If bad luck comes in threes...

Aawww, Nick, why didn't you tell me about these fantasies before?

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Bummer.
If'n you fancy a wbo jetting round t' whirled fixing huge motor
drives, I know where there are 4 going. No chance of getting
published, or famous, mind.

 

IRTA 'revolving leotard' and the image was no less disturbing. Maybe
slightly more so.

 

Thanks, I'll save that for posteriority. I've had some official
events where I've done "outreach" but I don't think I've had more success
educating the public than on these two newsgroups. Hard to quantify for a
performance review, thobut... (Especially if the reviewers don't ride
motorcycle sheds!)

[Note to self: email Jim Al-Khalili in the morning]

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Do that. This world needs more eccentric scientists with motorbikes, IME.

 

Or scientists with eccentric motorbikes.

 

Arse indeed. That's more than a bit shit, Ivan. Elly's employers have
suffered cuts and so will dispense with her services in March, but
October's a bit close to the bone, old man!

I'm sure something will turn up: perhaps not Bosun-shaped, but
something, eh?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

Yebbut, it's an exceedingly fine line between yer "eccentric" scientist,
as is all charming and amusing and whatnot, and yer actual "mad"
scientist, as wants to genetically modify the ozone layer using a black
hole with a mouse's ear growing on it.

And I, for one, cannot state with certainty which side of the
aforementioned line our Doctor falls.

Not with certainty, I can't.

 

I've seen him fall, but couldn't tell you which side of the line. It
wash all a bit bluurrred by then, shee?

 

I don't remember meslef, except that you and I were on opposite
sides, and Ellie wasn't on my side. <story of my life/>

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Yah, I'll survive. Savings enough for several years.

There are interesting jobs on the websites I've visted so far
(tho' Oxford is pushing it as a commute). There's a meeting of my old
field of expertise in Oxon in Sept, so I might try to activate the Old
Boys' Network there.

I'm not panicking yet.

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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Ah, the OBN. That's the way forward, Ivan.

Neither should you. It'll all turn out for the best, as my old Granny
used to tell me - excepting the mangle incident, but we never mentioned
that, never.

 

Well, no, grannies and mangles never did go well together. The one
time gramps got something caught in the mangle, well that was altogether
eyewateringly different!

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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

else thread has mentioned e-s so I shall not.

Oh jolly bad luck and all that.

As long as you don't lose it down a black hole.

Oh now that's a reall bummer.

hang on that's 4 things.

 

If it is any help, a mate of mine here works for a company that finds
work for engineers. www.enginuitypeople.com.au I'm about to go out to
the pub with him (wot with it being night-time over here) and happy to
pass on recommendations if you want.

 

Thanks, Kev. I've dropped a line to a good friend who just happens
to be head of the Physics Dept at Newcastle; I'll see what comes out of that.

<checks website>
They appear to be more "real" engineers than anything I've dealt with.
</cw>

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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".

 

Oh that's a major bummer.

P.S. why didn't I get any messages in this thread prior to Kevin's?

 

Ivan's blackholed you.

Fear the Doctor's finger!

 

Please don't. I've already puked twice this morning thanks to the cat
shitting all over the utility room floor. There must've been a coyote
or something sat by the catflap when she wanted to go out in the night.

 

Commiserations

I thought I was safe on a two-year rolling

Some, of course, would regard that as a sterling silver lining.....but
probably not when unplanned.