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Sunday, October 27, 2024

Not enough hours in the day

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 Except today, of course. Today has the right number of hours, apparently. I don't know if it's the extra hour or just that I've...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

It's an improvement!

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 The first two rounds of the Microsoft Excel World Championship were a lot of fun! I certainly found the first one easier than the second, b...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Weh!

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I've now finished watching The Owl House, and still think it's awesome... what am I going to watch my way through now? I need to fin...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A favourable draw?

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 Well, I avoid the top seeds in this year's Microsoft Excel World Championship . My bit of the round of 128 looks like this... Mmm, it...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

DNA doesn't lie

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 But it does wander around Europe a little, if you follow Ancestry's ethnicity estimates. And I'm glad to see the latest update has ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Outstanding achievement in the field of excellence

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 Woohoo! I admit I was worried about my chances of qualifying for the Microsoft Excel World Championship this year, with not having done all...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

I also wish I could win a Nobel Prize

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I'm sort of almost acquainted with Demis Hassabis, after all. I know who he is, and he might if prompted recollect meeting me and even h...

I wish I was musical

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 You know how Paul McCartney says he dreamed the tune to Yesterday? I mean, obviously he's just making that up so we'll think he...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

Further updates

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 I haven't written enough in this blog recently, and can quantify how much I haven't written by following up the last-but-two post t...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Secret Origins

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 That comic disaster in the bath prompts me in multiple ways to talk about reason number five hundred and thirty-seven why I think "ALV...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Oh no!

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  If you heard a lot of loud swearing coming from my bathroom window this morning, that was me dropping Kurt Busiek's Astro City No. 16 ...
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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Hoot hoot!

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 Among the things I've done in the fortnight since last writing anything here is discover "The Owl House" - a really great car...
Saturday, September 07, 2024

AOO!

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 Yes, it's the Asian-Oceanian Open on Memory League ! For those who aren't keeping in touch with the world of Memory League, we hav...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

You ARE the weakest link. Goodbye!

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 It was twenty years ago today, or something close to it. I know it was very shortly after I won the World Memory Championship for the first...
Friday, August 30, 2024

But how strange the change from major to miner

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 I don't think this has ever happened to me before. The last two images in this pack of cards are "Major" (from Fawlty Towers)...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The DC Universe

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  In the golden age of superhero comics, you can't beat the "Superman DC Comic Group" for sheer volume of superheroes, or for ...
Monday, August 19, 2024

I've got some really great friends

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 I should say that more often. I mean, it's not like I devote my blog to denouncing my friends as terrible people whom I despise, but I ...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

We're gonna teach those boys to laugh too soon

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 I had a dream that I was recording some kind of promotional video segment involving singing the verse from "Blinded by the Light"...
Monday, August 05, 2024

Everything is connected

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Sorry I haven't blogged anything for a while - I know I have maybe as many as three dedicated followers who anxiously await the latest i...
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