Literary Ambitions

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define great, he said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl [...]

Juke Box; 1948

This was an interesting year as the first signs of Rock’n Roll appeared as did a little Calypso. There was even a little country being played. Go on, click on the juke box

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep

Your New Years Resolution is…Remind other people of their failed resolutions. You can easily meet this resolution starting sometime around late February. Just start asking your friends how they’re doing with that weight loss. Getting their money’s worth out of that gym membership? Are all those McDonald’s visits they still make fitting in well with [...]

The Olympic Eskimo

One of the contenders I saw at the recent Winter Olympics was an Eskimo who competed in the downhill slalom. The trouble was that he just kept getting in the way of the other skiiers. At first I couldn’t believe my eyes, but then I realized he was just an obstacle Aleutian!

Mathematics in a Wood Fired Oven

Bug Week 3

Bug Week 2

Following on from the bug on Monday, here is another. A dragonfly which exposes my limitations with an SLR on manual focus. He never quite stayed in the same place fore more than a second. This was the best of a dozen shots I took. I am suitably chastened.

Tuesday Tune

Computer Viruses

Adam and Eve virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple. Airline virus: You’re in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore. Arnold Schwarzenegger virus: Terminates and stays resident. It’ll be back. Parliamentary Virus: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for [...]

YIKES! It’s a – - – Bug!

Whew, I thought I was going to be in trouble again.

Better than Spinal Tap Amps

Randall, of course, from xkcd

Grandma’s Life #25

A selection of pages from Weldon’s Home Dressmaker- Dance Frocks; a monthly publication. Unknown date, 1930s. Burgled once again from the pages of Vintage Scans

BBC Quiz of the Year

No crowns or dunce’s caps this time. Just 12 questions on events of 2009. I scored 6/12 How will you go in the BBC Quiz of the Year?

December 25th

(run your cursor over the cartoon – – – ) I was born on December 23rd, many years before and half a world away from that blizzard. In the midst of another sort of storm my Air Force Sergeant Mother met my Air Force Corporal Father. I am the history of that meeting. I turned [...]

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