About Black Knight
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Black Knight has been a professional research scientist since being awarded his DPhil in 1994. He believes that he is still in training, as he is constantly learning new things about the profession and science itself.
He is interested in many things, which probably explains his inability to stick with a single research project for very long. The interaction of science (as a day job and as a way of thinking) with his family, the wider community and literature is a particular subject of this weblog.
All characters and events referred to are real. The thinly-veiled anonymity of the Black Knight is in order to protect his colleagues and family from ridicule. He does, however, welcome feedback of any kind and the email address blackasknight@gmail.com is valid.
Some of the posts might appear at a nonymous weblog, elsewhere.
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Black Knight's recent entries...
- Dear Customer
- Enforced holiday
- Evidence for 'complementary' therapies
- killing the mood
- Excuse me while I wipe the phlegm off my keyboard
- Wow.
- On Open Science
- What I did On my holidays—update
- Doing it properly
- Scared yet?
- On Canberra
- STD removals
- Are we nearly there yet?
- And then, we will invade Poland
- Pour encourager les autres
- When abbreviations go bad
- Changelings
- Little fishes
- True story
- Science Blogging 2008—Part 3
- My tubes
- Seminar notice
- Science Blogging 2008—Part 2
- On nomenclature
- Hints for speakers
- Science Blogging 2008—Part 1
- 'When a man in a punt...'
- From the Department of "Hot damn but that's cool"
- What's for breakfast?
- Marry 'twas a sharp retort
- Challenge
- When the smoke clears...
- Hello London
- Update
- Leaving, on a jet plane
- Squaring the circle
- Drinking the Kool-Aid
- Microscopy
- Immigration
- Hunh?
- Still got it
- Fear
- Not good
- I'm not a number, I'm a
freeman! - Woo hoo!
- Overheard
- Spooling up
- I'd tell you, but then I'd have to shoot you
- Dear Claire
- Homeopathic cleansing
- Good for something
- Two there must be
- Big Country
- Translation requested
- Some days you have to laugh
- SPG
- Let's talk about this
- iProtein
- Viral marketing goes endemic
- Shameless plug
- Fight
- What's left
- ta-ra for now
- Important notices
- That word does not mean what you think it does
- Alive and kicking
- Always take the weather
- Pretty
- It's only natural...
- Fail
- All the right words...
- A cleansing experience
- Time to switch
- Self-fulfilling prophesy
- Things you didn't know about scientists (and probably wished that were still so) #3
- All I ask is a tall sheep
- Procedural Notice
- Irreproducible results — The answer!
- Brain dead
- Call for papers
- Things you didn't know about scientists (and probably wished that were still so) #2
- Inappropriate behaviour, Part 2
- Inappropriate behaviour
- Things you didn't know about scientists (and probably wished that were still so) #1
- This is what science is really for!
- On the naming of parts - #3C
- That word doesn't mean what you think it does
- Riding the scientific rollercoaster
- Oh, that's rather splendid
- Sweetest thing
- Head, desk.
- In memoriam
- The Professionals
- I'd let you watch, I would invite you
- And may I lick the road tar from your Porsche while I'm at it?
- Sex and rugs and rock and roll
- But you knew this, anyway
- Mmm
- 'Get off yer bums'
- It was a fun party
- n = 3
- Mol Biol is for wimps
- Young ones
- By the power of my mind alone...
- An undefinable moment of dread
- Spaghetti, toothpicks and copper wire
- On the naming of parts
- It's a jungle out there — redux
- Got the greens for you
- Happy daze
- Communication Breakdown # a zillion
- Another book of matches
- High energy girls
- It's a jungle out there
- Wikiworrying
- The write stuff
- Indian Summer
- First they came for the books, and I did not speak up, for I was not a book
- Shiny!
- Muppetry
- Feedback
- Commenting?
- On the work/life balance
- On having a bad day
- From the 'Damn, but that's cool' department
- On the choice of music
- On randomization, Monte Carlo, and the Fisher-Yates shuffle
- This is your brain, in a jar
- Protocol of the $TIMEPERIOD - DNA Miniprep
- On Dilbert-speak
- On communicating results
- Two minutes to midnight
- Parting is such sweet sorrow
- On the etiquette of wearing iPods
- Neologisms
- Wooden heart
- Liar's Bar — 11
- Protocol of the $TIMEPERIOD - DNA Maxiprep
- Lickin' road clean w' t' tongue
- Fifteen minutes
- Well, I can't help you there
- Retraction
- Build your own citation index
- Tumbleweed
- Who was that masked man?
- Liar's Bar — 10
- Aw yeah, Gidday.
- Liar's Bar — 9
- Liar's Bar — 8
- We are not amused
- Liar's Bar — 7
- New Year's Day
- Liar's Bar — 6
- Liar's Bar — 5
- Number 1
- Nobody loves me but my mother
- Liar's Bar — 4
- Think
- Atom Bomb
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Help!
- Don't think twice, it's all right
- Complete control
- Liar's Bar — 3
- Drive
- Come on in my kitchen
- Not pretty enough
- Midnight at the lost and found
- Liar's Bar — 2
- Song 2
- You're the one that I want
- Spacehead
- Liar's Bar
- Also sprach Zarathustra
- I can see for miles
- Happy Birthday!
- Should I stay or should I go?
- My Beloved Monster
- Big Country
- Bridge over troubled water
- Any colour you like
- Let's spend the night together
- Fake plastic trees
- I still haven't found what I'm looking for
- The Hunter
- Wind of change
- Protocol of the Month - Nuclear Extract
- Everybody hurts
- Smoke on the Water
- You took the words right out of my mouth
- It's nobody's fault but mine
- Public Image
- Money for Nothing Part 2
- Money for Nothing
- Word of the Week — 40
- Bad to the Bone
- The Trees
- Dumb
- Better things
- Suspicious Minds
- Swing low, sweet chariot
- You're so great
- Words don't come easy
- Freak of Nature
- Lost in the supermarket
- How do you? — redux
- Help!
- How do you?
- The Saucy Sailor Boy and other sea shanties
- Word
- Money — remix
- Since you been gone
- Don't know why
- Looking for a rainbow
- Money
- Everybody hurts
- Glory Days
- No woman no cry
- Wind of Change
- Picture this
- Life is so easy now
- Just the one
- Hey You
- Riding with the King
- When will I be famous?
- Crosswords
- Will you still love me tomorrow?
- Velvet Green
- Call me
- Quote of the Week — 8
- I am the fly
- Mini-Correct
- Extraordinary Girl
- I don't like Mondays
- Word of the Week — 39
- Too much
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- Everybody wants to rule the world
- Quote of the Week — 7
- Word of the Week — 38
- Quote of the Week — 6
- County Fair
- Word of the Week — 37
- Quote of the Week — 5
- God's Children
- Hard to say I'm sorry
- Word of the Week — 36
- Quote of the Week — 4
- Everybody's Talkin'
- The Hunter
- Bad
- Girls on film
- Quote of the Week — 3
- Shiver
- If I could turn back time
- Quote of the Week — 2
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- She's electric
- Thank You
- Reasons to be cheerful
- Quote of the Week
- Bar Italia
- Charmless Man
- Know your enemy
- Green Eyes
- Limerick — 3
- Money
- Greensleeves
- Singing the blues
- The Art of Headhunting
- Words of Love
- Limerick - 2
- Song 2
- Oh to be in England - update
- Atom bomb
- All you need is love
- Confession
- Oh to be in England
- Limerick
- Here On Earth (I'll Have My Cake)
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One 'Beer'
- Something about you
- Tommy Gun
- Where have all the flowers gone?
- Like wow!
- Piece of my heart
- Rainy day in Soho
- Four sticks
- On your own
- Harmony
- Good as gold (stupid as mud)
- Hello
- Local Hero
- Word of the Week — 35
- If you tolerate this your children will be next
- Don't dream it's over
- Word of the Week — 34
- Imitation of life
- Word of the Week — 33
- Blowing in the Wind
- Wrong again
- Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not
- Shiny Happy People
- Word of the Week — 32
- Squeeze Me (remix)
- Accolade
- Sleep
- Squeeze Me
- Word of the Week — 31
- Sheep
- Young ones
- Into temptation
- Word of the Week — 30
- Sick of it
- Word of the Week — 29
- Take me to the river
- Strobe Light
- Afternoons and coffeespoons
- Michael row the boat ashore
- Word of the Week - 28
- Everybody's talkin'
- The hardest part
- Word of the Week - 27
- Quiet
- Perfect 10
- Word of the Week - 26
- Burns
- Don't look back in anger
- Word of the Week - 25
- Smoke on the water
- Powerslave
- Return to sender
- Once more unto the breach
- Half the lies you tell ain't true
- Running on faith
- Warning Sign
- Word of the Week - 24
- The sidewinder sleeps tonight
- Mean green mother from outer space
- Meds
- Employment
- Word of the Week - 23
- Some might say
- My Iron Lung
- Suicide is Painless
- Word of the Week - 22
- Mermaid
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
- Unbelievable
- Cheat
- Word of the Week - 21
- Less is more
- Twisted Logic
- Roadblock
- New kid on the blog
- Word of the Week - 20
- Morning Glory
- Blues power
- Word of the Week - 19
- Patent pending
- OK computer
- Clone me a river
- Time honoured tradition
- World in union
- Word of the Week - 18
- Milk and alcohol
- We don't need another hero
- Hallowe'en
- Merrily we roll along - 2
- Word of the Week - 17
- Code Red
- I think I'm a clone now
- Under my thumb
- High Speed
- You can't always get what you want
- I can't get no. . .
- Word of the Week - 16
- Another brick in the wall
- She comes in colours
- Rave on
- Word of the week - 15
- When will I see you again?
- Signs of our times
- Word of the Week - 14
- Words don't come easy
- Shiny
- Young heart
- Survival of the fittest
- Word of the Week - 13
- Who do you think you are?
- Joy in small places
- Combination of the two
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- It's not that easy being green
- Word of the Week - 12
- She's electric
- Blue Moon
- You took the words right out of my mouth
- The Naming of Rats
- One of my turns
- Strange brew
- Word of the Week - 11
- Typecast
- Fix you
- Muppet Show
- Life is a lemon and I want my money back
- Spoonful
- There's a rat in mi lab
- When will I be famous?
- Mortal Coil
- Word of the Week - 10
- Merrily we roll along
- Electric Light Testing
- Everybody loves me, baby (what's the matter with you?)
- Honours and glory
- Running around the Quad naked
- I talk to the trees
- Space Oddity
- I'd like to table a motion
- Crosstalk
- X and Y
- Word of the Week - 9
- Epiphany
- Wake up and sniff the oestrogen
- Slap one on
- Hands across the ocean
- It must mean something
- Off-topic
- Cobbers
- That sound you hear is my brain going 'pop'
- Word of the Week - 8
- Now that's what I'm talking about
- Biology is for girls and there's no eff in physics
- Don't mind me, I just work here
- The lunatics have taken over the asylum
- Word of the week - 7
- As above, so below
- Love songs and negotiations
- Band on the run
- Sad bGCCAGCACCGCCAGAGACAGC
- Be still, my beating heart
- Romani ite domum
- Scientist Awareness Week
- I'm a professional cynic
- Word of the Week - 6
- Friday wibblings
- Hah
- Tame reps
- The future's bright. . .
- Bouncing babies
- Morning is broken
- Just another whinging postdoc
- I censor, you censor, we census
- Coverup
- Word of the Week - 5
- Scientists Anonymous
- Synchronicity
- Head/wall
- Closing down sale
- Helter Skelter
- Word of the Week - 4
- Of mice and men
- Dare to be stupid
- You tube
- Squeak
- Back in left field
- Don't play with matches
- Signal:noise
- Synthetic chemists
- At least death only happens once
- Clarification
- Word of the Week - 3
- It's not (just) about the money
- Wrong sort of train on the line
- Crystal muck
- Perks?
- True life
- Glossary
- Crystal clear
- Open source goodness
- Radio ga-ga
- Word of the Week - 2
- Something for the weekend. . .?
- Killer tubes ate my PCR
- Communication Breakdown
- Disposable students
- Mycoplasma
- Technorati Profile
- I don't like Mondays
- Natural born scientists
- Great match. . .
- When is a door not a door?
- Word of the Week
- Tip for Today
- What a tangled WebWeWeave
- Big Brother
- Help, help, I'm being repressed!
- Why do we do it?
- Off-site backup

