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best text message… EVER

I just received the best text message ever from Wendy:

Lawrence you are a giant and therefore more susceptible to diabetes.be careful.x

Also, my house was just invaded by two men who wanted to use our toilet. One of them was heard to say “Alex! Those trousers are marvelous, put a coat on and come with us! You have 2 minutes! 119! 118!…” So everything is back to normal…**sigh**

As for linkage… Google advise for steering clear of RSI (which reminds me I have a physio appointment this week.) Also, since I cast the iPod lifestyle away I think this is quite interesting, 18 months does not sound like long… Also the 6th HOPE is coming up but is also less than a week before Global Village 2006, ack!

2006-04-29 @ 23:15:15

astrosoc AGM minutes…

I just received this highly humerous e-mail from Amaury regarding the AstroSoc AGM (which I didn’t attend due to CREEM/meeting with Steve.

Helloooooooooo

Here are the (approximate) minutes.

Start: around 10 past 4

started with random noise.
Ramin : it's not my fault

Rowan : welcome words, list of people to elect, description of the positions
Question : who wants to be president?
Silence
Silence

laughs

explanation and begging about having a president.

one question from the public (natasha), asks what it is. Is she interested???
suspense is intense.
the president must think about things that others do not think.
She is not interested but maybe, but finally not.

a proposition from Ramin's girlfirend, she is treasurer if colin is president.
Colin accepts. Hurra
he talks

blablabla

2 minutes later
nominated by me and seconded by David

all in favour : unanimity
Colin is el PREZ !

Who wants to be president of vice?
David is vice prez
we need to elect him first, sorry. nominated by Amy and seconded by Ramin.

he talks
stupid questions asked
votes: unanimity

Secretary : Natasha (an art student)
nominated by me and seconded by Katharine
she is psycho major ( a major psycho, hahaha)
votes unanimity.

Treasurer : Alison (another art student  !!!!!! )
nominated by Ramin, seconded by meeeeeee
more stupid questions about tea
votes : unanimity

Thomas is talking.

Aurora Editor : nobody and we are talking about other things
so nobody

Observing director : Ciara
nominated by Alison, seconded by Rowan
she talks, she is keen to learn,
stupid questions about chocolate tea and coffee
votes : unanimity

she has to go back to labs, very working person.
she writes her name on the list for the Union.

Aurora editor again
proposed a first year do that.
Katie, the 1st year rep stands for that.

nominated David, seconded Katharine
She talks, skils: making crispy cakes
votes : unanimity

Webmaster : nobody, left to a 1st year

Publicity officer : can be done by everybody, even a 1st year

Ordinary member: Me
nominated by Colin and seconded by Natasha
Votes: unanimity

Finished ! If Mat Lee wants to be ordinary member he applies at the start of the year.

Rowan thanks everyone, she says it is the year of change, the committee looks
very different. She is going to write a book with much description.

Start of the talk.

Hope you enjoyed my as you go minutes
Amaury 
2006-04-26 @ 16:41:23

arghhh, honours choices

Yuck, I have to spend some time deciding what to do for the next two years. Ack! I’m going to do that (along with the million other things) so I’ll leave you with Google cheat sheets and something quite interesting.

2006-04-25 @ 17:44:23

iChat conversation of the week…

Matt: gotcha, welcome to elissa’s laptop
Matt:brb - rain, bed outside

2006-04-22 @ 14:49:19

Dundee-ing it!

I spent the day in Dundee (and other more obscure parts of North East Scotland) today with my parents, which was pretty fun.

how cool are pirates

I am currently in Hertford college, Oxford’s IT room. I feel that I should definately post this since it’s been lurking here for aaaaages.

@ 02:06:49

linkdump…

Okay, so I really need to close all these Firefox tabs:

Pirate parties and video, musicians for filesharing, a big list of good Firefox extensions, building a CCD camera with a webcam, hyper-realistic giant sculptures, I’m sure everyone has seen the Flying Spaghetti Monster before and finally Slacker Astronomy podcast!

Phew!

2006-04-12 @ 11:25:37

Mapleing

You would be surprised how hard it is to plot an nxn chessboard in Maple. Needless to say I have succeeded though. Code will be posted when I have handed in the project.

2006-04-11 @ 20:17:55

in a lab, again

I’m in the physics microlab now. It’s pretty scary since people keep running past the door. Anyway, this blog is basically just me avoiding work… I’ll stop now…

By the way, this is my 100th WordPress post, woo!

2006-04-09 @ 21:35:36

resuming normal service…

…maybe… I think the DNS information has reached me now, even through NTL’s stupid webcache. Anyway, time to get back to the usual irrelevant postings…

First I must draw your attention to Nick’s equipment list for Global Village which we drew up at a meeting a few weeks ago. Next, lying is sometimes pointless and there is a massive woman in the desert! The first blue screen of death on a Mac and a nice use of AP news feeds, google maps and Yahoo! geocoding.

2006-04-07 @ 16:15:50

hosting change

Well, when the DNS entries propogate I should be totally setup on my new server over at mokey.de. Many thanks go to Matt for spending the majority of last night (although it was daytime for him) sorting out WordPress, g2 and a bunch of other things for me.

@ 13:22:28

last night a cliche saved my life…

Today I learned there is a pub in Greenwich called “The Frog and Radiator” other than that I’ve had a pretty interesting day. I tried my first can of IrnBru32, which is the Scottish equivalent of Red Bull; it tastes kind of like IrnBru but lacks that orange (the colour not the fruit) aftertaste that we all know and love.

Anyway, I’m moving hosting at some point so this will all go down in a bit but hopefully not for long!

2006-04-06 @ 22:37:55

payback

After the disappointment over the lack of “Arthur C Clarke fights Buddhist monks” I thought that I should pay you all back with “Vengeance cat versus the android hoards” from Evan, an easy way to make htaccess files, along with a crazy MS Paint creation (thanks Nick!) and finally Thom Yorke calls the music industry a “bunch of fucking retards”. I hope this makes up for some of yesterday’s distress…

2006-04-05 @ 23:42:42

what the hell!

[News, Web]

This news story is insane. A man is taken from his flight for playing the Clash in a taxi cab?! What on Earth is going on?

@ 12:52:50

quick posting…

I just installed 10.4.6 and need to restart therefore I’m dumping my links…

Linux filesystem tree image, drag and drop WordPress layout and a very very big Photoshop picture.

Finally, imagine the excitement of seeing the headline “Arthur C Clarke fights Buddhist monks”! Unfortunately it’s about timezones…**sigh**

2006-04-04 @ 23:14:37

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