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Death List 2010 – Tony Curtis

Well sadly Tony Curtis has died at 85. Even more sadly I took him off my death list for this year because he was looking better. I was wrong.

Gaussian blur

I was three quarters of the way through an In Our Time podcast with Melvyn Bragg and a couple of Mathematics professors from Warwick University, my alma mater, before the penny dropped. They were discussing the subject of imaginary numbers, and it’s a credit to the contributors that I at least felt I was keeping [...]

What language is this?

A new member of the G-shock community posted the following, on the web’s foremost G-Shock forum.

This outrages me on so many levels. What sort of cretin abuses the English language in this fashion? Where is his respect for punctuation, capitalisation, grammar or spelling? How about using words? This chap has obviously been texting for [...]

Look at the birdie

I like this shot of some black headed gulls at Cramond. They were lined up nicely on the low wall, until an unruly dog charged at them and off they flew. The somewhat responsible owner saw I was a trifle miffed and did apologise. No problem, an apology goes a look way in my book. [...]

My most interesting birthday present

was not the usual cheque (this year, disappointingly small – sorry to sound ungrateful but don’t they know I have standards and a luxuriant lifestyle to maintain), nor was it the usual shirt (M&S, blue checked, too large (better than too small)), nor was it the bottles of red from the bother – which were [...]

Richard Dawkins, the Pope & the Führer

I guess this is what Ratzinger may be referring to as “aggressive secularism” – I can’t argue with one word in Dawkin’s speech.

Marvellous stuff!

Ricky Hatton

News is out that boxer Ricky Hatton has had to make a grovelling apology to anyone who may have been aware of his existence, as he was caught snorting some cocaine.

The complete and total shame of it. No not the cocaine – what the feck is that watch he’s wearing? It’s an abomination.

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Art is but a …

Once again, in a desperate attempt to take this blog up market, three points and another packet of wine gums to the person who can first name the artist of this delicious, exquisite, delicately rendered still life.