When I started working in academia I was taken aside by an old-time 'technician' (lab coat, tugged his forelock, was one of the inventors of Radar). He explained to me to treat it as "… (View Post)

Aren't you all, said the Triffid. (View Post)

Don't know if he's on the poop-pills, just did a search for 'elon musk yacht' as it was the first 'not very youthful rust belt' thing that popped into mind. (View Post)

There's no point in having a detailed, well thought out plan if you don't then ignore it. Otherwise you wouldn't need another enquiry staffed by expensive KC's, judges, clerks, et… (View Post)

I sometimes catch sight of a street-sweeper out the window and watch them wistfully. The concrete sense of achievement vs. attending meetings to agree the agenda for the next set of meetings while pl… (View Post)