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London delivered another of it’s rare and exciting opportunities into my eager grasp last Thursday night with the chance to attend the 2011 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, to hear from Marc Abrahams of the Annals of Improbable Research in the Great Hall at Imperial College as he gave a presentation on the 2010…
Nice – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Italian & Pizza Whilst stuck in Nice recently due to a transport foulup, my partner and I asked our hotel concierge where a good place to go for dinner might be, and with no hesitation at all she pointed us at Villa d’Este. And in doing so…
Despite my recent move to the periphery of software development, I started life in the Computer Science department at Flinders University, and by virtue of associating with some Mighty Clever Folks had some of the hacker mentality rub off on me. Since then I’ve held a keen interest in hacking together software projects from time…
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Chinese There are so many little non-chainy food places around the British Museum/Bloomsbury area that occasionally curiosity gets the better of you and you think, “Well, surely this place wouldn’t still be here if it were *that* bad?”. So, feeling like a spot of Chinese food and…
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Mexican Finding myself in need of a bite and in the Villiers Street area I figured I might as well go check out Lupita: any opportunity to check out a potential new source of burritos has got to be a good thing, right? In summary, “Okay”. What…
Best way to divest your shelves of a load of booze you can’t be bothered moving or putting into storage? Well, as previously demonstrated, you get a load of friends together and DRINK IT! And so it came to pass that on Saturday we converged on Dave’s Flat (of which Dave is the Mayor) –…
OK, so there’s no Anne A. Cowtins. Although it seemed like a perfectly reasonable guess at the time. Well, that’s not entirely true either. The question was to solve anagrams to make famous scientists’ names – in this case, “CONTAINS AWE”… I’ll give you that Isaac Newton is a more famous scientist than Anne A….
A wander through some of the highlights of 2010 – because if I don’t get around to it now, I’ll put it off until 2012. I’m not kidding, I’ve got a blog post draft saved that’s titled “Traditional early-May blogging slump”, which I started writing in May and still haven’t finished.
I suspect this is entirely too late to be of any use to anyone, but it was awesome, so it seems like the sort of thing one ought to mention… In early November I was extremely fortunate to be invited to a whisky tasting dinner at the exceptional and renowned Quilon restaurant in Buckingham Gate. …
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Vegetarian As a lifetime steak enthusiast it has taken me many years to reconcile with the idea of going to a vegetarian restaurant, and on the various occasions I have done it’s usually worked out pretty well, although with the thought, “Perhaps there’s still time to grab…