good MonoMono http://onemonkey.org I only just discovered that the Spanish word for 'monkey' is 'mono'. How fantastic! I'm even more pleased than when my sister pointed out that Onemonkey Limited is not a criticism but merely a restatement of my singular nature.
good Was university the best time of my life? No and yes! The first I went to university in cambridge and it was a whole heap of uselessness.. I was mediocre at my subject & compounded this by attending no lectures, I was predominantly anti-social & socially awkward, I didn't make any lasting friends, I took no drugs, drank in
good one more reason to shop at... er... safeway a couple of weeks ago I was vindicated in an uncertain descision not to desert dessert and to have the cheese course at dinner with my beloved and her lovely mother. I am not normally a three-course diner but what harm can a little cheese do, it didn't
good 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 been proven?" (not yet it seems ->
good 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 much it is costing them every time i go to
good 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 we've no money for
good 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 well with oranges. 2. German provides some
good 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 in Soho and was strolling north along Charing Cross Road
good 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 slaving away in a swansea call-centre
good Glastonbury piccies: http://look.onemonkey.org/glast04 it was good but not great.. this was partly due to the energy sapping qualities of mud, the absense of any bands I absolutely had to see & being unable to rendezvous effectively with my nearests & dearests. but it had it's
good Urbs in Berlin http://look.onemonkey.org/urberlin No time to talk at moment, but here are my pics from a superb weekend in my new second favorite city! http://look.onemonkey.org/urberlin and here's something about my new favorite toy:-
good god is sort of a gas i've just played a computer at twenty questions.. http://y.20q.net:8095/ Apparently, it some sort of AI knowledge base project but a fairly crap one because it seems to be mainly about making money and crap novelties (okay so 250,000 connection neural net in your
good you may know me by the company i keep in the course of realising that by referring to it, i unwhacked my googlewhack*, i discovered the googletool which displays Pages similar to blog.onemonkey.org I haven't figured out how they do it but it is interesting. Firstly it is flattering to be compared to pages as
good a few things a few things 1. did you notice the number of words in my last post? :> 2. Got my first ever googlewhack while looking for Libraryology. Benjamin Zephaniah's poem that pisses on this. 3. Of all God's creatures it is the little lamb, prancing and gambolling in the fields,
good Mussels, mammals and a few other animals I'm going to Berlin in a few weeks, I shan't miss their Museum f¸r Naturkunde. Here's what my guide book says: mussels, birds and mammals Seven dinosaurs is more than enough for me, and, even better than that, by my estimation there must
good Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen & a Moose went to a party can anyone confirm the veracity of this anecdote from The Act of Creation? Some years ago, at a fancy dress ball - in Monte Carlo, I believe - a competition was held ot decide which among the dozen or so guests masquerading as Charlie Chaplin came nearest to the original.
good psychos? neurotics? cogni-scienti? added a new group to my sidebar of recommended other people & places to visit.. hope the worthy few won't mind their classification.. what i mean, of course, is that they are to a greater or lesser extent they are interested in psychology, neuroscience , cognitive science or some
good The moon on a sling! I'm reading Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. All about the creative process in the arts and sciences. Along the wayhe emphasises that many scientific advances and even revolutions often have many precursors. He gives a wonderful example of how the Roman historian Plutarch (c. 45
good are you looking at me? have tweaked my photo's folder to make it a bit more accessible. http://look.onemonkey.org not that this is of very much interest to anyone one other than me. (plus ca change?)
good homeless yay! I have finally rented out my flat and remortgaged it all in the space of a couple of hours. It does mean i will have to paint over my hallway [sniff] and put all my furniture and most of my books into storage but time to move on! oh,
good Whale'n'Bass http://whale.onemonkey.org call me fishmeal. some months ago, never mind how long precisely, having little or no faith in the innovators of drum'n'bass, my good friend Yossarian & I decided to venture forth into the choppy seas of music production. We had observed that
good maybe someone down here likes me? what an absolutely fantastic weekend. where did it all go right? what have i done to deserve this. I won't go into details because you wouldn't follow me and even if you did follow me you wouldn't believe me and even if you did
good It's Alive! for my final year project i am attempting to teach a computer to think like a three month old baby.. obviously it must must lie around drooling a bit before it can gurgle and play hidey-peep with me but we've passed the first hurdle. I built a completely
good home? I moved into this flat 5 years ago today.. it really doesn't seem very long ago at all.. back then in the distant days of the twentieth century, back before we all had digital TV's and ipods. (how did we survive?!) it was all so long
good office party http://www.guardian.co.uk...1159286,00.html 12-hour rave catches police on the hop http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1159286,00.html I was there (allegedly!!) and while it was one of the coolest i've been to for a while, i doubt that