So I get home this morning and I can’t get into my flat. The deadbolt unlocks but the door handle lock won’t budge. Three hours later the locksmith arrives. Opens door to find the safety key chain in place. Out of all my stuff only my bike and spare car key were taken. Nothing else […]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
weeeeeee!
So yet another dissertation structure. Fourth iteration. Here is how my writing has progressed: 1) writing up to understand stuff, and all my work here wasn’t that good; 2) writing up my empirical work basically organised into historical eras; 3) extract the argument from the mass of empirical work. And now it seems that I […]
Comic about Harry Potter spoilers (no actual spoilers)
via Boing Boing Hilarious. I am not sure if I am ready to talk about the existential trauma of the Harry Potter train ride on Saturday morning. I am not sure if I ever will. I finished the book on Monday morning though. Satisfying ending. Back to work… (v4.0 of diss now, ffs… more on […]
talking with teachers
I had an interesting discussion with two senior English teachers last night. They may have simply been taking advantage of the situation to vent their anecdotal frustrations over a few drinks, but it seems as if there is a trend and serious cultural problem in education. Basically, there is a problem in the capacity of […]
canon
One of the funny lines from the new Transformers movie (which I have now seen three times) is when Ironhide whips out two large weapon-looking things from his wrists and ‘aims’ them at the human teenager helping the Autobots and says: I just wanted to show him my canons. There is an element of mechano-homosocial […]