Statto’s ’Blog
Read the latest entry (Wednesday 23rd December 2009).
Archive
- Wednesday 23rd December 2009—Teen murders!!! Broken Britain? More like broken British Broadcasting Corporation.
- Sunday 30th August 2009—Witches, photography and the physically improbable.
- Sunday 12th July 2009—Guerrilla vegetable gardening.
- Sunday 5th July 2009—This afternoon, I went to a pub and watched Roger Federer fight to his fifteenth grand-slam victory. Go on. Revel in my joy.
- Viernes el 24 de abril de 2009—Córdoba’s Mezquita reinforces my disdain for high-church Christianity.
- Miércoles el 22 de abril de 2009—La Alhambra: Spain’s most superlative, stressful monument.
- Wednesday 11th February 2009—The fake police conspiracy.
- Monday 9th February 2009—I have a hurty knee.
- Sunday 11th January 2009—This evening, my computer caught fire.
- Friday 9th January 2009—A trucker gives me the horn.
- Wednesday 24th December 2008—Walkin’ in a Woolies wasteland.
- Saturday 25th October 2008—Dishwasher.
- Tuesday 7th October 2008—My new hobby: sheepishly listing my hobbies.
- Wednesday 10th September 2008—Enegori-kun, monkey in a suit par excellence.
- Tuesday 9th September 2008—The day the fair came to Oxford.
- 2008年7月23日（水）—I just lived through an earthquake!!
- Saturday 28th June 2008—Fighting fowl and singing sweetly.
- Sunday 15th June 2008—Bollocks. I left my book on the train.
- Thursday 12th June 2008—Surprises at RAL.
- Sunday 1st June 2008—Flicking Student Loans Company.
- Saturday 10th May 2008—The name’s Bond: licensed to kill a franchise.
- Saturday 19th April 2008—The burgled Barbour debacle.
- Sunday 13th April 2008—Trainspotting.
- Thursday 3rd April 2008—It’s not a very bloody civil ceremony if your dress gets ruined just because of your choice of music, is it?
- Friday 14th March 2008—‘Hab you got…fiber?’
- Tuesday 19th February 2008—One area where the USA doesn’t lead the free world: democracy.
- Monday 11th February 2008—Take that lefties!!!
- Friday 8th February 2008—All this talk of Sharia law has almost turned me Muslim.
- Tuesday 29th January 2008—That’ll be £131.50, please.
- Thursday 24th January 2008—All this time the answer to my question lay in the bike shed.
- Tuesday 8th January 2008—Jumping for joy because it’s a leap year.
- Wednesday 2nd January 2008—Huge breast sadness.
- Tuesday 1st January 2008—An afternoon out in the ‘country’.
- Monday 31st December 2007—New year’s eve in London.
- Tuesday 25th December 2007—A Christmas telephone call.
- Sunday 23rd December 2007—Coming home for Christmas.
- Friday 21st December 2007—Possible rumbling of Christmas presents.
- Tuesday 18th December 2007—A guide to charts for executives.
- Monday 17th December 2007—Carol games.
- Saturday 8th December 2007—Global warming: global action.
- Monday 26th November 2007—Cheese sauce: I roux the day I tried to make that.
- Monday 19th November 2007—Light disappointment.
- Sunday 18th November 2007—A day at ARGUS in ISIS at RAL.
- Friday 16th November 2007—Americans on the train and a little bit of chemistry.
- Sunday 4th November 2007—A talk and a book about Antarctica by Pat and Rosemarie Keough.
- Thursday 25th October 2007—Googling the tutor.
- Wednesday 24th October 2007—The M40 and white supremacy.
- Friday 12th October 2007—A day at EMU in ISIS at RAL.
- Thursday 20th September 2007—Can you kill two birds with only one stone?
- Saturday 8th September 2007—The random lights and death of a princess.
- Thursday 6th September 2007—Owww.
- Tuesday 21st August 2007—You might imagine the biggest surprise on a day of disabled watersports would come from the disabled watersports. You would be wrong, laddie.
- Samedi 18 août 2007—Les Galeries Lafayettes, un américain et Gare du Nord.
- Friday 3rd August 2007—Dentistry, chavs and zoological epistemology.
- Thursday 2nd August 2007—I’ve fallen in love with a copyrighted font.
- Domenica 8 luglio 2007—The hole they call Venezia.
- Sabato 7 luglio 2007—Alps–Italy: a shock to the system.
- Freitag, den 6. Juli 2007—A walk up some mountains deep in the Alps.
- Donnerstag, den 5. Juli 2007—A walk around Achensee deep the in Alps.
- Montag, den 2. Juli 2007—Too much Mozart in Salzburg.
- Samstag, den 30. Juni—Wien, Venezia, and why we should all just try being nice to each-other for a change.
- Freitag, den 29. Juni 2007—Dinner in Köln…but not the dinner we expect.
- Thursday 28th June 2007—The first five days of Statto’s approaching-historical trip around Europe. More coming soon!
- Tuesday 26th June 2007—Total desolation.
- Monday 25th June 2007—The air of exodus is palpable as we walk through the thinning tents, people trudging uphill, the only ones not heading for the exits being—us!!
- Sunday 24th June 2007—I have developed (or perhaps caught) the recyclers’ instinct.
- Saturday 23rd June 2007—I’ve lived a life fairly sheltered from drugs in little rural Newport. So Glastonbury came as something of a surprise.
- Friday 22nd June 2007—I realise that it’s something of a Glastonbury cliché to talk about the mud, but I think it would be remiss of me not to mention it.
- Thursday 21st June 2007—After the briefest of sojourns at the family home, today was the day I departed for Glastonbury.
- Friday 27th April 2007—Photography, mime and Jesus.
- Thursday 19th April 2007—Correlation does not always imply causation, as any even slightly good statistician knows.
- Sunday 15th April 2007—I am nursing a burgeoning addiction to “feta snacks”.
- Friday 6th April 2007—Today was Good Friday.
- Tuesday 20th March 2007—I hope I really confused a man in a sandwich shop today.
- Thursday 15th February 2007—A friend of mine had his bike stolen last night.
- Wednesday 14th February 2007—A nanotube anecdote.
- Thursday 8th February 2007—Snow!!!!!!!!!!
- Saturday 3rd February 2007—Today is Groundhog Day, which means it's time once again for meteorologists everywhere to defer to American rodents for medium-term forecasting of the weather stateside.
- Friday 2nd February 2007—Today is Groundhog Day, which means it’s time once again for meteorologists everywhere to defer to American rodents for medium-term forecasting of the weather stateside.
- Wednesday 31st January 2007—So, it’s the early hours of the morning and I’m walking in a nonchalant way across the Meadows Quad.
- Tuesday 30th January 2007—I spent a decent part of this evening staring at the back of someone’s head. I’m not even quite sure whose.
- Friday 26th January 2007—Today was crazy.
- Thursday 25th January 2007—I watched Hannibal this evening.
- Sunday 21st January 2007—My brain did an odd thing this morning.
- Wednesday 29th November 2006—So: e-mail autoresponders.
- Tuesday 31st October 2006—I trod in some dog poo on the way back from lectures today. Dog poo is smelly and sticky so it was quite a depressing experience from that point of view, but walking home smelling slightly of poo wasn’t the worst part of the experience.
- Monday 30th October 2006—There was a man who kept coming onto the Meadow (outside my window, living as I do in the front of the Meadows Building) at eight every morning and using what my intimate knowledge of the sounds of horticultural machinery (one of the many perks of living on a nursery) tells me is a strimmer.
- Wednesday 25th October 2006—I know I don’t keep my room in the best state ever. This tendency has been ingrained in me since childhood, when, as a toddler, I assumed that “bomshittit” (pronounced “boms-hittit”, IPA bɒmzhɪtɪt) was a real word meaning an especially squalid place because my mum would so frequently come into my room and say “This place looks like a bomb’s hit it.”
- Monday 23rd October 2006—A shop assistant trying too hard.
- Sunday 22nd October 2006—Today is the first day since (at least) July 14th that I’ve not worn shorts out of choice. I have been forced on three prior occasions.
- Thursday 19th October 2006—This evening I went to see journalist George Monbiot launching his new book Heat: How to stop the planet burning.
- Wednesday 18th October 2006—This evening I was treated to a cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal and nervous system exam. Most of it could be done lying down, which was good, because I am very tired after a night of listening to extractor fans.
- Tuesday 17th October 2006—You’ve got to be careful in my bathroom.
- Monday 16th October 2006—The only thing worse than going into a shop to buy camp, expensive conditioner is going into a shop to buy camp, expensive conditioner and discovering it’s on three for two and thus feeling duty-bound to make a bulk purchase for maximum cost efficiency.
- Sunday 15th October 2006—There’s only one thing worse than people who are impolite, and that’s those who are wish to impose their impeccable manners upon you.
- Thursday 12th October 2006—Living in student accommodation is a music-enjoying person’s nightmare.
- Wednesday 11th October 2006—It is a popular superstition that it is unlucky to put up an umbrella whilst inside.
- Tuesday 10th October 2006—Another company was ticked off the possible career list this evening.
- Monday 9th October 2006—There is something special about the battle of wits between the consumer and the incompetent member of technical support staff.
- Sunday 8th October 2006—In the last 48 hours, I have watched 18 episodes of series 2 of 24.
- Saturday 26th August 2006—I’ve been feeling inexplicably cheerful for the last few days. It’s getting quite annoying.
- Wednesday 9th August 2006—Let no-one underestimate the power of conditioning to overcome the rational human mind.
- Sunday 30th October 2005—Factually-inaccurate fame as one of Oxford’s student papers attempts to recount Statto’s run-in with the DSA.
- Wednesday 19th October 2005—The clash horns with Statto–JTA Publishing.
