I really hate it when I look at someone and think, perfectly genuinely, something which I then realise is totally a chat-up line.

At the Calling tonight there was a girl who I kept looking at and wondering ‘now who does she remind me of?’. But, of course, if I'd gone up to her and asked ‘Excuse me, do I know you? I'm sure I recognise you from somewhere’, that would have been approximately the oldest chat-up line in the book, and I'd have had a very small chance of actually finding out what I wanted to know, compared to either getting slapped or (I suppose) accidentally pulling her :-)

Fortunately, I figured it out in the end and didn't have to bother her about it. Phew.

Oh yes, and I've just added some more Stuff to my website. It's now getting to the point where I might have to fiddle with the front page so that it has a usable index; all this chatty text introducing each of my subpages is fine if you're reading it because you want to know about me, but even I'm increasingly finding it a pain when I actually want to find a specific page.

Still. For anyone with any interest in polyhedra, or even simply with a desire to look at some pretty pictures or see what weird mathematical things I've been up to recently when I should have been lying on my sofa watching DVDs, you can now go and look at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/polyhedra/.

Now, with any luck, I ought to be able to actually relax for a bit. These momentary obsessions tend to take me over totally for a week or so, but then leave me in peace after that…