Every work day since last Tuesday (2024/07/30) I’ve had a ‘phone call at 8am from a number I don’t recognise. I don’t answer. They don’t leave a message. Yesterday (2024/08/06), they called as usual. I replied by SMS The game is up! Flee! They didn’t call back today.
Category Archives: weirdness
Quarantine – Week Three.
Social Self-distancing Monday 2020/3/30 Found out another acquaintance had died, this time not from the virus. Rest well Marc. Marked science reports. Tuesday 2020/3/31
 More marking today. Looked over presentation for interview. Wednesday 2020/04/01
 Student mentor session in morning, remote job interviewing afternoon. It went well. Thursday 2020/04/02
 Getting ready for the Icon ConserveAtHome talk …
Quarantine – Week One.
Self Isolating before it was popular. Monday 2020/3/16 Went to work for a meeting and to start shutting things down. No announcement had yesterday been made, but it was obvious something was coming. Tuesday 2020/3/17 Stayed home, took part in some teaching chats. Did some admin. Took dog to park. Wednesday 2020/3/18 Sister’s birthday – …
An early awakening
Around 5:30 this morning I was rudely awoken from odd dreams about plastic jewellery by loud voices outside my window. Looking out, this was the scene that greeted me. The pipe was happily disgorging hundreds of liters of water per minute, washing away the sub-surface of the road. The water carried the mud and silt …
Prime Time (-ish)
Today at 2:03:05, the date and time, if you write it in a particular form, is a string of the first six prime numbers: 02:03:05:07:11:13 This only works if you use DD/MM/YY format for the date, and not the American MM/DD/YY, or the more sensible YYYY/MM/DD format. So, just after lunch take a look at …