Occasionally (well, about once a week) I see someone who looks like someone I know (well, actually, probably about 10% of the population of the UK look like someone I know, what I mean is that they look sufficiently like someone I know that I spend a little conscious time wondering if they actually are the person I know ( Read more... )

I had a strange dream last night. This isn't uncommon, but it's rare for me to remember any details at all. The one that sticks out from last night is that, in the middle of a fairly standard action/thriller dream Céline Dion revealed herself to actually be a l337 h4><0r using the singing business as a disguise.

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I saw a CCAT eight on the ( Read more... )

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In the context of defense budgets; from #afp: "Make cuts, not war".

A while back I was involved in a discussion on #assassins which briefly touched on the idea of using custom rock with the word "POISON" written through the middle as a poisoned food item for use in the game.

These people do custom texted rock. Unfortunately only (as I originally thought was likely) in quantities that are too large to be practical ( Read more... )

After last night's exciting fog, steph pointed out to me this morning that we appear (
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Some time back now, I modified my friends page to include a BBC weather glyph for Cambridge (via an evil hack).

For the first time ever it says
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Amusingly rmc28 and antinomy are my 3rd and 6th closest in music tastes on Audioscrobbler.

Cycling along Gilbert Road on my way home this evening I could see the tracks of bicycle wheels in the frost. The interesting thing about this was that they tended to overlap a lot around cars, but then spread out a lot in the gaps between cars; with the outside-most lines running pretty-much straight, and the inside ones going most of the way to ( Read more... )

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