Nick Gibbins

Shamelessly stolen from

For the Whovians, I bring you the Radiophonatron. For the Potterites, I bring you PotterPotter (watch for long enough, and you’ll see Snape in drag).

Film quote quiz

Shamelessly stolen from : An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a nose for a nose. I don’t know what the Hell that means, but it sounds brilliant. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw ****** pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Do you know the meaning of propriety? Shoot it off! Shoot! With the gun! That’s what the bullets are for, you twit! Do you believe, Mr. Martins, in the stream of… Read More »Film quote quiz

Thoughts on Jerry Springer

While it is a truth universally acknowledged that the devil has all the best songs, this does not rule out the possibility that there’s also some real dross in his repertoire.

And now, the 1998 Show!

A little over a year ago, I commented that I hadn’t heard that the Wachowski brothers were working on an adaptation of V for Vendetta. Yesterday, Warner Bros put out a press release stating that they’re going ahead with the project. There’s a poster image for people to drool over: For what it’s worth, they appear to have cast Natalie Portman as Evey, which might work.

Libraries, corduroy and dragons

Bizarre dreams last night, which is almost certainly the consequence of too much cheese before bedtime. One dream in particular managed to wake me up; I dreamed that I’d gone back to Upminster, where I grew up, and found that the rather pleasing 1960s library had been mostly demolished (almost exactly 5/6ths demolished, since I paced it out in the dream) and that the front had been replaced with a ghastly Victorian gothic revival church-like exterior. The innards were no better; the current light and airy interior had been replaced with a gloomy vault, and there was absolutely no wheelchair… Read More »Libraries, corduroy and dragons

Lyrics meme

From and various others: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play! Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play! Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from! Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly!

I’m shattered

Far, far too much work on at the moment. Was up until late working on the lecture slides that I hadn’t had time in work to write since the last lecture, and was up early to finish them off before I had to leave for work and my first meeting of the day (for which the other participant has yet to arrive, I note with some irritation). Lecture is in less than an hour, and then I’ve got a meeting to finish polishing a paper for a deadline this afternoon, then it’s a hurried lunch, a teleconference for the journal… Read More »I’m shattered