Nick Gibbins

Barbican Living Anyone have a spare £600,000 or so that they’d be willing to give and I so that we can realise our dream of living in a Modernist paradise?

Eating too many pickled eggs does bad things to my digestion The cocktail known as a Zombie is both yummy and an extremely dangerous beast. Warning, kids: Don’t try drinking what amounts to a sextuple rum unless you’re an expert! It is possible to buy both fine Dutch cheese *and* chocolate flakes and sprinkles via the powah of teh Interweb

At the Jorene Celeste last night (which appears to have a picture of Boy George on its sign, if I’m not much mistaken), for pubbage with the glamourous , and friends. Finally able to put voices to people whose journals I’ve been reading but hadn’t yet met, faces to people who know people that I know (, f’rinstance), and be reminded of the fact that I’d actually met several of the people around the table before, but had forgotten because a) it was a long time ago and b) I was three sheets to the wind at the time. Consumed… Read More »Pub redux

Note to self: the next time you decide to hire a carpet cleaner to clean the carpets, make sure you sell the mineral extraction rights first to defray the cost. In other news, just seen Blithe Spirit by the Peter Hall Company with at the Theatre Royal. Dead good.

Sadly, the website of Proles for Modernism seems to have disappeared.

…Dan Gillmor. Good stuff.

Final day of Hypertext 2004 today, and I’m sitting in a panel on hypertext evaluation. Last night was the main social event of the conference, namely an open-air production of John Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed by Shakespeare Santa Cruz. I can’t say that I was particuarly impressed, especially if I compared it to the open-air Much Ado that and I saw in Oxford a few weeks ago. In terms of the direction, the performances themselves were generally okay, and the opening scene was very effective, with the background action (the wedding party) freezing as each actor spoke. However, the interpretation… Read More »

UC Santa Cruz University of Bath Located on a hilltop, frequently shrouded in fog Located on a hilltop, frequently shrouded in fog Fog usually lifts by late morning Fog sometimes lingers for days Glorious views of Monterey Bay and the Pacific, if it isn’t foggy Glorious views of Bath from selected buildings, if it isn’t foggy Campus surrounded by woodland and patchy scrub Campus surrounded by woodland and green fields Concrete is typical building material, though timber is also used Concrete is typical building material, though concrete blocks are also used Campus most resembles the setting of Woody Allen’s Sleeper… Read More »UC Santa Cruz vs. University of Bath