Blair Millen tagged me to write six unimportant things so here goes:
- My favourite record at the moment is Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!.
- I was born, and grew up, in Nottingham.
- I spent a semester of grad school on academic probation, with the threat of being kicked off my PhD if I didn’t improve my grades.
- I spent this afternoon painting the spare room.
- I first used e-mail in 1989. No internet back then, as I recall.
- I’m about to make a nice cup of fairtrade tea. Cheers!
Oh, I love old ID photographs… I got a small collection of my own. Might be worth a post in the future.
Surely t’internet was around in 1989? Perhaps you refer to the web, coincidentally introduced that same year?
Yes, I am pedantic.
Yeah, you’re right, TCP/IP existed back then. I was thinking how you couldn’t just type in someone’s e-mail address back then and hit send. For instance, sending a message from MADRAF::ODONNELL, on the Vax in Madison, to someone on a JANET address in Manchester would involve looking up the relevant gateways in a big book, then typing some long, long string into an e-mail programme. Of course, nostalgia may have made the process seem somewhat more arduous than it actually was. Nowadays, the magical internet hides all that crap from us. It’s pretty amazing, really.
hmm, that must have been the semester I made you go to the student union for a drink every single day at 4pm. I suspect we weren’t good influences on each other… but it was rather a fun time of my life. and at least you graduated!