The GREAT polystyrene in a wicker basket challenge

There's an old Hamley's hamper that's been lying under someone's desk for ages and then one day this week it was put by our bin to be thrown out. Of course we had a look in it and it was filled with polystyrene lozenges.

Being bored we decided to bet how many were in there.

I lost. There were 612.5 , I guessed nearly 1,000.

Boo!

SC Heavy Weight Champion of the World

There's quite a lot of news at the moment discussing the big fight between David Haye and Nikolay Value dubbed David v's Golliath.

I'm not a massive fan of boxing but this fight has intrigued me a little, I mean look at the size of him!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8342534.stm

So what does heavy weight mean? Having looked it up it means anything over 200lb, yikes! If I was a boxer i'd be in the same category... 203lb

Time to lose some more weight me thinks?

Saying that i'm actually the lightest i've been all year, and when I say lightest I mean least heavy.

Typo or poor font choice?

Whilst playing football manager last night I played a fixture against Bumley, i'm pretty sure it was Burnley that were promoted to the Premier League not the arse version.

Just been told about texting to landlines!

Why was I not told about this before? I've been woken up to a whole new level of piss taking!!!

He, he!

How ironic

It's as ironic as it gets. As Liverpool concede in the last couple of minutes against Lyon I beat them 1-4 whilst a man down in Football Manager. What are the chances of that eh? I randomly drew Lyon in my Champions League draw too. Boo!

Rafa, your time is up.
Liverpool, i'm only on 3 months notice.

Heaven and Hell

I got to the station early this morning so jumped on an earlier train, i'd have to walk accross London Bridge as it was a Charing Cross train but the sun was out and it's usually quicker than heading on through to Cannon Street as usual.

We got to about a mile out of London Bridge before stopping and didn't move more than a couple of meters forward for 20 minutes. Move forward a bit, 10 minutes, move forward again 5 minutes. We finally arrived at the station and it was rammed so took another 10 minutes to get out.

To de-stress I put my headphones in and put some Black Sabbath on. Heaven and Hell. Great track. Quite Iron Maideny. Or Iron Maiden are quite Black Sabbathy.

I'm sure they had a frustrated commuter in a suit, carrying an umbrella and the book First Things First (coping with the ever increasing demands of the workplace ), when the wrote it...

I finally got to work at 9:25, that’s an hour and 45 minute commute! Argh! Damn you trains!!! but as my friend next to me said, at least you missed 25 minutes of work. I left work at 6:40 on Monday so they still owe me 1:15 in my eyes. maybe i'll have a long lunch...

Pain the the bloody neck

I woke up early this morning with a stiff pain in the neck. I must have slept awkwardly. I get the same thing about once a year but it's not as bad as it's been in the past.

Viz respectable?

I went into Waterstones at work this lunch time and there was a small queue for a book signing. When I left I saw the sign and it was for the creators or Viz. The guys were middle aged men in suits. Far to respectable.

I also bought Slayer's new album.

Weekend plans

I'm finally getting my 30th birthday present from April and Steve this weekend, and I still haven't a real clue as to what it is. All I know is that

I've had to book Monday off
It's "bloody expensive" (Steve)
It's not sheep herding
I'm not allowed a big night out this Friday
And it seems that everybody but me already knows about it and refuses to tell me what it is.

Damn you! Call yourselves friends.

I've ordered my study material

And have a preliminary exam date of early December. That should get April off my back...

FM handing over ceremony 2009

I finally got the new football manager through the post today! Only a weekend late.

He, he!

Bishop Kristoff

Rock on brother says Bishop Kris. Always up for a curry.

April as happy as Larry

Who's Larry? April having a sizzling plate of meat at a restaurant last week. Hot granite is excellent.

BBC Studio

BBC Studio for Buzzcocks recording last week.

Never fear, DHL is here

Amazon have despatched my FM2010 with DHL. Screw you Royal Mail idiots.

Argh!

Bastard work shy striking ass wipes! If I don't get the new football manager tomorrow there will be hell to pay...

... or maybe not hell, just mild annoyance.

I'm also still waiting for an extra HDMI cable. Cocks! Mother flipping ass cocks in fact.

I am rapidly going nuts

Our head office over in Tokyo have asked for a massive dump of data out of our model. My working spreadsheet is currently over 400mb and constantly crashes. I'm going to kill it if it doesn't pull itself together!!!!!

Famous spot

I had lunch with James today at the Weatherspoons in the city. It's a huge venue that's nice and cheap and service is pretty quick. It reminded me of th last time i'd been there with him where we spotted Andy Fordham.

For those that are not in the know, and I count myself in that catagory, he is a professional darts player and used to be fat.

I did recognise him but didn't know his name, hence when looking for his name in google when typing this up all I needed was to type fat darts player and he popped straight up.

Anyway, looking at him now, he looks ill. Surely there's a happy medium...

Guess who's a numb nuts?

Yes, it's me. I've just this minute spilt a large coffee all over my desk, leg and shirt! April will be pleased trying to get the stain out. Oops!

What an idiot. Looks like i'm popping out at lunch to get a new shirt.

Doh!

Old Business Cards

I picked up a book to read this morning, Player of Games (Iain M Banks) and inside were two of my old business cards. One for Lloyd's one for Gallagher. That means it's over two years since i'd picked it up before.

Maybe i'll read it this time.

I don't have cards at the minute as I rarely meet clients, maybe I should though as book marks are certainly handy.

Christmas rugby night out

I've just been informed about a rugby night out before Christmas. The theme is revenge of the nerds.

Guys, can I borrow some of your clothes???

Bristol shenanigans

I went back to Bristol last weekend to meet up with my old flatmates / uni palls. In total there were 9 of us out, some of which I hadn’t seen since 2001. Bloody hell! It was really good to see them though and we had a great laugh. Getting in at 3 on the other hand is not something I want to make a habit of. I'm shattered.

Yeah, free half day off

We've just been told that we're getting a half day on Christmas Eve off! Plus at our manager's discretion New Years Eve afternoon off. Seeing as he's not in I reckon that's virtually guaranteed...

Correlating friends

It probably won’t surprise you hear that I have a spreadsheet that I update on a weekly basis that details my rating of each friend out of 10. It's quite an arbitrary score and can be based on more or less anything.

Not replying to an e-mail or missing your round of drinks in the pub may get you a 6 rather than a 7. Or ironing my work shirts on a Sunday night may get you a 10 rather than a 9…

I’ve been keeping it up to date for nearly four years now so have amassed a fair amount of data so when bored at work yesterday I decided to attach a correlation matrix off the back of it to see if different friends (or my ratings of friends) correlate with each other.

It’s interesting to see that certain clusters of friends do correlate, it must have something to do with me being happy (or not) with that group as a whole at any given time. Interestingly certain groups of friends also negatively correlate against each other. I guess if one group is moving down the scale I make more time and effort with another so they raise in my expectations.

All very interesting, or at least useful as I found a new technique for excel where I use an indirect expression so that I can use named ranges in the correlation function.

If you want to see YOUR average score over the last 4 years let me know…

Terrible story but interesting quote...

When asked about "sawing" injuries to her neck, which appeared to be an attempt to cut her head off, he replied: "I have no reason to cut someone's head off, I've never cut someone's head off.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8320753.stm

Why would someone have a reason to cut someone's head off? Also having never cut someone's head off before does not exclude you from cutting someone's head off in the future.