oldbloke's mutterings

Gary "choirboy" Jones, who I used to play in a tiny tiny game in Manc when he was just starting out, is currently 157th in the Main Event after 2 days play.

Steve "interesting" Davis is still in it.

(it might just be idiocy of course)

Just heard about a photographic darkroom somewhere on campus, where builders have just installed a new door with a window in it and a sensor in the ceiling that switches the light on if movement is detected.

Jack's been exploring the can-I-get-them-to-come-up-to-my-bedroom envelope lately.

Last night, when I went up to find out why Jack was making miserable noises instead of going to sleep, he sat up when I went in and started crawling about his bed. I said it was sleep time and I wasn't playing and headed for the door, and he got off his bed and ran after me. First time he's got off his bed without being asked/told/invited/etc to.

I shut the stairgate that's across his bedroom door before he could reach it, and he went back to his bed, got on it, and made more miserable noises. He went back!

I gave him some sleeptime chat again and left, and though he continued the misery noises for a bit, he was soon asleep.

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I mean the three of us, the Holy Trinity: me, a piece of pie, and a stone-cold pork sandwich. This went on for months.
Fortunately it stopped one day without my having to do anything serious like grow up.

Trout Fishing In America, Richard Brautigan

Starting on May 12, 2006, many installations of the AOLServer web server
failed. [snip techy stuff]
It was then noted by a perceptive
person that the servers all failed on or before exactly one billion seconds
before the end of the Unix epoch in 2038. Many installations had very long
database timeouts, which caused the software to look ahead and see the End
of Time. [more snips]

The thread discussing the problem and its resolution is here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/aolserver@listserv.aol.com/msg09812.html