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Image Search, or why you shouldn’t randomly Google things
I have a little game I like to play, it is called Image Roulette. The rules to this game are very simple, but it is an endless source of enjoyment (and as you will see potential IT policy breaches)....
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Brain Power, or why I don’t want to use much more of it
Lucy is a movie about Scarlett Johansson being the super powered femme fatale that is not constrained by living in the male-dominated Marvel universe. She gets to use all her brain and it turns out...
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Dedicated follower of fashion
If some members of my family had their way I would have an earring now. Of all the things I could rock (like a well-tailored suit) having a pierced ear would not be one of them. This would have been...
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And exhale
Life is funny. Mostly it is funny ha ha, because if you didn’t laugh our existence on this spinning lump of elements would make you go crazy and a little dizzy at the problems it throws you. So even...
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Enough is enough, or why not give up
Being a great writer was never going to be possible, my life has been too stress-free. Songwriter, artist, these were also out of the question. How could I achieve greatness in these fields if I had...
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An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse, or Race the Clock
Wednesday night is Daddy-Night, by which I mean I get to spend the evening all by myself. Well not entirely by myself as the Feliciraptor is tucked up in bed, but Mrs G is out being all Shakespearey...
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Life will find a way, or Silver Screen
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you’re attempting simply is… it’s not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life...
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More of me, or Clone Wars
I’m sure this is not a sentiment shared by many others, in fact it may be considered by other people to be akin to the apocalypse, but I really wish there was more of me to go around. I’m not talking...
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My youth has gone, or use it or lose it
There comes a point in everyone’s life when you start to feel old. This is an age Rubicon that I seem to have now passed and can no longer be consider a youngling and must progress wearily into the...
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Pick a door, or Just a Dream
Dreams are not my thing. Not the awake kind of dreams, where I imagine myself winning the Ashes or being Prime Minister, I still have those. I’m talking about the kind you have when you sleep. I know...
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2015 in a box, or Time Capsule
I’m currently in the process of working through all the series of Parks and Recreation and have just got to the “Time Capsule” Episode. I’m not sure if it was a millennium thing or not, but the act of...
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Award winning, or I’d Like to Thank My Cats
This is a surprise, I can’t believe I’ve won this award. I mean the “Most Winningest and all round awesomeous Person”…sorry, what do you mean that isn’t this award? I think you need to go back and...
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Watching history, or Fly on the Wall
How much of what goes on do we really see? I know that a large chunk of my life is never seen by people I know, and as for what goes on in my head well that can be very private. So it is with history,...
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My Rules, or I Walk the Line
Life is a mess if you don’t try to impose a little order on it. It’s not possible to completely programme every little moment but it handy to have a set of rules. The rules I have are not very complex,...
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No emoticons, or It’s a Text, Text, Text, Text World
The biggest problem I face when I sit behind my keyboard is trying to make the symbols and syntax approximate close to my initial intentions. It has always been an annoyance that the typen word cannot...
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No advice, or Powerful Suggestion
Agony of agony aunts I like giving advice, because as this blog shows, I like the sound of my own voice. Let’s be honest who doesn’t? It’s a natural thing to try to rise above the general mumbling of...
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It comes around, or Karma Chameleon
I ended up having a conversation with a colleague this week who is thinking about following in Lisa Simpson’s footsteps. Ra-ther than taking up the saxamaphone he quite fancies the idea of becoming a...
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You have it already, or Green-Eyed Lady
“The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake” – Sebastian the crab It’s strange that we always want what we haven’t got, We live in an aspiration fuelled world where the accumulation of...
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Oh the Humanities, or Land of Confusion
There is nothing like the certainty of a maths equation, or the satisfying reaction of two chemicals. Even biological theories are consistent, with the selection of the fittest creating a more...
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Jealous Guy, or Green-Eyed-Monster
I don’t get very jealous, I am quite content with what I have. There may be times when I’m a tiny bit envious of someone but I’m lucky to be in a position where I can normally have the things I covet....
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