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nanowrimo

http://www.nanowrimo.org As if I don't have enough to do with my time I've decided to sign up for the National Novel Writing month (aka nanowrimo). The aim is to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of november.

psycho

damn my eyes

A & B really are the same it gets worse if you scroll the page up and down a bit more here

words

Nights at the Circus

oh what fools you were to eschew our company on this night of nights.. the others can so easily confirm my story whensoever they should choose to. oh, but that you should have been part of our motley crew. what a night! what goings on . but perhaps i should start

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The Imp of the Perverse

He's the little voice which pleads with you throw yourself off a tall building or take 'passenger action' on the undergrind.  In the Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson infects Half-cocked Jack Shaftoe with it, though unlike most of us, he acts on his Impish whims. So far

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FridgeMagnet

http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk

dreams

the dream theory of genetic variability

sometime ago now (the night of 9th/10th May to be precise) I dreamt I was explaining this theory to Ailsa; that individuals who are at extremes on some measure of population variability would show greater variability in other independent(?) measures. Not sure if this theory exists or if it

dreams

robot ninja children built by geeks

Last night's dream was long and dramatic epic for such confusing complexity that although it all made sense at the time I cannot quite reconstruct it now. It was obviously a consequence of two hours sleep the night before, a thrilling weekend with Ailsa and some inevitable plagarism

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Mixing Memory

http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/

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The Essential Difference?

http://www.guardian.co.uk...,937443,00.html Perhaps jealous of his cousins riches, Simon Baron Cohen seems to have given up doing real science and joined the Mars/Venus gold-rush. As far as I know he's not yet writing for the Womens page of the Daily Mail,

dreams

magic knee

the urbanites are onto the dreamwagon.. this thread I dreamt that I drove to scotland to visit harry potter's school for a meeting with one of the teachers.. the whole place was a bit corporate and they were looking down on me for not being wizardic and much

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August 2004 Reading List

Books I read this month: Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas HofstadterDH is the worst kind of nerd churned out by the American school system. A pathological need to over-achieve in every field and mistaking cleverness for wisdom. We all know him as a physics/computer science geek but

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The Nightmare of Saint Helena

We went to the National Gallery on Sunday and while we didn't see Quentin Blake or Rolf Harris we had a very good time. It is a cheap laugh to go to a free museum and make fun of the unintentionally humorous aspects of paintings universally considered priceless

science

big bang

I've met a few muslims who seriously (tried to) use the big bang as 'proof' of the existence of god, using the First Cause (uncaused) argument. i was gobsmacked that anyone would still try this failed tactic.. Having god press the big red button to start

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Dear Ailsa

Dear Ailsa, Hello there, how's your day going? I'm at work somewhat bored yet mysteriously energetic and fidgety ;-) What better way to occupy my idlenss than writing you a letter. One way would be to do the job that they pay me for but there

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Sill Party

thank you all for coming and turning up the temperature in our new abode.. it's well toasty now.. :) & with remarkably little damage, someone decided to smash a glass of redwine against the lightswitch in the hall but that was it and I reckon that was our polish

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Top Hole!

Good Golf, it's not often I have a good idea but wait til you hear this beauty. I want to open the world's easiest golf course, it looks like a real course but it is cunningly designed to let any old idiot do really well. * Most

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life, the universe and everything

just heard the first episode of the new HHGTTG.. it was great to have it back & obviously it is never going to be as good as the real thing but glad they've finally gone and done it. :D I think the biggest problem is that they'

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stupid machine stole my money

these days it seems like even churches & public toilets have cash points. i don't mind paying a small fee sometimes to find a machine where you wouldn't otherwise have one but the fucking machine in the Windmill has blatently ripped me off twice.. it tells

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go tell it to the mountain

I'd quite like to blow up a mountain. It wouldn't have to be a big one, but I'd like to blow the top clean off. I know why this is and can only assume yesterday's news is a sign that Kim Il

dreams

wet dream

last night I played waterpolo with Brad Pitt. we were on opposing teams but it wasn't a particularly competitive game & anyhow spent more time diving to the bottom of the deep-end to prove some point which made sense at the time!

bad

insincere and dishonest

Compare this article on Guardian online today 'He's just sleeping, I kept telling myself'Guardian - 14 Sept 04 with the one immediately below it.. 'Blair refuses to apologise for Iraq war'Guardian - 14 Sept 04

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THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF LIFE

Caspar's Patented Antidote (to this): THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF LIFE: Living on Earth is corrosive, and everything you do has a price that others will pay. How long a minute can be doesn't stop us from ignoring urgent issues year after year. Birthdays are good for

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THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE

One of those mind-virus things that make you feel sick: THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE: Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on. Birthdays

science

Blimey O'Filey!

It's moving at a snail's pace - but it may be evolution in actionGuardian - 24 Jul 04 As a child given the chance to vote on which bit of the Yorkshire coast we would go to, I'd always cast for Filey or Robin

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journeyman

no-one is interested in my tale of transport woe and I know it isn't interesting and only so woeful. but it will help me calm my breathing. 0730 - Alarm goes off at Ailsa's. It is warm and pleasant in this bed. 0739 - Walk to