Category: Wonderings

• March 10, 2015

  Things You Learned at an Embarrassingly Late Age

  This Reddit thread was doing the rounds today and made me feel very n’awww towards my fellow men. It’s about things you learned at an embarrassingly advanced age, like tuna is a huge fish, not a bitty one (me at 24) and random bullshit parents tell you may not be strong ammunition in an argument /…
• March 5, 2015

  Draftback: The Most Brilliant Chrome Extension Ever

  I love Google. I love Chrome. On Monday morning, my laptop wouldn’t boot up and the only thing keeping me sane was the knowledge that whatever replacement I was given would instantly feel like home because of Chrome. All my bookmarks, my page ruler, my social shares tally app, my passwords…my life. Then on Tuesday, Andrew…
• March 4, 2015

  Bubbles and Bows
• March 4, 2015

  Slow Writing: Statistics

  75% of statistics are made up, did you know? Chase them; you’ll soon spiral down a rabbit hole of high claims and overheard rumours. It’s hard to know what’s really real any more. Numbers numbers numbers, one or two digits shaping how we view our world this day. 50.6%: the majority believes. Delete mind, curiosity, SELF – you…
• February 26, 2015

  I Am Not a Scienceman

  I’m reading a book about science. Cor, s’bit bloody hard. It’s A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, so it’s as layman as thermodynamics and half-lives and relativity can be. But my brain just doesn’t bend that way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Bill Bryson is a genius with…