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28Apr/103

Forgetful Jones

Oh dear. What a rather skatterbrained day I've had.

Forgot my headphones at home, so no music at work today. Makes doing menial tasks that much harder to concentrate on I find.

Driving with my manager to a staff meeting in Newmarket and I kept forgetting to tell him what turns and exits to take. It did result in a pretty epic U-turn at one point.

Left work a bit early to go see La Roux in Cambridge tonight. While on the train from work I realised I forgot my camera. Oh well, not too bad as I'll be kinda far back anyways.

While unlocking my bike, noticed I forgot my bike headlight. I'll be riding home after dark. So peddled home, got my light. Still forgot my camera.

Had a quick bite to eat before heading the the Corn Exchange. I noticed there were a lot of old folks going into the venue. Hmm this cant be right. Looked at my ticket - April 29th. Looked at my watch - April 28th. Fail.

Fetched my bike and peddled home to do it all over again for real tomorrow. Maybe today was just a practice day.

Any one else remember (*chortle*) Forgetful Jones?

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18Feb/102

Keeping Cereal Crunchy Since 1980-something

I had some, let's call them interesting, eating habits in my younger days. I would require my food to be on separate plates and eaten with different cutlery for each plate. I used to eat bacon bits and cake frosting (ok perhaps that one isn't too odd). I even recall once having a taste for drinking milk while eating an orange. One that I still hold on to though (ok I still have a small thing left for keeping food somewhat segregated on the one plate) is how I eat cereal.

The idea of pouring milk on it to turn it into some sort of sloppy, sugary soup never flew with me. Instead I'd have a big bowl of cereal alaong with a tall glass of milk. Spoonful of cereal, big gulp of milk. Repeat and enjoy the taste of cereal and milk without the terrible texture. It's a no brainer really!

You gotta keep 'em separated. At least before they hit your mouth.

I had never met anyone else who ate cereal like this until one day at work I was chomping away on my Honey Comb from the Colonies when a colleague proclaimed he used to eat cereal like that when he was younger. Sadly he gave up on it and eats cereal the 'normal' way now. Pah, he didn't have the will power to keep the practice up. Still it was nice to hear that I'm not the only one.

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1Feb/101

Poorly Pigeons

Goodness, the pigeons that are around the station in the morning always seem to be in such rough shape. Bits of wings missing, and most commonly bits of feet/claws missing or mangled.

Spotted this fellow on platform 4 this morning and felt quite bad for him. His left foot was missing a claw and the two that were left were looking worse for wear. His right foot was basically gone and he was hopping around on a stump.

Is this pretty common for pigeons? I never really take much notice or am close enough to them to notice except for when we share train platforms.

Tagged as: animals, cambridge rail station, ow, pigeons 1 Comment

27Jan/101

Observations from the Ticket Queue

In Cambridge station there are four ticket machines. Three look the same. One doesn't look like the others. This tends to kind of throw people off.

Let's talk about the forming of the ticket queues. Sometimes there is one queue, other times there is a queue behind each machine. When we have the 'uni-queue' there tends to be a bit of hesitation in using the ticket machine that looks different. It includes looking around to see if other people are going to use it and looking at the screen distantly with squinted eyes. Eventually someone from the back of the queue (or in today's case, someone who just walked into the station) will just stroll up to the machine and go about their business, with varying degrees of success as we will see.

When there is a 'multi-queue' scenario, the queue for the Mystery Machine is usually the shortest. Can it be trusted? It doesn't look like the other ones.... can I buy the same tickets from it? The person who queue jumped to it today wasn't able to work out how to buy a ticket, wondered around a bit, tried to queue jump to the Mystery Machine again before getting in the uni-queue with everyone else.

Which would you choose?

The Mystery Ticket Machine is on the left. The rest look like the one on the right. All of them do the same job. I wanted to get a shot of all 4 machines, but there was a couple who just wouldn't move out of the way. That same couple passed on using the Mystery Machine moments before.

It's terrible to see such ticket machine discrimination in the flesh.

Tagged as: behavior, observations, people, rail station 1 Comment

11Dec/090

The Day’s Doodles 11/12/09

Doodles I did at work today. Definitely a retro electronics theme going on, inspired by my recent purchase of a Sega Mega Drive. That's a Genesis to fellow North Americans. I'm slightly disappointed I drew the Power and Reset buttons on the wrong side of the NES.

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