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  Jenga 

  Jonathan Dann 22:08 on March 31, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  

  

  At the end of a long week.
  For those of you who don’t know, I’m training to be a Medical Physicist, and as part of this I had to go to Coventry University to study Anatomy and Physiology.

  Our tutor said that the week was going to be intensive, hellish, too hard, and boring (yes, that’s an Oxford comma: it has it’s place). We all went thinking we were going to hate it, but came out loving it. One of the best parts of this course in most of our minds.

  Oh, and the photo is the leftovers from our last meal in the canteen there before going home. The tower lasted long enough. As physicists, we all know that if you get each bottle in the centre of a pizza box, the tower will hold. This is why we’re not engineers, the theory is good enough for us.
  

   
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    rob 19:38 on April 15, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    

    hehe, nice, i was wondering if this picture had gone up…

    also, loving the oxford comma

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  Do you know Kung-Fu? 

  Jonathan Dann 19:08 on March 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  

  This guy does! Watch this one first.

  Then Part 2.

  Why is it whenever it gets close to exams, there arises something so awesome that I won’t want to revise. You’ll not thank me for this, you’ll get addicted to playing it (read the hints at the bottom of the page if it gets too hard).

   
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  Klingon Language in Mac OS 10.4? 

  Jonathan Dann 01:56 on March 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  

  

  Can somebody please tell me why I have KLINGON language support on my computer! Well, when I turned it on, no programs had a Klingon interface, but still. I think someone somewhere has way too much time on their hands. And yes, the reason I know that it says Klingon is because I used to watch Star Trek avidly, like you wouldn’t believe. I’m kinda glad those days are gone now, I still appreciate it but one day I just stopped watching. I think the sun was shining outside, so I went out.

   
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  This is Going too Far 

  Jonathan Dann 16:02 on March 15, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  

  I was sent this link by a friend of mine, and I have really no words to adequately describe how amazed I am. Shock, awe, and sadness don’t even come close to it. If this is really a cross-section of the average US citizen, the mind boggles. How so many people can be totally ignorant of the outside world is beyond me.

  In all seriousness, I know that many Americans are smart people, but if I were one of them I’d be embarrassed at this.

  View the video

   
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    Klyne 02:39 on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    

    I especially liked the part where the old man (who I suppose is a hard-ass republican) said:

    “We’ll make a big blast crater out of the f**ckng middle east”

    Hilarious!

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    kimona1 18:49 on March 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    

    Oh. My. God.

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  Chinese Paintings 

  Jonathan Dann 20:28 on March 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  

  I thought I’d like to share this with the outside world. I haven’t blogged for a while, much work has kept me busy and I hate being in front of my computer at the moment, even though its a pretty Mac. It’s a bad sign when you’ve sat in the same place typing for so long (feels like weeks) that when you stop you don’t know what to do with yourself.

  Well the Chinese Government in their infinite wisdom have decided that the appropriate re-distribution of the people’s money is to paint a mountain green! I invite you to read this. My favourite part is the bewildered local forestry official saying:

  “This is an order from above,” she said. “You should ask the leader from above. I don’t have any information on this.”

  They just did their job. Maybe the Chinese want the American satellites operators to think they are off-setting their carbon emissions.