While we wait for the excitement of the Team Britain episode, check out the greatest minds of Germany going up against the mental warriors of China!
Sunday, March 06, 2016
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The Old Combination
I went to Cambridge at the weekend for the European Grand Prix othello tournament. I don't feel like I've been to an othello competition for ages, although I'm not sure entirely why, since I did go to the nationals last year, which means the only one I've missed since then was the Christmas friendly, which nobody went to. But still, I've been out of touch with the othello scene for quite a while, and I've resolved to make an effort to go to more tournaments this year. Now that I've got a job that more or less means my income exceeds my expenditure, give or take, you know. Maybe I'll even try to win the British Grand Prix again by turning up to all the regionals? We'll see.
Anyway, this year's EGP event was held in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College. "The OCR", Cambridge dons call it, which doesn't give much clue as to why it's called that or what the room's used for when it hasn't had all the antique furniture shoved to the side to make way for board games. It's full of enormous portraits of Charles II and his friends, which Imre was at pains to point out are infinitely valuable and within easy reach of dirty hands, so please to be careful.
We had 19 competitors, eight of whom were the Plowman and Brand families but several of the rest of whom had come over from Europe. We also had Graham Brightwell, for the first time in yonks, and it was a very high-rated field. Not having played the game or even given it more than a passing thought for months, I wasn't expecting great things, but I got off to a flying start in the first round by virtue of there being an odd number of players and me getting the bye. Normal service was resumed when I actually played a game and got thoroughly squished by Roel Hobo, but then I beat Guy quite nicely in round 3 and had a game against Tom Schotte where I felt that I played really quite well, despite losing.
WZebra, the othello computer, usually disagrees with me when I feel like that about a game, but this time it takes the view that I only played one bad move, move 38:
I'm white, and I played E2 rather than F2. My logic for this went along the lines of "if I play F2, he'll play F1, then when I play E2 he'll play G2 and this will be bad," but WZebra, smart alec that it is, says it wouldn't be bad at all, it would be perfectly okay in at least two different ways. Still, I take the view (slightly less scientifically, perhaps) that this isn't at all obvious and even players who actually know what they're doing might well have made the same mistake. I'm sure some of the good players out there will contradict me, but never mind.
Zebra reckons that I played another disc-losing move later, but we can safely ignore it there, because when it's in a losing position Zebra thinks the thing to do is to lose by as few discs as possible, rather than to play the move that gives the opponent the most chances to make a mistake.
So all in all, I was pretty happy with the morning's games, Then we had lunch and it all went a bit downhill from there, although I did beat Marie in between playing dreadfully and losing to Jan and Graham. I was thinking at the time that I always play terribly against Graham; I think I'm sort of overawed by how great he is, somehow. I don't get that feeling with the likes of Imre, but Graham just has that air of being-better-than-me that I find hard to overcome, don't ask me why.
Then we went for the traditional Indian meal on the Saturday night, which was very nice, and I went back to my hotel - Stationroomz, formerly known as Sleeperz and Cityroomz, seems to have closed down forever, but to make up for it there's a whole new area sprung up behind the train station with a Travelodge, bowling alley, cinema, supermarkets, Subway and no end of other brand shiny new stuff, so I stayed there. Not spectacularly cheap, but it was the first weekend for months that I had any money at all to spend, so I didn't mind splashing out.
Sunday was the day of the Cambridge half-marathon, so to get to Trinity in the morning we had to navigate big fenced-off sections of the city centre - I didn't see any runners, but I'm sure they showed up at some point. Having got a measly three points from seven games without playing any of the little Brands or Plowmen, I was expecting a few more easy games among the last four, but ended up against Luke Plowman first - can't really call him little since he seems to be taller than me now, and certainly not easy either; I was lucky to get a 37-27 win. I did get to play two small Brands, sandwiched around a loss to Marc Tastet (he was trying to get as many discs as possible in order to finish second on tie-break but probably would have won more easily than he did if he'd just been trying to win) and ended up on 6 points out of 11 games. Not world-beating, but just managing the 50% that I aim for in these things, even if you exclude the bye.
Maybe I should aim higher, but then I'd only be disappointed. Or I could practice a bit, but that's just being silly.
Anyway, Tom ended up in first place, followed by Takuji beating Marc on tie-break, and Roel in fourth. Marc won the third-place match, and the best-of-three final (which I didn't stick around to watch live, having to get home) was extraordinarily epic! Takuji won the first game 33-31, the second was drawn 32-32, and then Tom won the third by 33-31 - thus becoming the champion by having finished first in the 11-round tournament. That's computer-like levels of perfect play there, I can't help wondering how long it'll be before every game between the top players is 32-32...
All in all, a fun weekend! I really must do that more often. Oadby in a couple of weeks!
Anyway, this year's EGP event was held in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College. "The OCR", Cambridge dons call it, which doesn't give much clue as to why it's called that or what the room's used for when it hasn't had all the antique furniture shoved to the side to make way for board games. It's full of enormous portraits of Charles II and his friends, which Imre was at pains to point out are infinitely valuable and within easy reach of dirty hands, so please to be careful.
We had 19 competitors, eight of whom were the Plowman and Brand families but several of the rest of whom had come over from Europe. We also had Graham Brightwell, for the first time in yonks, and it was a very high-rated field. Not having played the game or even given it more than a passing thought for months, I wasn't expecting great things, but I got off to a flying start in the first round by virtue of there being an odd number of players and me getting the bye. Normal service was resumed when I actually played a game and got thoroughly squished by Roel Hobo, but then I beat Guy quite nicely in round 3 and had a game against Tom Schotte where I felt that I played really quite well, despite losing.
WZebra, the othello computer, usually disagrees with me when I feel like that about a game, but this time it takes the view that I only played one bad move, move 38:
I'm white, and I played E2 rather than F2. My logic for this went along the lines of "if I play F2, he'll play F1, then when I play E2 he'll play G2 and this will be bad," but WZebra, smart alec that it is, says it wouldn't be bad at all, it would be perfectly okay in at least two different ways. Still, I take the view (slightly less scientifically, perhaps) that this isn't at all obvious and even players who actually know what they're doing might well have made the same mistake. I'm sure some of the good players out there will contradict me, but never mind.
Zebra reckons that I played another disc-losing move later, but we can safely ignore it there, because when it's in a losing position Zebra thinks the thing to do is to lose by as few discs as possible, rather than to play the move that gives the opponent the most chances to make a mistake.
So all in all, I was pretty happy with the morning's games, Then we had lunch and it all went a bit downhill from there, although I did beat Marie in between playing dreadfully and losing to Jan and Graham. I was thinking at the time that I always play terribly against Graham; I think I'm sort of overawed by how great he is, somehow. I don't get that feeling with the likes of Imre, but Graham just has that air of being-better-than-me that I find hard to overcome, don't ask me why.
Then we went for the traditional Indian meal on the Saturday night, which was very nice, and I went back to my hotel - Stationroomz, formerly known as Sleeperz and Cityroomz, seems to have closed down forever, but to make up for it there's a whole new area sprung up behind the train station with a Travelodge, bowling alley, cinema, supermarkets, Subway and no end of other brand shiny new stuff, so I stayed there. Not spectacularly cheap, but it was the first weekend for months that I had any money at all to spend, so I didn't mind splashing out.
Sunday was the day of the Cambridge half-marathon, so to get to Trinity in the morning we had to navigate big fenced-off sections of the city centre - I didn't see any runners, but I'm sure they showed up at some point. Having got a measly three points from seven games without playing any of the little Brands or Plowmen, I was expecting a few more easy games among the last four, but ended up against Luke Plowman first - can't really call him little since he seems to be taller than me now, and certainly not easy either; I was lucky to get a 37-27 win. I did get to play two small Brands, sandwiched around a loss to Marc Tastet (he was trying to get as many discs as possible in order to finish second on tie-break but probably would have won more easily than he did if he'd just been trying to win) and ended up on 6 points out of 11 games. Not world-beating, but just managing the 50% that I aim for in these things, even if you exclude the bye.
Maybe I should aim higher, but then I'd only be disappointed. Or I could practice a bit, but that's just being silly.
Anyway, Tom ended up in first place, followed by Takuji beating Marc on tie-break, and Roel in fourth. Marc won the third-place match, and the best-of-three final (which I didn't stick around to watch live, having to get home) was extraordinarily epic! Takuji won the first game 33-31, the second was drawn 32-32, and then Tom won the third by 33-31 - thus becoming the champion by having finished first in the 11-round tournament. That's computer-like levels of perfect play there, I can't help wondering how long it'll be before every game between the top players is 32-32...
All in all, a fun weekend! I really must do that more often. Oadby in a couple of weeks!
Sunday, February 14, 2016
I'm not still in China!
I should really have posted something here to say I got to China and back safely, shouldn't I? I'm not sure if there's anyone who relies solely on my blog to know whether or not I'm alive, but there might be. Anyway, I'm back home again now!
I can't really say anything about the show without spoiling the surprise, but it'll be available for the world to see soon, I'm sure, and I'll let you know about it then. Nanjing was great (especially the Irish pub where we went to celebrate the end of filming - they even had a karaoke bar and undaunted by the presence of at least a couple of people who could actually sing, I belted out a fair few classics) and so was Harbin - I can't wait till the next time I get the chance to go over there!
Meanwhile, the next exotic venture for me is likely to be to the Extreme Memory Tournament in June! It's the last day of qualifying today, and barring quite a lot of people memorising all fifty words, I should have safely made the cut. When all the results are in, I get the fun of analysing the draw and determining who's in the group of death... although rather a lot of people seem to be terminally deathy compared to me nowadays...
I can't really say anything about the show without spoiling the surprise, but it'll be available for the world to see soon, I'm sure, and I'll let you know about it then. Nanjing was great (especially the Irish pub where we went to celebrate the end of filming - they even had a karaoke bar and undaunted by the presence of at least a couple of people who could actually sing, I belted out a fair few classics) and so was Harbin - I can't wait till the next time I get the chance to go over there!
Meanwhile, the next exotic venture for me is likely to be to the Extreme Memory Tournament in June! It's the last day of qualifying today, and barring quite a lot of people memorising all fifty words, I should have safely made the cut. When all the results are in, I get the fun of analysing the draw and determining who's in the group of death... although rather a lot of people seem to be terminally deathy compared to me nowadays...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Wifi on planes? Whatever next?
Well, since it's here, I'd better use it for a blog update. And before we get into Chinese airspace, too.
Anyway, I'm on my way to Nanjing! I'll be away from home until the 29th, then on February 1st I launch into a new job, in Redditch, which means I'll be moving house again, too. It's all go, but basically I've resolved not to think about any of that until I get back from China, because there's only so much my brain can deal with at once.
I've done my hugely unsatisfactory Images qualifying for the XMT - really annoyingly, I did a practice run of a perfect 18.70 seconds, or something like that, first thing this morning, and then couldn't get close to that any time that I had the 'qualification attempt' box ticked. I'm resigned to setting my sights a bit lower now, and aiming for "just barely scraping into the top sixteen". We'll see how it goes.
Anyway, I'm on my way to Nanjing! I'll be away from home until the 29th, then on February 1st I launch into a new job, in Redditch, which means I'll be moving house again, too. It's all go, but basically I've resolved not to think about any of that until I get back from China, because there's only so much my brain can deal with at once.
I've done my hugely unsatisfactory Images qualifying for the XMT - really annoyingly, I did a practice run of a perfect 18.70 seconds, or something like that, first thing this morning, and then couldn't get close to that any time that I had the 'qualification attempt' box ticked. I'm resigned to setting my sights a bit lower now, and aiming for "just barely scraping into the top sixteen". We'll see how it goes.
Friday, January 15, 2016
Luke Spacewalker
There's a British astronaut going spacewalking at the space station today, which reminds me of a picture I'd like to find from an old Beano comic, some time in the early eighties. The Beano often liked to boast that Mark Hamill was a member of the Dennis the Menace Fan Club, and one time on the letters page some editor (who clearly knew nothing at all about Mark Hamill except what he could deduce from the names 'Star Wars' and 'Luke Skywalker') quipped that he should remember not to pin his fan club badges on his spacesuit when he next goes spacewalking, illustrated with a picture of an astronaut being blown away into space by a puncture. It was a really impressive attempt to show that the Beano was down with the kids!
Monday, January 11, 2016
It begins!
Qualification for the world's coolest memory tournament is underway! Week one is the coolest discipline, speed cards!
The way qualifying works is that you have a week for each discipline, in which you get to make five attempts and choose your best time. Attempts have to be videoed and comply with specific rules to prevent cheating, which means the world gets to see everyone sitting at computers and remembering things...
Here's my first attempt, 25.85 seconds, which would be an entirely okay time to submit even if I don't manage to go any faster in the remaining four.
Cards is the one where I really need to set a very good time to start off with, because people are going to catch up and overtake me in a big way on some of the other disciplines. This one, though, I'm still one of the best at - I hope.
The way qualifying works is that you have a week for each discipline, in which you get to make five attempts and choose your best time. Attempts have to be videoed and comply with specific rules to prevent cheating, which means the world gets to see everyone sitting at computers and remembering things...
Here's my first attempt, 25.85 seconds, which would be an entirely okay time to submit even if I don't manage to go any faster in the remaining four.
Cards is the one where I really need to set a very good time to start off with, because people are going to catch up and overtake me in a big way on some of the other disciplines. This one, though, I'm still one of the best at - I hope.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Extremely extreme!
It's that time of the year, everyone - qualifying for the Extreme Memory Tournament starts next Monday!
Go to the training website, sign up, pay a little bit of money if you have to, it's worth it, and take part in the qualification tournament!
I have to qualify this year, and it makes me nervous. I did a practice run yesterday and got some pretty good scores (400 points' worth), which most people think would be enough to get into the tournament, though I'm a little concerned that there'll be some extremely big scores from a lot of people this time round...
The thing about qualifying is that you really want to end up in the top four of the sixteen qualifying competitors - the top eight from last year will (I assume) be the top eight seeds again, which should mean that when everyone's drawn into six groups for the XMT itself, the top four qualifiers will get into pot two (along with Jonas and Enkhjin) and theoretically have a slightly easier group stage draw. Although the top six seeds are all pretty scary (Hannes, Boris, Simon, Alex, Katie, Christian), so there really isn't going to be a super-easy draw for anyone.
But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it! The first step is to qualify, starting with speed cards, and my aim there is to get a time better than the 100-points record of 23.34 seconds. I did 23.33 in my practice session yesterday, so that counts as a success!
I'm flying to China on the 19th and back on the 29th, which will get in the way a little, or a lot. I think I'll have to do the images qualification on the 18th before I go, since I'll be spending the remainder of the week in Nanjing rehearsing and performing, and then do the names qualification on the weekend after I return, since I'll be spending the first half of the week in Harbin with probably little access to the internet and a lot of access to beer and a brother I haven't hung out with for ages. But we'll see how it goes!
And if you're keen to read about actual memory competitions, rather than prospective qualification for future competitions, you really must check out new World Memory Champion Alex Mullen's account of how he won, thoroughly squishing my two remaining world records along the way. I think we can safely say that the top memory competitors' scores have now reached a level that makes my performances way back when look quite embarrassingly bad...
Go to the training website, sign up, pay a little bit of money if you have to, it's worth it, and take part in the qualification tournament!
I have to qualify this year, and it makes me nervous. I did a practice run yesterday and got some pretty good scores (400 points' worth), which most people think would be enough to get into the tournament, though I'm a little concerned that there'll be some extremely big scores from a lot of people this time round...
The thing about qualifying is that you really want to end up in the top four of the sixteen qualifying competitors - the top eight from last year will (I assume) be the top eight seeds again, which should mean that when everyone's drawn into six groups for the XMT itself, the top four qualifiers will get into pot two (along with Jonas and Enkhjin) and theoretically have a slightly easier group stage draw. Although the top six seeds are all pretty scary (Hannes, Boris, Simon, Alex, Katie, Christian), so there really isn't going to be a super-easy draw for anyone.
But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it! The first step is to qualify, starting with speed cards, and my aim there is to get a time better than the 100-points record of 23.34 seconds. I did 23.33 in my practice session yesterday, so that counts as a success!
I'm flying to China on the 19th and back on the 29th, which will get in the way a little, or a lot. I think I'll have to do the images qualification on the 18th before I go, since I'll be spending the remainder of the week in Nanjing rehearsing and performing, and then do the names qualification on the weekend after I return, since I'll be spending the first half of the week in Harbin with probably little access to the internet and a lot of access to beer and a brother I haven't hung out with for ages. But we'll see how it goes!
And if you're keen to read about actual memory competitions, rather than prospective qualification for future competitions, you really must check out new World Memory Champion Alex Mullen's account of how he won, thoroughly squishing my two remaining world records along the way. I think we can safely say that the top memory competitors' scores have now reached a level that makes my performances way back when look quite embarrassingly bad...
Friday, January 01, 2016
Back in the red
Taking an excellent suggestion from Danny at work, I spent three hours of today very productively; watching Red Dwarf. He was thinking more in terms of watching the DVDs, but I'm old-fashioned and still have video tapes that I recorded off the TV, twenty years ago. Nearly exactly twenty years ago, as it turns out - my tape of series 6 was apparently recorded when it was repeated in early 1996. I can tell this from the BBC announcement that because of the events in the news at the time, "Rimmerworld" was postponed and replaced by "Out of Time". I had to check the internet to find out that it was the Dunblane massacre, which just made me wonder why the latter episode was considered more suitable - if anything, it's got rather more shooting and violence in it than the other. I also find myself wondering why I didn't also tape Fist Of Fun which according to the BBC continuity announcer was shown right after the Red Dwarf repeats - not only was it hilarious, but it had text at the end designed to be recorded and watched with the aid of the pause button. Maybe I did tape it but lost the tape at some time since then, I don't know. Twenty years is a long time.
I haven't been entirely idle today, though, because XMT qualification starts soon, and I've been doing a bit of practice for that. I'll blog at greater length soon about the qualification tournament and how I'm going to arrange it around a two-week visit to China. You know, once I've worked out how exactly I'm going to do that...
I haven't been entirely idle today, though, because XMT qualification starts soon, and I've been doing a bit of practice for that. I'll blog at greater length soon about the qualification tournament and how I'm going to arrange it around a two-week visit to China. You know, once I've worked out how exactly I'm going to do that...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
I'm going to China!
I know I've been going to China for a while now, but it's official - I've got my visa, and they'll let me into the country! Unless something goes wrong. I mean, they might change their minds...
I always worry too much about this kind of thing. Anything that involves getting official approval just scares me. Officials are frightening people.
I always worry too much about this kind of thing. Anything that involves getting official approval just scares me. Officials are frightening people.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Job satisfaction
I'm starting to worry that I really like my job. It's not what you'd call mentally exerting, but it's sort of fun. This is a terrible kind of mental attitude to have, I really should try to do something about it.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
There are many things I don't understand
Did you know that the day after Christmas isn't called Boxing Day in the USA? They don't even call it anything, it's just December 26th!
Well, I didn't know that until today, and the thought of my ignorance just seriously freaks me out. I mean, this is the fortieth Boxing Day I've spent on this planet, and while the first few of them were before the internet existed and America was just this sort of magical fictional place where they had all the cool Transformers toys that we didn't, Wikipedia's been around for quite a while now and I've been in regular contact with American friends since at least, ooh, must be 1998. How has this not come up in conversation?
What else am I taking for granted as a universal concept when actually it's just a silly local thing? I mean, it was freaky enough when I learned that they don't have Christmas crackers over there either, but Boxing Day?
Freaky, I tells you.
Well, I didn't know that until today, and the thought of my ignorance just seriously freaks me out. I mean, this is the fortieth Boxing Day I've spent on this planet, and while the first few of them were before the internet existed and America was just this sort of magical fictional place where they had all the cool Transformers toys that we didn't, Wikipedia's been around for quite a while now and I've been in regular contact with American friends since at least, ooh, must be 1998. How has this not come up in conversation?
What else am I taking for granted as a universal concept when actually it's just a silly local thing? I mean, it was freaky enough when I learned that they don't have Christmas crackers over there either, but Boxing Day?
Freaky, I tells you.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Some like it hot
I take any slight decrease in the temperature outside as a good excuse to have my radiators on full blast. There's nothing like being lightly toasted on a winter's night.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Christmassy weather
It's like a sort of dull, colder version of summer around here at the moment. I'm not saying I want snow and ice - in fact, this weather's just fine for me, thanks - but there's automatically something disappointing about not having a white Christmas...
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Private viewing
Went to the cinema today, for the first time in however many years - I'm not what you'd call a regular moviegoer. And no, not to see Star Wars, despite what I was saying just yesterday; I thought I'd check out Charlie Brown and Snoopy. I was going to go and see Star Wars afterwards - the Showcase in Derby was showing it every fifteen minutes on one of its many screens, while the Peanuts gang were only on once, at 10:30 in the morning - but Charlie Brown's adventures turned out to be such a feel-good movie I decided to just be satisfied with the warm glow it gave me, and check out what Middle-Aged Luke Skywalker is up to some other time.
I had Screen 3 at the Showcase entirely to myself - everybody else clearly had better things to do on the last Saturday morning before Christmas (Star Wars, probably) - so I got to see the whole thing in glorious 3D in comfort and quiet. I should go to the cinema more often! And what a great movie it is, too! The animation is wonderful - as per the current fashion they clearly spent ridiculous amounts of time and money on making Snoopy's fur look realistic, but the whole thing is brilliantly designed to reflect its roots as line drawings in the newspaper funnies; it goes with the 'drawings come to life' kind of approach rather than the 'look what we can do with computer animation nowadays', and it looks just perfect.
And the writing is spot on, too - perhaps a little more inspired by the cartoons than the comics, but nicely hitting the feel of them both, not really trying to be deliberately old-fashioned but coming across as perfectly timeless. Charlie Brown is the loveable loser he's always been and all the others have their little character moments which I think work as well for first-time viewers (if there is such a thing) as for people familiar with all the old stuff. It's not trying to do anything new, but it's certainly not just re-hashing old ideas and making them look pretty. I love it!
46 years ago the first Peanuts movie, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, was in the cinemas - that one ends with Charlie Brown losing the spelling bee ("And did you notice? The world didn't come to an end!") while this new movie gives him a happy ending, but if you think about it they both convey the same general moral; life goes on, don't worry about it. Charlie Brown will never kick the football, but he'll always be a truly great human being. Fantastic movie, I recommend it to everyone!
I had Screen 3 at the Showcase entirely to myself - everybody else clearly had better things to do on the last Saturday morning before Christmas (Star Wars, probably) - so I got to see the whole thing in glorious 3D in comfort and quiet. I should go to the cinema more often! And what a great movie it is, too! The animation is wonderful - as per the current fashion they clearly spent ridiculous amounts of time and money on making Snoopy's fur look realistic, but the whole thing is brilliantly designed to reflect its roots as line drawings in the newspaper funnies; it goes with the 'drawings come to life' kind of approach rather than the 'look what we can do with computer animation nowadays', and it looks just perfect.
And the writing is spot on, too - perhaps a little more inspired by the cartoons than the comics, but nicely hitting the feel of them both, not really trying to be deliberately old-fashioned but coming across as perfectly timeless. Charlie Brown is the loveable loser he's always been and all the others have their little character moments which I think work as well for first-time viewers (if there is such a thing) as for people familiar with all the old stuff. It's not trying to do anything new, but it's certainly not just re-hashing old ideas and making them look pretty. I love it!
46 years ago the first Peanuts movie, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, was in the cinemas - that one ends with Charlie Brown losing the spelling bee ("And did you notice? The world didn't come to an end!") while this new movie gives him a happy ending, but if you think about it they both convey the same general moral; life goes on, don't worry about it. Charlie Brown will never kick the football, but he'll always be a truly great human being. Fantastic movie, I recommend it to everyone!
Friday, December 18, 2015
Use the force
I'm hearing people say the new Star Wars is good, which surprises me. I was assuming everyone would automatically say it was rubbish. I've misjudged the human race, obviously. Or at least the part of it that goes and watches Star Wars the day it comes out. I really must go and see it myself.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Names and faces again
Watching an old episode of Blake's 7 this morning, I was wondering who that familiar-looking actor was. It took me a while to penetrate the clean-shaven young face, sideburns and late-seventies hairstyle, before his voice made me realise "Oh, it's Inspector Grim! David Haig!" And then immediately after that revelation I got an email from David Haigh, no relation, which just makes me think that things would be a lot simpler all round if everybody had the same name. So from now on, everybody has to be called David Haig(h), okay? You can choose whether or not to put an H on the end. I'm sure this will improve world understanding and harmony immeasurably.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Hi there
Bumped into someone I used to know today - or at least I can only assume I used to know him, since he clearly knew me and chatted about what I'd been doing for the last couple of years. Could have been anyone, really. One of these days, I need to learn how to remember names and faces...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Light the lights
I'm still loving The Muppets. It's great when I have pretty high expectations of something and they get surpassed anyway! I was going to write at length on the subject, but I'm too tired, so at some point in the future I'll get round to it. Feel free to wave your arms like Kermit and cheer "Yaaaaaaaaay!"
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