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So Saddam got 100% backing for another seven years, eh? With 100% turnout of 11.5 million voters? Yeah, right. A BBC correspondent on Today said that when asked whether they thought that the result was slightly laughable, they said that it must be right because nobody would vote against him. Impeccable logic.

Love this though…

According to a report in Scientific American, researchers have found that Tetris is actually a very hard problem to solve. One of the authors of the original report, Erik D. Demaine, said:

“While you’re playing Tetris, you’re really solving hard problems”

This totally validates all that time I spent bashing away at a monochrome version of Tetris on my old PowerBook 100 when I should have been writing my thesis. Hey, I was training my mind! And having lots of dreams about oddly shaped blocks falling all around me…

Two weeks ago, Mr. Butshesagirl and I visited Kevin at D-Tek in Ely, an Aladdin’s cave of recumbent wonders. We’d been thinking for some time about buying a recumbent bike, partly because of my slightly dodgy back, but also because we’d tried some E-bikes and a WizWheelz trike out on a trail in Florida, and had a fantastic time.

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Apparently it’s true: red-haired women needed 20% more anaesthetic than brunettes. Mr. Butshesagirl is a ginger-nut, so now he knows why he hates going to the dentist.

He was also very proud when it was reported last year that the gene from red hair is at least 10,000 years old, and may possibly have originated in Neanderthals.

I was glancing at the headlines on a rack of women’s magazines while drinking a coffee in a rather dull service station. These caught my eye:

Cosmopolitan: Celebrity Real-Life Stories (an oxymoron if I ever saw one) Company: 126 Celebrity Hair Secrets (such a precise number - couldn’t they dredge up enough celebrity hair secrets to make it up to a round 130?)

I’m an audiophile. Unfortunately, I’m also an audiophile with very little money to spend. This made a recent trip to the HiFi show at Heathrow more of a window shopping exercise than anything else. Liking any kind of technology tends to be rather pricey, but you can really spend huge sums of money on hi-fi (£17,500 for a pair of Nautilus speakers, anyone?). But it costs nothing to look or listen, which is what I did with my Dad and brother, sad audio geeks all (see, it’s heritable).

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This is my first entry - yay! I’ll be adding more later, but there has to be a first post and this is it.

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a while, so the next few entries won’t be on current events, but things I’ve been mulling over recently. Then hopefully the blog will catch up with life.