Gareth’s blog

Summer

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:17:00 +0000

A topic on which I might write some thoughts when I’m doing something that involves sitting at a computer slightly less so I have marginally more enthusiasm to write here.

I am though alive and predominantly well. My foot hurts but that might be related to a thirteen and a half hour shift to end my six day week. Woops.

There are, however, various photos.

Part 1A Results

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:55:00 +0000

Nigella’s chocolate-orange cake

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:00 +0000

Yesterday I tried baking Nigella Lawson’s chocolate-orange cake. Turned out nicely as well:

Brain scan

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:46:00 +0000

Given my current unemployed nature I volunteered for research stuff. I’ve done a couple before and this one was rather similar. Went along to the MRI scanner at the Cognition and Brain Sciences department early in the morning, sat in a scanner for an hour or so. Most of the testing involved me listening to a “word” every five-ish seconds and pressing buttons corresponding to whether I thought the “word” was actually a word ot not.

Not that exciting, but it’s research into how we process speech which could have an interesting results. I got £25 for it and a picture of my brain:

Dating

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:55:00 +0000

I did feel sorry for the woman who is suing a dating service for sending her eight unsuitable men. There is a real problem here in that nobody who subscribes to these services—I write after discussing the matter with single friends—ever tells the whole truth. “Good-looking” means “not actually covered in boils and pustules”. GSOH (good sense of humour) means “will make you watch all his collection of Jim Carrey DVDs”. The difficulty is in knowing just how exaggerated and airbrushed the descriptions are. One solution might be to follow the example of the famous Chelsea estate agent Roy Brookes, who went for implacable and very funny honesty in his ads: “Damp infested garret, favoured with view of disused industrial site” … “you could swing only the smallest of cats in the so-called guest bedroom”, and so forth. Customers were so delighted to find that the property was much less horrible than they'd been told that they arrived to inspect in a very receptive mood.

From Simon Hoggart’s column in The Guardian.

Work

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:25:00 +0000

Hoorah, back at Waitrose 7–5 on Saturdays from the 22nd. A return, I assume, to meat and fish.

Results

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:03:00 +0000

I forgot to say, I got a 2.i. :)

Rachel

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Wed, 17 May 2006 03:11:00 +0000

I’ve got me a girlfriend. :) :) Something more, some time later. I’m going to go sleeeeep.

Flickr

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:20:00 +0000

I’ll write something more about this in a bit, but I’ve finally given in and got a Pro Flickr account so I’ll work on putting some photos up and tidying things up. Stuff round here needs some work, so hopefully I’ll get on the case soon. More later, I’m off to bed.

My Blog as a Graph

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:38:00 +0000

Nabbed from Mr. Appleyard, and this isn’t that interesting, really. I have no idea what it shows, but it looks pretty, right?

ISM Concert

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:10:00 +0000

This went suprisingly well. Good fun as well.

La la life

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:36:00 +0000

I haven’t written all that much here recently. I suppose this means I have a life, or I’ve been tring to work. Perhaps both, even. Time for bed.

A talk by Professor Lord Lord Master Martin Rees

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:45:00 +0000

The last lecture in a series at St. Cats college was on this evening, so Dorothy took Paul and I along. He talked on science in the 21st century. Interesting, but nothing amazing. Lots of pictures and stuff we’d all heard before, especially given most of the audience seemed to be professors I was really suprised how low the level of the talk had been pitched. Serious popular-science level for most of it. Time I went to bed soon, but it was pretty cool to go to a talk by a guy who’s called Lord twice. Hoorah!

Reverse thievery

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:27:00 +0000

Strange happenings at Emmanuel College, captured.

Vitamin C

dotcyro@gmail.com (Gareth Jones) — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:49:00 +0000

It’s now available online, for all your video watching pleasure.

Wooo woooooooo, Ali G on Google Video makes for good procrastination.