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  • Protected: Zombies, yeahhhhhssssss!

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  • Do do that voodoo that you do so well

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    Conflux 2 (Conflux Redux, to its friends) was excellent, as usual. ;) Its big brother, Conflux 1, is still my absolute favourite con ever, & there were only 2 things that made this year’s con not quite on par with last year’s: 1. food poisoning. I got food poisoning & missed the masquerade/farewell. Missing the…

  • In & Out

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    It’s interesting how statements once meant to be inclusive have become exclusive. Like, take for example, B.F. Skinner. Skinner (1904-1990, or so the web tells me) is considered to be one of the forefathers of that particular school of psychology known as behaviourism. When I was studying psych, behaviourism was like some kind of consolation…

  • B.F. Skinner’s Matrix3 Review

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    The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. — B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement

  • SPAM Guard as Poet

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    An actual report sent by an anti-spam filter. The analysis is kinda interesting, but what’s most fun is the reason the email was rejected, which is contained in the very last line. Make sure you read the analysis of the Body, though, that’s where the poetry is. ;) Some details deleted to protect the innocent.

  • Wheels they just keep on turning

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    I am trying AGAIN to watch Matrix 3: Home Renovations, but AGAIN I am having difficulties. I have a couple of questions

  • What is the inverse of Murphy’s Law?

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    And just like that it was over, and all the fussing & working & unhappy phone calls to the support line and the arrival of technicians & more fussing, much, much more fussing, didn’t seem to have made a speck of difference. But suddenly, after the phone calls and the frustration and the superstition and…

  • I felt like destroying something beautiful

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    Five. FIVE NIGHTS without internet. Five of ’em, count ’em, I did. F.I.V.E. Definition of frustration: When your computer tells you, ‘Yes, I am connected to the internet. Oh, wait, no I’m not, no, wait, I am again, but oh, hang on, despite being connected, I cannot show you a single page on the WWW…

  • Words, just words

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    TWO nights without internet. TWO LONG NIGHTS. LOOOOOOOOONNGG nights. Curiously, I hardly miss it. How freaky. I must be losing my mind (& I’m unlikely to miss _that_ either). I was about to relay some news about the ache in my shoulder, but then I realised: that is dull. strangedave has neglected to add this…

  • Tick Tock

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    Somewhere along the line I stopped watching ’24’ (OK, it was about the second-last episode of Season 1, & I can’t even explain why, but I just suddenly realised I was indifferent. How can that be? I used to *love* Crazy Jack & the Homicidal Tendencies. Clearly this is some failing of my own). Anyways,…