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I have often mocked the heating of plates but this New York Times article says that it’s great, as well as giving a few other hints about the use of heat in the kitchen “the secret ingredient.”

Image by Rob Surreal 

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and who’s hazel?? i swear Rihanna’s singing “Hazel’s got the music”

1. Who is Hazel
2. Why does she have the music?
3. What are her intentions with the music??

Mhairi thinks I’m nuts but the guys in the office agree.

UPDATE: I’m not alone!!!

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Following on my theme of randomness, I came across this image in my temporary files and felt the need to share.  I have always been a great fan of MC Hammer (who’s blogging now, by the way) and I still have a tape of one of his albums  My favourite Firefox useless extension is the “STOP! Hammertime!” extension.  Every time you use the stop button it plays an MC hammer clip.  I use it so rarely that when I do it scares the living daylights out of me.  But it’s still funny.  I also have a friend called MC who I occasionally say “hammertime” to.  At least I think i’m funny!

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Okay, so I may not be quite right on the scoreline but I’m not far off.  In the world-famous game of Helensburgh Longball, my team (Sean, David, Toby and I) utterly squashed Mhairi’s team.  I will admit that the vast majority of the score is down to the others on my team, but that doesn’t stop me rubbing everybody’s nose in it.  I’m used to losing at sport, so I’m a good loser.  I’m a TERRIBLE winner!

Sorry All!

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My family was always about words and stories. I remember from a very early age having story tapes with songs and books to read along. The first “grown up” audiobook i remember hearing was Trial Run by one of my favourite authors, Dick Francis (maybe one of the reasons I like him so much is this early memory.) There were frankly bits of the story that I didn’t understand and references I missed but I was hooked.

I love stories but am often too busy or too lazy to read for myself. I’ve been through hundreds of audio books from my local library (and they’ve done pretty well out of my overdue fees) but I’ve found a way to save myself all those fees!

Seth Godin was talking about audio books on his blog today, mentioning the high cost, but didn’t mention podcast audiobooks.

I’ve discovered new worlds, new creatures and all sorts of adventures from free podcast audiobooks. Here’s a list of some of my Favourites:

• 7th Son Trilogy by Jc Hutchins
• The Rookie by Scott Sigler
• Number One with a Bullet by Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff
• EscapePod

The best place to start is Podiobooks.com - They have a huge selection and you can get it all for free. For the record I have contributed towards some of those authors who give their work for free, including taking part in Scott Sigler’s victory over Amazon!

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Parent Hacks is asking about putting your keyboard in a dishwasher.

I’d heard something like that and decided to do it once with a keyboard at work.  I popped of all the keys and washed them individually, then I stuck the keyboard in the sink and had a go.

I let it dry for a while on a radiator but, when we tried it again, some of the keys didn’t work properly. Maybe I didn’t dry it properly but I don’t think I’ll try it again.

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I have been accused, by those in certain quarters, of being a very random person. Anybody who looks at this blog for more than a couple of minutes will probably agree.

Well I was listening to the radio yesterday afternoon, in a semi-conscious way, and I heard something that made me wake up a bit. apparently random isn’t so random.

If you look at naturally occurring numbers or groups of numbers, they are more likely to begin with 1 than with anything else. It’s called Benford’s law and it’s real.

The guy on the radio explained that a number, say 1000 has to get twice as big before it gets to 2000, but then only has to get half again as big to get to 3000, a third as big to get to 4000, and so on. Makes sense in an illogical way.

Apparently it’s applied to the analysis of things like accounts and expenses to make sure that they are genuine and not just random collections of numbers.

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Is there anything Christopher Walken can’t do?? He can act, sing, dance and COOK?!?!?

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You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

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It’s strange the things that stick in your memory. We used to have our holidays up in St Andrews while my parents helped out with the Scripture Union beach mission up there. I vividly remember when I was about 7 years old hearing Nik Kershaw sing “I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” and then being driven around in a car following the sun at sunset to try not to let the sun go down on us. I also vaguely remember a chippie to dry my crocodile tears after that.

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