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symptoms
This week I have been mainly dealing with an outbreak of the dreaded lurgie at home. We think the little girl got it it first, and was little bit porly one afternoon. Then me. I was a little bit poorly one evening. Then my wife and son who have had a several days long puke-fest. I've running aroung dealing with the outbreaks of vomit and bum ( Read more... ) -
Adalimumab
It is a drug, the latest of many, that I now am required to administer to my offspring. It inhibits take-up of a particular protein that does you no good. And I fing it impossible to pronounce. There is nothing in the name that is particularly difficult, especially when compared to some drug names, but there is something about the meaningless ( Read more... ) -
Curiosity gets the better of me
The last time I tried to write something here, it didn't work, and I stormed off in a grumbling cloud of foul invective. But I am curious to see whether what might happen now? Can you hear me, mother? -
Hello internet
My ISP kindly sent me a letter explaining that they were changing their billing system, but that I needn't do anything; all would happen seamlessly behind the scenes. Then they reassuringly sent another letter just to reiterate that message. And another to confirm that they really were going to go ahead with this and I really didn't have to do ( Read more... ) -
Wot? No booze?
When I asked for a bottle of gin at the supermarket counter, the boy went and got me one, but then asked "Have you got some ID?". Not quite cottoning on, I said "yes", because I do have my old University of Liverpool staff card, but then the penny dropped, and I had to admit that I hadn't the sort of ID he was after. I walked away ginless, ( Read more... ) -
Socks over shoes
With our current weather, this year's Ig-Nobel prize for physics seems particularly apposite:
Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention
I am also informed that wearing black socks over trainers is a useful way of gaining entrance to bars with a "no trainers" policy. -
Poll tax riots
It was 20 years ago! Hard to believe. I left before any rioting started to go to the Brixton Academy to see Carter USM, Cud and Silverfish in one of the best gigs I've been to. There was definitely a sense of occasion which made for a particularly exhilarating night. Of course we had no idea was happening around Trafalgar Square, but when we ( Read more... ) -
famous associations
My old school was on the radio in a programme about teenagers using slang There's a mediocre article too.
And some of my former colleagues in Germany have topped the Green 500 list.
I'm basking in reflected glory. -
Derek B
I was suprised to learn this week of the death of Derek B - only in his 40s. I dug out my old copy of "Bad Young Brother" this morning. -
No-go and gone
I last encountered Nielsen and Ninomiya in my lattice QCD days as authors of a famous (in that field anyway)
"no-go" theorem about chiral fermions on the lattice ( Read more... )