- Built a lawnmwoer
- Mowed the lawn
- Built a big box to put the lawnmower in
- Stung myself on stinging nettles whilst mowing the lawn (I had forgotten how much they hurt)
- Laid some loft insulation
- Watched the antiques roadshow

Now, honestly, have I finally got old?

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Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who sponsored, kept score (mostly Cat) or otherwise started talking about punnable objects for my world record attempt on Friday (but this is no plaice to bring up all the fish puns). You will be delighted to know that I extended my own world record and managed 347 puns in 24 hours (actually not ( Read more... )

So it’s starting in an hour an a half! Follow progress live at http://twitter.com/benmparker , tweet me @benmparker if you want a pun an any time, or send me a text.

Thank you for all your donations. With per pun pledges, we’re about 50% towards my 500 pound total. But Comic Relief needs ( Read more... )

What-ho chaps,

Just a reminder that my world pun record attempt is this Friday; thank you so much for all the money already donated, and the offer of sponsorship, but more is always welcome. See http://my.rednoseday.com/benparker/ Please do donate if you can, it’s for a very good ( Read more... )

Whenever I bet, I’m looking for the value bet; yesterday, the perfect value bet appeared in the Cricket World Cup (which to be honest has yet to intrigue me). India were at 1.12-1.13 to win after their innings,having scored 338. I looked up the stats, and in several thousand One Day Internationals, only half a dozen run chases of higher had been ( Read more... )

Hello! Once again, it is Comic Relief time and time to set an (unofficial) NEW WORLD RECORD for the most puns in the day.

This year’s a real challenge; I set the record in 2007 and extended it in 2009. Can 2011 be any better? I feel with your encouragement, I can do it.

The pun record will start at 0.01 on Comic Relief Day (18th March 2011) and ( Read more... )

What-ho mind of the Internet!

I am looking to set up an online to-do list, as I keep forgetting to-do things that I should do and carrying one around isn’t great. I’ve tried a couple of things, most mainstream google calendar, but it doesn’t quite cut the mustard. What I want is something that

• Has a facility to do “needed by” dates, and would sync ( Read more... )

Looking at the CET data series, the longest temperature time series that exists globally, it looks like this December is possibly going to be the coldest in England since records began in 1659. Yes, that’s 351 years, and we’re living through it!

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/mly_cet_mean_sort.txt

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/ ( Read more... )

Dear Santa,
Christmas has rather crept up on me this year and I haven’t had a decent thought about what I want for Christmas. However, if you do want some ideas, you can find some on my Amazon wishlist.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/2S65XOMLZ194H
Ben xxx
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I have a Maths problem, which I think should be very easy, but my brain is now failing me. Any algorithmically advanced people out there win a special prize!

I want to find an algorithm to generate all possible combinations of n binary sequences of a given length p.

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