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The Elements of Style!
One of my Christmas presents to myself was a copy of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style (inspired, like many things I do, by my relentless workaholism - I saw https://speakerdeck.com/nmeans/how-to-code-like-a-writer recently and wanted to read more of the ( Read more... ) -
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(One of my colleagues has tried to get in touch with the Pope over Twitter: https://twitter.com/IgnorantGraeme/status/476377583618359296. littlered2 and I are discussing this ( Read more... ) -
Amsterdam!
V and I spent the last few days in Amsterdam; V's sister is doing a Genocide Studies MA there and we wanted to visit. It was fun ( Read more... ) -
science science science
Verity and I spent the day at the Science Museum, which was fantastic.- There was a staff member operating a remote-control inflatable Dalek and chasing children with it, which V thought was great.
- They had some great stuff about computing history - the Jacquard loom (first punch-card machine, from the 1700s), Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. ( Read more... )
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littlered2 and I got a Netflix subscription today. It's very exciting - only £6 a month and it has tons of niche stuff and stuff other people tell me to watch. (Fringe! White Collar! Warehouse 13! Life on Mars! Jonathan Creek! The Doctor Who movie and four classic serials! A documentary about three Dungeons and Dragons DMs!). -
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Three things that, in the process of my new domestic partnership with littlered2, I have been told are unreasonable:- When purchasing landline phones, it is not reasonable to buy the £45 ones rather than the £20 ones "because they have a colour screen".
- It is not reasonable to own a towel that is too small to dry myself with, but which has my name stitched onto ( Read more... )
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I have just listened to Season 4 of Cabin Pressure (I'm at 39,978ft above sea level, using the Emirates Airways onboard wifi; Verity made me save Cabin Pressure until we were actually flying). Martin! Martin! I'm so glad he has a nice girlfriend and a £22k pay rise and the approval of his mother and I can't wait for the Christmas special ( Read more... ) -
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I'm currently reading 'Coders at Work', which includes an interview with Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
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V and I are playing "replace a word in a play title with 'dragon'".
V: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dragons! I would watch it.
Me: Dragons!
V: Is that just Hamlet or something?
Me: Equus. But...I guess you couldn't really tell.
V: *laughs hysterically*
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So, I graduated yesterday! It was a pretty expensive process - probably near on £200 between the hotel, gown hire, getting to Oxford and eating out - but really worth it. We had tea and biscuits in Hall with our guests, then got whisked off at 10.15am to have the Dean of Degrees (who's grown a beard since I last saw him at matriculation, and ( Read more... )