ghoti prompted me with "Filioque. Go!", because clearly my darling wife wants to give me nice easy prompts that don't require much research or thought, or for that matter that don't cause me to play the priest-on-Trinity-Sunday game of "let's see how long I can talk for before accidentally committing heresy".

( so, there was this Cerularius, right, and he spilled our Humbert's pint )

( Read more... )

sphyg asked me to write about good films/books.

( Read more... )

ewx prompted me to write about programming languages, and said "be as specific or general as feels appropriate".

( clicky clicky )

sphyg asked me for parenting tips. Um, in general I'm not very confident in my abilities as a parent so take all this with a very large pinch of salt to the effect that I don't always do this stuff very well!

( remembering how to keep tiny people alive )

A while back I asked around for recommendations for mobile phone repair shops in Cambridge who could fix a cracked screen on ghoti's Nexus 4. At the time we didn't really get many good recommendations; we'd already tried Cambridge Laptop Repair on Arbury Road and been dissatisfied for various reasons; so I went into town on my day off on Monday and had ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Children's literature and television is distressingly full of kings and queens and princesses and princes, and Judith (6) has picked up rather too much of that for my liking. So, when she asked me something about that on the way home from astronomy tonight, I decided to seize the teachable moment and explain to her how most countries don't have ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )