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OK, so one of my favourite particle physicists – Dr Simon Singh, author of “Big Bang” (the best book I’ve ever read on the development of understanding of the origin of the universe) – is in a spot of legal hot water at the moment surrounding a comment piece he wrote for The Guardian (mirrored…
What a weekend! This year saw the 75th anniversary of The Morris Ring, celebrated at the Thaxted Ring Meeting (I know, the what?!), and once again the Westminster Morris Men were honoured to participate. What this translates into for our young hero is a weekend absolutely jam-packed with dancing, beer sampling, travelling around Essex, watching…
I’ve hinted in prior blogs about being an avid reader (and subscriber) of the great British magazine, Viz. One of the things that appeals most to me is the outright stupidity inherent in a lot of the material in it. The “Top Tips” is always a favourite, however I’m a massive fan of “Letterbocks”. It’s…
Bugger. Just found out from Dad that our little dog Bojangles passed away this morning back in Adelaide: something to do with diabetic complications, which we didn’t realise he had. I was really looking forward to seeing him again at Christmas. Depressingly stupid animal, but a real little character, scamp & scoundrel nonetheless. We think…
Adelaidean superstar BKK & her sword-wielding boyfriend moved over to sunny London fairly recently (I say “recently” – I think they’ve been over about 6 months now, but then I’m still working on blog posts from that long ago too, so it’s all relative, innit?), and it’s been marvellous fun to have more people from…
My mathematics career (if you could even loosely call it that) was never likely to be stellar, I’m afraid. I muddled along OK for a while, taking in probability & basic calculus** pretty well, as well as imaginary numbers & matrix transformations. It got a little bit thicker in amongst trigonometric calculus, but I managed…
The ever wise and relevant Rob piped up on Facebook the other day with the age old question, prompted by the statement: “Captain America is the weakest of the super heroes”. The more astute of you will notice that that doesn’t present a question at all, and you’d be right. The posing of the question…
Anyone looking at maximising their relaxation time and restorative sleep benefits would be well advised not to volunteer to arrange a day of morris dancing for 170 blokes from around the country for the centre of London. It certainly cuts into one’s blogging time. And that seems like a nice segue into mentioning that this…
In mid-March, former housemate & distiguished gentleman Bushy called upon me to join him for a weekend’s beer-festivalling, and as I couldn’t find a flaw anywhere in this plan, I did so. Our goal was the historic brewing gem of Burton-on-Trent – once home to the Bass company (now owned by multinational brewing giant Molson-Coors),…
I had aspirations of writing some kind of add-on for WordPress so I could list stuff which I’m currently liking, however it seems a lot easier at this juncture just to write a blog post about it. And why not, eh? Here goes… (the links are all in the titles – for some reason this…