Clodagh sent me on this cool map of the Christchurch Earthquake. It shows all the hundreds of aftershocks, their magnitude, position, and depth. Being a statistician, I just had to put together some trending info
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I was in work the other day and we all had to head downstairs to the meeting room for... you guessed it... a meeting. I went for a slash first and as I came out of the bathroom the girl on our team (there's only one) had just gone past and started down the stairs. I followed close behind and it was only when we got to the bottom that she noticed it
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I think I just watched the most emo movie ever made, Me and You and Everyone We Know. This looks like it was written by a mildly upset sensitive teenager whose ma just put the wrong type of milk in his cornflakes and is now up in his bedroom mitching off school, by turns furiously penning a movie script and masturbating over someone he saw at a
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We were talking in work today about the concept of a Friend Whore. A friend whore is someone who has a large number of friends on a social networking site, but most of them are probably just aquaintances. One of the danger signs of an FW is that they accept friending invites very quickly, like within the hour
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I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I got in a long argument with a Christian - a Christian Political Scientist, no less. He had a lovely biblical name - Noah
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The M3 Motorway through Meath has finally opened a few days ago. For reasons which are still unclear to me, it has been very controversial.
You may have heard that it's destroying the landscape of the area, and wantonly paving over remains. You may even have heard that the hill was damaged by it. It's not. The protest was total nonsense.
Just wondering if anyone here writes Private entries for LJ? Like, cause very few people update anymore, and the ones that do only do so rather rarely. Was thinking that maybe people were using it as a private diary.
Getting good at cooking has been a long-standing ambition of mine. I have a very small retinue of dishes that I can cook to a consistently high standard. Thai curry, thankfully, is one of them
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