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Things That Have Amused Me About The Last Three Days:

1. Realising at 3pm, after a total of 4.5 hours speaking to a lecture theatre full of 550 first-years, that I forgot to brush my hair this morning. Fortunately this hairstyle, or possibly more accurately this "hairstyle", is apparently sleep-and-go as much as wash-and-go. In related news, I have ( Read more... )

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I was going to review Wolverine, honestly I was. But, other than a slight disposition to babble helplessly about how incredibly cool Gambit was, I can't really summon up an opinion. It was... a movie. Of the superhero persuasion. After an admittedly very nice credit sequence of Wolverine-at-war flashback, stuff happened. The general watchability of ( Read more... )

Gah. Likewise, phooey. Had another Great South African Experience yesterday, wandered home after work to find the house ransacked and mysterious thumping noises in the Evil Landlord's bedroom. Stood on the patio for approximately three hours, although in hindsight it might actually only have been ten minutes, feebly pressing my handy-dandy key-ring ( Read more... )

Gaah! This accursed and thrice-spat-upon campus so-called internet (hah!) is joyously swooping between no connectivity because the main server is faulty and keeps choking and dropping the connection, or no connectivity because there's malware on the system so the bandwidth is choked and keeps dropping the connection. Since any connection-droppage ( Read more... )

It's the perfect metaphor in which to describe my research endeavours at the moment, applying equally to my stupid chapter and the stupid amounts of stupid theory I'm reading. Actually, though, it's essay marking as text adventure! Anyone who's ever marked an essay needs to read this. Rogue badly-indented long quotations! Plurals flying around on ( Read more... )

An hour turning upside-down the EL's study and surrounding environs with aid of a torch has revealed the following:
1. One calculator, a small wooden puzzle piece and a telephone bill down behind the desk.
2. Rolemaster Companion 2 and Creatures and Treasures in the EL's top right-hand desk drawer, which seems an odd place to keep them ( Read more... )

BoingBoing is running a link to this article, which is a very cute story about a hippo and a tortoise. Dammit, I think all these babies are rotting my brain.

Christmas! Bah, Humbug! Actually, I've quite enjoyed buying presents for everyone this year, it's the first time in recorded history I've actually had enough money to buy what I'd like to. Memo to self, get new job. Or career. Preferably as an international jewel thief. On the upside, I do not appear to be alone in my general cynicism about the ( Read more... )