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Pictures
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4th December 2009The Black and White PastAn old mental_floss post begins with a section which makes me think someone is reading my thoughts ((Maybe I should don a tinfoil hat.)): ...having seen mostly black-and-white pictures of the world pre-1960 or so (I’m not counting Technicolor movies), I begin to imagine the past unfolding in monochrome. I almost always imagine the time before the 60s in black and white: The Titanic, the Victorians and the World Wars ((Though, strangely, before the 1700s, everything - from the Tudors to the Egyptians - I imagine in colour. That adds evidence to my hypothesis that my imagination is prejudiced by the viewing ...
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31st May 2009Stuff that makes me hate people on the internet #1Use of 'random' in a 'cool' way. Wrong use of upper-case words. Badly fitting ASCII characters to make an image. The fact that the image depicts an iPod Nano, or at the very least a normal iPod, and not the mentioned iPod Shuffle (which, FYI, has no screen). Wrongly capitalised 'iPod'. On the plus side: The sentence starts with capital. The sentences ends with only one exclamation mark! It only makes use of one colour.
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5th February 2009The Big PictureI was sure that I had written about The Big Picture before, but a quick search revealed that not to be the case. The Boston Globe is one of the big newspapers in America, along with others like the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times (please, not The Times). It also happens to be based - would you have guessed it - in the city of one of my favourite TV shows of all time, a city which also happens to be one of the only places in America where I could feel at home. Mind you, all that I ...
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4th February 2009YosemitePretty cool picture
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I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
