A month or two back, looking to publiscise the work I do, I got talking to the university PR people. It was suggested I email Steve Cross at Science Showoff and do a 9 minute stand-up science/comedy set for them. I was skeptical to say the least; but noting ventured, nothing gained. I prepared a …
Category Archives: humour
Revenge
Fixing the archives has thrown up this post I drafted in 2006 and never got around to publishing. The dog and the old git are long since vanished – no idea whatever happened to them. The 2006 post starts below this line. Reminded of this by a post from Scaryduck today. DTL vs the Fluff-Ball …
The cackhanded scrawl of my eight year old self.
I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then. I was an electronics geek even back then… And a consummate storyteller. I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though. And while I now love spiders, I …
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Tech support to random neighbours…
The door bell rang earlier – I answered it to one of the lesser seen neighbours carrying a laptop. “Hello, I’m Brian from number 18, I wondered if you could do me a favour, Tony says you are good with computers.” “Hello, Er, Ok. What’s the problem?” Brian had been using someone else’s WiFi connection …
Play
Having just had to suffer several hours of commercial radio due to builders some distance away with a loud radio, I needed to hear some decent music again. So does Bill Hicks… Bill Hicks at his most passionate – contains language Embedded video isn’t showing up for some reason, try the link instead.