Interesting thought for the day: I gather that the Japanese kanji for 'spicy' or 'hot' (as in currys), 辛, is the same as for 'painful', not in the sense of physical pain but rather in the sense of being emotionally trying, or even heartbreaking. Wiktionary tells me the ideogram depicts some form of cutlery, so it could be one of those very far ( Read more... )

Alton towers was fun. There's nothing quite like being shot out of a railgun at 13m/s/s ( Read more... )

I have decided what I will do if I win the lottery. Or rather, since I don't play the lottery, I have decided what I will do if I somehow come into possession of a very large sum of cash ( Read more... )

So I'm back home after The End Of University Year Three, I guess ( Read more... )

T minus two days until everything ends. Am sitting at my nice window seat at the BFL considering how crazy it is that it seems barely a month since the BFL at the end of last year. Regardless of how much I seem to have accomplished over the past year (which is a fair amount), the time has just flown by ( Read more... )

Conclusion on the Real Ale Festival: spiggin' awesome. Managed to be in attendence two days out of three; had anyone told me that the folkies were performing on Thursday it would almost certainly have been a three-day c-c-c-comboooo ( Read more... )

Last Friday was the ever-nice Burns' Night which Andy had generously invited me round for, so I obligingly egressed at about six, haggis in hand (vegetarian at that - it seemed worth a try ( Read more... )

The union had quite rudely decided to follow good business practice and shut up shop for the holidays starting today, so our last game of DDR for the year was apparently off. Zed0 suggested that we go rock climbing instead, and I acquiesced on the grounds that it would be fun to try at least once ( Read more... )

I'm back into writing journal entries again, but I'm finding that it's sometimes with slightly more candour and in a less of a fashion that's deliberately stylised to be entertaining this time 'round. So while I'm fairly happy for anyone who wants to to read of my many escapades, I'd also like to know who is doing so ( Read more... )

So, for the past week or so, I've been involved in a game run by the university Assassin's Guild. For those who haven't heard of the game, it involves being given a list of names and addresses of targets which you should use to track them down and 'kill' them (read: poke with an item of stationery or squirt with a water pistol). There are plenty of ( Read more... )