So, here's the story of my Valentine's Day ( Read more... )

Well, I'm very flattered ( Read more... )

I was walking along last night, on the pavement by the side of a busy road. There's nothing unusual about that. Indeed, another man -- a man who I didn't know -- also had the same idea to walk on the same bit of pavement by the side of that same busy road ( Read more... )

When I asked a student to explain why he was ten minutes late to class today, he told me it was because his toe had snapped ( Read more... )

There's a new guy who's moved into the room next to mine, which means that the crazy idiot that used to be there has moved out. But that means that somebody else is now being bothered by my snoring.

So here is the text of a note that was passed under my door at the end of last week.Sorry to complain -- I know you can't help it, but I've been woken ( Read more... )

Okay, my new blogging policy. I'm going to write something on the days that something happened that I might want to remember. I'm not going to force myself to come up with something every day because that seems a bit silly. And I'm not going to finish off by mentioning Deal or No Deal any more because that's even sillier. Okay ( Read more... )

I think I'm tired of writing this blog. It's not that I don't have things I could be writing about; it's just that I'm not sure I want to write about those things publicly any more. So maybe I'll just stop.

And then maybe I'll start again to tell you that Teresa won thirty grand on Deal or No Deal. Goodbye.

One of the reasons why I prefer playing board games to video games is the fact that with board games you handle stuff. Real, physical stuff. Chunky components made out of wood and actually shaped a bit like the thing it's supposed to represent (sometimes). You move these things around in front of you and it feels good. Not like pressing a few ( Read more... )

You must have listened to ¡Dos! by now, yes? It's the second Green Day album to come out this autumn and the great news is there's another one on the way in January. What a great world we live in.

So what do you think about the third song, Stop When The Red Lights Flash? Does your brain do what mine does and get very confused by the intro? I keep ( Read more... )

To all maths students everywhere, but particularly to my maths students ( Read more... )