Guards! Guards! trailer 8 Sep 2009 Will someone get Terry to employ this guy gal (but make sure there’s a proper foley and sound editor)? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLyeVTmZGc&hl=en&fs=1&] Humor Pop culture
Humor Pi Day 9 Mar 200918 Sep 2017 Apparently it’s Pi day on March 14*, which means you get to eat a pie. But Americans do not understand what a pie is. That’s not a pie… this is a pie: Real pies have meat, preferably with well-known common names like “beef”, in them. And you eat them with… Read More
General Science Expertise and ignorance 21 Mar 2008 On the one hand you have Jake Young discussing the role of expertise in public debates, concluding that maybe experts shouldn’t expect that information from knowledgeable folk will automatically influence the uneducated. On the other hand, this… Read More
Thanks for the reminder of Guards! Guards! but I found this rather offputting. Maybe it is my computer, but the volume oscillated between very loud and very soft, so I had to adjust the control all the time. Belated thanks for putting me onto the Pratchett series, by the way John – I have read 15 of them so far.
Well, that really, really sucked. Awful animation; strange, almost incomprehensible, accents; and terrible sound production. It’s time to re-read some Pratchett just to make me forget that rubbish. — Martin