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Andy!!!!!!!!
He guessed that indeed Percivial was a mouse - here are some pics of him.
It was a bit silly of me to try and keep the poor little thing but Hydrogen droped him at my feet and looked at me all expectantly and I picked him up and fell in love. I was worried that he would have internal injuries but he seemed fine.
The cats wouldn't allow us to release him just hounding him out again so we put him Brocclys old cage and shut the cats out of the room. He seemed happy with his new home but deleyed shock unfortunatly got him. We thought he was ok he had even made little caches of food and a little nest.
The burial rite was a bit of farst though as it was supposed to be a viking burial but his boat capsized and sunk :/ (comedy then insued as we tried to get him to float away involving long garden impliments and much we shouldn't laugh.)
When I filled in the application forms to be a cub scout leader, I was faced with a problem. There was a little box, long enough for one or two words, called something like "Religion".
The notes explained that having some kind of idea of spirituality was a prerequisite for involvement, which I agreed with; I think that many people these days, rejecting the interesting creation Christianity has evolved into over the past couple of thousand years, have gone rather too far to the opposite extreme, adopting materialism and nihilism.
But I'm afraid I don't have any simple "religion" that I can write a name for in that short a space. If I had to summarise my philosophy of life, I think I'd have to write "Fundamentalist Taoism with influences from Chaos Magick and Fight Club". Which (a) wouldn't fit in that space and (b) might lead people to ask if I'm trying to be funny.
So I panicked and wrote "Methodist", because that's what my wife had put on hers...
But it got me thinking: "What is the most concise description of my philosophy of the world I can write, that won't still require further explanation?". So here's a stab at it.
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Sorry I haven't posted for ages - Percival died so I was a bit sad but I will post with pictures about him.
Not to mention the Wiggly Pet winner 😀
Efficiency is a major goal for programmers. It used to be a much bigger goal; once upon a time, it was a struggle to fit useful applications into machines with 1MHz clocks, which took several clock cycles to perform basic operations on 16-bit values. You had to optimise even quite basic algorithms to get them to complete in acceptable timeframes.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the available computing power and memory for running an application exploded, but the sizes of data sets people wanted to work with grew in step. Now people wanted to word process documents with large images. Or keep databases of EVERYTHING. So efficiency was still a big concern for application programmers. But the focus began to shift.
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I now have two whole fans of my guitar playing, one of them is Alaric and well... ok look he thinks everything I do is great and the other one is Jean.
Yes - Jean, she adores it and even asks for more, unfortunalty she prefers my punk and thrash metal versions of things which is unfortunate as they are what I do (badly) when I can't actually play the song but she seems to think they are the best things ever!
So far in the percivial compertition we have established that Percivial is a:
Vertibrate
Quadraped
Terrestrial (land animal)
Warm Blooded
Has Live young
Mammalian
Todays clue is that it is soft and furry and small.
Carry on guessing and asking questions remember there is a wiggly pet to be won!
Animals | sarah | 
Fri 4th May 2007 11:04 am | 
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