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Don

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I write bedtime stories for machines.I live with an elderly cat; it's like being married to a tiny woolly midget.I collect skulls and antique medical equipment.I also draw. As evidenced below.

Stuffed Crow Assemblage

Anteater-headed Assemblage

The Origin of Thought

Dolphin Skull Assemblage

Schlitzie

My Interests

antique medical devices, antique medical furniture, ARCH processes, Archimedes' spiral, ARIMA models, Aristotle's lantern, Bayesian games, bdsm, birds, bitterness, cheap talk, circus freaks, coloured noise, crows, deviance, Dorre, drawing, Dürer, Edward Teller, Edwardian architecture, Einstürzende Neubauten, elephant seals, empathetic preferences, engravings, fixed point theorems, Friedrich Ruysch, game theory, handmade shoes and suitings, Jena, John Heartfield, Ilizarov frames, John Harsanyi, John Nash, Jugendstil, Ken Binmore, Klee engravings, Klein bottles, Klimt, knot theory, latex, Leonora Carrington, magyars, mathematical economics, medical fetish, Max Brodel, Mensur, Mervyn Peake, microcephalics, nuclear winter, pickled punks, pink gins, programming SAS, programming STATA, quasi-Newton methods, Reinhardt Selten, SAS, Schmisse, skulls, soft fronted shirtings, Spieltheorie, Stalin, Stalingrad, STATA, tattoos, tropical diseases, white noise, Wodehouse, Wunderkabineten

I'd like to meet:

Microcephalics please. Or Ken Binmore again.

Music:

:wumpscut:, Assemblage 23, Cure, Einstürzende Neubauten, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Funkervogt, New Order, Nurse With Wound, PiL, Sisters of Mercy, Test Dept., Throbbing Gristle, VnV Nation

Movies:

Blood of the Beasts, City of Lost Children, Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, Sexy Beast, Stalingrad, Stroszek

Television:

No thanks

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Books:

art monographs, game theory texts, philosophy of mathematics books, SAS programming books, statistics texts, I also collect antique medical texts (especially Saunders' Medical Hand-Atlases)

Heroes:

John Nash

My Blog

The Bishop

Yesterday, I took my slowly dying car to my regular mechanic and as I pulled up, I was treated to the sight of a chap dressed in a lime green zoot-suit of sorts, a cane, a sequined green trilby and st...
Posted by Don on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:07:00 PST

most toothsome

Delicious (?) seal meat curry is a popular treat in Japan apparantly. Will those crazy Japanese stop at nothing to keep me amused with their antics? ...
Posted by Don on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

scam-o-rama

    I was pleased to receive this afternoon the ludicrous scam email that I attach below>>>>>                &n...
Posted by Don on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:57:00 PST

Beard of bees

I'm curious as the origin of this fine phenomenon. Who, I wonder, was the first apiarist to "wear" (I suppose that's the word used by cogniscienti) a beard of his wards? I further wonder whether, if t...
Posted by Don on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:18:00 PST

a shame

"In 2002, Fred began to dig a replica coal mine in the back garden of hisGrade II  listed house in Bolton. He had already assembled the wooden pithead gear, and was planning to sink a 70-100ft sh...
Posted by Don on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:04:00 PST

Texas

I've just arrived in Dallas. Everyone here is quite insane. At Dallas-Fort Worth Airport I was disturbed greatly to see a sinister-looking elderly Asian man wearing a ten gallon hat. 
Posted by Don on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:22:00 PST

Dogs are restricted from the capital city due to unappealing odour.

As President-for-Life of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov issued many controversial and unusual decrees:In April 2001, ballet and opera were banned after Niyazov felt they were "unnecessary ... not a ...
Posted by Don on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:43:00 PST

Ah

Your results:You are Dr. DoomDr. Doom 86%Lex Luthor 82%Poison Ivy 73%The Joker 72%Apocalypse 71%Dark Phoenix 70%Magneto 69%Riddler 68%Mr. Freeze 67%Juggernaut 61%Green Goblin 57%Catwoman 50%Venom 46%M...
Posted by Don on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

"I'm the Bishop of Southwark, it's what I do."

One of the most senior bishops in the Church of England faced his congregation yesterday sporting a black eye after admitting that he could not remember being "mugged" following a drinks reception at ...
Posted by Don on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:32:00 PST

They will protest if they see another monkey get paid more for the same task.

Monkeys show sense of justice --> --> --> --> By Dr David Whitehouse ...
Posted by Don on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:42:00 PST