(I hesitate to use the word ‘dumb’ to mean ’stupid’, since I am an English speaker).
BooksThatMakeYouDumb is someone’s attempt to correlate favourite books (as claimed on Facebook) with academic success (as measured by average SAT scores at American schools). Not that I really know what a SAT is, nor exactly what is meant by [...]
Remember University of Death?
When January came and nobody had given it to me as a Christmas present, I went ahead and bought it from Lulu.com, and I got to work late, reading the last two chapters in bed, then the ‘deleted scenes’ on the loo.
I’m still ill-placed to review it, being friends with Sean. [...]
It’s got warm enough to tackle some jogging. I have a lovely new iPod, but by going for capacity rather than compactness, it pulls my shorts down as I run. I don’t run for long, so I don’t need my whole collection on-tap. Something like an iPod Shuffle would fit the bill, but I [...]
Advance notice: February the 1st is the fourth annual ‘Take Your Box Camera to Work Day’. It will be my first.
I tell you this now, so that if you have the faintest interest, you can dig out or obtain a box camera, get some medium format film, and learn to load it, all in [...]
The folk stories of the Mabinogion are a mainstay of Welsh education, are rattling good yarns, and I’m sure contain glimpses of the roots of civilisation (what little I know about the Hindo Ramayana has strong echoes of the hunt for the Twrch Trwyth; a pursuit punctuated by transformations into various animal forms).
So here’s [...]
… and Sandy reminds me about Twitter.
Twitter is a peculiarly simple thing. If you ignore the technology, it’s basically micro-blogging. That is, it lets you publish a short piece of text, which gets a timestamp, and is broadcast for anyone to see. And that’s pretty much it. An individual entry is known as a [...]
I mean who wouldn’t. Look at that cheeky ‘hot secretary’ smile. The saucy bob; the perfectly curled eyelashes, and that pencil behind the ear denoting efficiency. Hubba!
Sandy, at IWantSandy.com is a ‘virtual personal assistant’. Really, ’she’ is a cross between ‘Eliza’ the old and unconvincing AI conversation program, and an online calendar, contact list [...]
Sean infected me with a meme, which I am propogating. In it you create a fictional album, by naming the band, album and all the tracks on it using the ‘Random article’ link on Wikipedia. No picking and choosing. The closest you get to creativity is choosing how many tracks there are.
Here’s mine.
Band: Cooling [...]
Debbie bought me season one of Twin Peaks on DVD for my birthday. It was a great success, so she sought out season two for Christmas, and what she ended up with was the new ‘Definitive Gold Box Edition’ of the whole lot. It’s smashing — season two is where the real weirdness kicks [...]
So, I ordered an actual tangible CD of Radiohead’s In Rainbows today. I feel like such a fogey old relic.