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Category Archives: RANDOM
Happy Birthday, Mikey
While I try not to embarrass or reveal too much about my delightful offspring, when I asked Mikey awhile back about whether he minded me posting a particular picture of him, he paused and then said, “Mum, my whole life … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM
50 Comments
What about getting your news from the television, she wondered …
Given that my sorties into the written news have led to an explosion of forensic linguistics whenever I read, I thought I would try the more passive approach of letting the television wash over me, as I practice bad sleep-hygiene … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM, RANTS
31 Comments
Please let the sum go up on me …
When I was a kid and game theory was a new and hot topic I remember conversations going on around me about a “zero some gain” thing, and as the youngest of three, I totally understood. I got zero and … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM, RANTS
33 Comments
Because nothing says bossy like banning something …
Is it really true? Can we change humanity by banning words? Is it liberating to limit your vocabulary? Who is to tell us which words we can and can’t use? Someone bossy? I went to school with a kid who’s … Continue reading
Posted in RANDOM, RANTS
44 Comments
So this guy was yacking about money on the telly last night
and he mentioned that old saying, or combo of sayings for a mixed metaphor smorgasbord, “the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” They were discussing bitcoin and whether it was toast (I thought it … Continue reading
Posted in LANGUAGE, RANDOM
92 Comments
So you read the news, instead of being a happy ostrich,
and Russia has retaken the Crimea. What to think, say or do? Firstly, it was very nice of Mr Putin to wait until after the Olympics to invade a neighbouring, autonomous, country. After all, when you are going to do … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM, RANTS
22 Comments
My slovenly ways, justified once again …
so put down that broom, and build yourself an outhouse. I wish my introduction to this topic had not been so scatological, as a close relative [but not that close!] described how people were getting poop enemas, the poop coming … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE, RANDOM
64 Comments
Serious on a Sunday? Just for a moment of your time …
It is an old topic, but it never gets old: emotional vampires. In the legend that has grown up around Bram Stoker’s Dracula, there is a crucial piece of advice that could save one a lot of trouble: you have … Continue reading
Posted in I AM FINALLY AWAKE, LIFE, RANDOM
35 Comments
Sleep deprivation experiment, day four: IQ matches temperature
outside, not body. One can readily understand how sleep deprivation would break one down, and make one hallucinatory. And how can it be, that when one is so tired that one could nod off in the most inappropriate places, one … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM
43 Comments
And then nothing much happened … and it was good
It really is great when not much happens. Things happening is much over-rated. Makes for good copy, but that’s just because we love to complain. And not just because we are all whiners. A conversation that goes along the lines … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM
101 Comments
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