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Adventures in engineering: March 2006

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Friday, March 31, 2006. Home of the brave? It may be the land of the free, but it certainly isn't free to enter. Perhaps because of its perceived desirability to immigrants, who think the country will provide a better standard of living than anywhere else, the entry requirements to the USA are (dare I say it? Ludicrously onerous. I've heard stories of people being deported as soon as they arrived in the States because of previously overstaying their visa. Of course there was the story about. I bought my ...

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Adventures in engineering: November 2005

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005. Anton Bruckner Choir concert. Recently, it would be fascinating to be able to go back in time just to see how different London was before the Great Fire. The concert began with three unaccompanied motets by Bruckner:. These were beautifully and sensitively sung, particularly. Which because of its brevity and relative simplicity, can sometimes sound routine, the singers knowing it almost by heart. Certain moments in. The main work, Brahms'. Posted by Tamburlaine @ 6:20 pm.

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The Adventures Of The Blind Flaneur: June 2006

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The Adventures Of The Blind Flaneur. In search of a raison d'être. Friday, June 30, 2006. The Rape of the Locks. I feel like a new man. But as David Icke and Michael Jackson will testify, new men are not necessarily improved. As you’ll probably have gathered, I made it to the hairdressers eventually, via a queue that extended to the wonderful (if skin-pockingly, I-need-a-cold-beer-NOW-Goran-NOW-if-I’m-not-to-shrivel-up-and-die, hot) Croatia.*. So, was it worth the wait? Except, of course, it’s not green.

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Warning: Rants likely for at least 5 paragraphs: June 2006

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Warning: Rants likely for at least 5 paragraphs. Friday, June 30, 2006. The most frightening thing I can thing of. At work yesterday, my friend (and frequently saviour-of-sanity) gave me a copy of the Independent. Within, I found the most lucid expression of fears and anxieties I've been harbouring for some time. Please, please, please read this article. You can find it at:. Http:/ news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1129827.ece. Posted by corin @ 3:24 pm. Tuesday, June 20, 2006. And tomorrow, ther...

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Adventures in engineering: August 2006

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Thursday, August 24, 2006. And include all sorts of landmarks, streets and onshore stuff; whereas Admiralty Charts pooh-pooh the land (except where there might be a couple of tall chimneys) as being fit only for land-lubbers, and lovingly detail every change in the sea bed, showing where lights, wrecks and pipelines run. But geological maps are the best, because they're. So here's Tamburlaine's guide for interpreting geological maps:. Igneous rocks - usually bright reds, pinks and lime green colours;.

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Adventures in engineering: January 2006

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Monday, January 30, 2006. Blenheim: the battle for Europe - Charles Spencer. Indiscretion - Jude Morgan. My Lord John - Georgette Heyer. If you don't like unfinished works, this is not the book for you, as the recent re-issue stops midway through a sentence. If you can cope with that, however, read it in conjunction with Anya Seton's. Set at a slightly earlier time, for a contrasting viewpoint of this period. Posted by Tamburlaine @ 5:29 pm. Wednesday, January 11, 2006. The world's favourite airline?

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Warning: Rants likely for at least 5 paragraphs: November 2006

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Warning: Rants likely for at least 5 paragraphs. Sunday, November 26, 2006. With Billy south of the equator, Other Housemate and I are bereft of some of the stranger conversations that usually occur here in out little corner of West London. Filling these gaps has, inevitably involved some extra drinking and I naturally assumed this was the cause when I was asked earlier, "Do you think Captain Janeway is a bit smug? I am an unashamed geek, having forgotten more about Doctor Who. Episode, countless Batman.

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Adventures in engineering: September 2006

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Friday, September 29, 2006. Jupiter’s passed through Orion and coming to conjunction with Mars;. Saturn is wheeling through infinite space to its pre-ordained place in the stars;. And I gaze at the planets in wonder, at the trouble and time they expend. All to warn me to be careful in dealings involving a friend. Yet another song from. At the drop of another hat. In an issue a couple of weeks ago. mocked Jonathan Cainer’s. Predictions regarding the re-classification of Pluto. Wednesday, September 27, 2006.