Back in Brum

I've just finished moving all of my stuff back from Reading to Birmingham, via a large van hired especially for the occasion and I've come to a very definite conclusion.

I Have Far Too Much Crap

Some of the stuff I moved back from Reading to Birmingham hadn't actually gotten unpacked during the entire year I lived there (though, when I saw it again, it looked quite cool, so I didn't throw it away...whoops). On top of this unwillingness to dispose of anything I own, I've also spent the year getting paid and accumulating a vast range of things I don't really need but would quite like.

Clothes were the worst. It was estimated at one point that the amount of cardboard box space taken to pack my clothes would barely have sufficed for one girl's shoe collection. Nightmare. It probably doesn't help that I probably have more Microsoft branded clothes than the average person has clothes...anyone want a really cool t-shirt for Christmas?

Now then, time to unpack all of my very heavy stuff from the van, and then try to fit it all into a room that's a fair bit smaller than the one it wouldn't all fit into in Reading. See you in another two days...

Two new graphs

I've discovered that Twitter is actually a great way to get a feed of updated content from a few sites I'm into, and is something I'll check a lot more often than the latest RSS reader to have taken my fancy. Pity there's not a lot of folks who publish their RSS out to tweets with TinyURLs.

One site that does however, is my beloved GraphJam ("Pop culture for people in cubicles") - and after a downhill slope from them, I've come across these two that I really love.

The first is just another simple song-based graph, which I find oddly compelling. Possibly just because I love the song:



The second however, is an absolute masterpiece. It's quite a badly drawn representation of one of my favourite illusions, but you get the idea.


_{Title: Multivariate increase of MC Escher's popularity}

The most amusing part of this however, is to be found in the comments section:

NangyCat
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 am

"I do not get.
MC Esher … rapper?"

I love the internet. You can subscribe to GraphJam's Feed yourself, or if you're feeling particularly trendy, you can have your own RSS syndicated out to tweets with TwitterFeed.

Enjoy :)