The Trumptown saga continues. What bothers me the most about the whole affair is the speed with which the Scottish government involved itself. The “call in” happened just a bit too fast to be due process. Surely some pressure was placed on them. Having been in the US for a couple of years now, I […]
Q: When you go on a trip away from your family, do you: call when you get to your destination; run to the nearest phone box and pick up some local “business” cards; switch the phone off at the airport and leave it off for the duration of the trip; or hire a canoe and […]
that the Doctor is leaving. B..bb..b..but I’ve only just watched The Runaway Bride! Attempts to pace ourselves at one episode a week to eke the third series DVDs out failed miserably and we succumbed to watching Freema Ageyaman’s first episode. Opening the book for bets on how many episodes I end up watching while Mr […]
Holyrood’s Donorgate has been superseded by the Trumptown affair . But that shouldn’t stop us from enjoying this montage tri(al)bute to Labour’s buck-stopper at Holyrood. (via Tartan Hero)
What they said. As a researcher, albeit of a different speciality, if I put out crap that hung on a tenuous piece of evidence, I’d be jobless. Granted, I have a modicum of control over my experimental settings. But if the result is not what I predicted or does not fit my hypothesis, I don’t […]
Even gyms are switching on to biometrics for identification. Cue neds stealing fingerprints ala Ethan Hawke Hunt1 in Mission Impossible. 1 See correction courtesy of chotda in comments.
I’m so homesick I’m seeing Edinburgh all over the interwebs. Somebody put me out of my misery and tell me if this is the primary school in Sciennes/Marchmont.
It’s not exactly a surprise to read that an ex-CIA agent has admitted that water-boarding was used to extract information from al-Qaeda suspects. But the following quote left me slightly stunned: “Like a lot of Americans, I’m involved in this internal, intellectual battle with myself weighing the idea that water-boarding may be torture versus the […]
The reigning monarch has abdicated. Long live the new monarch.
Do I ever talk about anything else these days? The mega-lab party was not quite as mega as I’d expected it to be. I guess the undergrads all have finals next week and weren’t in the partying mood. Ach well, more chocolate cake for everyone else. The “fixed” with ganache piss-easy-and-yet-I-duffed-it cakes went down very […]
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 