Why is this site called Affable Lurking? Well there are several reasons… First off, several personal sites in the alf.fan.pratchett fandom take the form affordable-X where X depends on the site owner. I didn’t want to follow this convention for my new site (not really being an AFPer as such) so I went with Affable. …
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A thought occurs to me…
The Pope has been dead for a while now and he has been sitting at room temperature out in the open for a day or so. I’m guessing that the temperature inside St Peter’s Basilica must be pretty high, due to lots of people passing though it. Isn’t the Pope going to be a bit, …
Ahh Spring.
Spring, when a young pisshead lady’s fancy lightly turns to sitting outside Heathway station shouting out “Slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!” and “Oi! Frigid!” and “Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor!” To any other young lady that dares to walk past. This coming from two aspiring young alcoholics wearing skirts so high and tops so low they were on the verge of exchanging places. …
I was on a roll as well…
Earlier today I picked up an Intel StorageStation networked disk storage box for £3. I got it home to find that the disks are missing and that the OS was stored on one of the missing disks. No real problem, google shows that the device runs FreeBSD and an OS image was on Intel’s website. …
The joys of trying to publish a scientific paper…
So, you’ve got some decent results at last and want to let the world know? Then you want to publish a paper. You write it, submit it to the journal, they send it to 2 or more referees who being conscientious professionals, read it and report back promptly. Corrections are made and the process is …
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