July 2008
22 posts
Potty Talk
Kayleigh has been toilet training for the past few weeks. We tried to get her interested after her second birthday, but she just started getting anxious and would get upset when she had an accident, so we kept her in nappies until she was ready (“she won’t make it to her 23rd birthday without working out how to use the toilet…”)
A few weeks ago - probably a month by now -...
A Curious Thought
If Alex Salmond MP got everything he wanted, the Scottish people had a referendum on independence and eventually broke free from the United Kingdom…
Ought I apply for dual nationality?
For Tarantino Fans
This is one of the best short films I’ve seen. Particularly the ending, I couldn’t stop laughing. A Tarantino aficionado explains, in the style of a typical conversation from a Tarantino movie, the ‘Tarantino Code’.
Now, first off, there’s no point watching this if you aren’t over 18 - there’s bad language (although it’s all subtitles) and you...
For Typographers
From CollegeHumor. Hat-Tip John Gruber.
I'm Going to Say Something Controversial
I think Wall-E is as good as, or possibly even better than, Toy Story. No, really. And having really high expectations of the film didn’t temper my enjoyment of it at all. This is Pixar truly back on form, after a couple of shaky efforts (Cars and Ratatouille are both entertaining, but we haven’t watched either with Kayleigh, and that says a lot). In Wall-E they’ve coupled their...
Is There An Artificial God? →
Douglas Adams’ Speech at Digital Biota 2, September 1998
I remember reading this speech in the Douglas Adams collection The Salmon Of Doubt when I was younger. It’s long but brilliant. If Douglas Adams is just a Sci-Fi author in your estimation, reading this speech will change the way you think of him.
There’s also the original recording of Adams giving the speech which is...
The Official Results Are IN
We’ve been awaiting final confirmation of our degree classifications before putting our results up on the blog - me and Ellie both got our module results back two weeks ago, and calculated our grades from that, but it didn’t feel quite right to go shouting out from the rooftops until we’d seen our final degree awards in writing.
I am now happy to say that we have our results...
Get Past Your Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia →
The Thsrs, from Ironic Sans, is a new Thesaurus which only provides synonyms which are shorter than the word you entered. Why, after all, should we use a long word when a diminutive one will do? It can lead to some entertaining results, particularly since it doesn’t seem to be an exceptional thesaurus. It couldn’t find a synonym for ‘avenue’ for instance, when I consider street, road, lane and...
New Shoes
If only I could think of a more banal topic to write a blog post about.
Me and Kayleigh got new shoes today. Mine are facing the difficult task of replacing both my trainers AND my hike boots, and thus they are sort of a combination - Gore-Tex like fabric and a strong sole, but softer and more flexible than full-blown hike boots. The laces are terrible, though.
Kayleigh tried on some (extremely...
A New Way of Counting
Kayleigh has found a new way of counting which I must write down, lest she stop doing it. The numbers from 1 to 10 are to be counted as normal, in order. From thence the sequence goes:
Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Eighteen. Saturday. Sunday. Tuesday. Twenty. Thursday. Saturday.
What I find the most entertaining is the absolute consistency.
