1. Your always very smartly turned out 2. Rammstein's Du Hast 3. That's easy! Visit the Museum of Science and Industry 4. Badger, Badger, Badger.... 5. I think it was Rocky Horror in 2003. But you know my memory ;-) 6. "It's fine Scottish weather we're having. The rain is falling straight down and kind of to the side like." 7. What was your primary motivation for that Phd? I can't remember what you did your Bsc in.
1. I have to say I've got smarter as I've got older. Why wear boring jeans when there are amazing and wonderful clothes you could wear instead?
5. That's my main first memory of most people as well!
6. Accurate apart from the "like" at the end!
7. My brain hadn't been stretched enough during my degree in biological sciences. I felt I was capable of a lot more learning and my year out working in a lab proved that going back to uni before my brain dribbled out of my ears was a very good idea. Also the chance to study something I loved hands on for 3 years plus another 3 years of being a student (remember hons degrees in Scotland are 4 years) was just too good to turn down!
1. You don't do anything by half-measures 2. Rocky Horror 3. It would probably be better if I named stuff we shouldn't do together. 4. Deathstone! 5. Ha ha ha ha ha, that was the nineties. There was soemthing about a Townley Monster though 6. "I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze. " 7. erm...
1. Your a classicist. I don't know enough classicists :-) 2. Wild Mountain Thyme by The Silencers. I think it must be something to do with the hair 3. See the sights of Manchester/Houston (depends who crosses the pond first) :-) 4. Yaaarrrrgh! 5. Tricky as we've never met. However you where the first person to "friend me" on LJ that I hadn't actually met 6. "Sons are the anchors of a mother's life." - Sophocles 7. I'm sure I've asked this before, but why did you friend my journal?
1. Your someone I can really over-geek with without feeling guilty for frothing 2. The Doves. Myabe one day I'll hear a song by them :-P 3. Frequent Dublin :-) 4. I still don't like actions having side effects (and boolean results). You'd have to come up with 3 real world examples to convince me otherwise. 5. I met you when I attended a ManLUG many moons ago (along with Dave G). It wasn't until I went to enter your details into my PDA for a second time that I realised this. 6. "a person who has grasped the idea of "free speech, not free beer" will not get it wrong again." 7. How long did it take you to "get" lisp?
I'm not sure I do really. I find it pretty damn hard to read, still. I bought a printed copy of the Emacs LISP manual and read it. That helped a bit. I also bought a copy of Common LISPcraft. That didn't help at all. I find all those parentheses mind-bending; if the editor wasn't always showing me the matching parenthesis I'd never get my head round it at all.
1. Your a lot more mellow these days :-) 2. Oddly, and I'm not sure why. Sharpe. Free association is obviously kicking in 3. Once your past feeding and all I reckon a big Fatty Boom Batty? 4. Lets make some noise on the bed 5. Ha ha ha ha ha, I refer you to the answer I gave Lee. However there was something about a mace and a heraldic tabard 6. Modesty prevents me from mentioning one that springs immediately to mind. 7. Do you think you'll stay in the IT sector when you return to work or try something different?
I was wondering how to work in the noise on the bed thing - It still makes me chuckle to think about it.
As for the IT sector. I'd be happy to stay in management as I am now quite adept at dealing with techies, but I am thoroughly sick of doing support myself. It sucks arse.
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1. Your always very smartly turned out
2. Rammstein's Du Hast
3. That's easy! Visit the Museum of Science and Industry
4. Badger, Badger, Badger....
5. I think it was Rocky Horror in 2003. But you know my memory ;-)
6. "It's fine Scottish weather we're having. The rain is falling straight down and kind of to the side like."
7. What was your primary motivation for that Phd? I can't remember what you did your Bsc in.
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5. That's my main first memory of most people as well!
6. Accurate apart from the "like" at the end!
7. My brain hadn't been stretched enough during my degree in biological sciences. I felt I was capable of a lot more learning and my year out working in a lab proved that going back to uni before my brain dribbled out of my ears was a very good idea. Also the chance to study something I loved hands on for 3 years plus another 3 years of being a student (remember hons degrees in Scotland are 4 years) was just too good to turn down!
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2. Rocky Horror
3. It would probably be better if I named stuff we shouldn't do together.
4. Deathstone!
5. Ha ha ha ha ha, that was the nineties. There was soemthing about a Townley Monster though
6. "I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze. "
7. erm...
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1. Your a classicist. I don't know enough classicists :-)
2. Wild Mountain Thyme by The Silencers. I think it must be something
to do with the hair
3. See the sights of Manchester/Houston (depends who crosses the pond
first) :-)
4. Yaaarrrrgh!
5. Tricky as we've never met. However you where the first person to
"friend me" on LJ that I hadn't actually met
6. "Sons are the anchors of a mother's life." - Sophocles
7. I'm sure I've asked this before, but why did you friend my journal?
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As for why I friended you... well, you're a geek, intelligent, interesting and you LARP!
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2. The Doves. Myabe one day I'll hear a song by them :-P
3. Frequent Dublin :-)
4. I still don't like actions having side effects (and boolean results). You'd have to come
up with 3 real world examples to convince me otherwise.
5. I met you when I attended a ManLUG many moons ago (along
with Dave G). It wasn't until I went to enter your details into my PDA
for a second time that I realised this.
6. "a person who has grasped the idea of "free speech, not free beer"
will not get it wrong again."
7. How long did it take you to "get" lisp?
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I'm not sure I do really. I find it pretty damn hard to read, still. I bought a printed copy of the Emacs LISP manual and read it. That helped a bit. I also bought a copy of Common LISPcraft. That didn't help at all. I find all those parentheses mind-bending; if the editor wasn't always showing me the matching parenthesis I'd never get my head round it at all.
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2. Oddly, and I'm not sure why. Sharpe. Free association is
obviously kicking in
3. Once your past feeding and all I reckon a big Fatty Boom Batty?
4. Lets make some noise on the bed
5. Ha ha ha ha ha, I refer you to the answer I gave Lee. However there
was something about a mace and a heraldic tabard
6. Modesty prevents me from mentioning one that springs immediately to
mind.
7. Do you think you'll stay in the IT sector when you return to work
or try something different?
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I was wondering how to work in the noise on the bed thing - It still makes me chuckle to think about it.
As for the IT sector. I'd be happy to stay in management as I am now quite adept at dealing with techies, but I am thoroughly sick of doing support myself. It sucks arse.
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