If bad luck comes in threes...

....then what's going to hit me next?

Firstly I lost my news-swerver. Which means I've also lost all my
unread posts because there's no way to synchronise between the departed
Brunel swerver and this one I'm test-driving.

Then I lost my job. I thought I was safe on a two-year rolling
grant but apparently the possibility of grant cuts from Swindon Town
Football Club is so great that Brunel can't renew my contract on October
1st. So, no Higgs discovery for me[1], and mebbe I'll be going back to Oz
earlier than I thought.

So what am I going to lose next, my virginity?

I'm going to have to change my .sig.

[1] Unless they find it before October 1st, 2012, when my signing rights
for CMS papers will expire.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
Gizza job, mista?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

That sucks, mate.

Fingers crossed for you.

 

Thought they were shutting up shop for most of 2012 anyway? Or would
there be backlogs of data to analyse?

 

Keep hanging in there and remember to smile it confuses the hell out
of the bastards.

Boxerboy

 

Arse


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I have had this happen often enough that I just view all posts as
unthreaded, read all the ones newer than the date I lost the server
access that I'm interested in, then let that Mark guy do the reading for
the rest. Then re-do the threading. YMMV, of course....

Not good. OTOH, you may be getting back just in time for Summer barbies.

No predictions on that. <G>

 

NNTP is ephemeral, so adjust yourself to absent posts. It's no biggie.

Oh, arse. This is bad news.

Err... find a hooker while you can afford one.

 

Well, as one girl once said to me, "I've lost my virginity but I
still have the box it came in!"

 

That'll be a dose of clap for No3 then.

 

Now is *not* the time to start playing rugby.

 

Arse. Sorry to hear that.

 

Thanks, extended to all others who offered sympathy. There are a
few possibilities on the horizon, but I never count my chickens until they
are well and truly in the bag. I've only scanned a couple of websites so
far, but there are several possibilities there too -- if anyone will look
at someone my age! (younger than auvache, older than TOG)

I was going to spend this weekend bashing out an objection to the
house the council want to abut onto my gardens; I might have to update my
CV instead.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Revenge is a dish that is best served very far away, you know.

 

Oh hooter; sorry to hear that. I hope you find something arj soon.

 

Bummer.

Of course, if you can get the Hadron Collider to turn back time, you
could change all this.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

Heh!

<Ivan's finger hovers over large red button marked "Really Big Black
Hole">

Oh, sod it...

<CLICK>

 

Fingers crossed.

We had no luck when we tried to object to the same thing. I'd do your CV
instead.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

Oh, bum.

 

Yeah, but I get to keep the taupe one.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Thanks, I've now got an image of Ivan leaping about on a battleship in
a wig, leather jacket and revealing leotard.