Slowing down 12 Jan 2008 I am blogging lightly while I write madly in Real World™ conditions – some deadlines approach, such as grant deadlines, paper deadlines, book review deadlines and editing deadlines. That said, I will pop up for a bit occasionally, but bear with me. Deadlines being what they are, I will either return in early February to my normal lack of sense, or be dead (just don’t cross that line – editors are vicious). Administrative
Administrative COSMOS – a cool magazine 1 Jan 2008 Today I received my copy of COSMOS (not Cosmo, you perves!) in which my article appeared. I have to say (and not just because they showed the good taste to print me) that this is one of the better science magazines I have seen. It reminds me of OMNI at… Read More
Administrative I get email 15 Mar 2011 Only one of the very many things I share with PZ Myers (apart from the success, the job, the handsomeness, the youth, and the Trophy Wife™) is that occasionally I get emails from crackpots. When you get an email whose Subject line is Fw: Tidal Wave Hit Japan and Alaska… Read More
Administrative Feedback now has to be authenticated 2 Jun 2008 The snivelling little boy, Mats Envall, who thinks that walking into someone’s living room and pissing on the floor is acceptable behaviour, has forced me to make comments require my manual authentication. I am sorry for the rest of you, but we are up to 122 spams from the idiot…. Read More
Great. I’ve become somewhat addicted to this blog and now you tell me you’re gonna reduce supply. Is this a form of conditioning, where you give what’s sought in dribs and drabs, to strengthen behavior? If so, it’ll probably work.
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
I’m not going away (look out Bob, or I’ll sneak up behind you and thump), just relaxing a bit. Neasden.
You can never really leave… When that I was and a little tiny boy With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man’s estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, ‘Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, With toss-pots still ‘had drunken heads, For the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world began, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, But that’s all one, our play is done, And we’ll strive to please you every day. — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The Latin for “Dog eat dog,” is “Canis canem edit.” One suspects that the Romans knew something about editors that we’ve forgotten.