Diary: November 2003

Get ready

I hope you all have your sacrificial altars ready, there's a lunar total eclipse expected tonight. Apparently it will start at 11.30pm, and the total eclipse will last from 1.06am to 1.31am. Hopefully there wont be clouds so we'll be able to see it, unlike the aurora they promised us after the sun went crazy.

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Ping!

Well, today has been thoroughly unproductive. Well, not thoroughly - I've made a couple of mini changes to the diary (moved the 'latest comments' link to the bar on the left, and merged the 'link' and 'comments' links - the old link function will work for the forseable future, but may be turned off eventually). Oh, and I made runner beans for tea. I ate them with toad in the hole, and they were fairly tasty. Result.

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New Science

I am certain that you will all be pleased to hear that I have now added to my 'Guide To Science' the information you need to understand how you can go round the world in a helicopter in 24 hours.

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Ugh

I had too much to drink last night...

It was Hannah's birthday (happy birthday Hannah!) so we wandered over there and drank wussy shots of things like archers aqua and beer and champagne. Well, I say shots, but I had a wine glass and whenever Laura poured me a drink it took up half the glass - I poured one out into shot glasses just to see, I ended up with 3. But anyway, the idea was to drink 21 shots (Hannah being 21... happy birthday Hannah!), I made 14 (I got there late! although I guess it was really ...

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Grrrrr

I have had enough of this stupid agents coursework. It's dumb. I've spent nearly all day working on it, I spent most of the weekend working on it, I've had enough. It doesnt work, our strategy is flawed, and my thread dies in the middle of a loop for no apparent reason. And if that wasnt bad enough, apparently I need to get it finished for Thursday, but I need to look up convolution and write an edge detection algorithm in matlab. GRRRR. I'm just fed up with all of this. Do I really want a ...

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