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Does anyone know what it is that makes a good pint of Guinness? I guess it isn’t difficult to assess a bad pint, but what categorically puts a good one over a mediocre or even average one? The question’s prompted mainly by my meeting in Dublin on Wednesday – in the cab to the airport…
Office airconditioner’s knackered. Ordinarily I’m not one to be worried about such things (unlike some of my co-workers, who regard 16 degrees as “a heatwave”), however it’s presently got 2 particularly useless options. You can either get it to dispense warm air, or it’ll put out hot air. We rang the building maintenance people last…
OK so one of the joys of living in Camden (and indeed in London) is that there’s plenty of tramps about, and occasionally they’ll leave bits & pieces about the place. Found this lot out on our doorstep this morning. Looks like a nice night – couple of cans of Kronenbourg and an Onken mousse… …
Following on from the book list @Mooley made me make the other day, I thought I’d step out into further territory of subjectivity and cliche, and make the obligatory list of my 10 favourite films. So here we go. It’s worth mentioning at this point that the exercise wasn’t so much trying to work out…
I’m sure the plodding count of my Facebook collection is completely riveting reading for all concerned, but it seems a shame to have celebrated reaching 800, to then let 900 paddle past without mention. So firstly, congrats to Sam Brooke, my former Patrol Leader from 1st Torrens Park Scout Troop (Anacondas Patrol) for being #900….
Ordinarily I wouldn’t bitch about fashion availability, but this concerns the potential purchase of a pair of Awesome Trousers. My life’s goal is the acquisition of Awesome Trousers. I can’t seem to back this claim up with readily available photographs, but it’s true. Anyway, I just got an email from a company I’ve bought cool…
Just read in an interview with Ross Noble the following statement about my home town, Adelaide: Whereas other cities have spread themselves over several streets, Adelaide has not felt the need to do that. They’ve just gone, “Yeah, one street should do it. We’ll put the shops up one end and the restaurants down the…
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…
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…
For some reason I was recently alerted to a new word for my vocabulary. Ordinarily this is an opportunity to be relished, and customarily this initiates an intesne but short-lived campaign for me to try to work my newfound linguistic extension into the earliest possible conversational window it will fit into. Unfortunately options for this…