Monthly Archives: July 2004

Failing to register..

Got a reply to my rant to the college bureaucrats; to have been more dismissive she’d have had to use swearwords! From Shona Brown Date 27.07.2004, 12:49:59 Dear Caspar Thank you for your email and comments which I passed on … Continue reading

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Hilbert’s dream

In 1900, David Hilbert composed a list of 23 important unsolved problems in mathematics, at the time he commented: “If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis … Continue reading

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spending a penny to earn 87

one of the few pleasures to come from going back to work, is that this time I am a contractor and so bill the company every day I turn up. which has led naturally enough to me working out how … Continue reading

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Warning – When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

By Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say … Continue reading

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maxi-bar

we stayed last night at the swanky Saint Martins Lane Hotel thanks to a cheap deal via Priceline. Unfortunately they couldn’t get us a reduction on the mini-bar and fortunately we didn’t get drunk enough to forget this Tic Tacs……….. … Continue reading

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an appalling book but with highlights

i am labouriously working my way through Douglas Hofstadtr’s book about translating Marot stanzas, i should quit, it’s shit, but occasionally it has fantastic paragraphs, or i find it can pack an odd small fact that smacks my crack.. how … Continue reading

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today’s random Gedanken!

1. visualise an apple…. what colour is it? my archetypal apple is green, yet i suspect the more common consensus is on red, with the snow white red/green option being a very small minority (of dwarves??) this [i]Gedankenexperiment[/i] works less … Continue reading

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More than my job’s worth

Tomorrow for the first time in a half a year I have to pull on a suit & rejoin the drones toiling at the nine-to-five in a faceless corporation, so I thought I’d let off a bit of steam baiting … Continue reading

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MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology

Dr. Michael Thomas Dear Dr. Thomas, Here is my application for the MSc. in Cognitive Neuropsychology; I enclose the completed post-graduate application form, evidence of my existing qualifications and my professional CV (for what it is worth.) References from my … Continue reading

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Adam’s Apple, Eve’s Bean

Reading The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi in order to learn about the clitoris, I actually found out something new about the male anatomy. Or, at least about it’s etymology. Hard though it is to conceive but the biblical significance or … Continue reading

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OneMonkey Limited

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A Tinnie from my Tin Pan Alley panhandling pally!

On Sunday I made a new friend! Wandering through town, I already taken in multiple cultures in Trafalgar Square where there had been whirling water carriers, Vietnamese water-puppets & West Indian revision of West African dancing. I watered my horse … Continue reading

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Jones the Phone

don’t you feel the poetry and promise of this animated gif? it was there where i saw it only momentarily but it caught my eye; maybe because i’d just come off the phone to a lovely lilting lady from wales … Continue reading

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