Jack's Blog

The station was empty.

As in, empty. Carl’s train was scheduled to leave at 23:53, and he was fairly certain it was the only train running at that point anywhere in the country. There was one other person at the station, a half-asleep security guard hiding behind his desk in a booth on the next platform over.

This is why Carl was surprised to see the drunk. (more…)

Below is an article I wrote at the request of someone I met when I was on the education panel. I never sent it to him because it took me months to say exactly what I wanted to, and by that time I thought it was probably a bit late. So here it is, for the first time.

As far back as 1818 with the first publication of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, people have been afraid of science. (more…)

Another morning, another hang over, another jazz club and another lousy pay check. Gus is me. I work for a newspaper. Jazz clubs, mostly. It’s a heap of bull. This is a town full of vice and big stories just waiting to come crashing down on the little paper I work for, and I can’t do jack shit about it.

So I get up and I go to work, and again, Ray (my boss) says: (more…)

It’s December, 2006. This christmas, a sensation will erupt into stores globally, breaking sales records all over the place and generally making one company a lot of money. This sensation is a games console, packed with amazing, innovative new features, and a stellar launch lineup with the promise of even more in a matter of weeks. The company? Nintendo. The sensation? This thing. According to Nintendo’s figures, the Wii has sold almost 90 million units, a figure they’ll surely break come Christmas time. Being a long time fan of Nintendo, I was hoping they’d replicate earlier successes and got one for christmas.  (more…)

I’ve been watching quite a few new TV shows recently, and it’s got me thinking about the phases you go through watching a new show. Not just how you react to one show individually, but how watching one show affects others, and how watching a programme after all the episodes have been released affects your viewing of it. (more…)

This month I partook of movember, which I’m sure you’ve all heard of. I wanted to join in, but I didn’t want to have a weird, awkward moustache hanging around making me look like a class-a rapist, so instead I just let the whole thing grow and shaved the beard off at the end. I figured that way, people might just think I hadn’t shaved in a while.

Anyway, here’s the sum of my efforts:

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I’ve been stuck back at home in Leeds with very little to do, so I’ve redone the place. Feedback would be appreciated.