http://www.antigeek.net Yes, very good. Now let us never speak of this again. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As usual, it takes a week of holiday in Edinburgh to give me the time to write something for this blog.  I should probably make the theme tartan or something. First of all, to provide closure on the cliff-hanger of the previous post, the cool thing we did was spend an ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=199 Hot on the heels of a very wet walk home from Silent Disco, Kathy and I headed for Waverley station to catch the first of two trains which would deliver us eventually to Oban, in the west Highlands, for a week of relaxation. We're staying in the Glenbervie Guest House, which ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=196 The week in Edinburgh was one of the best.  There seemed to be a lot of fresh talent coming through and I saw probably more shows than I have in any previous year.  Some more very brief reviews below: Tim Vine - Punslinger *** Exactly what you want (and expect) from Vine ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=195 We're about half way through the Edinburgh trip this year, so time for a round-up of the stuff that I've seen so far (in the order in which I saw it): Andrew Maxwell's Supernatural *** Very funny (if a bit short) show Political Animal ** Good concept but slightly lacklustre guests when we saw ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=194 Hello.  I won't try and summarise all of the last year other than to say that it's been largely awesome. I'm currently sitting in a flat in Edinburgh, listening to Duke Special and watching the rain pound down outside.  After the stresses of the last couple of months (mostly related to ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=193 I saw this at lunchtime. It's still making me laugh now. Behold, the funniest ever Dinosaur Comics (and that's saying something). Oh, and I have some things to say about San Francisco but I'm probably waiting until I get bandwidth to upload photos and time to type on keyboards. http://www.antigeek.net/?p=190 In the last couple of days in Montreal we went to see Freestyle Love Supreme again (since they were so awesome), visited the Body Worlds 2 exhibit at the science museum, saw some extreme biking and a skateboarding competition and watched Family Guy Live. It was impressive to see Freestyle Love ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=189 On Wednesday we set out to explore the eastern side of the city, taking in the Biodome (which, like the Biosphere, failed to go into lockdown at any point), the Insectorium and the botanical gardens.  It was the hottest day so far of our trip which made it somewhat hard ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=188 Montreal's main chain stores can all be found underground, clustered around the metro stations.  This is initially hugely confusing and, for some reason, none of it is really signed from above ground in anything more than a cursory fashion.  But I've grown to enjoy the way that these little multi-level ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=187 Our Monday in Montreal was spent checking out the biosphere (not to be confused with the biodome but, seriously, what kind of city has both a biosphere AND a biodome anyway?  An AWESOME one is what.  Although it would have been better if one of them at least had gone ... http://www.antigeek.net/?p=186