The Word Cloud

Methinks twitter is having probs - it wouldn't accept a silly tweet of mine just now...

Well I did tweet a reply to your tweet, so I defo existed a couple of hours ago. I've ceased to exist now, you say? How disconcerting for me.

Something odd just happened. I got a tweet from @WhisksTweets - and when I tried to reply twitter assured me there was no such page. (All very virtual, methinks...)

Interesting stuff Gerry, thanks.

There's a blog I sort of follow by name of Catherine, Caffeinated wherein our perky blogger gives amusing but useful views on self publishing, marketing, promotion, etc. Her latest post gives the results of a survey of self published authors and, ...

Like lesbian Daleks! And, and . . . dinosaurs wiv laser eyes!

Wrathers and Richard: yup, your suspicions may be well founded. However, every answer in physics sets off a load more questions, so even if dark this'n'that prove to be illusory we'll still have loads of room for all sorts of other outlandish ...

Yes, Wrathnar. Like phlogiston or the ether, you mean? I have a similar gut-feeling. I think there are always grounds for suspicion when scientific theories get a bit too complex or outlandish. There’s the example of the Ptolomaic theory of the ...

Dark matter is a attempt to kersplain the fact that galaxies don't have enough mass to hold together the way they do. There is another possibility: that gravity has two components, one which obeys the inverse square law, and one which doesn't. There ...

Not read Kant on conflict , but Major General JFC 'Bony' Fuller was probably summarising him (in 'Decisive Battles of the Western World') when he wrote: 'It would appear that though nature's goal is concord, her driving force is discord' - a ...

Gerry, Richard, My perpetual winning poker hands and free drinks comment which dovetails with the trout fishign story is reminicent of an old Yank telly series called The Twilight Zone. One episode had a man, a professional gambler, die and his ...

Gerry, my lost post crossed with your last-but-one, so… Ah, no: I never said I found J. Barnes’ vision of Heaven satisfying, only funny. As a satire (so I believe) on a small-minded person’s aspirations to eternity, I find it hard to take it ...

Hello again, everyone. OFP: I was just thinking your 'perpetual winning poker hands and free drinks' brings up to the topic of potential boredom which, coincidentally, is dealt with extremely well in the chapter of 'A History of the World in 10.5 ...

I think of death as having two possibie outcomes: 1) We are only matter and therefore our bodies become something else (or many things) so then that isn't the end - that's a tree, or a blade of grass, prefably not a maggot, etc... 2) We are more ...