Zoomy's thing

It occurred to me that June Foray, cartoon voice actor extraordinaire, will be turning 100 on September 18th this year, and still going stro...

Flash Comics #1, dated January 1940 but first published in late 1939, had among its backup strips the first adventure of "Johnny Thunde...

Drat it, I've got a puncture on my bike, just as I was getting home tonight. Now, for want of owning a puncture repair kit and the knowl...

If you're one of those people who can't get enough of the sound of my voice, check out this interview ! I haven't listened to i...

Downloading all my pictures from Photobucket gives me the opportunity to look through them all and remember why I put them on there in the f...

Photobucket have just stopped people being allowed to show pictures stored there on blogs like this, so I'm having to go through all my ...

According to WZebra, the genius othello computer, my move to e8 wasn't that bad, it was still roughly a draw at that point. My winning l...

If you go past room 53, the corridor goes round another couple of corners and ends with 55, 56 and 57, all clustered together. But anywa...

I'm currently in room 53 of the Red Lion hotel, in Salisbury. It's one of those strange hotels where the corridors are like a windin...

It's really very hard to refrain from drinking cherry coke, you know. It's just so tempting. Maybe I should change tack and just try...

The Friendly Memory Championship happened in the scenic surroundings of the William Penn room in the Priory Rooms, Birmingham city centre. A...

I didn't get round to describing what happened at the Cambridge regional othello tournament the other week, and I really should say some...

This coming Saturday sees the twelfth (!!!) annual Friendly Memory Championship. I've been saying for years that I might stop doing them...

Here's the other memory thing I've been meaning to blog about for a while - Belts! Or, to give it its official name, the New IAM L...

The German Memory League Championship is happening right now - you can watch the fun on the Memory League website ! They've just had the...

You know, I really must write more on this blog. I'll try to keep up a daily ramble from now on - there's absolute tons of things ha...

I haven't played othello for longer than I can remember (my memory isn't very good), but I'm going to Cambridge to play it this ...

I'm just the perfect example of a healthy man, obviously - the American version of Men's Health magazine are writing an article abou...

The excellent website findmypast.co.uk has made 1939 register details available, and even though you have to pay them a staggeringly huge a...

Actually, I haven't got any cold turkey. I've got some cold pork if you want, it's really nice. I've got in the habit of coo...