I never took the magic career test at school that cost ~£150, was multiple choice and supposedly told you what to do in life; instead I had a morning of somewhat worthwhile lessons instead ( Read more... )

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To celebrate my new-found addiction to Nethack (mainly to counterbalance my contribution to CATAM thus far), tentaclerodeo pointed me at one of those "Which x are you?" things

( Yeah - it's another silly internet quiz )

For all those who are curious about such things, I'm leaving bright and early tomorrow morning to spend the next seven weeks or so at the European Space Agency in sunny Germany. They've been nice enough to give me somewhere to live in the middle of the town, but I don't actually speak any German so I expect to get very lost and will probably only ( Read more... )

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I'm not a big fan of posting random online test results, but I thought I'd take a quick break from Differential Equations revision to show that I'm more evil than any of my friends...
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To quote Alexander Pope,

"You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day."

Indeed.

I am currently fulfilling Parkinson's Law : "It is a common observation that work expands to fill the time available."

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Here's to Another four years in the wrong direction.
Gribble.

This is for tentaclerodeoAll in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide ( Read more... )

A famous man once coined the term, 'emotional pornography', to describe the voyeuristic, guilty joy of experiencing someone else's life through their eyes (does that make it a sort of Munchausen's Syndrome in reverse?).
I lied. it wasn't a famous man; it was David Mamet. I suppose he's written some fairly decent plays (by 'modern' standards, at ( Read more... )