Victory!

Cambridge win Boat Race. They call us "Tabs"... we don't even have a name for them.

This is pretty freaky... but it's nothing compared to an evil fish that lives in the Amazon. There are around 3.7 trillion fish in the oceans and none of them are as scary as the Candiru.

Does this remind anyone of the first bit to There's Something About Mary?

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A couple of my very lucky colleagues have gone to Germany. The CeBit exhibition is on there and they're showing some things that are just plain cool.

Mahjongg

Mahjongg's a new game I learnt whilst in Taiwan. When I say Mahjongg I mean the 4-player version which is also a kind of Chinese rite of passage, not the solitaire kind. I'd hinted to my mum in the past that I wanted to learn how to play but had assumed that this had fallen on deaf ears. I was wrong. A trip last month to my aunt's place was, unbeknownst to me, all about an opportunity to teach David this essential life skill.

It was a pretty surreal experience. As soon as I'd got in my aunt's door, out came the mahjongg table and the chairs, the tiles were whipped out and I found myself sat down with granny on my left, my mum opposite and my aunt to my right, all three of them fully absorbed in counting their money ~~and no doubt psyching themselves up~~.
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Why did SClub7 split up?

While I was on my jolly to Taiwan nimisis crashed. And since then I've noticed that a "david butler" search on google no longer yields nimisis in, well, probably the first million hits. I'm quite disappointed by this result. Before I used to get a fair few cyber questers seeking "David Butler" or "download hives" or "stag night na*ed photos". I'd like to stress the latter two for no logical reason that I'm aware of. The only thing that seems to get a reasonable number of hits is my webcam page, even though that's not on most of the time... (clearly this does wonders for my ego). Looking at my logs, it says here that one bright spark found nimisis by querying "Why did SClub7 split up"? Well, in case both disillusioned SClub7 fans end up coming here searching for answers, I do have one. They probably split up because their talent loan from the singing bank went very very bad and when their busking expenses plunged them deep into a red that was redder than the stained mouth of a betel nut chewing Taiwanese dellboy they had to call it a day... but that's only a theory.

There's a conspiracy going on

It's not a conspiracy about Iraq hiding WMD. It's not about aliens. It's not the one currently perpetrated by Coca Cola in selling vanilla coke which is horrible stuff in packaging that is hardly any different to proper coke and through this dirty trick profit enough to overthrow small countries... although someone should probably look into that. Neither is it the one about betel nut chewers who actually spit out raspberry juice that they've hidden in their jackets. Some of you won't know what I'm talking about and I've alienated you, sorry. But my homies will know exactly. You'd die of dehydration surely if betel nuts really caused you to salivate THAT much. No it's this. Apparently Ireland beat England?! What... at rugby!?

Muppets, all of them. Toddlers could organise better line outs than that.

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Sam Seaborn: There's a town in Alabama...

Sam Seaborn: What do you think about that?
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Related: West Wing

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