Over lunch, Bob and I disagreed on several aspects of the English language and its origins. According to Bob, English has fewer irregular verbs than ‘typical’ languages (and is generally more regular) is predominantly influenced by Latin and Greek I … Continue reading →

Warning: don’t read 15 Minute Lunch Blog while you are eating. Not unless you want to be cleaning bananas and custard off your screen. Here’s a quick sample – in which our blogger lists the Google searches that people have … Continue reading →

I figured out how to put the little clown dude in the header, but I think I need to post something to update the cache. Here goes…

Now that we have embraced Ceremonial Deism, our spiritual lives have improved 9-fold. Christmas was especially good this year. We don’t usually bother much with prezzies apart from a little something for the kids but this year we decided to … Continue reading →

Since I am now getting several thousand spam comments  a day I am trying out a new plugin to deal with them. Akismet provides a service where you send them all your comments and it tells you whether they are … Continue reading →

Both Tom and Jeff sent me links to Ted talks last week. I just watched Jeff’s one: We Must Win The Oil End Game It’s must see-TV. Even if you are not interested in oil or science or politics, go … Continue reading →

According to Paul Krugman in today’s NY Times, In a 1963 essay for Ms. Rand’s newsletter, Mr. Greenspan dismissed as a “collectivist” myth the idea that businessmen, left to their own devices, “would attempt to sell unsafe food and drugs, … Continue reading →

My lovely wife sent me this: Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. … Continue reading →

Oh! Hai! Every now and then something finds exactly the right spot on my funny bone and I laugh and laugh and laugh. There something about Absurdist Humour in the Monty Python (“Where is that fish?”), League of Gentlemen (“Those … Continue reading →

Nick Clegg has just been elected leader of the LibDems over in the old country and during a radio interview: Asked whether he had ever taken illegal drugs, he replied: “I’m going to cast a veil over that. It’s the … Continue reading →