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 Interlude of peace and love 13 Feb 2008 Have you ever noticed that there are occasionally periods in which things just work, particularly with computers? I find that there is a confluence of coherence about every four years. I’m not sure if it’s just because the vendors – the Evil Apple Empire, or Micro$oft, whoever – recognises that… Read More
Administrative Five-fiftysix meme 1 Dec 2008 New: Solutions listed Mike Dunford, who is still trying to get me to pay for that time he put me up in Hawaii when his wife was on active service in Iraq (if I knew what I’d have to pay, both in climbing horrific rainforested slopes to release wallabies, and… Read More
Administrative Crowdsourcing – online database in WordPress 28 Sep 201128 Sep 2011 Hi everyone. I have an idea: to set up a database of aphorisms by philosophers to which everyone can contribute, but which I will approve before it shows, and which everyone can search. Each record must include the bibliographical details and be by a recognised philosopher or historically important source… 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.