Thin Ice in Thin Prose

Thin Ice is a BBC comedy show. It is on every Tuesday at 10:00 on BBC2 (or you can watch it via the interweb)

It is brilliant. You must watch it. Message ends.

Pressing Engagement

Writing press releases today to tell the world about our success at Microsoft. I think I might get one of those green eyeshades like they have in old movies, just to give the prose that proper editorial slant.

Misheard?

....well, we had all the dancers wrapped in tinfoil and the rehearsals with the orchestra completed in time for the full moon. But as the werewolves were coming in someone at the back asked "Are you sure they said silver ballet?"

Shopping for Bargains and Shutting off the Power

Went up town with number one son today. Which was nice. Although I always seem to spend more when he is around. I'm not quite sure why this is, he protests quite strongly when I start to buy something, and definitely sees himself as the voice of reason in this respect.

But I still end up getting stuff. In this case I bought the game Lumines for the PSP. It is rather impressive in a "tetris on acid" kind of way. It never ceases to surprise me how games manufacturers can come up with different takes on falling blocks that need to be jiggled in some way.

I also found out something about the PSP (and also my stupidity I guess). You can just turn it off. In the middle of a game. Previously I've been carefully exiting my games and then shutting down the power. You know, like you do with the PC. However, just to see what happens I turned the PSP off in the middle of a game. And when I turned it back on again the game was still there. Amazing. I suppose that this is all in the thick little book which came with the device (being a thick big person I never read that of course).

Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings

Bad things that happened today: At the celebration meal at TGIF on the way back from the competition I dropped a piece of some chilli stuff off my fork in my bag onto the tablet PC.

Good things that happened today: Everything else. And I mean everything else. We won big. We won the lot. I think I've just slid into an alternative reality where I'm writing the script for a while (but even I wouldn't have dared write down what has happened today). The various Hull teams took over the competition like a really tough bunch of highly trained competition ninjas. Which they sort of were. We ended up with first, second and third place. Amazing. The rest of the world must even as I write this be planning their revenge. Let them try. We can take it. After today we can take anything.

After we had cleaned out Microsoft we went out for our meal where the one bad thing of the day happened. After that it was the smoothest bus ride we have ever had from Reading to Hull. No hold ups, in bed before midnight.

I'm incredibly proud of the students in all the teams. I'm proud of my colleagues who came along to provide mentoring support. Very well done people. I'm fairly sure that real life will be kicking back in soon. If you want to find out more, and see some pictures, take a look here.