Author: Rory

Just realised I’m missing out on hanging out with people I met on the net in favour of strangers from the net I never met.

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Expected: wander around for ages trying to find a tiny venue. Found: massive queue of geeks.

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Noon until 6pm: running very late. 6pm: realise I had the time wrong; very on time.

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Amount of time the idiot who designed my credit card owes me: +15 minutes. Total: days and days.

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For the first time in my life it’s worth my while to remember my passport number.

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If it wasn’t for Arthur Clarke I never would have realised it was possible to pick up a piece of bone and hit people with it.

One of the very earliest incarnations of what became Soylent Red, when it was still sequestered on my old university’s internet society servers, had a “quote of the week” which remained for more than a semester: “The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion” — Arthur C. Clarke. The man knew where his towel was.

Finally sorted out getting to the UK for Jonathan Coulton’s London gig on Thursday. This was a triumph. I’m making a note here: huge success

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Heading off now to see the parts of Egypt that I haven’t already seen in London.

(from Twitter, by txt)

Sometimes I think Starbucks pays other businesses to keep me waiting.

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It’s finally over: