A Good Sentence

Good memory, though!

A Proposal

'No thank you, I'm otherwise engaged'

A Day's Work

He should be using Dropbox, I know.

Big Brother Is Watching You... Over the Fourth Wall

Metafictional shmetafictional.

Things that depend on us and things that don't

Please do this with your fingers for me --> X

It's a new dawn

Return of the doodles! sorry I forgot to put those online as they got published by TCS. This one may be vaguely biographical. It's a possibility.

Weekend Hobbies

I guess that means he has to work on it a little bit more.

The Limits of Thesis Depression

Once again, it snowed when I drew this. And then forgot it might not still be snowing two weeks later.

The Productive Procrastinator

You know you hate your thesis when cleaning the toilet begins to feel like a particularly attractive alternative.

(Almost) Independent Thought

As [my supervisor] shrewdly observes, [my advisor] is absolutely right to point out the excellence of [my external examiner]'s theory.

Life of Sisyphus

If only you could just submit that.

Statistical Package for Suspicious Studies

His Ethics & Risk Assessment checklist might be a little bit trickier than Jenny's.

Calculated Risks

Papercuts and drinking too much coffee, arguably, are the main risks of this sort of enterprise.

Thou Shalt Not Torture

The library is a treacherous place.

Worthwhile Preparations

One day I'll convert my whole PhD thesis to Wingdings.

Teaching Duty

Or, How to spend a nice Sunday afternoon marking student essays. Sorry for the late posting! I was on holiday. Shocking I know.

Pictures inspired by this page !

End of Term Blues

Seeing all these pregnant ducks makes me nostalgic.

On the shoulders of giants

BONUS GAMES: Name that Philosopher! Level of difficulty: 1.

The Examined Life

First published in TCS Lent Issue 2, 2011

Not having exams is great but at the same time it's a bit of an anticlimax. You get to May Week and you realise you have no reason to celebrate. Well, right, you've handed in your thesis but it's just not the same feeling. So then you don't really feel like going to May Balls anymore. Or maybe that's just the '4 years+ at Cambridge' syndrome...

La Tortura

"Bergsonian Duration is exactly 3000 times longer when coupled with Kantian thought." J. Travis, Journal of Philosophical Profoundities, Issue 416, n.3, p.247 (2011).