Zoomy's thing

As I've mentioned once or twice before, Alpha Flight is an all-time favourite comic of mine. And the localities the superheroes visit in...

Wow, twice in one winter we've had huge deep snow! It's the kind of thing that gives me a good excuse to say "when I were a lad...

Another reason I need to play more othello, which I forgot to mention in my blog yesterday (to be fair, I wrote it after coming back from th...

"You don't remember me?" said Matthias Berg, who is a) someone I've met multiple times before now, and b) a really big dea...

Having found out I don't have to do something else this weekend (it's a something else I might hopefully be able to tell you all abo...

Rest in peace, Grandma. It was a very nice funeral, exactly what she would have wanted - thanks to Pam for arranging everything.

You've probably heard me mention it once or twice before, but the place to be right now (if you're at all interesting in competitiv...

Among the many people I admire in this world are the ones who do cool things with old video games. Here's a wonderful YouTube video chro...

According to Blogger's stats page, I've had absolutely oodles of pageviews in the last day or so, directed at the Hourman-themed pos...

I don't think I could calculate how long it's been, in fact. But the Mental Calculation World Cup is still going strong! Here's ...

I was just about to go to bed for an early night, when I remembered I hadn't written a blog entry, and if I did that, then I'd break...

There's a news story doing the rounds that someone involved with one of Stan Lee's charities has stolen hundreds of thousands of dol...

I'm happy to report I'm now through to the last 65,536 in the Fantasy Premier League Cup (I know you were all fascinated when I ment...

I haven't got any sweeties in the house. It's not even as if I'm hungry, I've already had my dinner and there's the mate...

The new online memory league championship is well underway, and I think I'm going to see if I can make a real effort to go to the actual...

If there's one thing that's always been missing from memory competitions, it's high-quality animated cartoons about what it'...

It's getting silly now; before we know it, it'll be 2020, and that's a year that's unquestionably the future. The Machine Ma...

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record (by the Spencer Davis Group), I really really love the new Runaways comic from Marvel, and I urg...

I play Fantasy Premier League , in a not very serious kind of way - I'm not even in a league or anything, so I'm basically just comp...

Proper snow out there today! Keep it up, and I can be snowed in all winter - as long as people keep delivering food to me periodically, a...