Administrative Win Apple stuff. Give it to me. 12 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 Our Seed Overlords have bling to give away. All you have to do is take a survey and they might give you an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Keep the Air and give me the rest if you win. Don’t tell the Overlords though. They… Read More
Chocosophy The Endarkenment 8 Jun 201221 Jun 2018 Philosophy has always used metaphors of light and vision for wisdom and knowledge. A famous book, Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), discussed these visual metaphors in detail. We speak, rather too casually, of the Enlightenment, which in German is the Aufklärung, and in French the Lumières, both visual… Read More
Humor Oops! 14 Dec 200818 Sep 2017 I think maybe they’ve taken filtering a bit too far this time… Read More
If you check my blog, I’ve been there. There’s even a blue plaque (not for me, but for Willoe Rushton, humorist).
Are you trying to make me homesick? I spent several years of my youth, misspent naturally, living between Tottenham Court Road and (Sunny) Goodge Street (spot the song title?) tube stations, to begin to the right of Tottenham Court Road going north, in Bloomsbury, and later to the left in what the locals call Fitzrovia but which is officially North Soho. The pop art mosaics in Tottenham Court Road Tube Station were designed by Eduardo Paolozzi with whom I flew kites during the endless summer of my childhood in a backwater hamlet on the Essex marshes. He also did the bronze statue of Blake’s Newton in the courtyard of the British Library. A sculture combining my favourite poet and my favourite scientist. There’s a small copy in the entrance to the Royal Society Library You’ve never been to Mornington Crescent until you’ve climbed the stairs because the lifts were out of order!
Well, it is Friday, so we should be using the long lines at the bank protocol, with the early weekend getaway variation. Anticipating this, I used the ask for the afternoon off substitution so I call a remote Sydney Fish Market.