A long time ago I wrote a list of songs I have with numbers in their title. I still don't exactly have a "four".. but I wonder if anyone thinks U2's 4th Of July is cheating

I'd like to know sometime why song lyrics often make me cry a little bit, for no particular reason I've worked out.

Mark Knopfler - One More Matineé ( Read more... )

While waiting for the tube train this evening, it suddenly struck me as amusing from a mathematical perspective, the way it is advertised as CIRCLE LINE. As if to compound my observation, the next station we stopped at was "Sloane Square; Circle Line".

I had to smile at that one.

A thought has been slowly bubbling in my head lately, I thought today I'd get around to posting on it. I should note for the record, I don't necessarily agree with this statement in its entirety, but it's something worth thinking upon.
"All people should be paid a salary that reflects the unpleasantness of their work, combined with the social ( Read more... )

Apologies to my non-mathematical readers for a moment... This gets a touch mathsy, but I assure you it gets to a point in the end.

There is a problem in applied maths, called the Three Body Problem. It sortof goes like this. Take a single object alone in a universe. Either it is moving or it isn't. Either way, its motion is entirely boring, we can ( Read more... )

Yay

All four of them, in fact. Front and rear... This is good.. For a long time I've not had the rears working, on account of dead amp boards. But I've swapped all four boards now, so the rears work, and the fronts have replaced boards. Hopefully this will solve the annoying DC drift problem I get there.

Meantime, I shall fix the two boards I've ( Read more... )

A rather scattergun approach to some updates here... In no particular order

• LF meet at the weekend was good. Played far too much Mao to be sensible and sane, at 5am... Still, was fun. Got to see Andreuswolf...
• explodingferret has a LiveJournal now.. Wooo... He says he won't post or read much... That's what I'd said about mine... He'll learn one day.... :)
• Am making dinner ( Read more... )

It occurs to me I've not done an update in a while, so I thought I'd post one anyway... A random collection of brief notes now follows, in no particular order, with no particular connection:

• Making progress fixing my bike - got rear and front gears at the weekend, only the rear one isn't right. Need to swap that back - hopefully tomorrow morning, ( Read more... )

A day of highs and lows today, really...
Ups

On the plus side Cambridge Council have now sent around some blue boxes for recycling of plastic. Yay! Now they're actually doing something about plastic.. this is good.. This means I don't have to cart it all up to Tesco... Which is made worse by my current lack of bike...
Geek alert!
Fiiiiinally got to ( Read more... )