Does he know it’s him?
Danny Deraney tweets this: This dog is practicing faces in the mirror and I am dead. pic.twitter.com/t3iX5GWezb — Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) January 27, 2021 But is the dog “practicing faces”? Or is...
View ArticleMore from the Steve Stewart-Williams Twitter feed
Yes I haven’t recently resorted to the SS-W TwF for a Friday Cats and Other Creatures posting. But in the small hours of last night I did two short postings, neither of which had anything to do with...
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Following on from all these creaturely links, how woodpeckers survive being woodpeckers? Woodpeckers have incredibly long tongues. I did not know this.
View ArticleThe hope of progress
Having recently received a life sentence of quite advanced lung cancer, I find myself noticing reports like this one entitled Ultra-precise lasers remove cancer cells without damaging nearby tissue....
View ArticleMaybe dressage isn’t so crazy after all
The non-equestrianism-obsessed, which is most people, tend to regard the mostly Olympic sport of “dressage” as ridiculous. But what this video tells me is that maybe dressage is not persuading horses...
View ArticleDisorientated and consequently doomed penguin
Never seen this before: I came across this in the twitter-comments on this tweet about Matt Ridley’s dog making a question mark in the snow. Which was good, but not so good as the disorientated...
View ArticleDan Hannan in Australia
Two years ago, which explains the non-up-to-date political references to such things as Brexit, Dan Hannan did a talk in Australia. I found my way to this talk via the Hannan website, and watching this...
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Engine issue
Via Instapundit, this: Police in Broomfield stated on Twitter that they received reports of dropped debris in several neighborhoods … One of the engines on a passing United Airlines plane exploded. The...
View ArticleA House of Lords speech defending women and defending the English language
This bit of video, lasting just under ten minutes, which I recently came upon here, is surely likely to get a lot more attention than it’s got so far: I like it because it is suffused with the very...
View ArticlePaperbacks
I only watch a few of the videos that the Quotulator likes to put up at his excellent blog, but I just watched this one and enjoyed it greatly: What I find so entertaining about this chunk of history...
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The Royal Marsden and its money
One of the things Patrick Crozier and I talked about in our latest Recorded Conversation is how the Royal Marsden Hospital is more mixed economy than pure NHS. It supplies services to the NHS, but is...
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So what does this Real AI do to the network?
Here’s the latest Taxi-with-advert photo I photoed, not far from a favourite taxi spot even during Lockdown, Victoria Station: Whereas yesterday, the posting was about a big gadget that merely happened...
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Happy Easter!
I hope you are having one. I definitely am, and I will tell you (a big part of) why. This, on YouTube, from Steve Baker MP, no less. Just over two minutes long, so not a big chunk out of your life it...
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Day One of the county cricket season
… and the excitement at Bristol, where Gloucester are playing Surrey in Group 2 of the County Championship, has reached fever pitch: Lockdown suits four day County Cricket rather well, because it...
View ArticleCows love listening to accoustic guitar but not to electric bass guitar
Yes. Here is a cow listening to some accoustic guitar. And here, from among the responses to the above, are some cows all running away from electric bass guitar (scroll down a bit to get to that).
View ArticleThe front of an electric scooter gets attached to the front of a wheelchair –...
My habit of opening too many windows at once, and also the rather intrusive vagaries of my back-up system, mean that Twitter, for me, comes and goes. So it’s been a while since I took a look at the...
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You can see every organ in the glass frog
Today’s ephemera at David Thompson’s blog has links to some excellent animal amusements. There is this scaredy cat. And my favourite for a good LOL is this very sensible cat. But the most seriously...
View ArticleThree especially good links to SteveStuWill
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I’ve been catching up with the SteveStuWill Twitter feed. This time, I’ve picked out just three creaturely amusements that particularly entertained me. I could have...
View ArticleAn exercise lesson on Zoom
I can remember when e-mail became a necessity for me. I got a phone call from someone who asked: “What’s your email?” and I said “I don’t do email”. It was the way she then said “Oh” that made me...
View ArticleMonkey plays pong just by thinking about it
Earlier today I talked with my friend Bruno, who told me about an unusual monkey. Unusual to me, anyway. This monkey had electrodes inserted into his brain, and then they got him to play a favourite...
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