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I feel like the Likely Lads trying to avoid the result of the England Bulgaria match before the highlights show.

I really don't want to know that there is a new Doctor, let alone who it is. It spoils the dramatic tension, as I know he's going to regenerate soon.

So far I've been warned by two separate Maxes to avoid Saturday night TV (unlike 7 million viewers who tuned in to find out), Livejournal (out of the first 8 posts on this, only two were cut tagged), and to be wary around the Today programme.

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So far I've caught a glimpse of a photo in my peripheral vision on a webcomic blog and in today's Metro, but caught the headlines, and fled both times. So I know it's someone with dark hair, who I don't recognise out of the corner of my eye.

( Look at them roots! )

I've got over a centimetre of roots now, and soon I think it'll look quite odd(er). So I think I'll dye my hair at Christmas.

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A webcomic by a Australian conventioneer about gluten intolerance.

Or, what I did at the weekend.

Feeling Christmasy now. I bought most of the remaining presents I needed to over the weekend, and few bits of tinsel and bluetack. And a couple of postcards for an upcoming Joinee bit of sillyness.

#5 - Christmas dinner with Floo's flatmates. They sqeueezed about 30 people into their 3 bed flat. Even going so far as to make a couple of benches out of MDF to fit us all in! They cooked a gorgeous turkey, with lovely home made gravy. We did a secret Santa, and I got a wonderfully pungent bouncy ball, and got to watch people have great fun as the built the Lego™ plastic brick construction toy I'd thrown in :)

#6 - Another Christmas party up the Picadilly line. With friends, home made mince pies, and impromptu GTA2 LAN party in the back room.

And a bonus to make up for not posting these on the days:( What the plan was for the bus at the start of The Italian Job II )

Lovely phone call from a friend that lasted exactly long enough to chop up all the vegies for dinner.

Simple fractal generation using TSQL. Supremely geeky and pointless. I love it.

Felted Cthulhu Santa, delivering a Cephalopody Christmas.

New Icon (third and hopefully final attempt at blond one) courtesy of a locked down work PC, and a graphics programme you don't have to install.

Note to self:

You learned this in your first week in a full time job.
"Don't respond to angry people you don't know in conference calls".
Let their own team deal with them. They know the person. Or wait a while and say we'll have to deal with this topic later, as it's over running.
It just makes the whole thing drag on, and it can only be resolved offline.

I'm missing my team's Christmas lunch now.

Sudden realisation: Some people born in the '90s are old enough to drink now.

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I ran into an old friend I haven't seen since University on Regent Street the weekend before last.

We spent about 5 minutes catching up as we walked round to Oxford Street. Realised that we both knew a reasonable chunk of what we'd been up to since Uni via facebook and went our separate ways.

It's kind of sad really. Social networking sites mean you never completely lose touch, so you can never really serendipidously reacquaint.

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Should I get the time I want to write up my thoughts on a couple of books I read recently. I usually don't get around to it, so I'm hoping that putting this here will prod me into action.

Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womak

They're sort of related, in odd ways. Both are "written" by teenage girls about a year of their life. Both books change character as the book progresses, so you feel you're not reading the same book you started out with.

They're also very, very different. I don't know if I'd have related them to each other, if I hadn't read them (almost) one after the other,

Anyway, I enjoyed them both, and would recommend them.

Spacetime anomaly in Herne Hill!

Via ruudboy

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According to a Myers-Briggs blog analyser these postings are by an ESFP, aka The Performers type.
Via amuchmoreexotic

In a previous online test I scored as a ENTP, aka Mad Scientist type.

I wonder if it's because I only present a certain part of myself online? Am I deliberately on making posts of a frivolous, entertaining nature? I I being flippant at the expense of my intellectual side?

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On a not entirely unrelated note, this evening I'm going to try and dye my (very dark) hair to blonde for a costume party tomorrow.