Name: Chris Yanda
Date registered: 29 March, 2011
Dec
12
I learned something Quite Interesting from the TV show QI this evening. Lobsters are, in theory, immortal. I won’t go too deeply into the scientific details. This isn’t because I’m worried that you, my dear reader, are too thick to understand them. I’m sure you are absolutely brilliant. It’s because I’m too lazy to look …
Nov
20
This year for Children in Need I did my old schtick of getting people to sponsor me to dress like a Mountie at work. To add a bit of incentive I promised if I raised £500, I would post a video of myself reciting the epic poem, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by Robert W. …
Aug
21
I have taken a new position in the BBC. It’s a great job working with some brilliant people on some very cool stuff. I’m not really supposed to talk about what we’re working on, but if the BBC ever builds a gadget that you can carry in your pocket and, with one drop of a …
Apr
02
The Red Arrow is a bus that runs 275km across the praire from Calgary to Edmonton and back again. There is no train between these two cities. Trains, on the whole, are a rarity in most parts of Canada. Real Men don’t take the train. They drive. Usually, they drive great big pickup trucks with …
