Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread  (Read 389743 times)

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #750 on: 17 October, 2012, 03:18:25 pm »
Bad news: drove to work today as the weather was unspeakably foul this morning.
Good news: I can see clear blue sky from my window, so screw it, I'm going out for a ride tonight (first time out for 5 days - could be interesting)

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #751 on: 17 October, 2012, 03:19:31 pm »
Station, 18:15, Interzen?  should be fun.....
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #752 on: 17 October, 2012, 03:23:22 pm »
Station, 18:15, Interzen?  should be fun.....
Too much of the hard, grey stuff.
I aim to get muddy.

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #753 on: 17 October, 2012, 03:25:16 pm »
Fair enough, no problem
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #754 on: 17 October, 2012, 03:49:46 pm »
Bad news: I've got to tell my supervisor how monumentally stupid I've been for so long, to fuck up this bit of processing that has propagated to a published conference paper and to a journal article currently in review.
Good news: Now that it's fixed, it makes my results better!

Bad news: No, that good idea I had for a new technique does not work.
Good news: It fails in an interesting way, that I can write about.  More thesis for me please  :thumbsup:  This includes inventing yet another technique for doing the same thing.

Bad news: Technique C would work, but would take twice the time to run as does our current teqhnique.
Good news: Yet more thesis for me  :thumbsup:

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #755 on: 17 October, 2012, 04:03:08 pm »
Bad news: I've got to tell my supervisor how monumentally stupid I've been for so long, to fuck up this bit of processing that has propagated to a published conference paper and to a journal article currently in review.
Good news: Now that it's fixed, it makes my results better!

Bad news: No, that good idea I had for a new technique does not work.
Good news: It fails in an interesting way, that I can write about.  More thesis for me please  :thumbsup:  This includes inventing yet another technique for doing the same thing.

Bad news: Technique C would work, but would take twice the time to run as does our current teqhnique.
Good news: Yet more thesis for me  :thumbsup:

Scientists: happy even when they get it wrong.  ;D
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #756 on: 17 October, 2012, 04:05:34 pm »
Only if it's wrong and interesting!

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #757 on: 22 October, 2012, 04:56:32 pm »
Good news: My new retrotastic string and leather mitts (fake leather but real string - at least, I think it's real string!) have proved comfy on a decent length ride. As well as being cheap and looking (fairly) good.

Bad news: They left fake-leather-palm dust all over the lever hoods.
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #758 on: 22 October, 2012, 05:04:04 pm »
Good news: My new retrotastic string and leather mitts (fake leather but real string - at least, I think it's real string!) have proved comfy on a decent length ride. As well as being cheap and looking (fairly) good.

Bad news: They left fake-leather-palm dust all over the lever hoods.
But absolutely everybody loves string:

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #759 on: 24 October, 2012, 08:58:14 pm »
My daughter has been to the open evenings of her school's 6th form and a local college. She is now absolutely adamant that she wants to do a childcare course alongside English Language and Literature A' levels, and possible philosophy (which she cannot even pronounce!).

The good news is that she is massively enthusiastic about it all and wanting to throw herself into it.
The bad news is she will need to work as an in-house nanny for part of the childcare course and so she has told me that since she wants to do this living at home I will have to produce a new sprog for her to look after, although it must not be born in the next 12 months so it will be the correct age at the time she needs to care for it. I pointed out to her that I am nearly 42, but she seemed unconcerned and said maybe I could adopt one  ;D

Simonp knows nothing of her plans as yet .....

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #760 on: 24 October, 2012, 09:03:43 pm »
Better that than offspring providing the sprog...

Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #761 on: 24 October, 2012, 09:05:41 pm »
Better that than offspring providing the sprog...

Quite .... I am not yet ready to be a granny  ;D

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #762 on: 24 October, 2012, 09:08:50 pm »
You do know that my Mum announced she was pregnant when I returned home from my second term at university...

Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #763 on: 24 October, 2012, 09:16:58 pm »
You do know that my Mum announced she was pregnant when I returned home from my second term at university...

Well I guess if announced that when my son came back from his second term at uni then the timing of teh sprog would suit the daughter's childcare course perfectly  :facepalm:

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #764 on: 24 October, 2012, 09:21:30 pm »
You do know that my Mum announced she was pregnant when I returned home from my second term at university...

Well I guess if announced that when my son came back from his second term at uni then the timing of teh sprog would suit the daughter's childcare course perfectly  :facepalm:
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #765 on: 28 October, 2012, 05:54:15 pm »
Good news. CAA got the paper work to me.
Bad news. Not in time to start the tour.
Good news. Days off :)
Bad news. Early start with an airline to Portugal to meet the aircraft.
Good news. Flying with a good bloke and it would be a good day out.
Bad news. Something's not working.
Good news. It's not "that" important.
Bad news. Oh yes it is, can't fly in icing (cold) conditions.
Bad news. Flight's off.
Good news. Go to hotel.
Bad news. Are you still at the aeroplane, we may need you to go south (warmer).
Good news. Nope, go to hotel.

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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #766 on: 28 October, 2012, 06:50:54 pm »
Good news: Five minutes from here you're out of the suburban streets, and five kilometres you're outside London
Bad news: Climbing the North Downs from cold.
Getting there...

Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #767 on: 28 October, 2012, 07:25:34 pm »
Good news: approximately 5 year old girl on train is being kept quiet by pepper pig game on Ipad.
Bad news: pepper pig game is repetitive and noisy.

Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #768 on: 28 October, 2012, 08:23:57 pm »
Good news: approximately 5 year old girl on train is being kept quiet by pepper pig game on Ipad.
Bad news: pepper pig game is repetitive and noisy.

It's Peppa....

Could be worse. I was on a train where a kid was playing a Thomas the Tank engine video on an Iphone, only it was all.... American! The horror!
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #769 on: 28 October, 2012, 08:51:43 pm »
Good news: approximately 5 year old girl on train is being kept quiet by pepper pig game on Ipad.
Bad news: pepper pig game is repetitive and noisy.

It's Peppa....

Could be worse. I was on a train where a kid was playing a Thomas the Tank engine video on an Iphone, only it was all.... American! The horror!
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why oh why do the grown ups not tell their charges that they should turn off the sound in trains etc., or wear earphones.
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #770 on: 28 October, 2012, 09:10:49 pm »
Rude isn't it? Had a child on a train (with a parent) a while ago, doing his maths homework which is all well and good but using the phone as a calculator without the keypad tones being turned off.

So very annoying.
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #771 on: 02 November, 2012, 05:29:04 pm »
Good - I am home
Bad - belated birthday dinner is off cos there's a sniffly penguin in the house
Good - have to make do with dirty pizza instead
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #772 on: 03 November, 2012, 01:50:35 am »
Just got grabbed and snogged by a gay fire man. Werent even cute fml
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #773 on: 03 November, 2012, 10:23:27 pm »
Bad - I'm going slightly Mad!

Good - I feel confident enough to think of myself as an EX-Smoker!
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Re: The Good News / Bad News Thread
« Reply #774 on: 03 November, 2012, 10:35:54 pm »
Bad - I'm going slightly Mad!

Good - I feel confident enough to think of myself as an EX-Smoker!
Hurrah! Good news on the smoking. (You were already slightly mad :-*)
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