Category Archives: Daft Stuff

Fastr, Fastr, more Flickr timewasting

Posted on January 27, 2006 by | Leave a comment

From the Flickr Blog, it’s Fastr a game where you have to guess the tag of a group of pictures before others do.

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I’m not sure which is worse.

Posted on January 24, 2006 by | 2 comments

That some people would take it seriously enough to be interested in buying/investing in the program or that some people offered to appear on the purported show?

Making a baby, making Mischief (scroll down)

What is sad is that it doesn’t actually seem that surprising a suggestion anymore.

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sorry chris

Posted on January 18, 2006 by | 2 comments

piggies go oink oinkdaddy rabbit!

so many rofls!!!!!

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‘I don’t think we will do anymore cooking for a while…’

Posted on January 14, 2006 by | 2 comments

The title is a quote from Helen just overheard from the kitchen – said in that quietly despairing tone…..

Helen is in the kichen making Lemon Curd (no Limes) with Stringbean, all is not going smoothly…..

Despite being told to be very careful, SB lost a load of the carefully measured Lemon juice when she just tipped up the bowl. She was sent into the playroom while Helen cleared up, worked out how much more was needed etc. SB of course then sulked for bit and didn’t want to carry on.

Harmony was restored, but then SB has just spilt some of the sugar on the floor….

Helen is staying calm though….

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hnmmm, so which one did I get wrong? thanks Jax

Posted on December 30, 2005 by | 1 comment
You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

bugger, I didn’t say an integer – silly me

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Mt brain – courtesy of Merry

Posted on December 28, 2005 by | Leave a comment
Your Brain’s Pattern

Your mind is a firestorm – full of intensity and drama.
Your thoughts may seem scattered to you most of the time…
But they often seem strong and passionate to those around you.
You are a natural influencer. The thoughts you share are very powerful and persuading.

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This post brought to you by our sponsors…

Posted on December 28, 2005 by | Leave a comment

This year Christmas at the Beans was proudly sponsored by Freecycle Cambridge, purveyors of fine, free used cookers to those whose dining rooms are bigger than their oven capacity. One up for the Cosmic Supply Company I guess.

I guess we would have managed without it, but it would have been a pain, and it’d have taken 2 hours or more to have cooked the 3 trays of roasties, parsnips etc. let alone anything else. Actually the oven is better than our ‘proper’ one, being a electric fan oven as opposed to a ‘hot at the top warm at the bottom’ gas one. So we will be keeping it, for now anyway. so i’m glad I wired it in properly, rather than bodged it :-)

Normal service resumed tomorrow hopefully when the remaining hardcore xmas-teers departs and we try to avoid tidying up.

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And what Christmas figure am I?

Posted on December 21, 2005 by | Leave a comment

Well snap :-)

Helen says this is why we are so compatible ;-)

We will obviously be the perfect Christmas hosts……..

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Seen on Merry’s blog

Posted on December 20, 2005 by | Leave a comment

xvdcvd
You are one magnificent person! You are the night
of Christmas. You are a beautiful, good-hearted
person who enjoys the best for others. You are
probably very sentimental as well. You don’t
believe in material objects for making you
happy, but in things more important. You truly
live out the spirit and meaning of this
holiday. Being around the ones you care about
most is enough to make you content. The thing
is that most people may either really love or
unfortunately hate you for your beautiful
nature. Merry Christmas =)

What Christmas Figure Are You?
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the 7 things, as requested by Heather

Posted on December 14, 2005 by | 19 comments

Well, why not. I tried to do it fairly quickly so that it is off the cuff rather than deeply studied – as that way I don’t have to go aarrghh whenever soemone says something I think I should have put in.
It actually reminded me [not that i need much reminding] about how lucky I am in my life.

7 things to do before I die
1. travel round world with family ? better save for a sabbatical!
2. see my children grow up to their potential and be happy. [is that 2 or 3?]
3. a real archeological dig
4. OU course or similar in classics
5. play my violin up to scratch again
6. kiss my first great grandchild
7. laugh merrilly as often as possible
7 things I can?t do
1. exercise ? I am unsuited to it!
2. lose weight ? though I keep trying
3. eat meat ? makes me puke now
4. be a high flying career woman ? birth of SB radically changed my whole outlook on life
5. suffer playground politicking
6. love my beans either any less or any more
7. be a professional violinist
7 things that attract me to my spouse (in no particular order)
1. His cooking
2. His caring nature
3. His evident adoration for me
4. His hopelessness at doing anything quickly ? ah, no, that is a confounding variable!
5. His patience
6. His intelligence
7. His chocolate brownies
7 things I say most often
1. I love you
2. chriiiiis
3. do I have to ask you twice about everything?
4. come on
5. good morning/afternoon, my name is??..
6. beautiful
7. gorgeous
7 books I love (well, I just chose the first 7 that I read so regularly they have broken spines)
1. The gate to women?s country [sheri s tepper ? I like lots of her books]
2. the lord of the rings [jrr tolkein]
3. the golden torc series [by julian may]
4. the curse of the mistwraith series [janny wurts]
5. The chronicals of Thomas covenant
6. pride and prejudice [jane austin]
7. feersum enjin [Iain m banks - I like all his culture books too]
7 films I?d watch again and again (actually the most difficult, I just don?t watch many films
1. Much ado about nothing [Kevin branagh and emma thompson]
2. Out of Africa
3. The Madness of King George
4. lord of the rings trilogy
5. truly, Madly Deeply
6. Star trek first contact
7. harry potter films
7 people I?d like to join in (that others haven?t mentioned)
1. Jax
2. Jan
3. Jonathon
4. Katy B
6. Joanna G
7. Tammy

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