quite a lot today

10:17 <@tom> Bigelow Aerospace, the commercial firm behind the Genesis 1 module, confirmed that the ship was in orbit and was beaming pictures back to Earth.
10:17 <@tom> "All systems are operating within expected parameters," the
company founder, hotel tycoon Robert Bigelow, said in a statement.
10:17 <@tom> He then cocked his head and added, "What is this human emotion you call.. love?"


22:11 <@phil> just watching this miami vice trailer
22:11 <@phil> god i'm pinching my dick for that
22:11 <@tom> yeah, i expect that'll be good
22:11 <@tom> FOR ME TO POOP ON


21:40 <@mark> the course book for this ou block is the same length as the others but there seems to be about 10 times more stuff in it
21:40 <@mark> maybe the writing is smaller
21:40 <@tom> heh
21:40 <@tom> single-spaced
21:40 <@mark> heh
21:41 < leila> less pictures
21:41 < leila> and conversatons
21:43 <@phil> leila, for a writer, you're crap at typing aren't you
21:43 < leila> fuck off
21:43 <@phil> hehe
21:44 <@tom> at least she was making a literary allusion
21:44 <@tom> didn't spot that did you
21:45 <@phil> what's an allusion



21:26 <@tom> ah look, reply from my supervisor
21:26 <@tom> "PS. I've read your stuff. A good intro chapter. Don't write more
than epsilon more in it without starting to write the next couple of
chapters (word count reasons which I'll discuss tomorrow)."
21:26 <@tom> "a good intro chapter", that's the best remark i could possibly
have hoped for
21:27 <@phil> "don't write more than epsilon more in it"?
21:27 <@phil> what does that mean?
21:27 <@tom> oh, heh, epsilon is a greek letter used in pure analysis to mean
an infinitely small amount
21:27 <@tom> so he's just saying don't write much more
21:27 < leila> STANDARD NERDS
21:27 <@tom> hahaha
21:27 <@phil> ah, heh
21:28 <@tom> god that's the way we always talk to each other
21:28 <@tom> it must sound awful to anyone who isn't a complete nerd
21:29 <@phil> < tom at the lab > you have a willy of epsilon length!

21:14 <@phil> i should be getting a couple of dvds in the post this week
21:14 <@phil> a very long engagement (which you should watch)
21:14 <@tom> a very long film, more like


Chris: one problem with your strategy of only watching the best ones is that if ever you decide to be exhaustive in your viewing of the entire TNG run, you'll have already seen all the good episodes
me: hmm, it's a consideration that crossed my mind. but only very briefly
Chris: you can avoid it by never watching all of TNG
me: yes i have no weird autistic completist desire to invest some of the time of my finite life watching the rubbish ones. i am only interested in things to the extent that i enjoy them. Call me old-fashioned...
Chris: good thinking. you would not enjoy world of warcraft


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I mixed Duchy Original Camomile Tea with Sainsbury's Earl Grey tea, and it tastes really really nice. I brew the camomile tea bag for several minutes in the already brewed Earl Grey.
I don't think there's anything special about Duchy Original Camomile tea, as its only ingredient is Camomile, so anything similar would do.
I feel guilty about using two tea bags in one cup, but it's worth it. [Tim]



Ah, I tell you what you're doing there. You're confusing albinos with robots. The way to tell the difference is that albinos have pink eyes whereas robots have yellow or black eyes or no eyes at all just flat silver sensors or sometimes (on giant robots) eyes two meters tall that refract the sun into a thousand glittering jewelled beams.
Hope this helps. [Tom Sharp]