M: Do you want to tidy your room?
**TODO: No. I want it to become a junk heap.

Achievable goals.

This entry crossposted to http://doug.dreamwidth.org/311666.html, where there are
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Have had another quick look at the evidence about tooth-brushing. I was entirely on top of it about 15 years ago when I developed a course which had it as an example. It's not changed a lot ( Read more... )

The other day, **FIXME tried to convince his mother that she should choose five as her favourite number. Why? Because his favourite number is i, **TODO's favourite number is π, and my favourite number is φThis evening, in the middle of a word game, **TODO had to think of an adjective that could apply to "person" that began with an F. His choice? " ( Read more... )

There's some standard advice for facing fear and indecision, which is to consider the worst that could possibly happen, and then realise that it's not so bad. There's an example in a thing going round at the moment about dealing with unhelpful thoughts that ends with "If the thought was true, what is the worst outcome? Is it as bad as you think ( Read more... )

Last year I bleated ineffectually on here (first here, but then most of the last few entries tagged economics) about how we don't appear to have a sufficiently robust understanding of macroeconomics for economists to agree on apparently simple things like whether raising interest rates will increase or decrease inflation ( Read more... )

For his homework, on this term's topic of "famous people", **TODO made a word search with "at least six" famous people in it - he decided 10 was a good number ( Read more... )

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Justin Welby, has "apologised" to the LGBTI community for continuing to throw them under the bus in the interests of Anglican unity ( Read more... )

Collective punishment is rightly a war crime, specifically mentioned in the Geneva Conventions ( Read more... )

On the better to hit-and-run post than not post at all principle ( Read more... )

You get a katsu curry sauce in lots of Japanese restaurants. I don't think it's a terribly complex or clever recipe most of the time. As a bit of a giveaway, the Wagamama cookbook doesn't have the recipe for their katsu curry sauce. I strongly suspect it's a ready-bought paste-type sauce that they just make up with a bit of stock, rather like Patak ( Read more... )