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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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It's actually just the set top boxes that are the noisiest compared to the pc/personal servers Home time soon, then off to fill up on the way up to Birmingham tonight, feel so tired, might get a can of Monster too _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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Location: Here, but not all there.
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This bugs me. Forty years ago this month, two human beings set foot on our rocky satellite. The Lunar Module base remained on the lunar surface when they left. On it is a plaque by way of commemoration. The pedant in me wonders whether the ones that concocted that paragraph even realised they'd also be leaving the first typographic error on the Moon as well. (For those who don't know or actually care, AD (Anno Domini) should always precede the year. BC comes after.) Sorry. It must be the weather.  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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AlunD
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Location: Wiltshire
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Heather  you missed the </pedant> tag out 
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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What really matters is if whoever finds it is as aware of the convention as you are. Which I guess is doubtful. 
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AlunD
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Our first piece of interplanetary litter - oh how proud we should be 
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HeatherKay
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Actually, part of the litter was reflectors that have been used for observational science ever since. Astronomers bounce lasers off these reflectors and from that they've worked out the Moon is moving away by 38mm each year, the Earth's rotation is slowing, and even stuff about the composition of the Moon's surface. Groovy. It also means the "no-one ever went to the Moon" conspiracy theories may not be correct after all.  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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HeatherKay
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I need stuff to feed my head. I'm getting stale. I've got absolutely no idea how to get this job I'm doing moving. I'm stuck shuffling bits and pieces about with no real idea how to make it better. This stagnation in my head is really starting to hack me off. Where've all the exciting design ideas gone to?  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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The logo stickies have gone! Nick should be happy 
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mars-bar-man
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:00 pm
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Location: Pompy
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I want some apple crumble  _________________Just your friendly neighbourhood mars-bar-man.flickr
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saspro
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm
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Location: location, location
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Is 14 flushes a new record?
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
Posts: 4876
Location: Newcastle
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For obsessive compulsive disorder, destroying evidence ofr just flushing for the intended purpose? _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: /dev/tty0
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Hmmm, might make one later 
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AlunD
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Don't forget the custard
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mars-bar-man
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Location: Pompy
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Okay, now I'm hungry.....again..... _________________Just your friendly neighbourhood mars-bar-man.flickr
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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