Jamie

i'm gonna take a fucking sledgehammer to that cunting NMR machine

'lo all - i know i've kinda been neglecting lj recently, but hey, what can you do?

just thought i'd share the irony that they played "God save the Queen" on the radio this morning to celebrate Charlie-boy's birthday. Made me chuckle anyway...

oh yeah, and i love Brixton so much it almost scares me. (Well, it does scare me. Not so much the love, more the Yardies, but then nothing's perfect)

Housewarming party at my place, saturday, sometime after nine. Come! I may be extremely trashed.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

selected highlights:

MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.

LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.

PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."

ECONOMICS: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.

NUTRITION: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).

PUBLIC HEALTH: Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor

and my personal favourite:

FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."

Everything you need to know about the British, our outlook, our history and the present situation can, in my humble opinion, be summed up on one quote, paraphrased from somewhere Seb linked to:

"We've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!"

Anyway, in order to get over it Suze and myself had to go clubbing in London over the weekend. And since we were burning with fear in our northern, southern, eastern and western quarters, we had to consume a fair quantity of alcohol and then thrash around furiously on a dancefloor to put ourselves out.

Living in a state of terror is fun!

When an experiment, against all odds, actually works, it is generally condsidered bad scientific practice to dance about the lab, repeatedly asking the experiment in question Who Its Daddy Is. This is the case even if you think everybody else has gone to lunch and no-one will see.

"this bus driver has taken his bus off its route in search of crack cocaine"

i love lowest-common-denominator-with-dodgy-moralising TV :D

and why is it that crack is innately funny?

anyone need/know anyone that needs a place to live next year? if so, point them in my direction! we need at least 1 more person before we can sign the contract!

( mythological evilness )

Cool, i get to destroy the world... :D

layer cake is a fucking fantastic film. watch it now. :D

was just talking to James (housemate and brother of Tom) about music and stuff, found out he was in a band so hence mentioned Jimi and At Risk. He wanted to hear some stuff, so found the EP and put it on. After about 15 secs he said "Hang on, is this Cat singing?"

Cat now offically knows *everyone* in Oxford.

Oh yeah, and he said he'll try and get me an interview at a male escort company... :D (no sex though, that would be naughty :P )

Although its a *complete* rip-off, and i don't like Mothers day anyway, i do have to say that the interflora website rocks :)

and the light in my room has gone. gah.

ARGH! If i ever get my hands on that bloody referee, i'm gonna take the page of the rugby rules that states who gets the put in at a scrum when the ball's held up over the try line and force feed it to him, the incompetant tosser. Well, either incompetant or paid.

I'm afraid i'm going to have to mention the fact that

I GOT PUBLISHED BEFORE YOU, YOU FUCKERS!* :D


Yes, i know you can only see the abstract, but you can always fork out the £20 for the actual text. It's so worth it. Oh yes. ;D




(* unless someone on my friends list has managed to get a paper out without me hearing about it, in which case, bollocks :p )

ok, slightly short notice i know, but i'll still expect people to come to transformation on saturday for my birthday celebrations! and if anyone wants to pop round to my house (which is temptingly near the zodiac) bearing alcohol beforehand, then i'm sure i could make room in my busy schedule of sitting around watching TV and playing GTA to entertain you :)

Tom's just walked into the housae carrying a truly scary amount of fireworks, so if no-one hears from me for a while i'm either dead or have been arrested...

Oh dear, all i can remember about last night is Jimi's theory of chemical realities, being very afraid for a sustained period of time and the phase "Now that is one fucked up Welshman". Not good.

OK, i feel we might have to resort to sam's plan of suicide bombing george bush.

seriously, come on - there hasn't been an american president more worthy of assassination for years! GET ON WITH IT! Although the republicans might have seen this danger and circumvented it by owning all the weapons in the world and so stopping anyone else getting their hand on any...

Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.

ok, bigger update later, but for now a smalll request:

i'm gonna be stuck in the lab till 8 again this eve, HOWEVER, i've got nothing to do from approximately 6 till then except watch NMR spectra accumulate. Stimulating as this is, if anyone could arrange to be around town at about then i'd much prefer to go have dinner (or at least a couple of drinks) for a bit - any takers?