A delayed reaction post, pretty much identical to the one 2 years ago:

Sherlock! Wheeeeee! :D

This evening I had a bit of extra excitement than was initially planned for by mine and M's trip to the cinema. We came out of the front door of my building and glanced down and saw a pair of shoes lying next to the bushes. We both thought that was odd, then noticed that there were some legs attached to the shoes and an unconscious body attached to ( Read more... )

I was just reading through my friends page and came across the latest offering from Bad Astronomy, 'Scientists are...' (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/04/search_engine_bias_scientists_are.html). In this article Phil Plait is worrying about the bad rep scientists seem to have via Google search autocomplete ( Read more... )

Today is a good day. I got my dissertation back with nice feedback and an acceptable mark, so the last 12 months and £5000 haven't been wasted! Also my mum has finally sent her book to the publishers, she has been fretting about it for weeks so it was worth a glass of bubbly with dinner ( Read more... )

Augh! What are you supposed to do when you're halfway through reading a story on AO3 and it suddenly becomes user restricted? I have been left at a cliffhanger and am feeling a bit desperate ( Read more... )

Today I found out someone I know from school is in Homeland, Dexter and The Following. Last I heard he was acting on stage in New York, but he seems to have transitioned to TV pretty successfully! He even has a Wikipedia page. It's funny because I remember him as a kid. He did always like acting! It's pretty cool that he's doing well ( Read more... )

Last push for the masters is today! 4000 words to finish it, then the dissertation will be printed and bound and handed in tomorrow. Then the year will be done! Come on Kat you can do it!

edit: dissertation is done!

43,651 words, 214 pages, 47 pictures, 10 focus groups, 4 tables, 2 graphs and 1 interview. My summer's work.

Does anyone on my know much about Doctor Who, what his character is like? I'm writing a dissertation on what children think about scientists* and some of them said they thought the Doctor was one. I'm trying to include a short analysis on him, but as I don't watch the show it's proving difficult! Is he a scientist? Does he use science? If anyone ( Read more... )

It's saddening going through old rec lists and discovering you've been too far out of a fandom for the last couple of years and the authors you loved have disappeared entirely from the net. Four or five have gone from one rec list, though admittedly that was quite a mega list.

I have finally seen the new Star Trek film! Yay! I can head safely back to the awesome ST coms and read all the fics and discussions and no longer worry about lovely lovely spoilers... :D