The news of Michael Foot's death has just been round the office. On hearing the age he reached (96), a colleague and I had exactly the same reaction. And yes, it involved a reference to cricket.

( [POLL] too old, too young )

The other day I watch the film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet, and the casting raised an important question:

( [POLL] Totty or not totty )

I meant to post this last month, but have been epically lacking in motivation and follow-up powers on pretty much all fronts recently. Considering this, you can probably guess how well I did.

( [POLL] 101 things in 1001 days - a review )

Am studying Number Theory and Mathematical Logic at the moment, which is interesting but a bit of a slog in places. One of the side effects is that I've been dreaming in maths a lot recently. I tried to explain this to daneel_olivaw and he looked blank, so I said "it's like code dreams" and he still looked blank which is when I realised that perhaps not ( Read more... )

( [POLL] Bare feet in the office )

Since this appears to be the topic de jour.

( [POLL] Dreamwidth )

( [POLL] homepages )

I got some really interesting answers to the learn something new question earlier in the week, so here is a somewhat complementary question ( Read more... )

Imagine that, due to some hitherto unknown great uncle or a really unusual bonus scheme at work, you had the means and the time to learn something new. You could chose anything, and you would be given time off and appropriate resources to learn it ( Read more... )

OK, so yesterday's poll was long and complicated. This one has only two questions, and is about celebrating by pulling your shirt over your head, as shown here.

( [POLL] Champiooooone )