Author Archives: rpg

So. We spent the morning at a coffee tasting, and the afternoon at the BRITEs (Abel Pharmboy’s, not any other). Bora’s nose can be incredibly useful Now we are about to indulge in a wine tasting, whilst admiring Isis’ latest … Continue reading →

I’ve spent the last few days wandering around New York with Grrlscientist. The Empire State Building is not good for vertigo. And the we saw a really neat film at the AMNH (seriously, watch it if you can). This afternoon … Continue reading →

I’m on my travels again. Tomorrow I’m flying off to New York, laden with salmiakki, as requested by two of my American friends. No doubt they will repay me by buying me American beer. I’ve also been told I’ll be … Continue reading →

Chris did it, and it’s better than working. Go to this site and select all the countries you’ve been to. Mine follows…

Ha! The power of Friendfeed. Enro put up a link to some slides about a network analysis of science blogging. We all piled on to say (a) this is really cool, and (b) where’s the blog post? It’s here

I’m (finally) reading The Origin of Species, and came across this comment: So again with the varieties of sheep: it has been asserted that certain mountain-varieties will starve out other mountain-varieties, so that they cannot be kept together. The same … Continue reading →

Whilst I’m waiting for the new year to fumble around and then enter in a fanfare of bangs, flashes and general destruction of the atmosphere, and as I’ve just failed to do what I wanted with this post, I thought … Continue reading →

I’m listening to Radio 3 at the moment, and they’re playing part of a rather fine recording of The Messiah1. I was wondering if it was available for purchase, so googled the record’s code: PHILIPS 420 865-2. Result number 13 … Continue reading →

From all of us here, myself, The Beast, the wombat, the rabbit, and any other creature that’s kicking around the flat, we hope you will have/are having/have had a jolly Christmas, and that whilst you’re having fun your experiments are … Continue reading →

I really should do some more sciency stuff, but it’s almost Christmas, so instead I’ll let myself get sucked into a blog meme, as seen on VWXYNot (hang on, don’t I recognize her from somewhere?) and Grrlscientist.