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Treats upcoming

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Things to look forward to, in the order they should happen:

Get a proper melodeon - Saturday if all goes to plan. W00T!
Regency Run - Sunday
Laser eye surgery consultation
Debbie runs the Stratford Half Marathon. I suppose I have to go and support her. Sounds like 3 hours of standing around to me.
Eurovision - and associated [...]

Regency Run reminder

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Just a reminder: I’m running the 10km Regency Run in Leamington this Sunday, and you - yes you - may have a chortle about that, and then pay me for the laugh I gave you by donating to charity.
It would really make me feel better about the foolish choice I’ve made.
Debbie is also running [...]

Wondrous scripts of the world

Monday, March 10th, 2008

(If these scripts don’t come out on your browser — sorry!)
For some reason this morning, I noticed a claim that Wikipedia has “over 9m articles in 250 languages”. Nine million is a big number, but I was more drawn by the 250 languages. What does that say about the sheer scale of the world, [...]

World’s smallest football league

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

… I don’t see how anyone’s going to undercut them either.
For the best belly laugh, go to the official web page of the Isles of Scilly Football League, and click on “League table”.
Then read more there, or where I found it, on Brakes fan Wyn Grant’s page.

Awesome game image of the week

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Fantastic, eh?
That’s from Kotaku’s writeup on the Lego Indiana Jones game.

Compensate me for running

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I really don’t like running. I have to do it because it’s the least-worst way of avoiding an early death from obesity and heart disease. But that doesn’t stop it being boring and painful.
It might help if I got some sort of warm and fuzzy feeling that by doing it I was making the [...]

Bragg poetry

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Once a week, Melvyn Bragg sends me an email. Actually it’s the In Our Time newsletter, which, er, many people get.
This week, there’s a line-break error, meaning that most of it is in one narrow column, but the occasional line stretches out to the right. Picking out the parts of these lines that stand [...]

“Papers please”

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Many years ago, our family accommodated an African student for a couple of weeks, while he participated in a project on sustainable agriculture. When we took him to the beach, he was most concerned that he would need to take his ‘papers’ with him. This reinforced our prejudices about tinpot authoritarian states in mysterious [...]

Tesco MP3 Player

Monday, January 21st, 2008

It’s got warm enough to tackle some jogging. I have a lovely new iPod, but by going for capacity rather than compactness, it pulls my shorts down as I run. I don’t run for long, so I don’t need my whole collection on-tap. Something like an iPod Shuffle would fit the bill, but I [...]

‘I heartily endorse this product or service’

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Debbie bought me season one of Twin Peaks on DVD for my birthday. It was a great success, so she sought out season two for Christmas, and what she ended up with was the new ‘Definitive Gold Box Edition’ of the whole lot. It’s smashing — season two is where the real weirdness kicks [...]



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