So long and thanks for all the chips!

It’s been a really long time since I last posted here. Mostly, that’s because in the last few months I’ve been leading a rather nutzoid existence.
Some time back I posted that my contract in Bristol was ending and I was looking for work. Well, I went grant and postdoc hunting and eventually I decided to [...]

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Looking for work

Observant readers may have noticed that I have added a few new pages to this blog recently – a “Research” page and a “CV” page. Those of you who have hung around the sciencish blogs enough will realize that the appearance of these sort of pages is normally a pretty clear symptom of someone looking [...]

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Crazy undergrad music flashback

For some reason I can’t put my finger on I thought of these two fantastic songs today…
The first is “All I need” by Air, I’m pretty sure this video clip would have to qualify as being my favourite of all time. The second is “Drinking in LA” by Bran Van 3000 – which I just [...]

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Winning the victory

My title is a bit weird no?
The internets are abuzz with commentary on Obama’s victory and, like in everything, there is a lot of politics being played out in this commentary.
A lot of conservatives are out there trying to downplay Obama’s success. Expect to hear a lot of “it wasn’t really a whitewash” or “he [...]

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Congratulations America

You’ve lifted the spirits of countless people around the world.
Congratulations to all those who worked the Obama campaign and to all those people who went out there and decided to vote for change!

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For all those people tallying votes today: Add it up

It hasn’t got a lot to do with politics but it’s a great song – Violent Femmes: “Add it up”

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Will Hopey be preznit elect tomorrow?

Anyone that has been following the math reckon that Obama has this one in the bag. I sincerely hope so but for some odd reason I can’t admit to myself that it is going to go down that way.
This campaign has been on the go pretty much since the ‘06 midterms and finally it has [...]

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Credit where credit is due

Thanks to Unite, Denis MacShane, Khalid Mahmood, and the other unnamed Labour officials who stood up for immigrants in the UK today.
It’s nice to know that some unions and some figures in Labour don’t think it’s right to suggest that we are all criminals here to steal jobs from the British.

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Blue sky in Brizzle

Yay! It seems Autumn decided to shove Winter out of the way for a bit.
I wonder if the markets will also get a pick up?

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Zombie Lego!

How crazy is this? It must have been a lot of fun to build all that!
Update: Cool there are more photos on Flickr,

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