Month: February 2009
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Life Lessons
Here are some interesting comments on life that Ben Casnocha made after reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. On what you learn from a substance recovery clinic: That there’s a certain type of person who carries a picture of their therapist in their wallet. That (both a relief and a kind of an odd…
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Icicles at home & away
Whilst in Les Gets I learnt from Thierry that icicles are a sign of a poor roof or defective guttering. Today, Sally spotted this on MY house here in Cambridge. Oh dear, really don’t fancy clambering up a three extension ladder 40 feet and fixing this 🙁 I guess it’s not in the same league…
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Gambling cancelled
Tonight’s lecture on gambling was cancelled 🙂 To big a gamble obviously…. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Snow day in Cambridge
Lots of snow in Cambridge today. All the schools now close at the first hint of snow, so the ones who did turn up for school, get to play on Parker’s Piece:- Prize for biggest snowball of the day:- and no penis this year to upset PC Wiley and the sensitive souls of Cambridge. Powered…
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Geoff and his Twitterings
After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom‘s blog 140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.” Thought I would…