OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

“I wish I had my money back…”

Do you think that a combination of heavy metal poisoning from a combination of Gold, Silver and Copper, introduced through the water-supply, could have a psychotropic effect?

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Categories: Humour,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: Humour, medicine, superstition

Online Photo DB: Stage 1 – Problem Statement, Loose Requirements

As a long-term project, I wish to re-host my photographs. I believe you do too, but perhaps you haven’t realised it yet.

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Drawing Circles

Microsoft Visio 2007 has some new shapes in the Drawing Tool Shapes template, which give me better drawing options for circles.

I am doing a little nerdy happy dance.

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Categories: Geek,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,Observation
Tags: drawing, UI, usability, Visio

The Coward Gets Interviewed…

… A slow second ticked past as I sat stunned. Did this guy really just challenge my manhood in a job interview? …

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Categories: Based On A True Story,Story-Telling
Tags: interview, sweden, unicycling

Independent Verification

This seemed very funny to me, when I thought of it during the haze of waking up this morning. However, I need independent verification.

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Julian’s Job Status FAQ

I’ve got some big news.

I have left my job, and I am not looking for another one…

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Killing “killing two birds with one stone”

Why is “killing two birds with one stone” such a desirable attribute?

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Categories: Humour,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: Humour, optimisation, sayings

Get with the 21st Century, Beijing!

Some illuminating facts about the Beijing Olympic Torch…

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Categories: Humour,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: China, Olympics

Hitchhiking in Canada

I dressed warmly, filled my pockets with whatever supplies I had, and started walking

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My bizarre-o-meter was flashing red. By this stage, I was ready to jump out of the car and take my chances with the bears.

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Chaos Theory References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Categories: Doubleplus Geek
Tags: chaos theory, graph, internet, memes, Observation, statistics