-Last Saturday I did a 300-mile round trip to Cambridge for a martial arts workshop. Since my stickfighting instructor went with me petrol came to £20 each, which is actually not too bad - I'd wager you couldn't make it there by train for much less than £50 each. This was my first time driving into Cambridge myself and now have some sympathy for my ( Read more... )

Don't you just love this time of year ( Read more... )

Bringing together my two lifelong loves of toys and bugs, here's my collection of miniature plastic animals. These are all made by various Japanese companies, and are what is known as "gashapon" capsule toys. Sadly in the West our capsule toys don't come anywhere near the quality of these ( Read more... )

I thought I would share with y'all a little bit about the major project I've been working on lately ( Read more... )

On a happier note, to celebrate my probably-not-long-lived return to the blogosphere, here is part 1 of A TOY POST

Before I get to the pictures, here is probably a good place to mention that I catalogued all my books with librarything. The best way to browse is probably to click on "Tags" at the top, and you will see that I have made some attempt ( Read more... )

...has come and long gone, and I hope you all had a good one ( Read more... )

- My Sherlock Holmes article was published in Canadian Holmes, I got my complimentary copy and it all turned out quite nicely. When I am a famous writer this will be a collector's item someday ( Read more... )

Hey this time I have an excuse for not updating in ages, my girlfriend Rachael came to visit for six weeks but she went back home on Sunday and now I am sad :Despite the fact that I had car trouble for most of the two weeks that I was off work (this time it didn't involve hitting anything - the steering rack was starting to fail but luckily the car ( Read more... )

My brain has been full of hexadecimal all day *tilts head, 0 to 9s and A to Fs pour out* No, I haven't been assimilated, rather I've been learning assembler programming at work. There's something strangely satisfying about it - you're working directly with the hardware, nothing is abstracted and you have to do everything yourself. I like to call it ( Read more... )

After last week's carboot haul I am currently sharing my room with a metric shit-ton of Simpsons action figures ( Read more... )