We have a new chest of drawers. It has a deep drawer at the bottom and two medium height drawers on top of that. On the top level, there are two drawers side by side. Or to put it another way 5 drawers; 2 on the same level, then 3 one under another. The top [...]
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Nice Chest
Posted in Articles on January 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Knowing when to stop can help you start
Posted in Articles on November 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have recently finished the current series of my internet radio show. It was broadcast every Sunday for around 2 hours. When I started the project, I decided that there would be a controlling theme. I include only songs that start with a certain letter. What I didn’t realise, which must count as one of [...]
What is natural?
Posted in Articles on November 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Imagine you are standing out in the countryside on a wonderful beautiful day. You are standing by a field of corn (or maize depending on how you look at things). The heads of corn wave in the breeze. Isn’t it lovely to get back to nature? Except what is natural about the scene? Man created [...]
Finding some direction
Posted in Articles on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There must be something in the way that I look that encourages people to come and ask me for directions. I’m not sure if it’s the way I dress or something in my general demeanour but I get asked for directions a lot. This isn’t even limited to the country in which I live. I [...]
What do you do with a spaceman?
Posted in Articles on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Park in it, man. How old is that joke? It has probably existed since the fifties. Space culture and science fiction have been influencing us for such a long time that it’s hard to conceive of life without the promise of the future. In recent years it has seemed to fade into the distance a [...]
Dream a dream
Posted in Articles on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have some strange dreams, most people seem to. Except when I talk to people about them, my dreams seem to be at least a bit different. Mine are often complete stories, I mean sometimes I have ethereal dreams like this: I go to bed, Katherine is to follow me up. Pete and her are [...]
Admiring the join
Posted in Articles on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Once, while having my ticket inspected on a train, the guard looked at the book I was reading and said, “Oh, you’re reading that. My brother read that once – hated it”. The book in question was “How to read a film” by James Monaco, a book which talks about not just what makes up [...]
24 hour framing
Posted in Articles on April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Many years ago I came into possession of a signed picture of Terry Farrell. Terry played a character in the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine. I had actually interviewed her on the telephone earlier that year and asked her such probing questions as, “What’s your favourite drink?”. It was Diet Coke, for reference. But [...]
Auto Antonyms
Posted in Articles on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An archive article at long last, we haven’t seen one of those in a while ironically. In these articles I take a look back at a thing from gamboling of yesteryear – this time Auto Antonyms. Auto Antonyms are words which have at least two meanings which contradict each other. An ideal example of this [...]
Optiplex superhero
Posted in Articles on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When casting about for something to write for the site I tend to scan through my notebook. Today I was a bit surprised to find this nugget: Optiplex superhero without superpowers except he can shoot yellow beams out of his eyes. Controlled experiment with eyepatch. Doesn’t light things up – useless in dark. Placebo effect. [...]
