Zoomy's thing

It's Lines of Action at the MSO today, a game I go into with a knowledge of the rules but nothing else, against a lot of people who have...

I did get the silver medal in Sunday night's othello tournament at the MSO, and then yesterday I added a rather fortunate bronze at cont...

Day two of the MSO dawned bright and sunny, at least in the hearts of the people taking part. Actually, the weather was grey and miserable, ...

And I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.

Yes, the Mind Sports Olympiad is up and running again! While various other board games and things were going on around us, a small but selec...

Yes, tomorrow I'm on my way to London for the 21st Mind Sports Olympiad! It's surprising how much my life has changed in the twenty ...

Here's the Men's Health article I was talking about a little while ago. So it's official - I've had my picture in two diffe...

Yes, it's an important sporting weekend! The football season has started, if you care about the Community Shield, the extra preliminary ...

I've been on holiday this week, not venturing any farther than Nottingham (still in 'not spending money unnecessarily' mode) ex...

Yikes, I feel like I put some kind of witch's curse on her just a fortnight ago. It's very sad, but nobody can deny she lived a full...

An ongoing football-league-style competition for Memory League starts soon! It will work like this... Competitors are divided into divisi...

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...