Bear with me, this could be a long one.
Those of you who remember my pre-Wordpress site will remember that I disabled the commenting system due to a stupid amount of spam messages that I get. Now I’m here on Wordpress, the spam comments still come, and although I have a plugin attached to the site [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Life, the Universe and Everything category.
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Why would anybody steal signalling?
OK, this is a bit of a rant really.
I’m currently sat on a train at Taunton station, and at the time I write this paragraph my computer tells me it’s 10.00am. I left Tiverton Parkway station at 9.04. This train was due into Paddington at around 11.30.
The reason for this delay is because ’somebody in [...]
Is this the most Autumnal Autumn ever?
Just a quick post…
There seems to be more leaves on the roads (and probably railways too), the colours seem to be a bit of a richer browns, oranges and yellows than they have been in the past.
Ah well, the weather isn’t great so that’s a bonus.
2+2=5
… and this is how.
2.4+2.4 = 4.8
If you round to the nearest whole number, that gives you
2+2 = 5.
QED.
Dreaming
So, last night I was asleep. Nothing unusual there (well actually given my sleep patterns recently, but that’s another post for another time!) except that I found myself dreaming – which actually isn’t that unusual either.
I have heard that you only know you’re dreaming when you’re not in a deep sleep, or that you can [...]
The Rice and the Chessboard – how the Internet has ruined life for the better
There is a story about a Chinese man who invented the game of Chess. The Chinese emperor at the time said something like ‘what can I give you for your reward?’. The gentleman replied that on his chessboard, he would have one piece of rice on one square, two on the next, four [...]
Overheard
Overheard on a train. A man and a woman have just walked through the carraige, it’s late night (around 10). Conversation between two people behind me.
A – Did she just say ‘is this second class’?
B – I think she did
A – I’ve got a good mind to go up to her, crush a can of [...]
Alice and Kev…
It’s not often that I will link to another website in a post.
Well, that’s a little odd to say given that I haven’t really done that many posts here (I started with good intentions, but meh).
It is quite often that I find myself in a situation where I really feel for a fictional person. A [...]
Pay your PIN by PIN
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a rant about using PINs to pay for your items with credit cards (though while I’m at it, all the leaflets and stuff that were going round at the time that Morrisons changed said that using PINs were more secure – surely it is much easier to remember [...]
More Snow
Yes, OK – my life is this dull that two snow days on the trot I’ve made a post of photographs. Still, it’s not every day that it does snow and apparantly it’s going to all disappear by the weekend. Quite a bit of it has disappeared here today to be honest which [...]