Where is everyone? I think it's been months since anyone last posted a message. Have you not been up to anything interesting? Has anyone died?
What have I been up to this year?
I went to Cambridge a couple of weeks ago.
I had my annual appraisal.
David Bruce has been in touch, and we're planning on grabbing a beer or two next month.
I've started going back to the gym.
Rachael Farr is now married / is lead vocals in a band.
Ross is going to work at Sizewell Power Station (Nuclear) after I gave him a reference.
...
Running out of interesting things as you can probably guess.
£1 prize for the next person to reply or write their own journal entry.
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Avoid Quiet and Placid persons unless you are in Need of Sleep.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
My people call me the dude. I share my teachings in the passages below... (along with many typos, grammatical errors and lazy writing)
Monday, 16 January 2006
Thursday, 1 December 2005
Weekend plans
I like the idea of having the weekend to myself. For some stupid reason i've been playing rugby for the past 20+ years which means that I don't have them.
Friday night plans: Sitting in with a bottle of wine and watching a shitty movie with Harriet.
Saturday: I need to buy a winter coat
Sunday: Off to see Ross Noble in Covent Garden
Monday: I have the day off, but i'll probably just chill out and do nothing.
Only 13 and a half days left of work this year. Yeeee haaaaa!
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
-- A. P. Herbert
Friday night plans: Sitting in with a bottle of wine and watching a shitty movie with Harriet.
Saturday: I need to buy a winter coat
Sunday: Off to see Ross Noble in Covent Garden
Monday: I have the day off, but i'll probably just chill out and do nothing.
Only 13 and a half days left of work this year. Yeeee haaaaa!
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
-- A. P. Herbert
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
SC Movie Review 4
Kiss kiss bang bang
A dark comedy murder mystery with a gay Val Kilmer. Very good film, made me laugh out loud more than once. Go and see it.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 (2,144 votes)
SC Rating: 4 potatoes (1 vote)
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This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
A dark comedy murder mystery with a gay Val Kilmer. Very good film, made me laugh out loud more than once. Go and see it.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 (2,144 votes)
SC Rating: 4 potatoes (1 vote)
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This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
Thursday, 17 November 2005
Handy Stuarty
Fixed my cupboard and lights last night.
And that's without tools. Brute force and luck.
Plus, I made spaghetti bolognaise but unfortunately I don't have a tin opener so had to stab the can of tomatoes open with a knife. So if I don't manage to make Ben's birthday meal / drinks...
...think of me in A&E with internal bleeding.
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Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if
you run out of food.
-- Dean McLaughlin.
And that's without tools. Brute force and luck.
Plus, I made spaghetti bolognaise but unfortunately I don't have a tin opener so had to stab the can of tomatoes open with a knife. So if I don't manage to make Ben's birthday meal / drinks...
...think of me in A&E with internal bleeding.
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Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if
you run out of food.
-- Dean McLaughlin.
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
138-0
The team I would have been playing in last weekend lost 138-0 to Peterborough 2nds.
Ha, ha, ha! I know i'm good...
... but surely I don't make that much difference.
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-- What inner force drove this first athlete? Your guess is as good as
mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
-- Dave Barry, "Sports is a Drag"
Ha, ha, ha! I know i'm good...
... but surely I don't make that much difference.
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-- What inner force drove this first athlete? Your guess is as good as
mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
-- Dave Barry, "Sports is a Drag"
7 and a half days holiday left to use up this year
Any suggestions on what I should do?
I can't really take much off this month as it's probably the busiest time of the year. Plus we're in a transition phase with one of our data feeds. Basically all hands on deck.
One idea is to take all Mondays and Fridays off in the month of December. One downside of that is that they realise that i'm only needed on 3 days of the week...
I could take the christmas weeks off, I don't see the point of this as there aren't many people in at that point so I could get away with coming in late, going away early and taking long lunches.
I could just go away somewhere for a long week before the christmas season.
Suggestions? Sensible ones?
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that
each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his
choice.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians
called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka"
and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People
passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy
Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
-- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
I can't really take much off this month as it's probably the busiest time of the year. Plus we're in a transition phase with one of our data feeds. Basically all hands on deck.
One idea is to take all Mondays and Fridays off in the month of December. One downside of that is that they realise that i'm only needed on 3 days of the week...
I could take the christmas weeks off, I don't see the point of this as there aren't many people in at that point so I could get away with coming in late, going away early and taking long lunches.
I could just go away somewhere for a long week before the christmas season.
Suggestions? Sensible ones?
----------------
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that
each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his
choice.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians
called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka"
and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People
passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy
Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
-- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
Monday, 14 November 2005
It was close...
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22Stuart+Clark%22&word2=%22Ian+Russell%22
It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark
It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark
My weekend
Friday night
Watched a few programmes on TV, notably
Have I Got News For You
QI
Jonathan Ross
Saturday night
Quite heavily skewed in the way of sport. I watched some of the cricket and Soccer AM in the morning then watched England v's Australia at Rugby, then Argentina v's England at football. Incidentally one of the best games I have ever seen. I then went out in Greenwich with my German mathematician friend Markus.
Sunday night
I've finally put the required effort into Football Manager, finished 4th with Liverpool. Might start again this week and start the game unemployed. Graft in the lower leagues before taking up the challenge of world domination.
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George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to
have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
-- Ashley Cooper
Watched a few programmes on TV, notably
Have I Got News For You
QI
Jonathan Ross
Saturday night
Quite heavily skewed in the way of sport. I watched some of the cricket and Soccer AM in the morning then watched England v's Australia at Rugby, then Argentina v's England at football. Incidentally one of the best games I have ever seen. I then went out in Greenwich with my German mathematician friend Markus.
Sunday night
I've finally put the required effort into Football Manager, finished 4th with Liverpool. Might start again this week and start the game unemployed. Graft in the lower leagues before taking up the challenge of world domination.
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George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to
have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
-- Ashley Cooper
Friday, 11 November 2005
The joys of Friday lunchtime drinking
How much work am I going to do this afternoon?
Fuck all...
So far I have sent an e-mail round the team to see if they want to go ice-skating on Tower Bridge in a couple of weeks. I've added a £1 to the price, so that we can have a sweepstake as to who falls over first.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
-- R.W. Emerson
Fuck all...
So far I have sent an e-mail round the team to see if they want to go ice-skating on Tower Bridge in a couple of weeks. I've added a £1 to the price, so that we can have a sweepstake as to who falls over first.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
-- R.W. Emerson
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