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Last weekend I went down to London again for a Christmas jolly with some great old uni friends, it was a lovely weekend, good wholesome fun.

On the Saturday I went to see the Wallace Collection while some girlies shopped on Kensington Highstreet (where the sales are apparently excellent but I’m not sure I could have tolerated a moment). There was an Osbert Lancaster exhibit there that was great, alongside the permanent collection which is excellent. I had never heard of him before but hes is definitely worth investigating, the blurb on the wall described him as a dandy aesthete, something I have always considered myself.

In the nighttime we watched the 1951 Scrooge with Alastair Sim in an incredible private cinema, ate nice food, got a little squiffy (port was involved you will be surprised to learn)

On the Sunday we went to see the Babylon exhibit in the British Museum and I returned to Leeds feeling tired but ace. Babylon has appeared in art of all forms, not least a few Jazz numbers.

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I was in London a few weeks ago and saw the wonderful exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts.

I have been interested in Byzantine history since a historian friend at university described how they were essentially the eastern Roman empire, called themselves Romans, spoke Greek, were Christian and survived well into the Middle Ages. As ever, wikipedia has a good introduction to the topic.

Off to London again next weekend, going to see the Babylon exhibit at the British Museum and have a lovely Christmas celebration with some good old friends.

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I went a few weeks ago to see BodyWorlds at the Museum of Science and Industry (mosi) in Manchester.

I have only just had chance to get the pics off my phone and am amazed at how well they came out.

   
All one body, look at the shared foot.

This was the highlight for me, what incredible musculature.

This is amazing, enough features remain with just the blood vessels that you could probably recognise him if you knew him in life.

 
Either a real life visible human or a macabre newtons cradle.

It was a great day out.

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Went here with a friend, pretty yum. 50% off makes it great value too.

http://www.felicini.co.uk/voucher/felicini_voucher.pdf

Expect an update soon on why my brute-forceing below was plain dumb rather than simply naive.

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As some of you may know I am unusually interested in filesystems. After sending John a link about HAMMER, a new FreeBSD clustered FS and joking about starting a tomFS project, his reply offered some help deciding on features it should have and marketing it.

tomfs can process a huge number of operations in parallel, just not necessarily the operations it should be processing, and it might get bored with some of them and forget about them sometimes.

tomfs stores redundant copies of anything it detects as documentaries or spoken word.

tomfs is very easy to port – a couple of bottles should do.

Cracked me up.

PS: Only perhaps 5 of my friends would get this, but I know at least 3 of them read this so no bother.

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