First: Give me the bad news, god-dammit!
( A short rant )

I really do ( Read more... )

We've just been collectively told off as an office for not recycling enough!

It seems that the office manager (the guy who lives in the flat upstairs) has noticed that we never have anything in our designated recycling bin.

Sadly, the list of items that can go in said recycling bin is tragically short: paper*, glass bottles, plastic bottles (but ( Read more... )

I've just been handed a set of corrections from an Oxford scholar that have really made me understand that, despite being staggeringly intelligent and generally quite technically literate, he still has no idea how a word processor is different from, say, a typewriter ( Read more... )

Just as a random question - has anyone ever heard of the writer George Moore? Clues: Irish, late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, specialised in short stories, and was once described as a doubly decadent version of Oscar Wilde. We've just finished a set of his stories, and we're wondering if anyone in the world outside of our rather small ( Read more... )

( Longer than I thought )