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Category Archives: Minutiae
Civil Rights
I don’t understand what’s wrong with some of you people out there. Congratulations, you got yourselves a shiny new president. He’s very nice. I bet you’re all patting yourselves on the back for “looking beyond the limitations of race” and … Continue reading
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Face first, first floor
I managed to trip on the edge of a little flight of four stairs today. As if that weren’t enough, there were about six or seven spectators when I tumbled. Head first onto carpet. Directly outside the HR office. Hooray, … Continue reading
I think I have a problem
Remember back oh way back when Steve Jobs had yet another insanely great idea and came up with the smallest, sexiest, most entirely alluring Mac yet? Remember that it was also very cheap? Remember that the Mac mini was and … Continue reading
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Robots
Tonight I have been mostly building robots. My latest creation, such as it is, is the illustrious and, indeed, industrious Sens-o-bot. Sens-o-bot has a revolutionary sense organ, which it thrashes from side to side in order to get an idea … Continue reading
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What’s in your pockets?
It has been remarked that I carry a lot of crap around in my pockets. These are the pockets on my lovely Cordura jacket, the one that’s carried me, warm and safe, through a hundred environments from snow and big … Continue reading
Posted in General, Minutiae
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killall -9
It’s half past fucking four in the morning as I write this. I have been at work since 10am yesterday. What did I achieve today? Fuck all. I’m in my UFO phase, where I appear to small groups of security … Continue reading
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I have been to London
Yesterday I went to London. I was there for a medical appointment, but that didn’t stop me taking some photos. This is London. Specifically, the area around University College London and the Middlesex Hospital.
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When you think about it
When you think about it, electricity’s freaky stuff. No, seriously, hang on a minute. Think about it. These electrons, right, are tiny weeny wee small and possibly fundamental and indivisible and possibly not. But anyway, the forces between them and … Continue reading
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Symbolic
I got up this morning to discover that an incontinent bird, possibly the size of a Great Dane, had managed to score a direct strike on the Apple logo that adorns my bike’s fender. I’ve never known an avian to … Continue reading
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Well, that just about does it
I have booked a flight to Nice, a ticket on the Eurotunnel, and bought motorcycle insurance. I’ve arranged things with Rachel and Jim. I’m even going to sort out GPS coordinates and print some colour maps. Oh heck. I’m scared.
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CLUNK wheeeeeeee CLUNK wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK wheeeeeeeeee
This is not a good sound for my 250G hard drive to be making.
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Hot dusty air
I had a dream last night. My dreams tend to be prophetic, and normally that’s a good thing but today it terrifies me that it could be so. Neil, Dan and I were in a modern, detached house on a … Continue reading
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He Said, She Said
I hate this. I’m being kicked out of my flat. I’m being kicked out, in fact, by an unemployable, rudderless little fuckhead named Neil. Neil Simmons. If you ever meet him, punch him in the face for me. The reason … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Minutiae
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Martin
We’ve got a new team member here. He’s very cute. I made him myself. Martin the Dragon, with head-turny action! And, because not everyone likes videos: JPEG His little sign reads ‘Martin the Dragon: protector of Base’.
Men with Guns
I hate guns. Let me tell you a story. It’s anecdote, not data, but it happened to me, some years ago. It’s a story about fear, violence and self defence. In 1995, I was sixteen. I lived with my mother … Continue reading
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Bye-bye, Boris
Unable to decide whether he’s a twit or a buffoon: Boris Johnson has been sacked as Tory shadow arts minister amid allegations about his private life, a spokesman for party leader Michael Howard has said. The spokesman said Mr Johnson … Continue reading
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When we met
When we met, Did you forget That I was someone you knew A long time ago Was I someone like you Just out of the blue Did you forget? Did you trade in the memory For a convenient fantasy? Did … Continue reading
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