Now Voyager
Publishing posts in this blog is like making a gold disc, putting it on the Voyager spacecraft, and sending it out into the universe for some unknown, and very unlikely, reader sone centuries from now.
To Infinity and below
The aim of treating anxiety I suppose is to reduce the number of things to worry about from infinity to some finite number. A very large finite number, obviously.
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Minths? Moths?
Need a name for the new units of time for the 3-monthly distance between oncology review sessions. Obviously much shorter than regular months, roughly say a quarter of a month.
Syllogism
David Lodge said he, like all writers, had a good English teacher at school. So: All writers had a good English teacher at school. I had a good English teacher at school. I am a writer. Right?
Ask any dancer
You don\’t battle with cancer but arm wrestle. The locked arms first one way, then the other, higher and lower, up and down, swaying like a dance.
Glittering prizes
Who was it said that it is not the answers that are important in science but the questions? Some idiot. Nobel and other prizes are awarded for answers, not questions.
Ozymandias
It is a rare consolation to reflect that no matter how powerful the dictator, general, religious leader, environmental vandal, criminal, media magnate, weapons maker, energy company CEO, abattoir owner, no matter how invincible they seem, and no matter how much damage they do, in the end they all die.
For the birds
If humans had lived 70 million years ago would we have had dino watchers and dino twitchers?