From miles at assyrian.org.uk Tue Apr 13 08:38:13 2010 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:38:13 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Miles is now very very old, and needs cheering up Message-ID: <20100413153813.GF6237@assyrian.org.uk> Dear all, Today is my thirtieth birthday. Yay. Now, it's a bit late to plan anything major for tonight (though if anyone fancies meeting for a pint after Dorkbot, give me a shout), so I thought we could do something at the weekend. Specifically, I'd like to suggest a picnic, in the Meadows*, on Saturday afternoon (starting at, let's say 1pm) followed by board games round at our flat. If it rains (which it's currently not predicted to) we can move inside earlier. We can provide crash space and bedding for something like seven people. Come along for some or all of the day, and bring friends/partners/hangers-on/anyone I forgot to invite. The following day we'd thought of catching the train out to Fife and going for a walk along the coast, but I could probably be talked into going climbing (Aberdour?) if anyone else was up for it... Anyway, I hope to see you all there! Miles * I'm thinking the Meadows rather than the Botanics because (a) they're more central, (b) there's a supermarket, for the purchasing of tasty food, (c) otherwise hard-to-reach jugglers are likely to be there already, (d) I don't think you can barbecue things in the Botanics. -- Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world. -- Andrew Hume From miles at assyrian.org.uk Wed Apr 14 04:49:44 2010 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:49:44 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Miles is so very old he's started forgetting appointments In-Reply-To: <20100413153813.GF6237@assyrian.org.uk> References: <20100413153813.GF6237@assyrian.org.uk> Message-ID: <20100414114944.GF16465@assyrian.org.uk> As Keith has helpfully reminded me, I'm meant to be on the No2ID stall at 1pm this Saturday (the 17th). So, let's have the picnic /after/ the stall, starting at about 3.30pm. All other plans remain unchanged. Sorry for the confusion. Miles On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:38:13PM +0100, Miles Gould wrote: > Dear all, > > Today is my thirtieth birthday. Yay. Now, it's a bit late to plan > anything major for tonight (though if anyone fancies meeting for a pint > after Dorkbot, give me a shout), so I thought we could do something at > the weekend. Specifically, I'd like to suggest a picnic, in the > Meadows*, on Saturday afternoon (starting at, let's say 1pm) followed by > board games round at our flat. If it rains (which it's currently not > predicted to) we can move inside earlier. We can provide crash space and > bedding for something like seven people. Come along for some or all of > the day, and bring friends/partners/hangers-on/anyone I forgot to invite. > > The following day we'd thought of catching the train out to Fife and > going for a walk along the coast, but I could probably be talked into > going climbing (Aberdour?) if anyone else was up for it... > > Anyway, I hope to see you all there! > > Miles > > * I'm thinking the Meadows rather than the Botanics because (a) they're > more central, (b) there's a supermarket, for the purchasing of tasty > food, (c) otherwise hard-to-reach jugglers are likely to be there > already, (d) I don't think you can barbecue things in the Botanics. > > -- > Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world. > -- Andrew Hume -- A situation like this needs to be handled carefully, so I looked to my role models for guidance. What would Spider-Man do? Make a joke, then punch someone. Entertaining, but probably not helpful in this case. Hmm, how about Benton Fraser (the Mountie from Due South)? He'd be extremely polite, and solve the problem that way; ah, that sounds more promising. -- John Kirk From perl at minty.org Sun Apr 18 13:10:31 2010 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:10:31 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) Message-ID: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> food, beer, free wifi, etc. http://www.cumberlandbar.co.uk/ 7pm ish onwards ... I can be there a bit earlier if anyone else if likely to be around. presumably there can be no excuses about being out of the country this month ;) From anthony at randell.org Mon Apr 19 02:33:30 2010 From: anthony at randell.org (Anthony Randell) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:33:30 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> Message-ID: Well if they are overseas, they may not be coming back for Thursday :-) Cursed Iceland, first the global banking system, and now our flights... maybe we should just let them start whaling again, I'd hate to tick them off! On 18/04/2010, Murray wrote: > > food, beer, free wifi, etc. > > http://www.cumberlandbar.co.uk/ > > 7pm ish onwards ... I can be there a bit earlier if anyone else if > likely to be around. > > presumably there can be no excuses about being out of the country this > month ;) > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perl at minty.org Mon Apr 19 02:36:51 2010 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:36:51 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> Message-ID: <20100419093651.GN5432@minty.org> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:33:30AM +0100, Anthony Randell wrote: > Well if they are overseas, they may not be coming back for Thursday :-) > > Cursed Iceland, first the global banking system, and now our flights... maybe > we should just let them start whaling again, I'd hate to tick them off! I think it's the secret lair of the Green Party. They're going to issue a ransom deband for "1 million dollars" anytime soon. From miles at assyrian.org.uk Mon Apr 19 07:19:44 2010 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:19:44 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100419093651.GN5432@minty.org> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100419093651.GN5432@minty.org> Message-ID: <20100419141944.GH3769@assyrian.org.uk> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Murray wrote: > I think it's the secret lair of the Green Party. > > They're going to issue a ransom deband for "1 million dollars" anytime > soon. Worse even than that, they've pre-emptively roped me into stringing placards for them that night (I'd forgotten that this was a five-Thursdays month :-( ). Hopefully that won't take all night, though. Miles -- It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation. -- Leibniz From asmith9983 at gmail.com Mon Apr 19 08:38:07 2010 From: asmith9983 at gmail.com (A Smith) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:38:07 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100419141944.GH3769@assyrian.org.uk> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100419093651.GN5432@minty.org> <20100419141944.GH3769@assyrian.org.uk> Message-ID: The email from Miles may be used as evidence that he was instrumental for most of the EU airspace being shut down. His message to Iceland regarding his Icesave account should have been " Send me the (c)ash or else!" He's currently writing applying for a research grant for a word sanity checker. BA are offering ?20m/day if it's written in Objectionable C for an iPhone. -- Andrew On 19 April 2010 15:19, Miles Gould wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Murray wrote: > > I think it's the secret lair of the Green Party. > > > > They're going to issue a ransom deband for "1 million dollars" anytime > > soon. > > Worse even than that, they've pre-emptively roped me into stringing > placards for them that night (I'd forgotten that this was a > five-Thursdays month :-( ). Hopefully that won't take all night, though. > > Miles > > -- > It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour > of calculation. > -- Leibniz > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From cyocum at gmail.com Thu Apr 22 05:31:30 2010 From: cyocum at gmail.com (Chris Yocum) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:31:30 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> Message-ID: <20100422123128.GN4546@belldandy> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:24:46PM +0100, Murray wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:10:31PM +0100, Murray wrote: > > http://www.cumberlandbar.co.uk/ > > > > 7pm ish onwards ... I can be there a bit earlier if anyone else if > > likely to be around. > > At the risk of seeming paranoid -- anyone else coming tonight? I should be there. > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From miles at assyrian.org.uk Thu Apr 22 08:16:28 2010 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:28 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> Message-ID: <20100422151628.GB32681@assyrian.org.uk> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:24:46PM +0100, Murray wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:10:31PM +0100, Murray wrote: > > http://www.cumberlandbar.co.uk/ > > > > 7pm ish onwards ... I can be there a bit earlier if anyone else if > > likely to be around. > > At the risk of seeming paranoid -- anyone else coming tonight? I'll be there, but probably not until near 10pm, owing to the whole kidnapped-by-Greens thing. Miles -- Oxford! The very sound of its name is enough to fill my soul with the most actual magic. -- Max Beerbohm From asmith9983 at gmail.com Thu Apr 22 08:39:00 2010 From: asmith9983 at gmail.com (Andrew Smith) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:39:00 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] How apple cashes in on 'inferior hardware' - The Inquirer Message-ID: <1271950740.21319.31.camel@amd64-ws1> An interesting read, and maybe a topic of discussion this evening -- Andrew From perl at minty.org Thu Apr 22 08:53:30 2010 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:53:30 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100422151628.GB32681@assyrian.org.uk> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> <20100422151628.GB32681@assyrian.org.uk> Message-ID: <20100422155330.GH5776@minty.org> I booked us a table - it's in my name (walker), likely in the front of the bar. From cyocum at gmail.com Thu Apr 22 08:56:24 2010 From: cyocum at gmail.com (Chris Yocum) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:56:24 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Thur, Cumberland, Beer (or equiv) In-Reply-To: <20100422155330.GH5776@minty.org> References: <20100418201031.GI5432@minty.org> <20100422122446.GG5776@minty.org> <20100422151628.GB32681@assyrian.org.uk> <20100422155330.GH5776@minty.org> Message-ID: <20100422155622.GA6991@belldandy> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:53:30PM +0100, Murray wrote: > I booked us a table - it's in my name (walker), likely in the front of > the bar. Great! Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> Message-ID: <20100426084908.GA16831@assyrian.org.uk> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote: > Hi Everyone, > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we > will be having a Heretics Meeting. I propose to be Heretical by > suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. Anyone > else want to be Heretical with me? Works for me. I'll be late, though: I'm helping No2ID out at the Alternative Hustings at St Augustine's: http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=31617 There's also one on Wednesday, for those of us who are lucky enough to live in Edinburgh North and Leith. There's a full-ish list of local hustings here: http://www.scotlink.org/public/support/Elections.php Miles -- A woman may need a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but a woman needs a bicycle a lot more than a fish needs a man. -- Helen Nightingale From perl at minty.org Tue Apr 27 01:43:42 2010 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:43:42 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> Message-ID: <20100427084342.GP5776@minty.org> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote: > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we > will be having a Heretics Meeting. I propose to be Heretical by > suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. Anyone else > want to be Heretical with me? We have friends visiting from Obama-land ... will try and align the two, but may be I have to skip the pub :( From robrwo at gmail.com Wed Apr 28 10:03:52 2010 From: robrwo at gmail.com (Robert Rothenberg) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:03:52 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: <20100427084342.GP5776@minty.org> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> <20100427084342.GP5776@minty.org> Message-ID: <4BD86A78.7050607@gmail.com> On 27/04/10 09:43 Murray wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote: >> There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we >> will be having a Heretics Meeting. I propose to be Heretical by >> suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. Anyone else >> want to be Heretical with me? Not sure that I can make it tomorrow. From perl at aaroncrane.co.uk Thu Apr 29 06:05:57 2010 From: perl at aaroncrane.co.uk (Aaron Crane) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:05:57 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> Message-ID: Chris Yocum wrote: > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we will be having a Heretics Meeting. ?I propose to be Heretical by suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. ?Anyone else want to be Heretical with me? I should be there from about 7:30pm. -- Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/ From miles at assyrian.org.uk Thu Apr 29 09:02:25 2010 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:02:25 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> Message-ID: <20100429160225.GK7108@assyrian.org.uk> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:05:57PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote: > Chris Yocum wrote: > > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we > > will be having a Heretics Meeting. ?I propose to be Heretical by > > suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. ?Anyone else > > want to be Heretical with me? So it turns out that this hustings is an hour longer than yer normal hustings, and won't finish before 2130; given packing-away time, the earliest I'll make it to the pub is 2200. If you leave before then, could someone text me so I don't make the trek out to Stockbridge in vain? Miles. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso From perl at minty.org Thu Apr 29 09:27:00 2010 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:27:00 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> Message-ID: <20100429162700.GO5776@minty.org> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote: > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we > will be having a Heretics Meeting. I propose to be Heretical by > suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. Anyone else > want to be Heretical with me? I should be there ... not entirely sure when, but probably 6.30-7.00 ish. We'll be wandering down the water of leith from roseburn ... Probably won't be staying too long ... I was at Glasgow airport this morning for 7.30 ... which is before I normally find myself awake. From cyocum at gmail.com Thu Apr 29 09:35:22 2010 From: cyocum at gmail.com (Chris Yocum) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:35:22 +0100 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] Heretics Pub? In-Reply-To: <20100429160225.GK7108@assyrian.org.uk> References: <20100425224931.GA4940@belldandy> <20100429160225.GK7108@assyrian.org.uk> Message-ID: <20100429163521.GC5084@belldandy> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:02:25PM +0100, Miles Gould wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:05:57PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote: > > Chris Yocum wrote: > > > There seems to be an extra Thursday this month, which means that we > > > will be having a Heretics Meeting. ?I propose to be Heretical by > > > suggesting we go to the Stockbridge Tap in Stockbridge. ?Anyone else > > > want to be Heretical with me? > > So it turns out that this hustings is an hour longer than yer normal > hustings, and won't finish before 2130; given packing-away time, the > earliest I'll make it to the pub is 2200. If you leave before then, > could someone text me so I don't make the trek out to Stockbridge in > vain? > > Miles. Sure no problem! Chris -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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