Liz didn’t want to go to gym, not after last night’s conversation with Barbara. Liz had mentioned Jim, hadn’t she, but she hadn’t meant to. It was… It was just an idle thought that crossed her mind. Why she had voiced it to Barbara last night, she would never know. Liz had simply asked, “so, [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Jim at Gym
Posted in Fiction, Short on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Andronov Calendar
Posted in Archive on January 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week in the new Archive section, I hinted that while Dave “wrong about my temperature scale” Gorman wasn’t a fan of my temperature scale, he was a bit more keen on another of my ideas. In fact this was because he had come up with the exact same idea about 5 years after me. [...]
Warming up
Posted in Articles on January 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It would seem that men and women run at different temperatures. This seems to be a universal truth. I am warmer than Katherine at almost all times. And that’s because, like most girls, Katherine is a radiator. All of her heat is being transmitted outwards.* So what do we do about this? We turn the [...]
Describe the internet in 140 characters?
Posted in Questions on January 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »
This is the second of my series of questions for you in the comments, so let me introduce the idea. I’ll ask you a question, like today’s, “Describe the internet in 140 characters?” and you either answer in the comments, or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. So that’s the [...]
Where can I go from here?
Posted in Articles on January 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
As we’ve been talking about my mythical travel planning website idea, we’ve had a couple of pieces of feedback. First my friend Rich, hot on the heels of his converter of the London BBC Weather site for degrees Andronov has made an implementation of the distance to hot problem mentioned in this post last week. [...]
Closing in on reality
Posted in Creative on January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There is something about a theory that is hard to accept in the abstract. These things require some element of physical form to enter into reality. My father has leaped into the breach and has started work on an honest to goodness Andronov Temperature thermometer. Sure, he’s only written the A and the degrees symbol [...]
The Andronov Temperature Scale
Posted in Archive on January 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Thursdays are archive day on Gamboling at the moment. Time to unearth something… So this week I’ve been remembering that at one point I thought that, once in your life, you really want to get a thing named after you. Dancers get desserts. People who save people who are drowning get a crescent named after [...]
Distance to hot
Posted in Articles on January 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure if you remember my idea for a travel website but I have been thinking about it some more, and I am pretty certain that there is another problem that needs solving. I have just been trying to figure this out for myself and there seems to be no sane or easy way [...]
What was the first film you remember seeing?
Posted in Questions on January 5, 2010 | 26 Comments »
This is the first of our series of questions for people in the comments, so let me introduce the idea. I’ll ask you a question, like today’s, “What was the first film you remember seeing?” and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. So [...]
It’s health and safety gone mad
Posted in Articles on January 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In Stewart Lee’s first series of his Comedy Vehicle, he made the point that a lot of people seem to be getting quite confused between Health and Safety and Political Correctness. I was exposed to this the other night in a taxi. I know you should never take what taxi drivers say to heart, but [...]
