Zoomy's thing

I really shouldn't enjoy seeing Chelsea lose so much - football really brings out the worst in people, doesn't it? But, you know, it...

I see from my Blogger stats page that someone's been paying attention to my old posts that mention card-counting at blackjack. I haven...

It's not that Doctor Who completely sucks at the moment, it just really needs some new ideas and a touch of original thinking, rather th...

Here's the interesting page of the Guinness Book of Records 2016: I do know it's called "Guinness World Records" now...

The new Guinness Book of Records has a page of memory-themed records again - an interview with Johannes Mallow which claims he's the cur...

This was the 11th time Imre has won the British Othello Championship, 32 years after the first time. That's a pretty impressive record, ...

I really need to play more, I'm so out of touch with othello that I've basically forgotten how to play the game at all. But Imre sti...

It's the British Othello Championship, this year at the Imperial Rooms in Matlock. Well, the smaller of the Imperial Rooms, we're no...

I've heard good things. I'll let you know if I die.

It's a long way to Brighton, it's no wonder I've never been there before. I'm still fairly sure that Skegness is the best se...

They always come in threes - today I've been preparing for my memory-based jaunt to Bristol tomorrow, and talking about the exciting pos...

I'm going to Brighton on Thursday, to record roughly three minutes' worth of quickfire videos for students about how to remember thi...

It still sucks. I'm really in the mood to go on at length about the many diverse ways in which it sucks, and make vague threats to stop ...

Fawlty Towers is 40 years old, apparently. You know, you can probably tell a lot about the secrets of a person's psyche by which episode...

is that I can look back and see my blogs from the days when I was wildly enthusiastic about training for memory competitions. Well, semi-wil...

Going to bed early when I'm working the next day (I start at six o'clock nowadays) doesn't leave me enough time to think of some...

The whole concept of time, I mean. It's my birthday in four weeks, and I'll be thirty-nine. That's ollllld. With five Ls. There...

I always do enjoy the Davis Cup. If Britain win it this year, I'll... I don't know, wave a little Union Jack or something. And say ...

I was just thinking recently, it's ages since someone on the street vaguely remembered seeing me on telly somewhere, and saw fit to tell...

Players called Tomkins and Noble feature in the game I'm watching right now. It's strange that I can't remember anyone's nam...