Zoomy's thing

It's been a sort of extreme memory-family reunion this weekend - not just with fifteen other memory masters and their families and frien...

Well, everybody arrived safely for the run-through of how the whole XMT thing will work - and it will work extremely well, by the looks of t...

I'm here at the scenic Dart Neuroscience building waiting for the competitor registration to start. It really is scenic - mountains and ...

We're just a week away from a whole lot of Extremeness in San Diego! I've been annoyingly busy at work and haven't been able to ...

Interviews with the top favourites for the Extreme Memory Tournament (and also with me) can be seen on that link. But the main reason to tu...

Yesterday it was the Welsh Memory Championship in the scenic surroundings of Llanover. I got a lift there and back courtesy of Darren and Cl...

I have been practicing for the Extreme Memory Tournament for the last week, morning and evening. Except yesterday, when I had a hangover. Bu...

It seems like ages since I went to an othello tournament. And incidentally, Blogger, stop auto-capitalising "othello", please - I...

Perhaps there are better things you can do with your time than watching six men pretending (very convincingly) to beat each other up, but th...

This evening at the Co-op I was at the till behind a teenager insisting she was 35 years old in an optimistic attempt to buy a bottle of boo...

Someone found this blog by googling "mask cartoon vehicles". Which is interesting, because I don't remember ever blogging abou...

It occurred to me that I should find out what parliamentary constituency I'm in now, and it turns out it's Mid-Derbyshire. Which is ...

Sorry I haven't blogged anything for the last couple of days. Busy at work and, you know, sleeping and things. But I've now got a ph...

... Demis Hassabis? The point being, I still get confronted by people who think I'm some kind of super-genius who's not only aston...

Isn't that a great turn of phrase? Funnily enough, I was reading an old book last night that uses it, and then today I got a Facebook me...

All this rain. I mean, it's better than if it had been freezing cold and snowing all winter, but I really can't wait until it's ...

But it's not my fault - I had to go out unexpectedly with work people. I'll return to uninformative daily blogging starting today, a...

I know I mentioned it a few days ago, but it's only just struck me that it's thirty years this year since Transformers first came al...

I got really quite enthusiastic about practicing 5-minute numbers tonight. This is a good sign, because I never enjoy numbers as much as car...

I have got to get round to finding a good place to hold mind sports competitions. I've promised to do an Othello regional and a friendly...