{"id":716,"date":"2003-04-01T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/01\/the-wonder-of-boredom\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T20:34:00","slug":"the-wonder-of-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/01\/the-wonder-of-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonder of boredom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8211; Act your age?    It depends upon whether you take chronological age or mental age. You&#8217;re only as old as the *add member of opposite sex* you feel. In this case I&#8217;m therefore of indeterminate age.<br \/>\nB &#8211; Born on what day of the week?    Well, cal(1) tells me it was a Saturday.<br \/>\nC &#8211; Chore you hate?  I think washing up is amongst the worst.<br \/>\nD &#8211; Dad&#8217;s name?      Raymond<br \/>\nE &#8211; Essential makeup item?   None at all.<br \/>\nF &#8211; Favorite actor?  Matthew Broderick, if only for Ferris Bueller and WarGames.<br \/>\nG &#8211; Gold or silver?  Gold, it&#8217;s the most ductile metal, is great as shielding against ionising radiation and is a wonderful conductor. Oh, and some people think it looks nice.<br \/>\nH &#8211; Hometown?         The closest town to where I lived when I grew up was Ampthill. The village was Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England, UK, Europe, Sol3, Western Spiral Arm, Home galaxy, Andromeda group. That should tie it down.<br \/>\nI &#8211; Instruments you play?     I got up to grade 1 classical guitar when I was 11.<br \/>\nJ &#8211; Job title?        IT Systems Administrator<br \/>\nK &#8211; Kids?             None, I don&#8217;t breed goats.<br \/>\nL &#8211; Living arrangements?      Alone with many old computers to support.<br \/>\nM &#8211; Mum&#8217;s name?       Patricia<br \/>\nN &#8211; Number of people you&#8217;ve slept with? It depends upon whether you mean slept next to or had sex with. If the former, a couple. If the later, it&#8217;s something that happens to other people and not to me. Sex is as much a myth to me as storks bringing babies with only slightly more evidence (storks don&#8217;t live in Britian).<br \/>\nO &#8211; Overnight hospital stays? When I was 6 I stayed over with concussion for observation.<br \/>\nP &#8211; Phobia?           I&#8217;ve no fears I could classify as a phobia as such.<br \/>\nQ &#8211; Quote you like?   Well, it&#8217;s not a real person, more a character&#8217;s words&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s too late for the pebbles to vote. The avalanche has already started.&#8221; Kosh.<br \/>\nR &#8211; Religious affiliation?  I&#8217;m not affiliated with any religion. You could call me a humanist, or an agnostic, or an atheist. Then again you could call me a duck or a dolphin, it has as much meaning to me.<br \/>\nS &#8211; Siblings?         None at all. (Which, funnily enough, is the amount of damage a bulldozer would suffer if it ran right over a person.)<br \/>\nT &#8211; Time you wake up? Weekdays, 7:28am. Weekends, as late as possible.<br \/>\nU &#8211; Unique habit?     None. I don&#8217;t wear habits and I&#8217;m not unique.<br \/>\nV &#8211; Vegitable you refuse to eat? It&#8217;s not a vegitable but a fruit.. Gooseberries.<br \/>\nW &#8211; Worst habit?      Procrastination, when I can get around to it.<br \/>\nX &#8211; X-rays you&#8217;ve had? Chest, teeth, hand. I think that&#8217;s it.<br \/>\nY &#8211; Yummy food you make? Well, I do a decent banana and walnut loaf. Give me the algorithm, sorry, recipe and the components, sorry, ingredients, and I&#8217;ll fabricate the desired gastronomic item.<br \/>\nZ &#8211; Zodiac sign?      Aquarius. The age of which dawned and then faded away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8211; Act your age? It depends upon whether you take chronological age or mental age. You&#8217;re only as old as the *add member of opposite sex* you feel. In this case I&#8217;m therefore of indeterminate age. 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