Zoomy's thing

In many ways, I am Groot. By which I mean, I'm somebody who refrained from watching Marvel movies, on the grounds that superhero movies ...

That most famous of (former) British othello players, Aubrey, has apparently published a paper proving that the answer to the Hadwiger-Nels...

May is the coolest month, if you like playing on Memory League ! If you play at least three games (against an opponent or in training) on at...

It's been nothing but memory-talk here on the blog for the last couple of weeks, so let's move to the physical side of things - WWE ...

While watching the action from Gothenburg on Sunday, I entertained myself by creating a spreadsheet to quickly calculate IAM levels when you...

Finishing off with a perfect 50 words in 52.70 seconds, Simon wins the Scandinavian Open! Followed by a great second place performance from ...

One thing I forgot to mention yesterday (I'm really not good at remembering things about memory competitions) is the new world records a...

One thing I forgot to do yesterday was put a link to the Memory League website , where you can watch everything that's happening in Goth...

Well, not for me, but for international memory competitions - this weekend, the Scandinavian Memory League Open Championship is happening in...

DC Comics are celebrating Superman's 80th birthday today, and I suppose it's as good a time as any (the copyright date of Action Com...

I really wish I didn't have to go home today. Is there a way I can stay in Canada that won't cost me a) any money or b) my job? It...

I'm here on Westminster Bridge and there are dinosaurs. No, hang on, I'm in Edmonton, and there aren't enough dinosaurs, but the...

Here I am in Edmonton, Alberta! It's VERY cold, but also nice and sunny and a really great city! There's a truly excellent comic sho...

And a very boring airport it is too, hence the blogging. But still, I'm on my way to Canada!

But even though tomorrow's a whole hour shorter than the average day, I'm going to do some more extensive old-school pen-and-paper m...

Here's a fun trivia question for anyone who's as big a fan as me of the works of Wilkie Collins - he was strangely fond of giving su...

What do you think I've been doing all day today? Well, I'll tell you, we won't make it a guessing game (because you'd probab...

I don't mention nearly enough that I went to school with Robert Webb. It's an important claim to fame, you know. Nobody's heard ...

As well as splashing out on plane tickets this month, I treated myself to something I really should have bought long before now - the colle...

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...