Holy crap, I haven't updated this since last August? And, I mean, on the front page of my journal there is (or was, since I guess this one pushes it off) still a post saying I'm not working as a researcher at the CL anymore and to stop using my @cam email address? I mean, I've gone back to uni and left again since then. I guess I should get with ( Read more... )

So, this morning, in lieu of doing useful things, such as packing up all my stuff to move house, I reread all my old Livejournal entires (202 of them-when did I ever write that much?).

Here's me in December 2003:

I'm starting to feel old, though; I'll still be only 20 next year, but for lot of my contemporaries, by which I mean those in my ( Read more... )

Venturer Camp was totally the best thing ever ( Read more... )

So I just realised: I can use Sharks and Ladders as a probability teaching aid.

So, facebook now has this thing called 'facebook lexicon' where you can compare the relative frequency of use of certain words in conversations over the past year. Check this out:

sex vs. chocolateThe two words have a roughly comparable baseline frequency, with 'sex' always getting just a little more talk-time than 'chocolate'. There's a tiny peak ( Read more... )

So they cast Eddie Izzard as Reepicheep?

That's either genius or a total disaster, and now I have to see the damn movie just to find out which.

"What's the best uni in London, apart from Oxford?"

"They might as well have called it Harry Potter and the Massive Elision, because it had no plot whatsoever."

I have suddenly realised what hell is: an unending succession of multiple-choice reading comprehension questions.

Oh, and merry Christmas.

... but this made me laugh out loud for several minutes:

Just as liberal feminists are frequently content with a minimal agenda of legal and social equality for women and 'pro-choice', so liberal (and even some socialist) mathematicians are often content to work within the hegemonic Zermelo-Fraenkel framework (which, reflecting its nineteenth- ( Read more... )

I don't know whether I'd be happier to think this was or wasn't intentional.


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