Jasp’s Blog

Arthur C. Clarke provided one of my first forays into science fiction, although I forget which book I read first. However, I do not forget the books themselves.
My favourite Clarke novel was, “The City and The Stars,” a story about Alvin, the first human ‘born’ in the last city on Earth — Diaspar — for [...]

From the Moral Foundations test:
Harm: 3.5
Fairness: 4.1
Loyalty: 1.1
Authority: 0.6
Purity: 0.3
http://www.yourmorals.org/
Its a bit odd as my ideals are completely at odds with my personality. The figures here would suggest that I was a hedonistic and rebellious person, when I am nothing of the sort. (As anyone who knows me well would attest, although I’m fully expecting [...]

On my (one of my) first day(s) at school I arrived to find a new delivery of BBC Micros. The slightly imposing size of the system sat on its trolley obviously impressed a young me, yet what surprised me even more was seeing the system in operation. I was fascinated, and immediately decided it was [...]

On adding Guitar Hero III to my Amazon wishlist, I noticed that the box in the corner appeared to display the price, a lowly £28.99. Now surely this is wrong, and Amazon just didn’t expect the price to show, there is afterall no add to basket button, but it does make you wonder where they [...]

I stopped working at Alldays over five years ago now and yet I still remember the barcode for a Creme Egg. Its probably some secret code amongst past cashiers, see who has served their time behind the till of a convenience store.

Oh dear. I like Wikipedia, its a lot of fun and usually reasonably accurate, but I just stumbled across an article which was almost entirely false. I can understand a few misconceptions sneaking in, but what possesses someone to write about a topic on which they clearly have no idea; especially when its something that [...]

I saw an advert for the Dr. Who spin-off torchwood on the side of a bus today. Has anyone else noticed the similarity to some of the Blade Runner imagery. Do you think this is intentional?
Hmm, had turned off comments. How silly.

On going home I decided to bring my recipe book, a small hard backed notebook which I use to collect recipes from different sources. On copying down various family favourites I was struck by the similarities between recipe distribution and the attitudes of the ‘copyleft’ movement.
My mums collection of recipes from various sources: friends, relatives, [...]