I AM WHAT I CAN’T EAT:
i am already quite enjoyin the fact that my decision to MAKE resolutions is annoying my officemates, who were all OH NO ONE EVER KEEPS THEM today, like a phalanx of female petes: it’s easier to abide by them, or in[…]

wive$watch (us style):
i. on first ep showing “desperate housewives” cd just as be called “stepford husbands” ii. picket-fence lynchism has become a viably mainstream US TV trope iii. i nearly didn’t bother as i caught […]

breaded fried cods roe
before his parkinsons made it a bit inadvisable for him to cook (ie many years ago now) my dad, who always did breakfast, would serve up the above as an occasional special breakfast treat – and as a result i always assum[…]

by way of farewell to a complicated (and intermittently awful) (but with good bits) year
i guess i think of contrarianism more as a tool than a principle – i like it for its effects not its “morality” – except i also know say[…]

how INADVERTENT experiment created ALL SCIENCE
(a “pumpkin publog” co-production)[…]

how inadvertent experiment powers culinary science (a “proven by science” co-production obv)
ok so the way we learn the history of science or the fine details of cookery it’s always presented like clever ppl sat and theorised, then[…]

eskimo pie!!
!!!!!!!!!![…]

“console yrself with the new bleep pop”
this wz the headline in metro – so i don’t actually know what the “new bleep pop” is exactly, as i couldn’t read over the fellow bus traveller’s shoulder w/o mak[…]

once again it is the outlier position producing the cherishable facts: a stout defence by the unpeeled-hard-boiled-egg=a-pie faction impelled sistrah becky to argue that, in that case, a PYRAMID must be a pie (providingof course the tomb remained un[…]

ANNALS OF KID SCIENCE
overheard, small sister (7?) and brother (8?) sitting together on a bus (the brother is the older one)
b: there IS no largest number! s: yes there is!* b: there could be a number that started at the beginning of this bus and […]