Until I got it to remember the proper spelling, my phone kept wanting to ‘correct’ my name to ‘wild’, so today’s XKCD cartoon tickled me:
8 May 2017
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Tag Archives: humour
25 October 2016
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rescue.commit(‘princess’)
Geek humour day: How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages. If you understand that there are 10 types of people in the world, you will probably grok this.
20 September 2016
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An Interesting Juxtaposition
I had a meeting down in town this morning, which provided an opportunity to visit Oxford Central Library on the way back. I took a quick stroll around the shelves – it is only my second visit to the present, … Continue reading
4 August 2016
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Donald and Hobbes
Calvin – the six year old boy from Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes strip cartoons – is funny and endearing; a (fairly) innocent child who likes to think of himself as cynical and cool but whose most endearing characteristic is … Continue reading
23 June 2015
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Spurious Correlations
Here is the perfect website for all my colleagues who work with statistics: Spurious Correlations.
13 August 2014
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Cereal?
Eggs yesterday and bacon today. I guess that’s what you could call serial for breakfast…
29 October 2013
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For the Giraffes…
One of the memes doing the rounds on Facebook this week has been the following riddle: 3.00am and the door bell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, it’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry … Continue reading
9 October 2013
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Transatlantic Pinch
The US economy seems a long way away but several times this week I’ve come across messages such as this one from the front page of PubMed (a massive database of life science articles and, as a leading bibliographic resource, … Continue reading
28 January 2011
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Broken Blackberry
So Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield (and / or their scriptwriters) have kept up to date on modern technology…