Archive for the ‘ Humorous ’ Category
Today I received an item via email that I’d ordered a while back – and it’s awesome. It’s not your typical run-of-the-mill, got-for-£1-on-Amazon-with-Super-Saver-Delivery kind of awesome. This item, ladies and gentlemen, was my own personalised theme song. The song was written and performed by Matthew Gehrett, an independent musician from the US. It is licensed under [ READ MORE ]
According to Ron Burgandy, “that doesn’t make sense”. However, a deeper analysis reveals that it does, in fact, make sense, and furthermore that these are quite good odds for a cologne. First, we look at what we know: “60% of the time, it works every time” – if we think of it as Brian Fantana testing it [ READ MORE ]
Much of this week (read: all day from Wednesday to Saturday) was taken up by mock exams and revision for said exams. It’d be boring to say too much about that, so I’ll just say that in general they went OK-ish, will probably be able to do better with more revision, and the one module [ READ MORE ]
It still surprises me, to the point of it being seemingly magical, how hot water can clean plates so much better than cold water can. A sign of reading thorough too many pages of Linear Algebra lecture notes is reading “exercise left to the reader” as “exercise left of the radar”. Many times. Maths lecturers copy lecture [ READ MORE ]
What better way to start off the week than go punting? None, I’d say! I went punting on the river with my college family today (4x grandparents, 2x fathers, 1x sister), and we all had a brilliant time. Vivian (my sister) managed to somehow get amazingly good at punting within a few minutes. I had [ READ MORE ]