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Robot drawing exercise does not live up to undergraduate expectations (Rousse)

Posted on October 31, 2026 by Dreamaticus

I was running out of ideas for filling the time in my Knowledge Management class. In desperation, I asked the students to draw the robot that appeared in a piece of fiction that I had asked the class members to … Continue reading →

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National award for mirror software (Rousse)

Posted on October 21, 2026 by Dreamaticus

While I had been attending exercise classes then collecting left-over scraps of Christmas wrapping paper and traybakes, LM programmed with her grandson A. Not long afterwards we learnt that LM had won a national award for app. Everyone was super-excited … Continue reading →

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Investing in Walker’s early works (Rousse)

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Dreamaticus

P and SM’s latest holiday adventure was a month long trip to Northumberland via New York, Valencia, and the art galleries of London. At AF’s request, in London P and SM had bought several small scraps of sugar paper covered … Continue reading →

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Contributing to a Media and Cultural Studies compilation in Canada (Rousse)

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Dreamaticus

I had only volunteered to review a couple of papers, so it came as a shock to be told that everyone taking part in the compilation of the book was also expected to write a chapter on a relevant theoretical … Continue reading →

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Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and the lyrics to ‘Yellow submarine’ (Rousse)

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Dreamaticus

Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon agreed to make a personal appearance at a tiny independent book shop. As one of its regular customers, I was invited to meet the two former Beatles. McCartney entered the room first. He was … Continue reading →

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Ideas for a four star toilet (Rousse)

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Dreamaticus

For a restaurant that had aspirations for 4* status, the ladies lavatories needed much attention. My suggestions for improvement included: Placing toilet paper inside the cubicles, rather than glueing individual rations onto the cubicle doors with sticking plasters. Widening the … Continue reading →

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A London love affair (Rousse)

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Dreamaticus

My mother-in-law pulled the sodden scrap of paper out of the stream, glanced at it, and quietly passed it to her husband. ‘That explains a lot. Now, at last, we know for certain what X has been up to!’ he … Continue reading →

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Check your junk mail folder (Rousse)

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Dreamaticus

I felt obliged to pass on the news to LM that her conference paper was not, in fact, rejected. Rather, it had been warmly welcomed by the programme committee and already published in the conference proceedings. Unfortunately, however, there was … Continue reading →

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(More) conference confusion (Rousse)

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Dreamaticus

My sister S drove the rickety old grey Land Rover. Her passengers were my other sister, her husband, their daughter, and their daughter’s partner. They carried hardly any luggage having ‘gone minimal’ after their recent house clearance experiences. This meant … Continue reading →

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Peril in a pram, a phony pellet of paper, and political editor Chris Mason (Rousse)

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Dreamaticus

From a distance we could see a baby’s head hanging loosely out of the back of its pram. Its mother, who was pushing the pram along the edge of the dual carriageway, obviously mistook our calls as friendly greetings when … Continue reading →

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