from my first ever committee meeting, in my capactity as postgrad rep. i think it went quite well all in all, and the postgrads can now look forward to extra pay for extra marking of tests on…

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2002 / 10 / 23 – 15:36 | Comment [6] | Top

the question is…

why is someone working at the financial times… …looking for jonathan+ross+surrey+home?…

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2002 / 10 / 23 – 12:56 | Comment [5] | Top

my god, it’s full of algae

a conversation yesterday got me thinking about nantucket island, where i’ve spent many a happy summer with my uncle and cousins. one particular event stands out. it was late august, and late evening — already dark. my cousin ben and…

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2002 / 10 / 23 – 11:15 | Comment [4] | Top

word of the day

glabella….

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2002 / 10 / 22 – 14:21 | Comment [4] | Top

snore

soooo tired……

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2002 / 10 / 22 – 10:39 | Comment [5] | Top

the ultimate question

what am i allergic to? this allergy comes on seemingly at random. is it the smell of the washing powder from the drying clothes? the newly acquired basil plant? the dust thrown out by the fan heater? the pine-scented air…

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2002 / 10 / 20 – 17:31 | Comment [7] | Top

hip hip hooray…

for unexpected emails [of the non-spam variety]. the sender rocks!…

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2002 / 10 / 19 – 19:41 | Comment [4] | Top

you know you really need a drink when…

…you have to, and indeed do, resort to using these to open this….

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2002 / 10 / 19 – 18:49 | Comment [2] | Top

my own brand of cryptomove

i was worried that it was gonna be awkward. but it was fine….

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2002 / 10 / 19 – 15:53 | Top

and what do you do?

despite studying mathematics for nigh on 6 years, i still haven’t thought of a way that really explains the difference between what i do and someone who is good at big sums. i was getting tonsured today by the lovely…

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2002 / 10 / 19 – 15:22 | Comment [3] | Top

rice pudding

can anyone think of a better pudding derived from rice?…

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2002 / 10 / 18 – 21:27 | Comment [2] | Top

guffaw time

no need for lengthy explanations — just read and laugh: part one part two [from rob, who got it from his mate, who got it from his mate…]…

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2002 / 10 / 18 – 14:52 | Comment [1] | Top

asunder

my french class has been split into two groups, and not before time [18 people is just too big a class to learn a language imo]. we had to decide whether we wanted lessons at 4:30pm or 6:30pm, both of…

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2002 / 10 / 18 – 11:43 | Comment [2] | Top

another thing i don’t do

i don’t do football. england versus macedonia tonight, and i couldn’t care less. actually, it’s not that i don’t do the football supporting thing, it’s that apparently i can’t. i simply cannot get passionate about any one team, so whilst…

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2002 / 10 / 16 – 21:04 | Comment [7] | Top

ooh he’s tough

your site goes down, you’re out!…

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2002 / 10 / 16 – 15:40 | Comment [9] | Top

failure of ph.d assured…

due to constant playing with this….

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2002 / 10 / 16 – 15:06 | Comment [2] | Top

talk about the passion

i was over in the music room playing the piano for the first time in ages, when i had a sudden horrible realisation: i actually subconsciously do that “rocking back and forth with passion” thing that professional pianists do! nooooooooo!…

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2002 / 10 / 16 – 12:53 | Comment [7] | Top

pointing out the obvious

when i am at my desk and filling up pages with strange symbols, that means i’m working, and really don’t want to hear your story about how you didn’t get the hire car you thought you were getting….

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2002 / 10 / 16 – 11:57 | Comment [6] | Top

good deed update

nobody has commented on it, but i cannot be sure no-one has noticed. in fact, i know rob noticed my good deed, but i don’t think he knew he was noticing it….

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2002 / 10 / 15 – 14:35 | Comment [6] | Top

random act of kindness

i’ve just done [what i think is] a thoroughly good deed. i wonder if anybody will appreciate it, or even notice?…

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2002 / 10 / 15 – 00:55 | Comment [8] | Top

dvd the bruce

attempted movie-style bid for happiness this morning. failed utterly in every respect. plan b is forming, but it lacks the spontaneity of the original plan [which, dammit, should have worked!]….

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2002 / 10 / 14 – 20:46 | Comment [1] | Top

incitement

just bought a set of kitchen scales which bear the legend ‘not for legal use’. good job i was only going to use them for divvying up my stash of opiates….

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2002 / 10 / 12 – 17:44 | Top

why i don’t drive

it always puzzles me when people express shock at the fact i don’t have a driving licence. whilst i recognise i’m in the minority, even more so if you restrict to my social group of twenty-something males*, i really don’t…

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2002 / 10 / 12 – 15:31 | Comment [4] | Top

change of plan

putting off going to london until tomorrow, due to fact that i really cannot be arsed getting on a train today….

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2002 / 10 / 12 – 15:04 | Top

off…

…to smelly london for a couple of days….

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2002 / 10 / 12 – 11:11 | Top

need sleep

tonight, i had a bloody good night. drinkage, danceage, with old and new friends. f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fabulous….

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2002 / 10 / 12 – 03:13 | Top

triteage

i think there is a desperate need amongst people (in particular, those who would be considered ‘educated’) to avoid trite statements or opinions — to the point where it has even become trite to say ‘cliché’. i am firmly against…

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2002 / 10 / 11 – 14:37 | Comment [4] | Top

maths jokes

a walk home from the pub with barney, fellow postgrad and resident of next the street along from mine, led to exchanges of maths jokes. now believe it or not, most of these are actually funny. [i’m a particular fan…

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2002 / 10 / 11 – 12:00 | Comment [5] | Top

quote of the evening

“i thought he was drunk, but he’s probably just american” © toby…

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2002 / 10 / 10 – 23:48 | Top

my favouritest search hit yet

why+a+drunk+person+might+more+easily+die+from+hypothermia+than+a+sober+person…

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2002 / 10 / 10 – 23:47 | Top

frustration

drat it! i keep getting (n-k)p instead of (n/p)-k….

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2002 / 10 / 10 – 11:54 | Comment [7] | Top

slosh slosh

still feeling a bit giddy after giving blood this morning, so have been attempting to replace my missing plasma with hot blackcurrent — 2 pints of it so far consumed this evening. i popped in to see pwl at quarter…

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2002 / 10 / 09 – 22:28 | Comment [1] | Top

yes, i really was this bored

many years later she remembered her first experience with ice, the one-hit wonder faux-gangsta uber-twat who’s real name happened to be robert van winkle. she never did understand why he felt the need to invent a violent past, given that…

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2002 / 10 / 09 – 16:36 | Comment [2] | Top

lacking inspiration

i really can’t think of anything to blog. suggestions please. [except for you, inappropriate boy!]…

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2002 / 10 / 09 – 09:23 | Comment [8] | Top

lyric of the day

I’ll feed you fruit that don’t exist I’ll leave graffiti Where you’ve never been kissed I’ll do your laundry Massage your soul I’ll turn you over To the highway patrol cheers beck, you’re one crazy beast. i saw beck in…

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2002 / 10 / 06 – 20:54 | Comment [5] | Top

tell it like it is

i tried to play an mp3 that doesn’t exist anymore. looks like microsoft have taken to admitting the truth, as the following error message shows:…

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2002 / 10 / 06 – 16:09 | Top

latest tea-related mishap [minor]

the tea i buy comes in a box of 80 teabags, which is divided into two foiled-wrapped bags of 40 teabags, for extra freshness. upon opening a new box, i put 40 teabags into my caddy* and place the other…

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2002 / 10 / 06 – 14:39 | Comment [3] | Top

too much thirst

my first french lesson was yesterday, which was pretty interesting. my rudimentary knowledge came, not exactly flooding back, more a kind of gentle trickle. what was strange was that the majority of the class was made up of chinese students,…

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2002 / 10 / 04 – 16:47 | Comment [4] | Top

on tonight’s turntable we have…

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2002 / 10 / 02 – 20:58 | Comment [5] | Top

track 15

just got an unexpected, and hence very pleasant, call from an old friend from undergrad days. it’s always nice to have catching-up conversations, knocking back and forth “what i’ve done” stories, describing how socially butterflific* we’ve been, etc. just one…

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2002 / 10 / 02 – 20:15 | Comment [6] | Top

bravo

just attended my first staff meeting in my capacity as student rep. had a lovely comment from rick after it had finished: “i couldn’t find fault with anything you said. everything you said was true.” the fact that i didn’t…

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2002 / 10 / 02 – 16:05 | Comment [2] | Top

the stuff dreams are made of

not only can you make a connection between michael stipe and myself, it’s via the medium of porn. marvellous!…

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2002 / 10 / 02 – 11:01 | Comment [1] | Top

you sick puppy

pictures+jerking+off+sister? never darken my website again!…

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2002 / 10 / 02 – 10:56 | Comment [1] | Top

with power comes bad breath

went to the postgraduate reception at 5:30pm, admittedly only because there was free wine. there were a couple of speeches by bob (the vice chancellor), graeme (graduate dean) and the president of the student union. afterwards bob came over and…

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2002 / 10 / 01 – 20:50 | Comment [6] | Top

i need a tinkle

bah, other people have been playing the pianos all day, so i haven’t been able to tickle the ivories at all. :(…

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2002 / 10 / 01 – 15:20 | Comment [3] | Top

raaaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

i cannot believe i missed this last night! dammit!! anyone tape it?…

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2002 / 10 / 01 – 12:11 | Comment [7] | Top

and so it goes on

real work continues at an alarming pace, possibly influenced by the presence of newbies in the office [have to make a good impression, what with being the postgrad rep and all that]. had a sudden fear that pwl will shoot…

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2002 / 10 / 01 – 10:59 | Comment [1] | Top

if you were the person who left the sound of chewing gum and miscellaneous office background noise on my answerphone at 4:27pm, the next time you call please say something in the twenty seconds between the beep and your hanging…

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2002 / 09 / 30 – 23:54 | Comment [6] | Top

the beauty of blogs…

…is that they help you realise that there are better writers out there than professional writers. which makes you wonder wtf some professional writers get paid for….

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2002 / 09 / 30 – 23:32 | Top

stop the press

lack of action in virtual fuddland due to unprecedented real work in real fuddland. writing a thingy for pwl, detailing exactly what we’re working on, what we’ve done so far, and open questions. it’s been quite refreshing revisiting things that…

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2002 / 09 / 30 – 16:33 | Comment [2] | Top

things i have done in the last few days that, whilst unimportant, nonetheless make me happy (in no particular order)

ordered this and this; installed this; watched loads of episodes of this; read more of this; drank tea and coffee from these guys; read this and this and this [and particularly liked this]. and least interestingly (to the general public)…

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2002 / 09 / 30 – 11:40 | Top

i cater for all

two recent search requests that landed the users in fuddland: heliopause+terminal+shock jerking+off+together…

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2002 / 09 / 29 – 09:51 | Comment [3] | Top

role reversal

had a cool time last night at gbrl’s house-warming party\barbecue, where i had the pleasure of being served food instead of cooking it for everyone else. i also had the pleasure of being the most unusually dressed person there, relatively…

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2002 / 09 / 29 – 09:14 | Comment [2] | Top

classic mountain\molehill scenario

as part of the on-going ‘behind the scenes’ revamp of fuddland, which you may or may not have noticed [for example, all images are now hosted by blogspot*, rather than on the mcs server at university], i want to get…

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2002 / 09 / 28 – 12:55 | Comment [2] | Top

sometimes…

…i just feel so vanilla….

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2002 / 09 / 27 – 23:42 | Comment [1] | Top

big up to rick

rick, in case you didn’t know, is the head of my department, and one of the cuddliest blokes you’ll ever meet. i went over to sign up for a beginner’s french course in the modern languages department, which i wanted…

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2002 / 09 / 27 – 14:38 | Comment [1] | Top

i define cool…

…like this:…

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2002 / 09 / 26 – 22:14 | Comment [2] | Top

blush

was just playing the piano over in the attenborough tower — as per usual, i was honing my tune — when a nice looking girl came in and said she “just wanted to see who was playing because it sounded…

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2002 / 09 / 26 – 15:28 | Comment [8] | Top

invisible mode off

number of people so far who have noticed and commented on the fact that i’ve shaved off my beard: zero. not that i did it to get noticed. tonight i shall be painting my bottom blue….

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2002 / 09 / 26 – 11:58 | Comment [1] | Top

something came up

turned out it was a mate of rob’s birthday*, so the evening was not spent shaving as planned, but instead can be summed up thus: beer, singing, french, two grown men in dog costumes brawling on the floor. an average…

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2002 / 09 / 26 – 08:35 | Comment [5] | Top

where are they now?

it says they’ve been posted, so where are my dvds?…

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2002 / 09 / 25 – 17:31 | Comment [3] | Top

mystery email

just received an email that begins >Thanks, Dave, this obviously can’t have been intended for me, because everybody knows that my. name. is. david….

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2002 / 09 / 25 – 16:36 | Comment [8] | Top

take it off the chin

i have decided that, unless something else comes up, tonight i shall shave off my beard. that is all….

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2002 / 09 / 25 – 15:32 | Comment [11] | Top

readage frenzy

spurred on by gifts of books [thanks to sis, mrtn, and dad (twice)], i’ve gone a bit crazy due to a special offer at www.justgoodbooks.co.uk, and ordered the following books. life on air | sir david attenborough food and drink:…

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2002 / 09 / 25 – 13:49 | Comment [3] | Top

pedantic pluralisation pondering

i was reading the report “iraq’s weapons of mass destruction” and was wondering about tb’s acronym for weapons of mass destruction. he says wmd stands for “weapons of mass destruction”, but shouldn’t it really stand for the singular “weapon of…

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2002 / 09 / 24 – 16:15 | Comment [7] | Top

dead cert

who wants to bet me that the producers won’t insist on putting subtitles on mel’s new film after the first test screening?…

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2002 / 09 / 24 – 11:27 | Top

get away from me!

today is the first day of the new academic year, which explains the thousands of extremely young looking, not to mention lost people wandering around outside. spectator sport of the day: watching them try to get into the maths building…

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2002 / 09 / 23 – 14:00 | Comment [2] | Top

shudder

so it seems that when the walls and floor shook last night, it wasn’t my neighbour throwing himself rapidly against the wall, but was in fact an earthquake. this being my first earthquake, it didn’t even enter my mind that…

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2002 / 09 / 23 – 08:09 | Comment [2] | Top

equilibrium

okay, everything looks fine here. going to bed……

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2002 / 09 / 23 – 01:09 | Comment [1] | Top

test post

grrr. snarl. UPDATE [00:54]: the test was to see whassup with my template. as you can hopefully see, the post-time links are back. apparently changing the incorrect > symbols back to " symbols then saving the template does work, but…

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2002 / 09 / 23 – 00:21 | Comment [4] | Top

crepuscular activities

this evening i have been mostly suspending my disbelief whilst watching travolta and cage’s overacting competition in face/off on the beeb. by thunder i hate the cheesy ending, but despite this: john woo rocks! [hey, more woo-ness. this has certainly…

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2002 / 09 / 22 – 23:26 | Comment [1] | Top

we have a problem

summink’s up with blogger at the mo: it keeps replacing a couple of "s with >’s* in my template — specifically, in the post-time links, causing them to fcuk up. i’ve disabled them until it gets sorted…whenever that is. this…

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2002 / 09 / 22 – 18:27 | Comment [1] | Top

to the lions

it’s a simple question: is my blog hot or not?…

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2002 / 09 / 22 – 17:48 | Comment [6] | Top

fighting fit

contrary to previous fears, here i am back blogging a mere couple of hours after waking. mr mailer has just left to be all soppy with his new girlfriend, i’ve just had a satisfying, hangover-busting fry-up, and plan to veg…

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2002 / 09 / 22 – 13:30 | Comment [1] | Top

apology in advance

there could well be a repeat of last week’s blog-free days, owing to the fact that one of my bestest friends, mr mailer, shall be visiting this weekend to make up for missing my birthday paean [some crap excuse about…

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2002 / 09 / 21 – 11:56 | Comment [1] | Top

how did that happen?

went to town with the intention of buying a new jacket. came back from town the proud owner of a toaster oven….

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2002 / 09 / 20 – 17:00 | Comment [3] | Top

looking for meaning

searching for a simple way to explain the point of it all, it seems the following things have all been described as a metaphor for life: golf, the tour de france, algebra, motorcycling, juggling, bowling, breath, baseball, new age disentanglement…

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2002 / 09 / 20 – 11:33 | Comment [8] | Top

catch 22

and where exactly is one supposed to discuss, if not within the comforting confines of the comment system? the answer to the question(s) must be the [insert plural of emphatic here] “yes”, “yes”, “no, ‘cause you’re great”!…

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2002 / 09 / 19 – 20:58 | Comment [3] | Top

seeeth

i’ve had not one but two meetings with pwl cancelled today. the first one was supposed to be at 12pm, which got moved to 3:30pm. i turned up to his office at 3:30pm only to be told “oh, sorry, i…

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2002 / 09 / 19 – 16:32 | Top

nothing gets past the bbc

from this news story: Speaking after the hearing, Mr Kielty said: “I came here to get my name cleared and the apology read in court was more important to me than the substantial damages I have been awarded.” The amount…

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2002 / 09 / 19 – 13:15 | Comment [1] | Top

brainache

does this make sense: ‘ah, but you cannot let me let you win without me letting you let me let you win’? related question: should that question mark have gone inside the quote?…

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2002 / 09 / 19 – 11:50 | Comment [2] | Top

no reason

i just thought i’d put a link to one of steve’s posts here, for no particular reason. *heh heh heh*…

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2002 / 09 / 19 – 09:52 | Comment [7] | Top

how many comments??

it seems the secret to a large number of positive comments on your blog is to announce you’re getting married… any takers? no? ah well, www.russianbrides.com here i come!!! ps congrats meg, if you ever see this post….

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2002 / 09 / 18 – 21:01 | Comment [4] | Top

riddle me this

i’ve had two independent visits to fuddland from people wanting to know about a particular riddle. the first one was via riddle, fox and chicken, cross the river two at a time with out leaving the fox to eat the…

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2002 / 09 / 18 – 14:20 | Comment [2] | Top

the great blog update

okay, a quick precis of the last few days. friday night was the eagerly awaited barbecue at pwl’s place, out in the sticks. rob, his girlfriend, and i got a lift with pwl, and so arrived a couple of hours…

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2002 / 09 / 18 – 10:49 | Comment [1] | Top

normal service will be resumed…

…once i’ve recovered from the weekend’s excesses….

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2002 / 09 / 16 – 12:53 | Comment [4] | Top

birthday piccage

my sister’s kindly scanned in [she’s not yet discovered the wonder of the blink] some photos she took last saturday. shiny happy people….

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2002 / 09 / 13 – 15:24 | Comment [4] | Top

some the wiser

as one might have suspected, the origin of friday the 13th’s importance is open to much speculation and mass debate. here’s just one of the 3,180 hits on the subject. unfortunately, this investigation has opened a can of worms by…

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2002 / 09 / 13 – 12:12 | Comment [4] | Top

hide!

erk! it’s friday the 13th. look out for men in hockey masks wielding knives. actually i’m not at all superstitious [i think it’s bad luck to believe in all that stuff], but i’m quite interested in how the idea of…

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2002 / 09 / 13 – 12:07 | Top

i’m not really here

i’ve come into uni today, and i’m feeling a bit in limbo*; i’m here because i saw pwl by chance yesterday and he said he might try and find me today to do some work. seeing as i never really…

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2002 / 09 / 13 – 11:24 | Comment [2] | Top

i’m on holiday

suddenly realised yesterday that i have soooooo taken the week off work. obviously no work was done on monday — although i did go into uni, i only chatted to a few people, messed about on my pc and played…

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2002 / 09 / 12 – 10:26 | Comment [3] | Top

today

i’ve been racking my brains, trying to think of a way to mark today’s anniversary without seeming trite or saying what hasn’t been said before, but i’ve concluded that that’s not really possible. so many thousands of words have been…

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2002 / 09 / 11 – 23:09 | Comment [1] | Top

dvd’s comedy dinners

this evening i have been mostly sucking a lemon. either that or messing about with adobe photoshop 7.0….

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2002 / 09 / 10 – 20:24 | Comment [2] | Top

too harsh?

is imprisoning a man for using his mobile phone on an aeroplane an unfair punishment? not at all. the man’s a moron. how many times does he need to be told, “if you don’t turn that off, it could interfere…

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2002 / 09 / 10 – 16:35 | Comment [5] | Top

hair today, blonde tomorrow

before and after shots. UPDATE [15:00] i’ve added conclusive evidence that the ‘after’ photo is indeed me. click it to see….

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2002 / 09 / 10 – 12:55 | Comment [4] | Top

crunch time

i decided to forgo the traditional ‘getting trolleyed on one’s birthday’, instead saving myself for this saturday, and spent this evening at home with a friend [lisa, tall, blonde, doing a phd in physics, *gawp*]. we had pizza and beers…

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2002 / 09 / 10 – 00:23 | Comment [2] | Top

has beens

i love baked beans, but apparently refugees do not….

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2002 / 09 / 09 – 15:00 | Comment [1] | Top

and here’s dvd with the weather…

it’s bloody pissing it down out there! :(…

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2002 / 09 / 09 – 14:48 | Top

subtle as a lemon [wrapped around a large gold brick]

in case it has somehow escaped anyone’s attention [although i’m not sure how that could be possible], today… it’s my birthday!!! thanks very much go to all the groovy people who have wished me happiness on this day, and special…

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2002 / 09 / 09 – 12:19 | Comment [2] | Top

reason to come home early

i’m supposed to still be at one big sunday, but i’ve come home because my bastard allergy was driving me mad. it feels like i’m constantly on the verge of a sneeze — that itchy, tickley feeling — but it…

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2002 / 09 / 08 – 15:23 | Comment [2] | Top

cool linkage

nice to see imogen linking to myself and mrtn, with appropriate comovic references in the title tags. cheers imogen! the circle is almost complete…[just need mrtn to put a permanent link to recimo on pink shirt, yellow tie.com — no…

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2002 / 09 / 07 – 10:44 | Comment [5] | Top

visitations

but not of the spooky kind thankfully — mother, brother, and sister will be here in about an hour for lunch, followed by tea and cake*. very nice of them to travel up to see me**, and it gives me…

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2002 / 09 / 07 – 10:39 | Top

now that’s planning!

apparently, the art of noise are releasing a new cd in 2025….

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2002 / 09 / 07 – 10:04 | Top

yay, go google!

further to this post, someone is doing their best to combat the censorship of the internet currently enforced in china — by creating a literal mirror of google. to see what i mean, go here, and for more details, read…

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2002 / 09 / 06 – 17:35 | Comment [3] | Top

ce qui?

an unusually busy friday. as predicted, i had a meeting with pwl this morning, and he said i need to find out about a particular subject* and then report back…this afternoon! erk! none of the procrastinating that has become de…

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2002 / 09 / 06 – 16:46 | Top

gosh that was quick

google already indexes fuddland based on a post from yesterday…check it: i hate toploader. UPDATE: [22:30] a tad more worrying is that you can also find fuddland by typing cream load excitement sacks into google. now where have i heard…

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2002 / 09 / 05 – 22:10 | Comment [4] | Top

…and relax…

successfully made it through all 6 talks [we were previously told there were 7 candidates, but evidently that changed somewhere along the line]. a highlight for me was candidate 5, who entered the room and said that he didn’t realise…

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2002 / 09 / 05 – 17:53 | Top

it’s thursday, brought to you in association with yawn-o-vision

from 13:30 until 17:30 today, the entire applied maths department is required to sit through 7 talks given by applicants for the lectureship starting this month. must remember to inject caffeine immediately beforehand……

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2002 / 09 / 05 – 10:01 | Comment [10] | Top

hunger strikes!

similar to this previous post, the paper i’m reading now talks about a space of functions called BLt, which makes me quite hungry. that is all….

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2002 / 09 / 04 – 12:53 | Comment [4] | Top

wires crossed part ii

i ordered this a few days ago from cd-wow, so i was pleased to see a cd-sized package in my pigeon-hole this morning. unfortunately they’ve sent me this instead. they could have at least sent me something i also wanted….

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2002 / 09 / 04 – 12:42 | Comment [1] | Top

wires crossed

whilst clearing up my flat this morning… the plan: (so simple, it should have worked) to throw half-eaten, stale tea cake into bin, and to pour cold, half-drunk tea down sink. the reality: (got a bit confused due to still…

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2002 / 09 / 04 – 12:04 | Comment [3] | Top

a load off

you’ll be pleased to hear that should you visit china in the future, you’ll still be able to access fuddland. find out what sites are inaccessible in china with this tool….

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2002 / 09 / 03 – 15:21 | Comment [6] | Top

scuppered

was just about to get aforementioned cuppa when jl came in, fresh from a month in new zealand, wanting to talk to me about new problems that have arisen out of work he was doing down under-and-over-a-bit. he seems quite…

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2002 / 09 / 03 – 12:30 | Comment [5] | Top

first tentative steps

well i’ve made it into uni. don’t want to rush into these things though, so perhaps i’d better get a cup of tea before trying anything else more ambitious….

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2002 / 09 / 03 – 10:49 | Comment [2] | Top

the excitement mounts

received my first birthday card today, from my dear mother. six days early, so there’s still plenty of time for the other sacks of cards to arrive. [always nice to see the postman with a bulging sack.] still at home…

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2002 / 09 / 03 – 09:52 | Comment [2] | Top

personal assistant required, apply within

slept in this morning, had a leisurely breakfast, and strolled into uni, arriving about 10:45. suddenly remembered that i had a meeting with a guy at 12:00 to explain how to perform the chi-squared test using microsoft excel. this had…

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2002 / 09 / 02 – 15:21 | Comment [2] | Top

you know something’s not right…

…when someone puts a link to a photo of your arse in their blog. my life may never be the same again….

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2002 / 09 / 01 – 21:04 | Comment [6] | Top

for imogen

today, i have done nothing. not strictly true of course. i’ve eaten lunch, pottered around for a bit, caught up on the blogs, watched rounders, woken up, been shopping, eaten breakfast, talked for 1 hour and 23 mins to a…

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2002 / 09 / 01 – 20:18 | Comment [3] | Top

vits and bits

i was feeling a marked lack of vitamins [probably due to my not leaving the house for more than 5 minutes since thursday], so i went to my local safeways to stock up on some fruit. however, they seem to…

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2002 / 08 / 31 – 16:49 | Comment [4] | Top

all together now…

HA!!…

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2002 / 08 / 31 – 16:00 | Comment [1] | Top

and the question of the day is…

…what exactly is the plural of ‘daddy long legs’?…

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2002 / 08 / 31 – 13:52 | Comment [5] | Top

cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels

in an attempt to make up for the horribly boring previous post, i’m posting a picture of my very favourite possession. it’s not a particularly original choice, i know, but i love this guitar. i was given it for christmas…

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2002 / 08 / 31 – 00:48 | Comment [8] | Top

techie post — ignore if easily bored

i think i’ve finally got my pc set up as an ftp site the way i want it. i’ve set up a dummy ‘limited rights’ user account for my os (win xp), with a password different from all my other…

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2002 / 08 / 30 – 23:17 | Comment [2] | Top

just for mrtn

he wants me to do a post using mozilla with a link. so here’s the link….

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2002 / 08 / 30 – 12:23 | Comment [4] | Top

mrtn says blogger doesn’t work with mozilla…

he’s probably right. this is a test post….

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2002 / 08 / 30 – 09:39 | Comment [11] | Top

dilemmas of the day

today, a few situations came to light requiring my attention: one minor, the others, unimportant. still, here they are: (a) to post or not to post. rob, my good friend in the next office, reads my blog regularly. we also,…

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2002 / 08 / 30 – 00:58 | Comment [3] | Top

newsflash: readership of fuddland getting dangerously close to 5 different people!

dammit, now i’ve got to start posting things of interest have i? don’t worry though folks, i shan’t be posting any pics of my stomach any time soon! but this seems an appropriate time to relate my mole story. about…

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2002 / 08 / 29 – 09:25 | Comment [2] | Top

wa-choo

continuing the theme of onomatopoetic post titles, i’ve woken up feeling sneezy [and no, i’m not in bed with one of the seven dwarfs]. this happens quite often as i suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis — usually a couple of…

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2002 / 08 / 29 – 07:47 | Top

wooooooooooooooooooooo-hooooooooooooooooo!

*ahem* my broadband pack arrived this morning. would you believe me if i said there were absolutely no problems getting it set up? no? well tough, because it’s true! i could scarcely believe it myself, but i slapped in the…

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2002 / 08 / 28 – 09:42 | Comment [5] | Top

they just have no idea do they?

yep, despite the overall good intentions, little gestures also count towards showing that they’re determined to make a difference. what can those attending the johannesburg summit do to help convince us that they are trying to put an end to…

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2002 / 08 / 27 – 16:09 | Comment [2] | Top

slow start

i managed to struggle into university around midday, after finally defeating the duvet in its bid to convince me there is no other place on earth better than its womb-like comfort. i’d also convinced myself that my superschnelles-modem would arrive…

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2002 / 08 / 27 – 14:19 | Top

panic over, but for the wrong reason :(

well i’ve tried lots of different things, and managed to bring up the preview window for my blink digital pics, and they all appear blank. bah humbug, no photos from the party. wiped the memory and blink seems to be…

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2002 / 08 / 26 – 22:03 | Comment [6] | Top

panic panic

nooooooooooo! i can’t upload my digital pictures from my blink to the pc! whatever program i try and use just automatically closes as soon as i try and import the pictures. i’m praying it’s just my mum’s pc being temperamental…

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2002 / 08 / 25 – 18:17 | Comment [5] | Top

say what?

clothes that tell you if they clash with what you are wearing? god, imagine the racket at jonathan ross’s house!…

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2002 / 08 / 23 – 22:55 | Top

ever decreasing circles

reading this news story makes me wonder whether it will be ever actually possible to write a completely secure computer programme*. i mean, it’s not as if the microsoft programmers leave these holes in the software on purpose is it?…

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2002 / 08 / 23 – 14:19 | Comment [4] | Top

normal service will be resumed…when i feel like it

someone has pointed out [in their usual, (i.e. sarcasm overload) style] that i haven’t posted anything in about 37 hours. now let’s try and think what the reasons could be…too busy working? [not likely.] not felt like being near a…

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2002 / 08 / 23 – 13:49 | Top

message to self

just go to bed you goddamned idiot! that is all….

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2002 / 08 / 22 – 00:52 | Comment [1] | Top

wimp

so steve’s decided it’s bed-time and has signed off. video-phone thing a slight success, hampered by the fact that steve ain’t got a microphone. so more like a video-text-message thingy really. still, coolness nonetheless. and i polished off half a…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 23:59 | Top

quickie

just time for a quick post to say: the internet freaking rocks man. been msn messengering with steve this evening, when we [well, me actually] realised we could use our blinks and soundcards as video-phones! he’s rebooting at the mo…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 22:19 | Top

don’t know when to quit

yep, i’m still mucking about with css and stuff like that. this is a test post to see if my strikethrough tags work. see, i defined several different ways of make the text struck-through, because i have terrible trouble remembering…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 16:10 | Comment [1] | Top

my eyes. my eyes!!

i can actually feel the blood pumping through the veins in my eyelids, as they the desperately to combat the effects of looking at a computer screen for, erm, nigh on 17 hours now [apart from the couple of hours…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 15:37 | Comment [2] | Top

fuddland rocks!

check it! update [14:05]: okay, the compliance only applies from this day forth, okay? i really cannot be bothered to change the postings in the archives! so no-one [else! — ‘thanks’ rob] point out that they’re not compliant!…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 13:54 | Comment [2] | Top

look, no ad banner!

mrtn = genius. official. i hope i don’t get kicked off blogger for bendage of the rules!…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 13:50 | Comment [5] | Top

you’re excused

lack of postage over at pinkshirtyellowtie.com is probably entirely due to mrtn being a splendid chap and helping get my html as near as dammit to 4.01 compliant. i’d also like to thank rob for his contributions. and my parents…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 13:45 | Comment [3] | Top

more yawnage

i did make it to bed after all, at 05:00, only to be woken at 07:30 by the postman wanting a signature for my new credit card. for some reason i decided that as i was already up, i might…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 12:08 | Top

new look

i decided it was time for fuddland to have it’s own unique design, rather than one based on an existing blogger template. as you can see, i’ve opted for clean lines and pastel shades for a minimalist look. there’s still…

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2002 / 08 / 21 – 04:17 | Comment [4] | Top

not again!

continuing the theme of two previous posts (1 and 2), i’ve just received the following text message: “Hi there stranger! how is life!? J.x” now this cannot be the same person featured in those two previous posts because (a) i’ve…

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2002 / 08 / 20 – 17:55 | Comment [3] | Top

the clash’s dilemma

bit of a non-day today. not really achieved a great deal, although i did find a nice paper which gathers together lots of useful facts, and - for once - proves them too, so i don’t have to waste time…

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2002 / 08 / 20 – 15:43 | Comment [1] | Top

congrats…

…to voyager 2, who has been sending back signals from outer space for exactly 25 years today. voyager 1 celebrates the same anniversary on september 5th. you can read quick summary of its history here, or visit the extensive nasa…

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2002 / 08 / 20 – 10:41 | Comment [1] | Top

grrr, damn the rumours

i’d just like to point out that i have never conjectured that the following is true with regards to myself: += okay?…

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2002 / 08 / 19 – 14:28 | Comment [4] | Top

why do microsoft make life so difficult?

been musing with rob about how difficult it is to talk about maths problems using msn messenger. for [simplistic] example, say we’re talking about solving f(x)=g(z) + h(y). type that into messenger and it comes out the other end as…

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2002 / 08 / 19 – 14:08 | Comment [4] | Top

horses sweat, men perspire, women glow, david oozes moisture from every pore

urgh i’m not kidding, i’m sweating all over - it’s so clammy. it’s not as bad as when i had glandular fever though - waking up and actually having to towel myself dry of all the sweat. urgh again. obviously…

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2002 / 08 / 19 – 00:23 | Comment [1] | Top

pumpin’

omigodthatwasacoolendingto24 theycertainlydidnotdisappoint icanhardlywaitforthenextseriestostart (especiallywiththeknowledgethathisannoyingwifewillnotbeinit)…

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2002 / 08 / 19 – 00:07 | Comment [3] | Top

world record?

right, i may inadvertently break a record as i intend to not blink for the next 45 minutes, whilst watching the final episode of the brilliant 24. incidentally, just finished watching the final episode (in this series) of the also…

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2002 / 08 / 18 – 21:58 | Comment [2] | Top

…i’ve had a few

there’s a couple of senses in which that title can be taken, and whilst it’s true that i’ve been out and had a few beers, i actually meant it in the sense of regrets. although i was with some friends…

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2002 / 08 / 17 – 22:16 | Comment [7] | Top

bit worrying

whilst looking for sexy tunes* to play on my guitar, i found this. now ignoring the simplistic riff, i found the message at the bottom to be a tad worrying - hopefully the person who submitted it is around the…

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2002 / 08 / 17 – 12:31 | Comment [2] | Top

it’s a long one

it’s very easy to decend into bouts of self pity. i went through a stage at the end of last year of sitting in my room, drinking a bottle or more of wine, and cursing to myself about how miserable…

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2002 / 08 / 17 – 12:06 | Comment [1] | Top

boring

oh, it was someone i know who’s just started working for the university, but they haven’t been given their own email account yet so are using the account of the person they replaced. how dull. they thought they’d try and…

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2002 / 08 / 16 – 11:51 | Comment [4] | Top

a case for the scooby gang

received the following email this morning: > From: Prentice, J. > Sent: 16 August 2002 09:34 > To: dvd > Subject: > > > Hello. How are you today? > i have no idea who prentice, j. is, but apparently…

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2002 / 08 / 16 – 11:10 | Comment [4] | Top

fulfulling strange desires

ever wanted to listen to the talky bit at the beginning of the a-team, in spanish? click here then!…

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2002 / 08 / 14 – 16:50 | Comment [2] | Top

distractions

suppose you have a whole bunch of equations (or ‘functions’) — we can think of them as forming a ‘space of functions’, in the same way that a whole bunch of coordinates (x,y,z) form three-dimensional space. a bilinear form is…

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2002 / 08 / 14 – 13:09 | Comment [1] | Top

keep on blogging

after a momentary scare from mrtn, he seems to have gained a second wind in the blogging arena. he does raise a valid point though: what are these blogs for? it’s not as if i have a particularly painful spleen…

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2002 / 08 / 14 – 11:35 | Comment [11] | Top

i thought they were supposed to be really busy?

yesterday i emailed jean chrétien, the prime minister of canada, and i received a response from his executive correspondence officer this morning — talk about quick turnaround! when i wrote to tony blair, it took a couple of weeks for…

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2002 / 08 / 13 – 12:12 | Comment [11] | Top

it’s actually gone quite well

i’ve made a bit of headway in reading this paper, and the note-making theory touched upon earlier seems to be upholding [number of pages of notes >> number of pages in paper that notes are about]. i have also managed…

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2002 / 08 / 12 – 16:41 | Comment [3] | Top

it was all going so well

bah. i was genuinely doing some bona fide real work* when i dropped my pen and made a blue ink-mark on my white t-shirt. obviously have to stop work immediately before anything more serious happens. *how tautological?…

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2002 / 08 / 12 – 12:48 | Top

it won’t happen

right, i really really really really must do some work today, having been a tad lackadaisical of late. my main goal is to read and, more importantly, understand this paper by my supervisor and one of his previous fudders. the…

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2002 / 08 / 12 – 10:10 | Comment [4] | Top

phrase of the week

pear-shaped….

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2002 / 08 / 09 – 09:19 | Comment [4] | Top

i just couldn’t help watching

the programme on obsessive compulsive disorder was very interesting — strange what some people do. we had hoarders who never throw anything away, to the point where the floor of their house was about 8 inches below the rubbish that…

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2002 / 08 / 08 – 09:37 | Top

it’s official

the world’s gone crazy [worryingly, the creator of the sport lives in my town]….

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2002 / 08 / 07 – 17:23 | Top

utilising university resources

currently having wickedcoolfun with my new pc (p4 1.7ghz) by playing pontifex (aka bridgebuilder). i knew a-level mechanics modules would come in handy one day……

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2002 / 08 / 07 – 13:11 | Comment [7] | Top

family tree

bandwagoning. yup, i’ve signed up with too….

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2002 / 08 / 07 – 12:51 | Comment [4] | Top

crime pays after all

now this is just fabulous….

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2002 / 08 / 07 – 11:03 | Comment [2] | Top

it’s funny how…

…a song comes along at just the right moment….

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2002 / 08 / 06 – 10:30 | Comment [4] | Top

yep

indeedy, there are some odd ways to get to fuddland: what+does+it+mean+to+nod+your+head+in+Albania? [6th result!]…

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2002 / 08 / 05 – 15:04 | Comment [3] | Top

workmen follies

been amused by workman outside my window today. he was shovelling sand out of a big bag into an empty skip, for no discernable reason. i’m sure there was a valid technical explanation for what he was doing, but to…

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2002 / 08 / 05 – 14:46 | Top

my day so far

nice sunny morning. open skylight. nice cool breeze drifts through flat. read paper. crap rainy afternoon. watch tv. forget skylight is open. bed soaked. arse….

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2002 / 08 / 03 – 17:02 | Comment [3] | Top

words words words

found this site via mrtn via meg, which is something of a holy grail for me, as i’ve been wondering about some of these questions for a while. in particular, the ‘how many is a billion?’ answer is most pleasing…

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2002 / 08 / 02 – 12:42 | Comment [1] | Top

i shan’t be swayed

bah, publishing posts to free blogger is ‘temporarily suspended due to server overload’. however, they kindly inform me that the pro version of blogger is working fine. cynical marketing ploy anyone?…

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2002 / 08 / 02 – 11:07 | Comment [1] | Top

i thought i had psychic fingers this morning

now there’s a sentence i never thought i’d write! i’d just finished my shower and went to push the ‘off’ button. my finger was still a couple of inches away when the shower went off all by itself. luckily i’m…

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2002 / 08 / 02 – 10:47 | Comment [3] | Top

congrats to steve…

…who correctly identified the obscure reference in the text message i sent him last night. the text of the text was as follows: ‘make sure mr jingles gets to mouseville, okay?’ now does steve have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the…

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2002 / 08 / 02 – 10:39 | Comment [4] | Top

along the same vein

there was a quasi-comovic (nee comovedic) situation in enterprise last night (i don’t really watch it, but fortuitously caught this part): character 1: put that thing away! now this would have immediately warrented warranted a “but what about the gun?”…

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2002 / 08 / 01 – 11:03 | Comment [8] | Top

spoof-tastic

i was feeling in a galaxy quest kind of mood yesterday, so i whacked it on (i only have the last-century-esque vhs copy), and laughed heartily. i don’t think you even have to know much about star trek or science…

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2002 / 08 / 01 – 10:57 | Top

priorities

i see that throwing eggs is an arrestable offence so long as the queen is involved. are there really not any more serious crimes for northamptonshire police to deal with?…

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2002 / 08 / 01 – 08:40 | Comment [3] | Top

doh!

further to this post, i have returned home without my umbrella. so if it’s raining tomorrow morning, i shall have nothing to shield me from the elements — unless i spend the whole day at home, blogging…(now there’s a thought)….

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2002 / 07 / 31 – 17:38 | Top

test post

link to shelf….

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2002 / 07 / 31 – 17:33 | Comment [1] | Top

he’s through!

no probs. very pleasing result all round, especially the “the best report i’ve seen” comment*. they particularly liked my plan to try and do some coding stuff, which was described as a “fabulous” idea. i was also told to insist…

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2002 / 07 / 31 – 15:49 | Comment [1] | Top

waterproof

okay, okay, i’ll put you out of your misery. but just before i do that, i can reveal that in fact i missed getting caught in the rain yesterday, and made it all the way home with not a drop…

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2002 / 07 / 31 – 13:34 | Comment [2] | Top

decisioned!

right, i’m making a break for it! expect later post relating exactly how soaked i got on the walk home….

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2002 / 07 / 30 – 16:13 | Comment [1] | Top

decisions, decisions

the sky has turned a disturbingly dark shade of dark, and there’s thunder clearly audible. all the signs are that it’s about to lash it down. do i stay in fuddland and wait until the rain stops (which may be…

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2002 / 07 / 30 – 15:12 | Comment [2] | Top

leaving until the last minute

just went to check if i had any post in my pigeon-hole, and i noticed that my report is still in the pigeon-hole of the guy who’s supposed to read it, before my interview — tomorrow! now i don’t want…

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2002 / 07 / 30 – 12:06 | Comment [1] | Top

boring intentions

i had such boring intentions for last night. i was just going to go to the pub for a couple of pints after a hard day’s* fudding, but after said couple of pints, the thunderstorm that wasn’t supposed to happen…

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2002 / 07 / 30 – 11:08 | Comment [2] | Top

just grow up will you?

can’t say i’m happy about this — what are they trying to say, we shouldn’t let our children behave like…children? the world’s gone mad [actually, i believe this happened a long time ago — see here and here for more…

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2002 / 07 / 29 – 15:53 | Comment [1] | Top

goddammit!

i clicked the ‘i own it’ button for ‘document’, and gave it 5 stars (cos it’s great), and the page refreshed. now amazon are recommending every other r.e.m. album! so i’ve got to click ‘i own it’ like 12 more…

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2002 / 07 / 29 – 13:26 | Comment [4] | Top

don’t they know me but at all?

amazon really need to develop their “recommends” algorithm: they’ve just recommended i buy r.e.m.’s fifth studio album, ‘document’. i’m about to embark on a mission to ‘train’ the algorithm so that it will only recommend stuff i think i’ll like….

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2002 / 07 / 29 – 13:23 | Top

priorities

right, that’s the report handed in. now i can mess about all da… oops, i mean, now i can get on with my research. the trouble is i’ve got about 5 or 6 things i should be looking at, but…

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2002 / 07 / 29 – 13:15 | Top

not what you think

you’d think the lack of posts this weekend would suggest i was out and about doing really cool things — how wrong you are. in reality, the lack of posts confirms that i did nothing worthy of relating to the…

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2002 / 07 / 29 – 10:46 | Comment [2] | Top

excitement!

according to my stats thingy, i’ve had one visit to fuddland from someone in germany! who were you? did you just land on my blog by accident, or was it recommended by a friend? will you ever come back, and…

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2002 / 07 / 26 – 14:21 | Comment [2] | Top

at last, reliable investment advice

this is from an email by jeremy paxman, via today’s times: “if you had bought £1,000 worth of nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth £49. with enron, you would have £16.50 of the original £1,000. with…

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2002 / 07 / 26 – 11:59 | Top

i think i’m bi-satchel

i’ve got three rucksack-type bags, but i keep bringing stuff into uni and leaving the bag there, because i don’t have to take anything back. so now all three of my bags are at uni. it’s kind of like that…

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2002 / 07 / 26 – 10:33 | Top

hot hot hot

got home from the pub yesterday* to find my new immersion heater had been fitted whilst i was out. they’d kindly left a note on the table telling me it was switched on. actually, the note said “emmersion heater turned…

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2002 / 07 / 26 – 10:28 | Top

huzzah

i’ve won my first game on itsyourturn.com — a furious game of battleships plus. the secret is to sink your opponents ships before they sink yours….

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2002 / 07 / 25 – 14:09 | Comment [1] | Top

1, 2, 3, 4,…

looks like blogspot is down for some reason, so i guess i can write whatever i want and no-one will see it. right… oh, wait a minute, what about when blogspot comes back online? yep, nothing will change — no-one…

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2002 / 07 / 25 – 14:01 | Top

hot boardgame action

the action’s really hotting up over at itsyourturn.com — got three games on the go at the moment: chess, draughts and battleships. in the early stages of all three, so it’s anybody’s game (i hope…)….

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2002 / 07 / 25 – 11:04 | Comment [2] | Top

a message to people at the bar

that’s not people in the legal profession mind, but any person who approaches a bar in a pub to buy a drink or drinks: please ensure that people who are already standing at the bar have been, or are being,…

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2002 / 07 / 24 – 21:05 | Comment [4] | Top

matchstick time

eeshk, what a late night. my pc at home decided that it didn’t like the new drivers creative labs have released for my live! platinum 5.1. the main problem was that the aux2 port (through which i put my video’s…

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2002 / 07 / 24 – 12:27 | Comment [5] | Top

i know where you live

just added a groovy website statistics thingy to fuddland, courtesy of nedstat.com. unfortunately this may dampen my spirits as it will no doubt confirm my worldwide readership is not in double figures. :’o(…

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2002 / 07 / 23 – 13:45 | Comment [10] | Top

ketchkat

ah, mucho hilarity in the university café. a chinese guy, whose english was not so good, buys sausages and chips. at the checkout asks for “ketchup”. unfortunately due to his pronunciation, the checkout lady thinks he says “kit-kat”! she points…

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2002 / 07 / 23 – 12:35 | Top

online chess

currently engaged in a thrilling game of chess with the al via itsyourturn.com. if anyone fancies challenging me at any of the games they offer, my user ID is (surprise surprise) pi3141 — bring it on!…

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2002 / 07 / 23 – 10:42 | Comment [5] | Top

bizarre

just been confirmed by independent party: i officially have a sore throat. how is it that i spend two weeks drinking every night, staying up late in smokey clubs and then waking up ridiculously early the next morning, with hardly…

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2002 / 07 / 22 – 15:26 | Comment [2] | Top

almost caught in the blog

typical: submit post, supervisor walks into office. spent 15 minutes listening to my pleas to let me do something that involves a bit of coding, and then asked me to write a list of all the things i think i’ve…

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2002 / 07 / 22 – 13:44 | Comment [2] | Top

stood up

been stood up by my supervisor for the nth time. we were supposed to meet at 12:30pm to talk about my fudd and what direction i want it to go in (i wanna do more coding. actually, some coding would…

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2002 / 07 / 22 – 13:20 | Top

pssst…

i’ve also updated the photo gallery too….

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2002 / 07 / 21 – 17:46 | Comment [2] | Top

true to my word

true to my word, i open up my brain for all the world to see, in the form of my all-new doodle gallery. read into them what you will….

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2002 / 07 / 21 – 17:15 | Comment [2] | Top

empty words

i must apologise, to all the women who read this blog, for the overtly sexist comments in the previous post. (where’s the following from? NIGEL: Well so what? What’s wrong with being sexy? I mean there’s no…. IAN: Sex-ist. DAVID:…

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2002 / 07 / 20 – 23:48 | Comment [1] | Top

rites of passage

despite mr beckham mincing around wearing nail varnish, there is still plenty of scope for manly duties in this day and age. today i got the opportunity to take control of an emergency situation, and performed a task only real…

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2002 / 07 / 20 – 22:01 | Top

shameless product placement

i promise no shares have been recently purchased in intervideo, but i have to insist that windvd 4 plus be added to the ever-expanding list of things that rock. the reason: it plays dvds on the background of your desktop….

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2002 / 07 / 19 – 23:47 | Comment [3] | Top

what doesn’t rock

hangovers do not rock. however, the process of getting them does rock. water…*glug glug*…

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2002 / 07 / 19 – 07:59 | Comment [2] | Top

have you seen the time?

btw, yes i do have to be up in 4.5 hrs to sit through 3 hrs of lectures. but yay, that’s the end of maths camp! i have met loads of groovy people and generally had a groovy time. the…

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2002 / 07 / 19 – 02:53 | Comment [3] | Top

ooh, scary II

almost anything you think of typing into the address bar already exists: see? part 2 of a series…

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2002 / 07 / 19 – 02:49 | Comment [1] | Top

my last night in durham…

…so i expect some drinkage will be happening tonight. we’ll inevitably end up in klute, durham’s one and only nightclub, which (as i have been told by at least three independent sources) has been voted britain’s worst nightclub. still, beggers…

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2002 / 07 / 18 – 16:56 | Top

time me doing doodles

in other words, clock a doodle do. i like to doodle — i specialise in cartoon eyes and squiggley patterns. i’ve built up quite a collection of doodles over the last couple of weeks at this blasted nass; in fact,…

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2002 / 07 / 18 – 16:52 | Top

thud

that was the sound of my head hitting the desk during the last lecture. sooo tired i just couldn’t keep my eyes open. i didn’t have a particularly late night last night; just my body finally giving in after two…

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2002 / 07 / 17 – 10:33 | Comment [3] | Top

another week of drinking…i mean, mathsing

a new week here at the NASS, and a new set of speakers. these are a better lot than last week overall imho, and the maths seems easier to follow. an evening of ten-pin bowling has been organised for tomorrow,…

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2002 / 07 / 15 – 14:13 | Comment [4] | Top

some blog commandments

i quote from today’s doors section of the sunday times: It is one thing to enlist the web as a private family message board, but there is no excuse for crushingly dull pages that misguidedly imagine they are fun. Doors…

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2002 / 07 / 14 – 21:43 | Comment [5] | Top

my poor head

reached the end of the first week of maths camp; academically, it’s been a complete waste of time. nothing we’ve been lectured on is remotely to do with my work, and the main thing i’ve realised is that i’m the…

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2002 / 07 / 12 – 10:17 | Top

so much to blog, so little time

had excellent weekend, clocking up over 28 hours of continuous drinking time between Friday lunchtime and Sunday night. i’m now in durham, attending a very exciting Numerical Analysis Summer School, or what has now been coined maths camp (“this one…

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2002 / 07 / 08 – 13:50 | Comment [7] | Top

signs

lungs seizing up, hair a darker shade, sense of impending danger just from walking down the street…yes, i must be back in london. down for friend’s birthday bbq on saturday, and also to see if mrtn and steve still possess…

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2002 / 07 / 04 – 22:53 | Comment [7] | Top

the future’s not yet written

whilst sms predictive txt is, for the most part, coolness, it sometimes fails. take the message i just sent to steve: i wanted to write the word ‘absinthe’. what did my little nokia 8210 think i was trying to write?…

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2002 / 07 / 03 – 23:15 | Comment [4] | Top

bagelling the question

i also have bagels in my fridge, but they’re for breakfast. am i supposed to keep them in the fridge? dunno. not done them any harm so far. (nor me for that matter.)…

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2002 / 07 / 03 – 20:49 | Comment [1] | Top

lazy food

couldn’t be bothered cooking tonight, so got fish & chips*. i realised later that this was a silly idea, since i’m going away for a couple of weeks**, so should really have used up things in my fridge. but i…

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2002 / 07 / 03 – 20:45 | Comment [2] | Top

procrastination city

unlike mr mrtn, i’m not afraid of a little procrastination, especially since i came in at 8:30am because of a rumour that my supervisor pwl would be available some time this morning to discuss my current work, but now his…

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2002 / 07 / 03 – 13:40 | Comment [2] | Top

one flip too many

i like the bbc news website most of the time, but this article is a tad too flippant. the reasons why we should respect the opinions of sir bob geldof and eddie izzard on the euro are nice and sensible….

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2002 / 07 / 03 – 11:35 | Comment [3] | Top

new music

just discovered aimee mann — good stuff, despite her spelling of amy (probably not her fault, i blame the parents). ooh, remember amy from the a-team? i think she was my first ever crush, although looking at her now, she…

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2002 / 07 / 02 – 10:50 | Comment [10] | Top

alternative poetry corner

in a bid to match the dizzying intellectual heights of mrtn’s poetry corner, i hereby present something to think about: now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum. so what might be right for you, may…

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2002 / 07 / 01 – 14:05 | Comment [10] | Top

comments back

oh, the comments are back now. grrrr…….

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2002 / 07 / 01 – 13:12 | Comment [2] | Top

comments gone

hey, where have all the amusing comments gone (and those by steve too)? disappeared from steve and mrtn’s place too. come on yaccs, sort it out!…

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2002 / 07 / 01 – 13:09 | Top

‘what’s the world coming to?’ #174

i can’t freaking believe this (yes i know he’s not been found guilty as of yet, but still…)…

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2002 / 07 / 01 – 10:50 | Comment [1] | Top

dyslexic’s nightmare

i dyed yesterday, in a washing machine. a jumper and two t-shirts were fading fast, so to save them i made the ultimate sacrifice and started to dye….

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2002 / 07 / 01 – 10:37 | Comment [1] | Top

minor achievement

this evening i succeeded with one of my long-term ambitions: i’ve learnt how to play the theme tune to the littlest hobo on my guitar. sounds excellent (imo). other tv themes from yesteryear to learn to play are: thundercats, jayce…

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2002 / 06 / 29 – 01:22 | Comment [1] | Top

…so what is it then?

decided to make myself a chilli this evening, so i cobbled together my usual recipe. except, genius that i am, i forgot to add the chilli powder. didn’t taste bad, just not what i expected\wanted. and the question remains: is…

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2002 / 06 / 28 – 22:07 | Comment [2] | Top

being punished

it seems the copter game knows that i falsely declared a top score (see previous post)…how was i supposed to get through this gap (dubious collision detection imo)?…

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2002 / 06 / 28 – 16:24 | Comment [1] | Top

it’s oh so quiet

not many people about as it’s the summer holidays for most of the students (not for us fudders though — thankfully we don’t have to go through the whole business of getting a summer job. i hated working in pubs…

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2002 / 06 / 28 – 11:25 | Comment [2] | Top

what not to wear

‘twas a lovely sunny morning, so i decided to wear shorts. as soon as i entered my office here in fuddland, it clouded over and now i look like a typical brit, wearing shorts at the merest hint of sunlight….

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2002 / 06 / 28 – 09:45 | Comment [2] | Top

coming clean

<evil grin>the score on the copter game shown previously is, of course, a complete fabrication, engineered purely to vex mrtn. i believe it worked.</evil grin>…

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2002 / 06 / 27 – 18:38 | Comment [1] | Top

all i have to say is…

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2002 / 06 / 27 – 14:07 | Comment [4] | Top

more pics of nantucket

more pics of nantucket added to the gallery, as well as “mouse-hover activated” descriptions….

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2002 / 06 / 27 – 13:02 | Comment [2] | Top

little baby steps

first tentative steps have been made towards a proper gallery, to which you should find a link in the blue box on your left. any probs i need to iron out, let me know in the usual way….

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2002 / 06 / 26 – 15:45 | Comment [6] | Top

it’s over

well and truly back in the land of fudd today. early signs of procrastination in evidence: printing off bank statements, calling up the local council, two cups of tea…no actual work towards my fudd. landlady came round this morning with…

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2002 / 06 / 26 – 09:59 | Comment [4] | Top

top energy and money saving tip #47

don’t go on holiday for 3 weeks and leave your immersion heater switched on. completely stupid thing to do. only a really dim person would do this. (bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger…)…

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2002 / 06 / 25 – 19:46 | Comment [7] | Top

aaaw

that’s all i could think when mel and zig got married yesterday. it was a nice simple ceremony that went very smoothly (no making the groom sweat by turning up late or anything). mel looked absolutely beautiful, as did the…

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2002 / 06 / 23 – 20:59 | Comment [3] | Top

fickle google

seems i have once again pleased google, as a search reveals this blog….

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 03:33 | Comment [3] | Top

just one more

i thought i could stop, but then i found one more page i had to share. please take the time to fill out this important survey….

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 02:41 | Comment [1] | Top

dead giveaway

as you can probably tell, i’ve resorted to mindlessly surfing the internet. unfortunately, this pastime does result in finding pages like this once in a while. it’s only a matter of time before i’m tempted to actually follow the instructions…

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 02:39 | Comment [1] | Top

here’s to toast

i never knew there was so much variety in toast….

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 02:36 | Comment [5] | Top

i know it’s not halloween yet…

…but judging from this, we’ve got nothing at all to worry about….

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 02:31 | Top

the weaker link

been watching the u.s. version of the weakest link. the format is exactly the same, only on weekdays it’s presented by some guy who’s trying desperately to be exactly like anne robinson, even down to the clothes and glasses. he…

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 02:16 | Comment [1] | Top

by the way…

…yes, it’s still raining. but now the humidity has returned, and this time it’s clammy. a sticky night’s sleep lies ahead of me….

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 00:27 | Comment [1] | Top

flurry over

after the flurry of posting and commentage over at steve and mrtn’s places, they both appear to have turned in for the night. or at least hung up their blogging hats. or have somehow blocked me from seeing further updates…

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2002 / 06 / 22 – 00:26 | Comment [4] | Top

it’s still raining :o(

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2002 / 06 / 21 – 23:26 | Comment [7] | Top

unbelievable facts

lacking something more interesting to write at this particular time, i hereby present some unbelievable facts from my new book* ‘unbelievable facts’: 1. the rarest blood group is type H-H; only three people have ever been found with it; 2….

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2002 / 06 / 21 – 22:29 | Comment [6] | Top

thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening

*whimper* that was a really loud thunderclap. if anyone needs me, i’ll be under the bed……

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2002 / 06 / 21 – 22:09 | Comment [1] | Top

confused

yesterday, google found this blog — moreover, it was hit number 1. today, it can’t find anything but that ‘simpsons’ result again. why? did i offend the great god google in some way?…

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2002 / 06 / 21 – 21:35 | Comment [1] | Top

washout

today is a bit of a washout — stickily humid for most of the morning and afternoon, and now there’s a full-blown thunderstorm going on! i suppose it’s welcome after about a week of sunny days, but i hope it…

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2002 / 06 / 21 – 21:25 | Comment [7] | Top

holidaying from the holiday

a relaxing day hanging out in my pal’s apartment today, which gives me time to do a bit more blogging than i’ve managed of late. here are some pics from my stay in new york last week: Times Square. Like…

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2002 / 06 / 20 – 21:22 | Comment [3] | Top

niagara falls pics

had a warm, slightly damp feeling today. luckily it wasn’t the usual problem — i was at niagara falls instead. for those blessed high-speed connection, i present a movie; the rest of you will have to be content with a…

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2002 / 06 / 20 – 04:25 | Comment [1] | Top

more bandwagoning

see my contribution to the Mirror Project….

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2002 / 06 / 20 – 01:04 | Comment [5] | Top

influential people

leaping on the wotd bandwagon, my word of the day is ephemeral….

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2002 / 06 / 19 – 01:17 | Comment [4] | Top

a quick apology

sorry to those people who have been missing my regular blogs, i’ve been busy being touristy in new york and toronto. i’ll get round to posting my piccies when i get back next week probably. in the meantime, i’ll leave…

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2002 / 06 / 19 – 01:07 | Comment [4] | Top

piccies

not sorted out a proper gllry yet, so in the meantime, have a gander at these views of nantucket. Typical Nantucket houses (in background) Part of my Uncle’s house (the thing on the right, not the vehicle!) The front room…

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2002 / 06 / 12 – 18:44 | Comment [5] | Top

misunderstanding

i’m thinking about ordering this book — once i’ve read it i’ll be able to fly, dodge bullets, and solve the mysteries of the universe…all using my digital camera! sounds too good to be true!…

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2002 / 06 / 11 – 18:04 | Comment [3] | Top

timezone warning

btw, you should be subtracting 5 hours from the times of all my recent posts…can’t be arsed to change my time zone option. thus it is about 7:27pm as i write….

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2002 / 06 / 11 – 00:27 | Comment [5] | Top

blinking again

finally replaced tiny battery in mr blink (friendly digital-camera buddy), and proceeded to take many, many photos of nantucket things. will be a while before i get to post any samples though, due to lack of sophisticated ftp-type facilities at…

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2002 / 06 / 11 – 00:24 | Comment [1] | Top

innuendo-ridden typo

much to his disappointment i’m sure, but steve didn’t goggle me, he googled me….

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2002 / 06 / 10 – 16:06 | Comment [3] | Top

former life

the past haunts me. for some reason steve goggled me and found this message that i wrote about two years ago. at least i got a reply, and he even quotes douglas adams, whose new (and final) book i can’t…

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2002 / 06 / 10 – 15:29 | Comment [6] | Top

tingle tingle

woohoo, saw spiderman the movie last night — it’s excellent! they didn’t change his origin story or anything. i highly recommend it to everyone! tingle tingle spidey-sense…….

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2002 / 06 / 08 – 16:51 | Comment [2] | Top

half arsed

strange american products number 34638457832: over here they call semi-skimmed milk “half-and-half”. yet you can buy fat-free half-and-half. wtf?…

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2002 / 06 / 07 – 15:30 | Comment [1] | Top

i’d do anything for food (but i won’t do that)

at this moment we are being thoroughly assimilated into the yank culture, in that a lovely meal of meatloaf is currently being prepared. and no, not the chubby, mole-faced faux-heavy-rock, large-breasted (in fight club) blokey, but the actual food that…

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2002 / 06 / 06 – 23:28 | Comment [3] | Top

gloating

not time to say much, except: ha! i’m on nantucket island, and you’re not. ha!…

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2002 / 06 / 06 – 15:20 | Comment [2] | Top

otherwise occupied

lack of recent posts due to more important things to do. 8-o getting excited now as going on holiday tomorrow to nantucket island and toronto, two of my favouritest places in the world. posts could be few and far between…

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2002 / 06 / 02 – 13:02 | Comment [5] | Top

post at last

blogger been offline all day, only just successfully published the last few posys. talk went okay, rushed it a bit i think. j.l. decided he wasn’t going to do his usual trick of falling asleep, but instead stayed awake and…

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2002 / 05 / 30 – 15:56 | Comment [1] | Top

and still he waits

slide reprinted, and double-checked the rest are there. i suspect some kind of sabotage (the really annoying, pointless kind). half-an-hour until my free lunch (the one perk of doing this seminar)….

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2002 / 05 / 30 – 12:19 | Top

idea for a derek nimmo movie sequel

in a bizarre, modern day, not-so-wacky-but-actually-quite-annoying version of this movie, one of my slides has gone missing! no problem, i’ll just print it again — it’ll give me something to do. perhaps i’m like mike from neighbours in memento, and…

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2002 / 05 / 30 – 11:11 | Top

the waiting game

okay, the waiting game begins; 5 hours until have to give my seminar. it’s a bit like that bit in the untouchables, where they’re all in the log cabin and andy garcia checks his gun is loaded okay. sean says,…

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2002 / 05 / 30 – 09:48 | Top

jeans dream

just remembered the dream i had last night: i was going on safari (in africa probably, although it was connected with my holiday next week), and i was wearing my groovy levi engineered jeans. then i remembered that they were…

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2002 / 05 / 29 – 14:30 | Comment [7] | Top

typeset envy

would you just look at this slide? isn’t that matrix beautifully typeset? [understanding not required to appreciate the beauty — rule also applies to women] Mmmm…nonsingular…

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2002 / 05 / 29 – 12:44 | Comment [8] | Top

no time to blog

no time to blog this morning as i was printing the slides for my seminar tomorrow. [the seminar is tomorrow, i wasn’t printing them tomorrow. work on time machine has ceased due to sinking feeling that it may be impossible]…

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2002 / 05 / 29 – 12:36 | Comment [11] | Top

awaiting a call from their lawyer…

an investigative search for fuddland on Google finds not, as i’d hoped, this page, but a link to a site about an episode of The Simpsons!…

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 13:17 | Comment [7] | Top

caffeineage

ttthaattt wwwwaass aaa vvverrry ssstttrrrroonnnggg cccccuppp of tttteeeeaaaaa…….

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 11:25 | Comment [2] | Top

plan b

damn. no pubs open at this time of day. i’m off to have a really strong cup of tea then!…

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 09:40 | Top

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The Call came. my meeting’s been moved to 1:45pm. wtf? came in early specially for this meeting (was here at 8:45, instead of my usual 9:30ish), and now it’s been pushed back? i’m off to get drunk….

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 09:39 | Top

no word yet

still no call. i got a lovely bit of post this morning: a refund for most of the tax i paid last year. just in time for holiday. looks like things don’t always go wrong — just sometimes….

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 09:37 | Top

the waiting game

i’m supposed to be in a meeting with p.w.l. (supervisor\mentor) at the moment to discuss the seminar i have to give on thursday in front of the applied maths dept. unfortunately he appears to have forgotten and is in his…

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2002 / 05 / 28 – 09:29 | Top

bruise pic

As promised, here’s the attractive bruise i incurred whilst attempting some do-gooding last week Ouch….

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2002 / 05 / 27 – 13:24 | Comment [2] | Top

test shots

okay, first couple of test shots… My organised workspace. Colleagues ndr and gbrl (right to left)….

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2002 / 05 / 27 – 11:36 | Top

gangsta wrap

excitement quickly turned to frustration…how do you get this goddamn packaging open????…

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2002 / 05 / 27 – 09:37 | Comment [4] | Top

work stops

zero work output today — that’s right, the blink is here!…

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2002 / 05 / 27 – 09:35 | Comment [2] | Top

still awake

yes, it’s 3am, but unlike the happenings at psyt, i’ve not gone to bed yet. been out for a nice meal in a restaurant called zizzi*. it was one of those “all you can eat for as much as all…

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2002 / 05 / 26 – 03:07 | Top

tiny tiny camera

yay, yay, blink on the way! i hope it arrives soon so i can show you all the amazing bruise on my knee. it’s all purple and yellow, and freaks me out because the yellow bit is a big circle…

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2002 / 05 / 25 – 11:54 | Comment [4] | Top

I can’t takes no more

I finally snapped last night, and it became my mission to rid my flat of that fly. Since they notoriously do not recognise an open window when they see one (even with the 3 billion* images their eyes provide them…

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2002 / 05 / 25 – 10:26 | Comment [4] | Top

Fly mortality

How long do house-flies live? There’s been one flying around my flat for a couple of days now, and it’s refusing to die. Most annoying….

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2002 / 05 / 24 – 21:36 | Comment [5] | Top

How much??

Just back from town after enquiring about a foam mattress to put on my sofa-bed (shouldn’t they be called sofa\beds?). I require a piece 6ft by 4.5ft. 66 GPB it’s gonna cost me! 66! I was thinking (perhaps naively?) about…

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2002 / 05 / 24 – 16:15 | Comment [2] | Top

New things to do

Spent most of today printing out a 343-page thesis by Holger Wendland, which unfortunately I have to read as well. By tomorrow. (Well, perhaps not by tomorrow. But it looks pretty important so I should get it over with soonish.)…

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2002 / 05 / 24 – 14:46 | Comment [1] | Top

Food makes you do funny things

Noo! Arrived in Fuddland before 9am — golden rule broken. Excuse: the cupboard was bare at home. No food except muesli (but no milk) or several frozen helpings of minced beef. yummy Am now going to Fuddland Cafe to see…

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2002 / 05 / 24 – 08:49 | Comment [1] | Top

More on useless reminders

Or should that be “Moron, useless reminder”? This from r.m, lecturer and also person in charge of timetables, room allocations, and audio-visual liason officer for the Maths & Computer Science Department: Dear All, I have had a request from AVS…

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2002 / 05 / 23 – 23:11 | Comment [1] | Top

Daydreamer

I’ve just realised that the reason my document isn’t typesetting correctly is because I’ve written \include{preample} instead of \include{preamble}. Mind on other things obviously……

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2002 / 05 / 23 – 10:36 | Comment [3] | Top

Surcumbment

I’ve surcumbed* to peer pressure and ordered one of these, which will hopefully arrive before I go on holiday next weekend. Wouldn’t it be funny if it arrived before stv’s does? Woke up this morning, knee still hurts. Re-lived trolley…

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2002 / 05 / 23 – 09:09 | Comment [7] | Top

Whipper-snapper pic

Just added a photo of me back in my crime fighting days. I never did catch the fiend who pulled my shirt collars into quasi-wings. I bet he’s laughing at me right now. As are the rest of you. stoppit…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 22:47 | Top

Pain

Wow, my knee really hurts. Lovely bruise developing….

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 21:19 | Comment [1] | Top

Rant

You try and do something good… My walk home takes me through a Safeways car-park. As I was walking through said car-park, I saw a trolley being blown across the lanes. I thought I should stop it before it hit…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 18:34 | Comment [8] | Top

Early teething problems

Hmm, unfortunately my new postings are not appearing. Is this my fault or is a server down again? Who can tell? I’ll leave it for a bit. Smallville’s on the telly in half-an-hour, gotta get home! mmm…Lana…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 17:25 | Top

Yaccsity yaccs

Comments thingy up and running!! Please be nice… I wonder how long it’ll take before a search on Google finds this blog. Was that sentence supposed to end in a question mark. (That one was!)…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 17:17 | Comment [3] | Top

Missed opportunity

Damn, missed the window for signing-up for free comments thingy. Need to try back in 4 hours — I bet I forget. ‘Pointless emails from lecturers’ count so far today: 1. This is amazing; usually we’ve received at least 4…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 12:23 | Comment [9] | Top

Day two

The second day of Fuddland begins with a hangover. Friend’s birthday yesterday, so myself and another friend (jn) went to join the celebrations at Time Bar. Met some new people but nck (the birthday girl) was slightly depressed because she…

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2002 / 05 / 22 – 11:41 | Top

Surety

I’ve just noticed that I’ve used ‘may or may not’ twice on this page, in reference to identities. So that you don’t think I’m like that bloke in The Fast Show who can’t make up his mind, I have decided…

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2002 / 05 / 21 – 16:00 | Top

Typing troubles

You’d think that after all this time, I’d be able to type the word ‘equation’ without too much trouble. Yet almost every time I type it, it comes out as ‘eqaution’. Even more frustratingly, when I just tried to type…

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2002 / 05 / 21 – 15:42 | Top

The cast

Here are some people that may, or may not, feature in postings (in order to protect the innocent, vowels have been removed. If you’re bored, why not try and reconstruct the original names?): dvd (me!) mrtn, stv (blokes I used…

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2002 / 05 / 21 – 12:15 | Top

First mention of R.E.M.

Did you know that no R.E.M. song contains the word “sweepstake”? I could be wrong, but it’s a fact until proven otherwise….

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2002 / 05 / 21 – 12:04 | Comment [2] | Top

Welcome to Fuddland

Welcome to Fuddland. I’m not too sure what this blog’s going to contain — I’ll just see how it goes. I’m sure you’ll agree, I’m off to a cracking start….

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2002 / 05 / 21 – 11:33 | Top