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August 19th, 2009
03:10 pm - A classic
Just received this email from a mate whose mother recently died (names deliberately obsured by me) ...
I had to send an email to Rushmoor council as they'd sent my mum a bus
pass, even though I'd told them she had died in November. This is
their reply, it's a classic.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Customer Services <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:CustomerServices@rushmoor.gov.uk"><CustomerServices@rushmoor.gov.uk></a>
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: Hilda ********
To: Steve ********
Good Morning
Thank you for your email.
I am very sorry that this was sent to you in error, I have ensured that
our records have now been updated for both her bus pass and her Garden
Waste.
Once again we are very sorry for any incontinence caused.
If I can be of further assistance please contact
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:customerservices@rushmoor.gov.uk">customerservices@rushmoor.gov.uk</a>
Kind Regards
Susan ******
Customer Services
Rushmoor Borough Council
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk">http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk</a>
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August 16th, 2009
08:56 pm - Cheesecake - the final result
Made a sort of coulee with the bilberries and blackberries and kept a few back for the topping. Mmm. Was good! Still have 6 slices left :)
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11:58 am - Cheesecake topping?
Fresh bilberries that i have just picked. Got a handful of blackberries too
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August 15th, 2009
11:53 pm - Cheesecake
Cheese. Cake. Cheese. In a cake.
It's the future!
Well so said Peter Kay.
Today I made a 'NewYork Style' baked cheesecake.
It's in the fridge chillin' at the moment.
So readers - should it be eaten 'au naturel' or should I put some
sort of topping on it? If topping then what?
Lots of nice fruit about at the moment, but for some reason I'm thinking
choclate buttons would be good.
What do you reckon?
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August 14th, 2009
09:08 am - RIP Les Paul
The world would be such a different place without you.
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August 13th, 2009
03:06 pm - A Challenge
A challenge for you.
Myself and Austin can't do level 14 of this:-
http://www.candystand.com/play/electric-box
I think we are both very close.
If I could just get the last fan in place a bit quicker I'd have it cracked.
If you take up the challenge and crack it please post a screen shot of the starting position.
Conside a gauntlet thrown in your face!
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August 10th, 2009
11:12 am - Tits
Ah...there's nothing like seeing a bird sucking on my fat balls, or watching a pair of great tits resting on my nut sack.
Yes - when I moved into my new house I inherited a few bird feeders and I have since been experimenting
with various foodstuffs to see what they like and don't like. So far we've been getting great tits, blue tits, sparrows,
robins, pigeons, magpies and we even saw a jay the other day.
A couple of squirrels have also been seen which if they persist will soon find themselves to be ex-squirrels.
So what birds do you get in your garden and what (if anything) do you feed them?
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May 29th, 2009
12:44 pm - Google Wave
Just watched the google i/o keynote speech on "google wave" over at wave.google.com.
I never thought it would happen but I think I've just seen the beginning of the end of email!
Well, email as we know it.
I love this quote from http://linkbee.com/7MB7 :-
"“We’re going to reinvent communication, we just need 100 engineers who can go off to Australia for a while, and we’ll get back to you in a few years,” Brin recalled them saying. But executives decided to bet on the brothers’ track record. “We decided, collectively, to give them the benefit of the doubt.”"
The brothers refered too are the guys who came up with google maps.
If you can't be arsed to watch the demo (it's over an hour long) there's a decent list of what it does here: http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/28/wave-googles-take-on-the-future-of-communication/
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May 18th, 2009
01:54 pm - New search engine
I know I have a few geeks/teachers/academic types on my flist.
If that sounds like you, you may like to have a play with http://www92.wolframalpha.com/ .
If it doesn't sound like you then you may want to play with it anyway.
Note : It's a alpha version but you can see it's potential.
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April 23rd, 2009
09:51 am - Happy St George's Day
Taken a few weeks back on the way back from Northumberland.
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March 2nd, 2009
05:08 pm - twitter
Do any of you twitter?
If so why what's your id so I can stalk follow you?
I'm Nomme1.
Not much there yet - I still don't get it I only started it yesterday.
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February 19th, 2009
01:39 pm - Daily Mash
I don't appear to be able to find a syndicated feed for the DailyMash on LJ.
Could someone who has the p0wah make one please?
Feed @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/thedailymash
KTHXBYE
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January 22nd, 2009
03:55 pm - Predictive text
What's the first word you get on your phone if you use predictive text and type the word 'Thus'?
I get 'tits' on my nokia.
I slight glitch in their algorithm I feel.
Or does 'tits' really occur more frequently than 'Thus'?
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10:27 am - Theory of intelligeance
From 'Cheers':
'Well you see, Norm, it's like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only
move as fast as the slowest buffalo . And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest
and weakest ones at the back that are killed first . This natural selection
is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the
whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members .
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells . Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills
brain cells . But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells
first . In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker
brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine . And
that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers . '
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January 21st, 2009
09:27 am - Ping Oldbloke
So what do you make of this hand then?
My pre-flop raise was a bluff based on position to steal the blinds as only one person had limped in. Still - it turned out alright in the end!
I suppose he/she could have got full- house on the river...
! Table c35, Hand 68, Day 79
! Nomme calls
! Pot right ($29900), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 2 players, 1 all in
! Flopped card: 10c
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
|#| Name |Bankroll| Action |Status|Pot#|Pot Size|
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
1| Jim McGill | 39350 | 100 |folded| | |
2|D> Nomme | 21200 | 13950 | | | |
3| SMB | 26000 | 500 |folded| | |
4| The White Lobster | 12550 | 900 |folded| | |
5| Fredrik Westerlund | 21100 | 100 |folded| | |
6| RFeiger | 19300 | 100 |folded| | |
7| tootsie | 40325 | 100 |folded| | |
8| Claudia | 27125 | 100 |folded| | |
9| David Gustavsson | 28200 | 100 |folded| | |
10| Amerasian | 0 | 13950 |all-in| | |
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
! History of this hand:
! 01/16/09 08:30:47! Dealing a new hand
! 01/16/09 08:30:47! Everyone antes $100
! 01/16/09 08:30:47! SMB blinds $400
! 01/16/09 08:30:47! The White Lobster blinds $800
! 01/16/09 08:30:47! Fredrik Westerlund is on vacation and folds
! 01/16/09 09:15:21! RFeiger folds
! 01/17/09 01:51:59! tootsie folds
! 01/17/09 01:51:59! Claudia folds
! 01/17/09 01:51:59! David Gustavsson folds
! 01/18/09 02:02:33! Fredrik Westerlund is back from vacation
! 01/18/09 11:42:24! Amerasian calls
! 01/18/09 11:42:24! Jim McGill folds
! 01/19/09 01:25:22! Nomme raises $1800
! 01/19/09 01:25:22! SMB folds
! 01/19/09 05:10:36! The White Lobster folds
! 01/19/09 10:27:09! Amerasian calls
! 01/19/09 10:27:09! Pot right ($7400), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 01/19/09 10:27:09! 2 players
! 01/19/09 10:27:09! Flopped cards: 6s Jc Kc
! 01/19/09 12:17:31! Amerasian checks
! 01/19/09 12:17:31! Nomme bets $1800
! 01/19/09 13:47:30! Amerasian calls
! 01/19/09 13:47:30! Pot right ($11000), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 01/19/09 13:47:30! 2 players
! 01/19/09 13:47:30! Flopped card: 6c
! 01/20/09 06:41:43! Amerasian bets $9450 and is all in
! 01/20/09 09:06:50! Nomme calls
! 01/20/09 09:06:50! Pot right ($29900), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 01/20/09 09:06:50! 2 players, 1 all in
! 01/20/09 09:06:50! Flopped card: 10c
! Hand over, current board is: 6s Jc Kc 6c 10c
! Nomme has: 9c 7c
! Amerasian has: Jd 10d
! Nomme wins $29900 (net $15950) with Club Flush (K J 10 9 7)
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
|#| Name |Bankroll| Action |Status|Pot#|Pot Size|
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
1| Jim McGill | 39350 | | | | |
2|> Nomme | 51100 | | | | |
3|D SMB | 26000 | | | | |
4| The White Lobster | 12550 | | | | |
5| Fredrik Westerlund | 21100 | | | | |
6| RFeiger | 19300 | | | | |
7| tootsie | 40325 | | | | |
8| Claudia | 27125 | | | | |
9| David Gustavsson | 28200 | | | | |
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
! Amerasian is eliminated!
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January 19th, 2009
04:54 pm - How To Poach An Egg Using A Tuna Tin
In an effort to get teh internets to tell me the best way to poach an egg I just watched this:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-poach-an-egg-using-a-tuna-tin
Anyway, having reviewed the various methods (of which I've tried most),
what's your prefered fool proof egg poaching technique?
How would you do 4 eggs (say) so that they we ready at the same time?
(See this is where the whirlpool method fails for me)
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January 15th, 2009
10:17 am - More Wii / iplayer
Further to yesterdays post (thanks for nothing), I added the Internet channel to my Wii and tried out the iplayer on it.
S'alright!
Cost £3:50 to do it but that seems worth it for on-demand telly - on my telly!
And I get to surf from the couch without having to fire up the PC - but it's not something you'd want
to do if involved a lot of typing.
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January 14th, 2009
12:44 pm - Wii Internet channel / iplayer questions
Anybody added the Wii internet channel?
Is it worth it (£3:50)?
And have you tried the iplayer using it? Any good?
Ta.
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January 12th, 2009
11:44 am - Lucky?
Could someone who understands more about poker than me tell me how lucky I was in this hand?
Apparently I'm now just in the top 200 of the 680 odd players left.
! History of this hand:
! 01/08/09 01:55:04! Dealing a new hand
! 01/08/09 01:55:04! Everyone antes $50
! 01/08/09 01:55:04! tootsie blinds $200
! 01/08/09 01:55:04! Claudia blinds $400
! 01/08/09 06:19:14! Amerasian folds
! 01/08/09 09:22:01! Brian Dahl calls
! 01/08/09 09:25:12! Jim McGill raises $2000
! 01/09/09 03:12:37! Nomme raises $11400
! 01/09/09 03:12:37! The White Lobster folds
! 01/09/09 03:12:37! Dan Bauer folds
! 01/09/09 03:12:37! Fredrik Westerlund is on vacation and folds
! 01/09/09 03:12:37! RFeiger folds
! 01/09/09 03:45:26! tootsie folds
! 01/09/09 03:45:26! Claudia folds
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! Been having lousy luck this year - time to go big or go home
! -- Brian Dahl --
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! 01/09/09 09:56:52! Brian Dahl calls - side pot
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! I'm going to have to call then too
! I'm going to need you to throw in that last $50 Nomme :)
! Good Luck
! -- Jim McGill --
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! 01/09/09 10:00:05! Jim McGill raises $31750 and is all in
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! Nomme calls - side pot
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! Pot right ($68400), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! 3 players, 3 all in
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! Flopped cards: Qh 6d 3c
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! Flopped card: Jh
! 01/11/09 04:55:58! Flopped card: Kh
! Hand over, current board is: Qh 6d 3c Jh Kh
! Brian Dahl has: 5s 5h
! Jim McGill has: 10s 10c
! Nomme has: Ah 3h
! Pot 1: uncalled $31700 returned to Jim McGill
! Pot 2: Nomme wins $11900 with Heart Flush (A K Q J 3)
! Pot 3: Nomme wins $24800 with Heart Flush (A K Q J 3)
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
|#| Name |Bankroll| Action |Status|Pot#|Pot Size|
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
1| RFeiger | 19500 | | | | |
2|D tootsie | 41575 | | | | |
3| Claudia | 28575 | | | | |
4| Amerasian | 12100 | | | | |
6| Jim McGill | 31700 | | | | |
7|> Nomme | 36700 | | | | |
8| The White Lobster | 9700 | | | | |
9| Dan Bauer | 5650 | | | | |
10|V Fredrik Westerlund | 21550 | |17 Jan| | |
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
! Brian Dahl is eliminated!
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January 9th, 2009
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