Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼

Admittedly a few eyebrows were raised when I hooked up with someone I'd met via listserv in (checks notes) 1994

A previous reader had underlined that passage and written Einstein? in the margin,cursing me with the knowledge of their stupidity but not their identity.

I once got a collection of William S Burroughs essays out of the library, and in one of them he mused about self-taught writers, saying after all one wouldn't expect, say, a physicist never to have studied the subject.

It wasn't that big a deal when I met mine on datingdirect dot co dot uk in 2002

Solutions manual to accompany Acousticsb An Introduction to its Physical Principles and Applications by Allan D Pierce

I've got the thing you all want

You can be the first folks on your block
To have your boy come home in a box

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When I first heard it I thought it was the sounds that were radical, later the mildly erotic lyrics, nowadays I think it's that it's in 3/4 time

RIP Joe, this is one of my favourites of his psychedelic output, but I loved his country side too, particularly Tonight I'm Singing Just For You

Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.

As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.

For what it's worth this is my full quote. I would love to understand from @ukri.org why this call has been restricted to 4 weeks (with no advanced warning) going against it's own EDI commitments. The response so far doesn't explain why only 4 weeks nor why not 8 weeks.

#LongStoryShort

and that their job is to work out what it is. Because I deliberately didn't give them a detailed rubric they found this very stressful. I found this very surprising, as well as unfortunate, but I'll know better how to frame the task next time.

Interesting insight arising from discussions with my first-year undergraduate class: A-level essay prep has left some of them with the genuine belief that once I give them an essay title it means there is a single ideal essay that I'm thinking of and only that will satisfy the requirements,

#LongStoryShort

Two animated TV series that I've recently finished and immediately wanted to rewatch, Long Story Short and Strip Law, are very different but both carry a Made By Humans disclaimer

Interesting 'flight simulator'

Likewise, heavier vehicles should have lower speed limits, though only linearly

Real Seeds and ebay, I'm informed (I play no part in the process)

Apparently Roveja peas and Japanese yams are on their way

Greater love hath no woman than she gives up a significant chunk of garden to provide accessible fire-refuge routes for her husband (and a patio for her klimataria)

I believe it's been no-dig for a while, more recently the name Hugh/Huw somebody has been heard in addition to the blessed Charles

Garden

Raised beds y'all

OTOH this show is ruthless at disposing of fascinating characters, going all the way back to Clement, or even Hari

Interesting

This is spot on about Harper's journey, with Eric she went from 'Harpsichord' to 'Harpoon' but where can she go without him?

#industryhbo

Wonder if he changed his mind and grew his out a bit after his ears got cropped

I once went to a fancy dress party in plain clothes and claimed I'd come as Philip Glass to anyone who asked, one of whom I went out with for the next five years

Norton's acceptance of Stefanowicz last rites for the tory party echoes his acceptance of Yasmin's verdict that betraying Henry is best for the family, in which she evidently now counts as much as his nephew

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Contrary to what Wikipedia supposes, Aurora Adekunle didn't lose her seat after S2, instead her character is doing duty for Kemi Badenoch as an unsuccessful tory leader

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