Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Feb 27th, 2008
There is a verb in our marriage: to collopse.
I forget who used it first, a child perhaps. But the first to collopse, the person for whom the word was coined, was a plastic donkey with elasticated legs. When the base of his little pedestal was pushed… he collopsed, to general amusement. Every time.
All that remains [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 19th, 2008
Elonex has just announced the UK’s first £100 laptop. It will be available next week. Naturally, at this price, it runs Linux.
Back when IBM announced the PS/2 microchannel architecture to try to win back control of the PC market I struck it off the approved vendors list at a large company where I worked and [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 18th, 2008
Briefly, one of those
Why didn’t I think of that?
moments: light and dark chocolate chess pieces in the New York Times. Later, I searched Google Image for some chocolate pawnography.
So much for the chess proverb
After the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box
This is a game I could play. With Lindt [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 10th, 2008
Yesterday evening we went for a stroll across Regent’s Park to Primrose Hill (panorama) and back around the edge of the park. Everywhere the daffodils and snowdrops were up. It was a fine spring evening in what should have been winter. It’s become a truism that we now have only 3 seasons.
En route we [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 8th, 2008
A few days ago The Atlantic Monthly opened its archive to web traffic. It’s one of my favourite American publications, along with The New Yorker. As result I can point you to something that you will enjoy. It will also make you a wise, entertaining and well informed dinner party guest. Well, on at least [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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