Last night I went to the Town Hall to see the DC meeting. There was an application for a block of flats opposite the Broadfield Barton car park which I was interested in. It was strange going back there. In the last year I have not been to the place at all, except for one […]
Entries from June 7th, 2005
Development Control Committee meeting
June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Development Control Committee meeting · Politics
Where do jokes come from?
June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Where do jokes come from? · Life
Still thinking about humour, there has often been speculation about where jokes originate, along with how they spread. Within hours of a major event, we hear jokes or receive them in text messages, but nobody ever claims to have made them up. Well I made up a joke the other day. Nothing brilliant, and certainly […]
Tags: WTF
The formula for comedy
June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on The formula for comedy · Life
According to this story some scientists have created a formula for deciding whether a sitcom is funny. Here it is: Using this formula, Only Fools And Horses scored highest with 696 points, while Orrible scored 6.5 To get to these results, apparently, the grandeur of the main character is multiplied by their delusions of grandeur […]
Late Night
June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Late Night · Music
I usually stay up late, but tonight I actually wanted to get an earlier night. So why am I still up at nearly 3 am? Well I went down to the Town Hall to see the council’s development control committee at work, then when I came home I was helping Jayne re-write her CV and […]
Tags: Concerts·Crawley Council·Kraftwerk·TV
FilmWise Invisibles
June 7th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Life
Every week I check the ‘Invisibles’ quiz at FilmWise (there is a new one every Monday). How it works is that they take still shots from 8 films and photoshop out the people, leaving just the background, furniture and clothes. From my own primitive attempts at art on the PC I can see that it […]
