• My supervisor, who's been away in Barcelona for the last month, dropped in for a flying visit last weekend. We had two mammoth three-hour meetings in two days, which was excellent in that I now have lots of stuff to work on and some idea of how to fix up things that were broken, but utterly knackering. Momentum has been lost a bit (hence the Fine ( Read more... )

One for the Weegies:

To celebrate wormwood_pearl's recent 21st birthday, we will be holding a party this Saturday evening, at the usual partyish time of 8.30 onwards (though we won't be offended if you want to watch the rugby and show up later). You are all hereby invited - does everyone know where our house is?

Ultimate Pie will be served.

Happy Birthday wormwood_pearl!

Twenty-one today. Blimey, I feel old. But not as old as the mighty Brian Blessed, actor and mountaineer, who is seventy today1. Happy birthday, Brian! His birthday is being celebrated in inimitable style over on b3ta, if anyone feels like joining the party...

1Assuming that the rumours of his recent death by trampling at the ( Read more... )

Current status on some of my long-term projects:

Thesis: Up to ( 36 pages )

My girlfriend's computer is currently more 1337 than mine. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue.

Edit (2152hrs): Fixed. My computer is now 1337 again. Or as 1337 as I need it to be, anyway. Now, to install lots of obscure programming languages!

I used to think that relationships were like teapots. Not, as wormwood_pearl suggested to me when I first mentioned this to her, because good things come out of them: nor because they start out hot and gradually cool down. No, I thought relationships were like teapots because when you first get one, it's perfect and whole, but then you drop it, and it gets ( Read more... )

On the way to a No2ID meeting the other night:

pozorvlak: There was a letter in the paper today, from some guy who reckoned the NHS should be more like the BBC, with a budget and a board of governors but little-to-no direct government interference. I wonder how much more widely that idea could be applied - what would happen if you tried it for the police, ( Read more... )

• ( The free market is the Hole Hawg of economics )

Happy Anniversary wormwood_pearl!

Two years. Blimey. This is now officially my Longest Ever Relationship. Yay!

Edit: Thanks, everybody!

Interesting article from LiveScience.com, about some researchers who investigated networks of sex and relationships at US high schools, and discovered that they're fascinatingly different from adult networks ( Read more... )