SirKut's Stuff

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  • Circumcision

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    When our son was born, each day at least one nurse would ask us if we were going to have him circumcised.  Daily.  Occassionally a doctor would ask, but I am sure it’s just so they would have a rough idea of their workload for their current shift.  But the nurses…a different nurse each time,…

  • A new life

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    Babies are an odd occurrence in daily life. You see them everywhere, you hear them everywhere. All your friends are either parents or in the process of trying to get pregnant. For years you tell yourself ‘no, I will not have a kid’. Your mother picks on you to produce an heir in the hopes…

  • folding@home

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    Some of my readers will have heard of SETI – the search for ET by using lots of radioscopes to monitor radio waves for predictable patterns, in the hope of finding alien life somewhere in the universe. The SETI institute has a program for home users to donate their computer’s processing power to help crunch…

  • Generations

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    In early June 2008 my wife and I were surprised with the (early) birth of our son. We had expected him to arrive at the end of June, but the great expert doctors decided that an early birth would suit everyone a lot better.

  • Bugger

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    Bugger is one of the high ranking words of decent, and indecent, English. Depending on the context it’s even more flexible than Annie Sprinkle. Bugger can be used to swear at someone, curse, describe your own mood, describe something as broken and even describe a sexual act of the most depraved kind. Which may happen…