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Health and Efficiency
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Wii Fit seems determined to mess with my head.
First let me be clear - I'm no body fascist. Thanks to good food and better beer, I have a bit of a tummy, but I only really want to get rid of it as I have three pairs of perfectly good trousers in my wardrobe that are a size too......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-10-01 15:39:37 |
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Wii Fit
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Un Understanding of Class
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Human: I look down on him, because I am a Human Being.
Type 49 Android: I look up to him, because he is a Human Being. But I look down on him because he is only a Type 26 Industrial Robot. I am a Type 49 AI Socially Interactive Multi-Function Android.
Type......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-09-29 06:49:53 |
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Robots
People
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20 Facts
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It's all the rage, apparently. Thanks to Funfreak for passing along the idea.
20 Genuine 100% True but slightly off-beat Facts about Perigo Minas
1) I was once an extra in an Agatha Christie film. I can't even remember what it was called now, but it was ruined by......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-09-22 23:28:00 |
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20 facts
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Popular Myths Exploded
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New research just released from the Department of Applied Aphorism and Practical Folk Wisdom at the local university, which throws some interesting light on some of those 'old wives tales' you've been told:
A stitch in time only saves on average 8.52, and individual stitches make savings......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-09-15 11:58:45 |
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Silliness
old wives tales
superstitions
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Mnemomic Grocery Shopping
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I've found the ultimate downside to usng a PC for all my writing. (and before you start, no it's nothing to do with Macs).
We have no paper and pens handy - which became a serious problem when we wanted to write a shopping list to go and get groceries. Our solution was only to buy......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-09-05 18:10:06 |
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Dr Seuss
shopping
memory
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Talkin Proper 'n 'at.
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The thing I like about the English language, more than anything else, is how much you can screw with it and still make some sort of sense.
This has to go some way to explaining why a Frisian-Germanic language that has absorbed substantial amounts of Norman French, Hindi and Urdu along the......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-08-28 18:25:04 |
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English
Pidgin
Jabberwocky
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Perigo Minas is Dead...
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...tired.
Hence the substantially lower output volume to Thoughts of late. I have been swept up in a tsunami of redecorating, precipitated in no small part by Ms Minas facing the emptiness of a still newly dog-free home.
So the master plan I was presented with was to redecorate......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-08-06 10:36:20 |
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Decoration
injury
furniture
painting
exhaustion
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My Fair Bootlady
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PLOT SYNOPSIS FOR FILM TREATMENT
Scene 1 - Perigo Minas is walking through down-town Ontario, when he bumps into a Canadian Flower-Seller (Bootlady), selling butchered violets. After hearing her caterwauling, he bets his companion, Evetspordlaw, that he can transform her into a genteel......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-06-01 17:13:16 |
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Pygmalion
elocution
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Whether the weather is good...
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Well, apologies for the long hiatus. This summer has been exceptionally busy with various domestic and work responsibilities, keeping me away from brain-dumping duties.
Little time then to enjoy the Great British Summer in all its grey wet glory. Many visitors to these shores......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-08-28 04:59:05 |
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Weather
politics
climate change
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Fog in the Channel, Continent Cut Off
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So goes the famous headline from the Times at the turn of the last century, one thats often trotted out to explain the strange relationship Britain has with Europe. Last weekend saw me surrounded by close friends, awash with an assortment of fiery beverages and obscure comestibles from......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-05-27 15:44:35 |
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Eurovision
Europe
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