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My Latest Stand Up Spot
The weekend before last, I went along to the Rubber Chicken Club and managed to get an open mic spot. Had a great time, the other acts were great and the audience was fantastic, plus they were taking video: -
The Great Swine Flu Conspiracy
This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed home, This little piggy is sneezing, He's got Swine Flu! We're all going to die! Quick, run for the hills, not those hills, the other hills! Agh! Its the end of civilisation as we know it! This is the scenario... -
Why Isn't St. George's Day A Big Deal?
Today is the traditional feast day of St. George, patron saint of England, but for some reason, I haven't been invited to any St. George's day parties, pub outings or given a humourously oversized promotional hat. So the question has to be asked, why isn't today as big a deal as... -
The Power of the Supermarket
We all know the tricks that supermarkets use to get us to buy stuff - pumping the bakery smells into the air conditioning, putting basic items really far apart, or somehow making a 1% discount seem like a massive saving. And we all know how to protect yourself from their... -
Dumb Stuff Not to do in Java: Synchronize on a Boolean
One of the great things about coding is that there're always something new to learn: new techniques, new languages, and possibly most amusing of all, thousands of new ways to screw things up. As a case in point, the other day, I wrote some code that synchronized on a Boolean variable, put out... -
Six Song Lyrics I Just Can't Get My Head Around
Music is a wonderous thing, having the power to induce any emotional state from anger to sorrow, laughter to horror, surprise to that really annoying feeling that you might have left the gas on. Music lets us express ourselves, it can inspire protest, it can even slightly increase the chances... -
Happy Thoughts For Commuters
There is a disease spreading across the Tube network. But it is a pleasant disease. A disease that you'd be happy to take home to your elderly relatives. It is the disease of positive thinking. When I moved to Clapham (almost two years ago now, how time flies), my tube... -
Milky Tea Really *is* a Lifesaver
It's been a bad week for living, apparently, as scientists the world over conspired to ruin more stuff for us by finding out how they might give us cancer. Today, horror of horrors, Iranian scientists discovered that drinking hot tea gives you oesophageal cancer. After helpfully explaining that oesophageal means... -
Resolution Update - Advanced Open Water
Ticked off a third resolution at the weekend, and took the PADI Advanced Open Water course with my local diving club, Big Squid. Had a great, but knackering time (three dives a day for two days takes it out of you it seems). And before anyone says it, here are some pics... -
Health, Darwin and The Agony of Foreknowledge
After a few consecutive posts about my resolution fulfilling antics, I figured it was time for something topical. Unfortunately, skin lotion only has so much comedic potential. So instead I came across another piece of research from the "Common sense, innit?" files. According to a study dug out by the...
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