Nick Gibbins

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The title says it all. Congratulations – the girl done good!

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Dude, how does it feel to have chosen the title of a Jim Carrey film as your LJ username?

Experiment 60713/B

So it’s Saturday night, I’m not at Picocon, and I’m idly surfing the Web… One of my film society contemporaries from my undergraduate days at Warwick was a chap called Paul Hardy. After we graduated, he threw himself headfirst into film-making and the whole starving-in-a-garret lifestyle (there was a time when I visited and found his flat empty of food, and the fridge with nothing in but a reel of 16mm film that he’d spent that week’s food budget on). He’s had some success over the years, with a BBC Drama Award for one of his shorts (Eyeball Tennis), he’s… Read More »Experiment 60713/B

Meme in a good cause

We need to speed up research because we need… Winged Monkeys for Pet Velociraptor for Flying DeLorean for Clone Army for Moonbase for and for Please sign the petition in support of the European Commission’s proposed Open Access to Research Results!

Out of this world

A US astronaut has been charged with trying to kidnap a woman she thought was a rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot (BBC News) No doubt this will be coming soon to the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster near you. (and a tip of the hat to for spotting the story)

Felt too full of the cold last night to go to ‘s party, so woke up this morning feeling full of beans after a night on the sofa. We had our windows replaced last week, which has left us with a bit of a problem. The existing aerial cable ran down the roof, through the gutter, and in through the window frame, so the installers had understandably cut it. I’d already installed a new cable that ran down from the loft (installed before our bedroom was replastered the year before last) and had bought a new aerial, but hadn’t got… Read More »