There are two kinds of wasted young talents: those who seek the guidance they need, but aren’t given it; those who are offered all the guidance they need, but reject it.
01Sep04 — 4
- 04.05.23 Ten-year quest through Development Hell pays off
- 04.04.23 Testing "podcasting"
- 04.03.23 Mistakes Have Been Made
- 04.02.23 Coming soon
- 11.02.19 Live comedy review: Geoff Norcott at the Southport Comedy Festival
- 08.20.19 Republic Interiors
- 12.27.18 The Wykehamist Fallacy
- 12.08.18 The Moral Degradation of The Labour Party
- 10.14.18 FILM REVIEW: Downsizing
- 09.09.18 Film Review: Fright Night
Strong words, coming from a ‘Tab!
Hello, James. Ahem, I might live/work in The Other Place now, but I started out here. And I don’t work directly for the university or teach the undergraduates so, if they’re not getting the guidance they need, it ain’t my fault 🙂 .
(The one time I gave a seminar in the Cambridge Genetics Department building almost all my excitement at teaching on such hallowed ground evaporated when I saw that the course organiser had set my handouts in Comic Sans. What would I have got at Harvard? Dingbats?)
Rooney is after the record for swiftest transition from hero to
prat in English football history, evidently. (A tough one.)
Nil desperandum, they said the same thing about Andy Flintoff.