I'd normally post this to twitter, but it's slightly long so here you go. I came home after an evening out with my friends and as some of you may know, one of the biggest past times of those populating the British Isles is to inhabit and partake in the consumption of the goods on sale in the local pub. Having partook over several hours I was in ( Read more... )

Jesus, it's been two years. Part of that has been moving onto forums like alternatehistory and spacebattles and the rest has been due to the giant that is twitter, happily enough for anyone who might actually read this, a website that I now can't visit after 10:30 on weekdays because I get irritated at everything that I read ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan today won the Noble Prize for Literature, an award which I think he deserves for his lifelong services to writing. If you look back on his career, he has multiple albums that will be played and remembered a century from now, which very few musicians have even a few songs that will last and be remembered.

Here's just one of them.

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One of the people who I met through Skeptics In the Pub is also a youtuber called David Landon Cole, who was also recent contestant on University Challenge for York College. This is his video talking about may aspects of the European Union, how it came about, and why he thinks we should stay a part of it. His arguments are a far more eloquent and ( Read more... )

 Ever since the multiple award winning Broadway smash hit was released as a cast album, Hamilton fever has swept not just the United States but the Internet as well. Which is how I found it on youtube and loved all the songs, even going as far as to buy the album of amazon even when I could listen to it online for free.That's devotion ( Read more... )

Last night I wound up my younger sister known to long time readers as The Brat, a title she has not deserved for several years but retains here for for sheer consistancy. Like I said, I know I shoudn't but it's so easy for us to tease and wind each other up, it's especially funny for one of us when in the middle of a sentence the other trips over ( Read more... )

First off, tv shows both broadcast and streaming that you should be watching are as follows: Fargo, Jessica Jones, The Expanse, and the delightful, funny, and educational Adam Ruins Everything which originated on College and scratches my sceptic Mythbusters/Penn & Teller's Bullshit itch perfectly ( Read more... )

It's saturday afternoon in north London and it's very cold outside. Now normally on saturdays I go out for a walk in order to use up some energy and not still be awake at 2 or 3 in the morning because I wake up late on the weekends.

Now I should get well wrapped up and brave the frozen wastes chilly streets, but it's very cold, I'm a wimp and the ( Read more... )

Doctor Who has returned to our screens and after watching the first two episodes which I enjoyed immensely I started pondering like many others who the titles of the first two episodes are referring to. The episode names are 'The Magician's Apprentice' and 'The Witches Familiar', I will now not only reveal to you who they are referring to, but why ( Read more... )

Yet again proving my previous posting that I only ever use this LJ for posting videos, I'm posting a video and seeing as it's mid July and I'm not in Las Vegas this year. It'll be a two for one deal today ( Read more... )