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Middle-of-the-road.
There’s the classic economic textbook example of two hot-dog vendors on a beach that need to choose the location best for them - assuming an even distribution of customers, and that customers always choose the closest vendor; the equilibrium location is them standing right next to each other in the middle; while the “optimal” (from the customer ( Read more... ) -
Vegetable Beast.
I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for some of the 'things' H.R.Giger invented for the "Alien" movies?
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There's a Ghost in my house...
When you've lived in an old house for a few years you become attuned to the noises it makes. That click...click... click... every so often is the heating pipework expanding and contracting. That couple of thumps every 15 minutes is the refrigerator compresor shutting down. The occasional rattle - specially when it's raining - is a bit of soot ( Read more... ) -
Weekend redux.
Yesterday was spent getting a haircut, watching a friend play Rugby [we lost, spectacularly] and wandering the local forests in search of mushrooms. Nothing was acquired - except for a range of interesting scars and night-time-itchy inflammations on my legs from wading through waist-deep undergrowth. Just because it's warm doesn't always mean that ( Read more... ) -
Do you need so many Kidneys?
Comment-of-the-day: "Are you sure he'll want so many kidneys? We could swap a handful of them for some of this spare liver to make up the weight" -
"Good Governance" ?? You must be joking!
Back in 2009, Jacqui Smith, one time Home Secretary under the UK Labour Party administration, was investigated in the "MPs Expenses Scandal" and fingered for around £116,000 of highly dubious expenses-claims.
Despite this, the "Good Governance Institute" here in the UK is congratulating her on being appointed as chairperson of a major UK NHS ( Read more... ) -
Be gone, thieving Badger.
I've just chased a Badger out of the Scrotum Towers orchard. And, by moonlight, picked up all the fallen Plums it was trying to steal. -
Political calculus.
When most people think of the phrase “Child Poverty” they conjure up the image of emaciated children in rags and feel an emotional urge to “do something” to eliminate such a terrible thing ( Read more... ) -
Italian prog-rock, 1971-style.
It doesn't get much better than this:
These guys make the likes of ELP seem amateurish in the extreme.
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