Kick-Ass. It's looks, smells, and quacks like a superhero movie, but it's actually good. Or is it ( Read more... )

Beware: spoilers ( Read more... )

Good lord. Just finished a 250-hour effort to finish my summer project and get it shipped to my employers in the States before they got angry enough to dispatch hitmen. Whilst successful (and to the tune of £6500 :D), this meant spending roughly 14 hours a day at the lab (though some of that was supervising and so on ( Read more... )

...for a further 21 hours ( Read more... )

I've just completed my sternest Princeton work day, clocking in at an unenviable 14.5 hours. Oh yeah ( Read more... )

Today's XKCD (http://www.xkcd.com/621/) has me on three counts from four. Thank goodness for the beer panel.

A month without writing anything? That resolve certainly evaporated quick-a-like. Anyhow a brief summary ( Read more... )

Every now and again the world just dumps free comedy on your head in a way that suggests there might be actually be a god, and if so, he's enjoying all this a bit too much. Today was such a day ( Read more... )

Okay, so I set out yesterday to buy a second-hand guitar with the aim of keeping in practice whilst I'm out of the country. 20 minutes later I had a nice-ish acoustic, and had parted with not a dollar. What I can't work out is... why? Here's what happened ( Read more... )

My bicycle has successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean and *appears* to work without undue mangling of my parts! It has somehow survived the baggage handlers' game of Who Can Break the Most Expensive Stuff (not to belittle their efforts; I'm sure there were far more valuable freight items to which they wisely paid more attention)! It endured the ( Read more... )