Category: General

  • drink up, bar’s closed

    Well, that happened quickly, didn’t it? Twitter’s board demonstrating that (to use a lovely British turn of phrase) they have the breaking strain of a KitKat… Now seeing lots of second-hand reports of exodus from the birdsite, and I ain’t gonna judge, because I went and stopped using it (again) back at the turn of…

  • peak scandinavia

    Got yer moderately graphic but also slightly ironic Lego easter diorama right here, guv.

  • on those who cry wolf

    Apropos of everything at once and nothing in particular, I found myself thinking this morning—not for the first time—on the interpretations we have of fables and mythical archetypes, and how they don’t always stand up when you think a bit harder about them. One might argue that this is just a limits-of-metaphor issue, and yeah,…

  • the satisfactions of submission

    What did I get up to over the Easter weekend this year? Yup, crankin’ out a grant application, because academia is a harsh mistress, and I choose to abase myself in the hope of her favour. Thanks to slightly improved process management protocols on my part (read as: keeping track of when I do what…

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