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2011-09-23 (Friday)

Links

  1. The Army Rumour Service

    Next in my occasional series titled “I love good forums dedicated to particular careers.” This one’s about the British army. (via Soldier Systems)

Tweets

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @caxtonian Leap years in different years are slightly tricky too, as I’m sure you know :)

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    @caxtonian Yeah, 1668. I think there have been one or two other empty days in the past, but I forget when now.

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    @maryloosemore Ooh, what did you get?

  • philgyford’s avatar

    A little present from the 17th century: ‘In this part of the "Diary" no entry occurs for thirteen days...’

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    @billder @moleitau We’ll need the ‘Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations’ pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/…

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Mood somewhat lifted by @fixcoffee playing the Velvet Underground this morning.

    Islington, England, United Kingdom