Perseverance - Patience - Reward
It's the glorious 12th! Or it was a little over four ago. About this time every year the Earth passes through the tail of the pleasingly named comet, Swift-Tuttle. As our planet collides with the rocks...
View ArticleFilm Review- Blood the last vampire vs Blood the last vampire SPOILER ALERT
I recently purchased the Anime film "Blood the last vampire" and tonight, viewed it along with the more recent live action remake, with the intention of comparing the two imaginings of the story and...
View ArticleIn case of zombies... panic!
Science has taught us many things. The origins of the solar system, the secrets of dna, how to make things explode. But today science is pushed to its very limits in a way I never thought imaginable....
View ArticleWhere is my mind, Theseus?
Not blogged in 2 months. So here it is, 2 months worth of blog all at once!The best part about working in an academic environment is, for me, the ability to have in depth conversations seemingly at...
View ArticleBerk, the Thing Upstairs and the Nature of Servitude
Not blogged for a while. Here is a chapter of something I'm working on for a bit of fun! Enjoy!Ètienne de La Boètie postulated that the only reason a tyrant has any power is because those beneath him...
View ArticleThe Doctor Blog!
It has been nearly a year since my last blog. My long absence has been caused by the fact that I've been desperately busy getting my doctorate. Which I have done! I am now a doctor! Woohoo!The rest of...
View ArticleThe Dichotomy of Death
There is something incredibly numbing about death. Before the tears, before the grief there is a draining, as if someone pulled a huge plug from the bottom of your emotional sea and everything you were...
View ArticlePictonaut -Feb 2013 - Dead Places - Strange Attractor.
My second attempt at a pictonaut challenge from my good friend, the rogue verbumancer. Tried to stick close to the 1000 original prompt rather than the 5000 mess of a logic puzzle I wrote last time....
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Pictonaut Aug '13 - Voyage to the Planets - The White lies of Pegasus.
Another instalment of wordascope challenge goodness from the inspiration that is The Rogue Verbumancer's pictonauts. My title for this one, The White Lies of Pegasus, is by far the longest I have given...
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Pictonaut ahoy!
Another month, another image from the verbumancer. This time, we have been furnished with the illogical visage of a submarine in space. Pretty cool, no? Well, Halloween is coming, and it's beginning to...
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Empires!
Well, I always say, if you're going to be late, you might as well make it very late! I have finally managed to stop working, Christmas shopping and all the other things people need to do like eating...
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Doorway - Pictonaut Feb 2014
So another month has come where I have found time and inspiration to post a story for Crazy John Steele's Pictonaut challenge. This month, the picture was quite a simple one, and as such gave me pretty...
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Pictonaut - June 2014 - Forbiddon!
Another month rolls around and another pictonaut challenge comes to an end. Here was this month's:And it was a doozy. Way way waaaay open. Could do almost anything with it. My first thought was, 'Nah,...
View ArticleAnother late pictonaut!
As the terrible human being that I am, I am posting this month's pictonaut far too late! And it is so short as well. And it's fanfic! I feel all dirty. It is called Rise, rise,...
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Pictonaut September 2014 - Soulful!
Here we are again, I just scraping by to get a pictonaut done in time, feeling it unfinished and wanting to come back to it later, but I know I never will. But here it is for you, and before that, the...
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Pictonaut- Oct 2014 - Dance, Devil! Dance!
Another month, another pictonaut. This is the time of ghosts and goblins, and good old John the Crazy has given us a picture appropriate for the time of year. As ever, I started writing and then never...
View ArticlePictonaut Jan 2015 - Subjects.
Here we go again, the end of the first month of the new year and yet I'm indulging in an old habit from the last one. So what? It shouldn't all be change every January, that would be arbitrary and...
View ArticlePictonaut Feb 2015 one
This month the pictonaut concludeth. An era is coming to an end. A bloody and terrible end.--------------------------------------------The Final Stories.The first.I hear stories, four stories. They...
View ArticlePictonaut Feb 2015 two
The tales continue for as long as they can... which is about 2 more weeks after this. It makes me a bit sad, but still, I shall give the pictonaut the best send off I...
View ArticlePictonaut Feb 2015 Three
It can't end! It won't end. But it must end. One week left to say goodbye to the pictonaut.----------------------------------------------------------The Final Stories 3I hear stories. Four stories....
View ArticlePictonaut Feb 2015 Part 4
And so we finally say goodbye to the pictonaut, perhaps for all eternity. On the plus side, I have finally written a story with a happy ending. Oh no, wait, that aint me at...
View ArticleSuprise pictonaut bonus!
For in strange aeons, we all get a nice surprise and a potentially slightly more up beat ending but still with hideous connotations because reasons!--------------------------------------The FINAL...
View ArticleNotes on the Proms - Part I
Every year I try to catch as much of the BBC proms as I possibly can. For those who don't know, this an annual classical music festival with daily performances going on for two months over summer.This...
View ArticleNotes on the Proms - Part II
Having written two fairly negative blogs and sounded like a completely miserable old git, I felt it was time to post something with a more positive twist! Yesterday's Prom featured the National Youth...
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