Morning all!
I'm very impressed that I'm actually up at this time in the morning. Seeing as it was local election night last night, I stayed up until 3am watching the results come in. Actually, I would have watched for longer, but something went wrong at the BBC and they had to show News 24 for a bit, at about 3, so I decided to go to sleep instead.
It was Maths Dinner last night. Surprisingly, with such a high concentration of mathematicians in one place, the universe seems to continue largely unaffected... And if you're wondering what I was doing at Maths Dinner, it's because there aren't enough Computer Scientists to have their own. Here are some of the many jokes that were bandied around:
Q. Why did the Computer Scientist take forever in the shower?
A. Because he was following the instructions: Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Q. Why do mathematicians rarely visit the beach?
A. Because they have sin and cos to get a tan.
In other news... this morning's 8AM prayer meeting was moved to Dave's room, after someone else had checked out the Graves Room key. Thanks to Second Year Dinner on Wednesday night, we had more people at the prayer meeting than at the main evening meeting!
The two results that affect me (Portsmouth and Oxford) both came out NOC, with the Lib Dems the largest party in both. Most amusing story of the night is the ballot box in Winchester, which caught fire when trying to remove the sealing wax... the Fire Brigade then added water... and we're still waiting for the ballot papers to dry out.
My analysis in a nutshell: A bad night for Blair, though perhaps not as bad as it should have been. A good night for the Tories, though perhaps not as good as it could have been. "Modest gains" for the Lib Dems. And a worrying night for British politics, with 15 BNP councillors elected.
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