When I arrived at the university as a student in 1978, I was allocated flat 10/14 of Eddington tower. In my second year, I had to live off campus in digs, but in my third year I was back in Eddington 10 in flat 15.

The red circle shows Eddington 10/14. Eddington 10/15 is to the left of it.


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Most of the cartoons I've reead from Victorian editions of Punch are too much of their era to be amusing to a modern audience, but several of them are interesting enough to keep or to put to some purpose.

I shall certainly be using this one in my lecture on game theory.


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I was keen to check out my new laser pointer this week, so got to the lecture room yesterday nice and early. It's just as well that I did, because this is what it looked like:


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After I'd turned my old Christmas cards into Christmas gift tags, my younger daughter brought around some of her own cards for similar recycling. Here's one of the results:


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Our Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has something of a problem. She needs to raise more money but the Labour Party's manifesto promised that she wouldn't. She's therefore having to cut services - perhaps including ones she needs the money for in the first place.

There is another way, though.

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We went out for a meal last night. Before leaving, I thought I should have a shave so as to deceive the people in the restaurant into believing I wasn't a slob. Furthermore, I settled on having a wet shave, using a razor with blades and stuff, because having neglected to shave for a couple of days I felt my electric razor wasn't going to be up to ( Read more... )

I encountered an MP earlier this week at the university.

Colchester's MP is Prof. Pam Cox of the Department of Sociology and Criminology. I was walking to a lecture and went through a door she'd just used. She held it open for me. I said thanks and went through it myself.

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When I received my new laser pointer/slide changer yesterday, my heart sank. It's a new and improved version of my old one.

Here are four images comparing the old one (on the left) with the new one (on the right):


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