This morning I glanced out of my lab window (actually, it wasn't my lab, my lab has windows, I was working in somebody else's as they weren't using it and I needed some of their stuff. Go-Go-Ghetto science) and saw a cluster of builders sitting on a partially constructed wall enjoying a morning coffee. It's not an unusual sight, well, perhaps it is ( Read more... )

What exactly is protocol when a girl totally catches you in the wrong? Excuses? Grovelling? Running away? I don't know.

Let me tell you a story. Actually, I think you all knew a story was coming. I don't think that I'm in the habit of just spouting out such questions without going off on a long and largely irrelevant ramble which ends suddenly and ( Read more... )

The Sun came out in the UK recently. So shirtless men wander the streets, people sweat and generally nobody is happy. Complaining about the weather is a national hobby and we choose to partake regardless of the conditions outside. Hot, cold, rainy, dry, snowy, hail, it simply doesn't matter. We'll complain.

I'm no different. It is possibly genetic. ( Read more... )

It could be the organic solvents in my brain, the crushing sauna like heat of my office or maybe a stroke, but I've had an idea. An idea which I'm going to share with you as a part of my new scheme of actually posting in my blog more often.

My idea is simple, it takes the best element from beavers/rainbows/scouts/cubs/etc. and combines it with ( Read more... )

There are those who say Nestlé are an evil company. Forcing children to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before they go to bed, eating only a lump of cold poison all day long, working twenty-nine hours a day down the chocolate mine, and then paying Nestlé for permission to come to work, and when they get home, their Dad ( Read more... )

Sometimes I realise that my drunken adventures are hardly typical. Typical being getting into fights and waking up with strangers, I suppose. I like to think I'm winning. Now, I'm no fool, I realise that ninety-nine out of a hundred plans formed in the pub will never amount to anything. Usually these tend to be squash matches and the like ( Read more... )

...sadly I don't have a dictaphone or a PA so it just looks like I'm delivering impromptu monologues in public. And quite a few of these revolve around the strange swimming related sights I've come across. The moral is that I don't say these things as I never seem to find the time, I should really try and get at least a weekly posts of my ( Read more... )

1. In his desk at work, he has put a bunch of bananas in the second drawer
   down. Forgetting about these will result in some kind of horrid mulch
   forming that will be good for the physics chimps, but not good for his
   working environment (physics chimps tend to create a large amount of noise
   and mess).
   
2. Most ear bud ( Read more... )

Excellent Name For a Pet Jellyfish: Sir Ouchington

No, not another straight (gay) couple in the changing rooms. Not another old man playing with himself. Not enough pack of girls who just hang out in the pool taking up space. Oh no, but something equally mundane ( Read more... )