Zoomy's thing

I love the Legion of Super-Heroes! No, not the current comic that I was so rude about last month; that's still incomprehensible rubbish ...

A Halloween party is one of the very few social occasions where it's appropriate to wear a Brazilian Mystery Cloak. That, with the black...

Perhaps I don't blog enough about what I'm actually doing with my life. An anonymouse reacted with surprise to yesterday's post ...

I got an email today from a BBC journalist asking if I'd do an interview to go along with an article about forgetting. I called her back...

Well, that last post on the subject of the much-changed World Memory Championship provoked comment either from three people or from one pers...

Latest from the WMSC: The World Memory Sports Council would like to apologise to competitors for the recent uncertainties that have surround...

I did have a really completely brilliant birthday in London with some really brilliant people. And who knows, maybe the rest of the year wil...

That was the theme tune to the so-bad-it's-good Captain America cartoon in the sixties, with super-limited animation copied directly fro...

I'm going to be 35 on Friday, and that's the worst age it's possible to be. No more ticking the "25 to 34" box on surv...

Apparently, "How To Be Clever" is now available to buy from Amazon in Germany, France, Spain and Italy! Hooray! Although it's ...

What's with the weather? It was quite chilly yesterday, and I saw a newspaper that said it was going to be minus twenty at some point in...

Before I finally give it a rest, here's a little bit more interesting analysis of DC Comics' "New 52". I picked up copies ...

After all the excitement of a new #1, the difficult second album comes out the next month. And when sales continue to decline, a company lik...

The jinx is broken! Uncannily, I stopped the timer at 22.22 seconds again today, and this time I did get the recall right! Hooray for me! N...

For some reason, I stumbled across the GI Joe wiki thing, and had a lot of fun reading it, even though it's only about 10% complete. Wat...

I think aliens abducted my alarm clock last night. I very vaguely remember being woken up in the middle of the night, realising that the ala...

I followed up yesterday's 30-minute binary and hour numbers with an abstract images and hour cards today. That's a proper weekend...

It's the final batch of DC Comics's "New 52"! I'm sure my long-suffering readers are familiar with what I'm talkin...

Yes, it's been the right kind of weather for dressing in my summer outfit, including unflattering shorts. I haven't done that much t...

I was going to call this post 'Nelson', in the cricket sense, but I thought that might confuse people like Nelson Dellis. Anyway, no...