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Opinion
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30th June 2009IdiocracyI don't usually comment on the xkcd web comic, as just about everyone reads it already, but this week's I completely agree with. After seeing Office Space with z3rb back in February, he said that Idiocracy (made by the same people or director or something) was also good. I watched it, and he was wrong. It was shit. The whole film was stupid. As the cartoons discusses, the average IQ of the population is not going to decline, the average person's IQ will always be 100 because that is how IQ is defined. I think. So no matter whether people more or ...
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23rd June 2009Why I WriteNo, this isn't going to be another narcissistic blog post about writing blog posts (wouldn't the world explode?) - instead it will be about the book that I read today: "Why I Write", by George Orwell ((Damn, I should really get some of that Amazon-affiliation-link-money-stuff going on)). I bought the book back in January, as part of my "Large Book Order" (I'll soon be making another one ((I won some prizes at school so I have £60 to spend at Waterstones. Nice.))) but I've only today found the time to read it. I've not been reading books or blogging much lately, ...
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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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1st March 2009SleepLike food and water, sleep is one of life's necessities. Or is it? Of all the science-related documentaries that I have watched recently, almost all unfold in this way: Cite a generally well-believed statement on a particular topic. Seed doubt: ask "Or is it?" Spend the next 50 minutes showing an expert trying to walk and talk simultaneously, constantly interupted with CGI sequences repeated an obscene number of times. (At best,) end with a largely non-commital confirmation of 1. That's not to say that these programs aren't informative and usually enjoyable - in my opinion, normally they are - but this recipe does tend produce an ...
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1st November 2008Patrick StewartHe is awesome
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About Wilf's Blog
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.
