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6am - Get up. Listened to the Today Programme. They played the national anthem because it's the Queen's birthday (many happy returns, Liz.) The rest was just election blah that went in one ear and out the other.
8am - At the dentist for a check-up. I need a filling drilled out and replaced! Woo Hoo...
9am - Arrive in the department, postpone looking at some code. Decide to faff around instead.
10am - Looking around in eBay. I so want one of these these. Look, it's half a kilo of tungsten! It's close to twice the density of lead! It's the densest stuff you can get that's not radioactive, that won't get you put in jail (Plutonium), or isn't a Platinum group element that cost's about £5000 a gram (Osmium, Palladium, Iridium etc.) It's an unbelievably cool, geeky (and very very heavy) paperweight!
Hold on there, sport. These guys do Osmium. At a bargain £17 per gramm. Ok, that's about... < Calculates > ... 1.5 times the curent gold price, but what the heck!
Wow.
11pm Give up on eBay. Play with the new Google maps thing for a while. Then check out Slashdot and the Sugarquill.
11.30 Wander down to the mail room. Wonderful - a parcel has arrived from Crank Brothers with free spare parts to fix my bike pump... thanks guys. Hold on though, it was posted on the 1st of March. Thank you, US Mail! Apparently, for them, air mail means carrier pigeon.
12.00pm Nearly lunch time. As I left my wallet in my other trousers. I'll have to content myself with some fruit that's been lying about the office for a few days more than it should.
1.04pm <--- Now
2pm-4pm I really should do some work.
4pm My supervisor is giving a seminar on heat-flow modeling. I ought to go.
5pm Cycle down to the dry ski-slope.
8am - At the dentist for a check-up. I need a filling drilled out and replaced! Woo Hoo...
9am - Arrive in the department, postpone looking at some code. Decide to faff around instead.
10am - Looking around in eBay. I so want one of these these. Look, it's half a kilo of tungsten! It's close to twice the density of lead! It's the densest stuff you can get that's not radioactive, that won't get you put in jail (Plutonium), or isn't a Platinum group element that cost's about £5000 a gram (Osmium, Palladium, Iridium etc.) It's an unbelievably cool, geeky (and very very heavy) paperweight!
Hold on there, sport. These guys do Osmium. At a bargain £17 per gramm. Ok, that's about... < Calculates > ... 1.5 times the curent gold price, but what the heck!
Wow.
11pm Give up on eBay. Play with the new Google maps thing for a while. Then check out Slashdot and the Sugarquill.
11.30 Wander down to the mail room. Wonderful - a parcel has arrived from Crank Brothers with free spare parts to fix my bike pump... thanks guys. Hold on though, it was posted on the 1st of March. Thank you, US Mail! Apparently, for them, air mail means carrier pigeon.
12.00pm Nearly lunch time. As I left my wallet in my other trousers. I'll have to content myself with some fruit that's been lying about the office for a few days more than it should.
1.04pm <--- Now
2pm-4pm I really should do some work.
4pm My supervisor is giving a seminar on heat-flow modeling. I ought to go.
5pm Cycle down to the dry ski-slope.
