The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
- Stories that are Setting Driven
- Poor Harper – He’s Jonesing Right Now
- An Offbeat Strategy for an Offbeat Party
- The Leap Week Calendar
Category Archives: Science
New Improved Birth Order Theory
In the post All Psychologists are Lazy, I took umbrage with the state of birth order theory. I especially disliked that theory which stated 5th born children are the same as 1st born children and 6th born children are the … Continue reading
The Leap Week Calendar
Imagine that you have a birthday on a Monday. ‘Fine’ you sputter on that Monday morning ‘at least I have almost equal odds of getting a birthday on a Sunday or a Saturday’. But you’ve been hearing rumours of a … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 5 or 6 years between leap weeks, elimination of Friday the thirteenth, Every 400 years there is a whole amount of weeks, Friday the thirteenth birthday in perpetuity, Gregorian calendar, I want my birthday on a Friday or Saturday or Sunday, leap week calendar, Monday birthday in perpetuity, start of season could be way off the 21st
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Portents and the Hesitation of Our Ancestors to Call it a New Year
I’m expecting many of you to know about comet Lovejoy – the little comet that could. It had a run in with the sun that it was not expected to survive in mid December. Not only did it survive but … Continue reading
Mammaral
It was shocking to the humans that first landed on Alexane that many of the beasts there were obviously mammals. It was more shocking that one of those beasts was the mammaral, shown below. As shown, mammarals are almost totally … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Alexane, ambrosia, ansible, dairy experts, interspecies milking, mammaral, mammaries, space mammals
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Got a Sinking Feeling About Fort Knox
One of the wild ideas that I’ve heard of to explore the earth’s interior, is to use iron. Spread a whole lot of iron for a breadth of many kilometres and piled a certain height. Once a certain height of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Politics, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged could Fort Knox disappear?, did El Dorado sink beneath the crust?, exploration of earth's centre, iron piled with enough breadth and height will sink to earth's centre, less gold is needed to sink to earth's centre, new way to make humans extinct?, wild idea
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The Safety of the American Greenback
In these times of economic uncertainties, many a time the market has gotten cautious and money hid in the “safety of the American greenback” (doesn’t the American dollar also have a green front?). So doesn’t this mean the American market … Continue reading
Why Can’t the Seat of Emotions be in Another Organ
It’s oh so poetical to say our emotions are in our heart. This leads to sometimes stupid symbolism like “Show me the shape of your heart.” But probably the most famous metaphor is to say you are heartbroken when somebody … Continue reading