It had to happen. After VALGOL:
like y*know (I mean) start
if pizza =like bitchen and
b =like tubular and
c =like grodyax
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Harry’s Place on Sex and the City
I like Carrie too, I just preferred her when she was lead singer of The Who.
George and the City, Harry’s Place
Blacked out
I blacked out this morning. Luckily I was in hospital at the time.
I’d popped along for my fortnightly blood test but this time the phlebotomist couldn’t get the vein in my arm to show itself properly; it was just a faint bluish trace under the soft skin of the crook of my elbow. After about [...]
The Angry Economist on Healthcare
On the US healthcare system:
We need to move to a system where most people pay most medical bills out of pocket, and insurance companies step in only when the costs are completely unaffordable. To get there, we need to eliminate the deductibility of health care costs. Why should health care be deductible on income taxes [...]
Philosophy without thinking
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton of the very interesting philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites are producing a series of podcasts in conjunction with the Open University, Ethics Bites. The format’s the same in both - Edmonds and Warburton briefly introduce a subject and then work through the major issues with a guest specialist.
Their most [...]
Self-referential audio recording on Linux
A Youtube user called Beamoo seems to have found my advice on using a USB microphone with Audacity on Linux helpful. That’s very gratifying.
Inland Revenue surprisingly candid
So the Inland Revenue (the HMRC) has got back to me. They say:
It is clear we have not handled your tax affairs as well as we should have done and have failed to provide the level of service you are entitled to expect from us. I am sorry for this…
…we linked the computer record of [...]
Epiphenomenalism
I saw the original of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer‘, (’The wanderer above the sea of fog’), or a painting very like it, several years ago, in a travelling exhibition in Edinburgh titled, ‘The Romantic Spirit in German Art’ (which I’d misread as, ‘The Romantic Shirt in German Art”).
This particular Romantic [...]