More family business
Just a quick heads-up that my dad has posted an extended comment (or I’ve posted it for him) on the previous blogpost about his 7th decade of scientific publication. The comment has some links to more...
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*assuming bus passes haven’t been abolished by then (see also a defence of bus passes here). ——————————————————————- In which, in a post-academic-year reverie, I decide not to look forward, and try...
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The Dread Day Dawns
As a few people over on Facebook have noticed, today is my birthday. And as a few people around here will have worked out from an earlier post, this birthday is Officially A Biggie (people tell me)....
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Not log tables
Room to spread out I come from a family of decidedly womble-ing tendencies. In other words, we tend to acquire objects, and do not tend to throw them away. Ever. In my own case we are mostly talking...
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Bobby Fischer against the world
In which I am reminded that once stuff is in your brain somewhere cluttering it up, it can be pretty hard to get it out. Random bits of chess knowledge included. It is probably another of those...
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Gerald Elliott 1931-2013
Gerald Elliott 26th January 1931 - 6th March 2013 The media this week has been running quite a few features about the 60th anniversary of the...
View ArticleI blame the parents
From time to time, I am given to wondering why I have achieved so little in life generally. Answers suggested by my friends and family have included ‘laziness’ ‘not trying hard enough’ ‘lack of...
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