I love what you can do with big ones but hate having to lug them around.

"This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

— Winston Churchill.

Authority enough for me.

Matthew

I've never had a flu vaccine. Not for any reason, just because I'm lazy about such things.

In the last 30 years I've had real flu precisely once.

But is that just luck? No idea. I have to guess that at least in part it's because many people do take the vaccine and as a result outbreaks do not ...

Paolo wrote: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:19 am You know, I was wondering when making a plural noun, "fly" is "flies". Why isn't it "turkeies" then?

'Cause the *y to *ies rule has an exception for *ey. Pulley, pulleys; odyssey, odysseys; kidney, kidneys; tourney, tourneys; monkey, monkeys etc etc.

Yup. Seen that a lot, especially as the site I work for carries a lot of "rich media" Flash ads.

Just recently updated to FF 18 and latest Adobe Flash and although the frequency of crashes seems much diminished they still occur. As a result of other issues I have started using Chrome and have yet ...

That one made me laugh out loud.

I'd love to be able to do something like this. But my immediate feeling is that just popping into any given state is a bit of a cop-out. I think I'd want some more defined aim, like visiting each State Capital.

Incidentally, by any criteria calculating an optimal route is an NP-hard problem in ...

Today there was an interesting and horrifying piece in my paper about the reactions that transsexuals have met from the medical professionals that are supposed to be helping them.

The real trans scandal is not the failings of one doctor but cruelty by many (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ...

Forgive me plagiarising myself: I wrote a blog post in response to The Guardian Film Show: The Hobbit and Smashed (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/dec/14/film-show-hobbit-smashed-video)

Calmeilles 15 December 2012 1:16AM (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/dec/14/film-show-hobbit ...

We have just finished our analysis of CHANGES in sexuality after castration. We asked about sexual orientation, sexual fantasies, and actual sexual activity both before and after castration. We expected change; we found change. We checked various other factors that might have influenced the ...