This account of Terry Pratchet talking at the University of East Anglia was written for a now-defunct university website. For other contemporaneous accounts, read Concrete Issue 119. Terence Eden - 2017 Everything I learned - I learned at my local library. School taught me how to spit! Terry Pratchett is Britain's best selling living author. With total sales of 18 million books (21 million after a manual recount) it is fair to say that this guy is popular. A packed LT1 awaited him as…
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As I was digging around some ancient back-up CDs, I happened across some of my early web pages. Way back in the mists of time, I was a member of the UEA Peace Society. As well as organising talk on campus, we occasionally went on protests. This page records the protest we took to Lakenheath - a local US military encampment.As far as I can tell, this was part of the Citizens' Weapons Inspection project.So, here it is, in all its unedited glory. I wonder where you all are now? Protest at…
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This is a necropost - resurrected from an ancient cassette tape. While I was studying at Carleton University in Canadaland, I joined the prestigious(?) Sock n Buskin theatre troupe. Together with "Where's the Soup", we put on an "Improv Superbowl". Basically a team version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" The director - Jenny - and I went on LIVE RADIO to promote our show to all of Ottawa. Somehow, that got recorded onto cassette, and then transferred to an old computer of mine. Here's our…
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This is a necropost - resurrected from one of my ancient sites - detailing some of my year studying in Canada. Hullo - finally got round to putting my pics up. There not all wonderful, I can't remember what half of them are, but they are here anyway. All the pages have lots and lots of pictures, so you might want to go and brew a nice steaming mug of Bovril as each one loads. Lots of love (void where prohibited) Note to all persons who in any way understand computers:- Right, listen up. …
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This is a necropost - resurrected from one of my ancient sites - detailing some of my year studying in Canada. 17/09/1999 "Terry - you coming to Montreal with us this afternoon?" "uh...yeah..?" A quick stop by the bank to see how they had lost my $1000 (a long winded and most distressing story) and we were set to go. A 2 hour bus ride took me, Jas, Dave, Nicola, Alison, Ingrid, Monique and Tianna to the heart of Montreal - which, it turns out, is sex town. The hostel we booked said they…
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This is a necropost. Written, I think, in preparations for mock A-Levels and recently found on an old backup disk. People in our 6th Form were always sticking up funny lists and weird humorous print-outs found on the nascent WWW. This was either my attempt to relieve the pressure of endless revision - or just a way to distract myself from the stress of exams. I heartedly endorse all of the following tips for a successful exam. Fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up,…
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This is a Necropost. Dug up from deep within the archives - my letter was published in issue 65 of PC Format. I was a massive nerd in 1997 - and huge fan of PC Format magazine. So I turned to them when needing advice on upgrading my computer. I've no idea why I didn't post this on Usenet or CompuServe! Huge thanks to Chris Chapman for finding a copy in the archives! …
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This is a necropost. It was written in 1995 - presumably for a GCSE History assignment. I found it recently on a backup disk. As far as possible I've preserved the original spelling and formatting. I think we had been asked to interview someone about their experiences of the second world war. My great uncle had written a book about his time in the army but, ever the contrarian, I decided to interview my great aunt instead. She lived a full and interesting life - and I frequently miss her. …
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Another necropost! My brother and I sent in loads of video-game tips to Sega Magazine in the hope that they would be published and, thus, immortalise us.I've no idea if this one ever made it - but it survived on an old backup disk, so I'm republishing it in the hope someone will appreciate these amazing(?) tips. Sega Magazine, Emap Images, Priory Ct, Farringdon Lane, London, EC1R 3AU Yo SM, Wayhey kinky name huh (S&M)? Anyway to business:- I hold in my possession a tip, not just any tip, …
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This is a necropost - written in 1993 and recently found on an old backup disk. I spent two delightful weeks in France and, apparently, kept something of a diary. I was never good at introspection - so this mostly reflects what I actually did, rather than how I felt. I remember being shocked that the teachers wanted to see what we'd written - I thought I was amusing myself, but I got a bollocking for not taking the exercise seriously! The "humour" is the sort of childish nonsense that I've yet …
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Another necropost! I found this proto-blog post in amongst a collection of photos. I don't know the exact date it was written - mid-eighties around Christmas. As you can see, my spelling has slightly improved in the last few years. on friday we went to the natural histire musem and the first thing we saw was a dipldocos. and we asked someone if the woole maeesth was on dspla but it was not on dspla so we looked at the trisatops and we wathed a film about dinosaws and ther andsitrs in bay one…
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