Stuff; stuff; more stuff

1. Have been battling meeces recently. Like any Edinburgh tenement, the place is full of holes that mice can get through. I went to B&Q to buy expanding foam, but an employee advised me that mice just get a taste for that and chew through it. So, as per his advice, I've been stuffing holes with wire wool instead. (It is a well-known fact that sheep that give us wire wool have no natural enemies.)
2. It struck me this morning that, presumably, Richard Dawkins has a godparent. Worst. Failure. Ever.   8^)
3. I've just been told by my MSc dissertation supervisor that there is the possibility of getting access to a Lego Mindstorms kit, with a Java interpreter installed on the brain brick. It seems my Braitenberg vehicles project might not end up being purely simulated after all...