I just opened my Christmas present from Frog! Thanks Frog! On the ball, City!

Courtney’s been marking end-of-term Shakespeare exams. She has one student who consistently takes very difficult buzzword theories which s/he doesn’t understand and tries to cram them into essays where they don’t belong. So far the student has tried to use Foucault to argue that King Lear is trapped in a Panopticon, and has invoked Edward [...]

Here is the ingredients list from a carton of Crystal Eggnog:
Milk, nonfat milk, nonfat milk solids, cream, high fructose corn syrup, egg yolks, sugar, corn syrup, nutmeg, natural and artificial flavour, disodium phosphate, annatto extract (colour), mono and diglycerides, turmeric (colour), whey, stabiliser (guar gum, carrageenan).
Imagine a drink with a consistency and flavour halfway between [...]

I used to think that Absinthe was a pretty deadly drink - Baudelaire (and other artistically inclined Frenchies) destroyed themselves with it for years until the French authorities banned it. But I can’t help thinking that Baudelaire’s decline would have been much faster had he become hooked on everclear. Banned in the UK and several [...]

Next time I find myself in Edinburgh I’m going to check out the Pornaoke Lounge! Ooooh yeeeesss!

Working in a coffee shop isn’t too bad. I get to eat and drink almost anything there for free. In the run up to Christmas we’ve been serving eggnog lattes. These are alright, but nowhere near as good as what I invented today.
The Festive Vanilla Nogshake
You will need:3 big scoops or 0.6lbs or 270g of [...]

Dave has a weblog. It’s here. I’d have noted this phenomenon earlier, had I been paying attention to anything at all in the last couple of weeks/months.
Dave is remarkably likeable. Even I like him.

I returned to the empty apartment after my morning shift to find it dim and empty. A small black box sat in the corner of the kitchen. Leads trailed from it into the wall. There were vents along the top, a row of five lights on one side and a switch on the [...]

This completely boggles my mind. When I moved over to this side of the pond I thought long and hard about what to do with my mobile. It doesn’t work in the US, but it’s still dead handy when I’m back in the UK. Obviously, I don’t want to be paying twenty quid a month [...]