I've been enjoying a glut of books and media lately. Just before Christmas I bought Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach on a bit of a whim actually as I was already on a mission to buy my Godmother a new historical thriller/crime mystery novel at the local Waterstone's. It's been a while since i read anything new, especially in sci fi/spec fic and as ( Read more... )

Between Uni and Physics and my awful discipline, it seems I haven't been updating my journals (or reading any of my f-lists/reading lists shame be upon me) of late but have no fear! Soon I will be stuck in my bedroom revising the hell out of Electrodynamics and Chaos theories (non-integer dimensions wf? The worst thing is that it actually makes ( Read more... )

Imperial Reckoning - The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

 So last night was my first viewing of The Review Show since the new year. It didn't get off to a good start when I realised it was being presented by Martha Kearney who I always find a bit too... something. I'm not sure if that something is nice, or insipid. I certainly don't think she's an idiot, however, or lacking in taste.

( On wot I watched... )

Yesterday was really the epitome of the suckiness of this week, (hence the whiny post) as I'd managed to fail a programming unit, (thus) miss a really fascinating colloquia and piss off my tutor more than I normally do
(There's a fine line between mmoa being charmingly self-deprecating and sounding like an arrogant tosser. Somehow, a joke about my ( Read more... )

You know Mandelson, maybe if you guys had been better at self-promotion, communicating with your electorate and perhaps not going to fucking war like a bunch of idiotic Kipling-fed public school boys, Labour wouldn't be 'fighting for it's life' right now?

What is it with these people?

( Fresher's week, first lectures and other stuff )

Went to the local Salvation army store and got a nice cheap straw hat to tinker with, when I also picked up a copy of the 'Merlin' DVD for 50p, some old tv movie/series featuring Sam Neill who seems to specialise in this sort of thing. 3 hours or pure tattertainment, the way tv movies do best ( Read more... )