The day before yesterday I had a long chat with Nick about epidemiology, academic fellowships and the nature of vast bureaucracies (the UN, the European Union, or the Medical Research Council, say ;-). While we were talking he had to answer the door to carol singers and try to persuade Maryam not to remove all […]
Read MoreLeasey only spotted one mistake this morning! But she didn’t spot my misspelling “Moroccan”. Despite the date, the last PooterGeek entry was mainly written on the evening of the 8th of December. For those who care about such things, the software that runs this ‘Blog, Movable Type, attaches a time-stamp the first time I save […]
Read MoreA busy weekend, what with Airport‘s lovely Christmas party and much flitting about London. I had a superb lunch with Sonya at The Triangle restaurant in Crouch End—a Moroccan “fusion” place. I remarked that, even in the daytime it looked like the sort of venue where they knew how to party and this review seems […]
Read MoreHe said something like: ” I’m the American Secretary of State. I have an obligation to take Judith Levy‘s suggestions seriously.”
Read MoreStolen from another ‘Blog, I know, but my dad’ll like this one: everything you need to create your own Picasso.
Read MoreMy car-sharing partner on Campus was pretty skeptical when I started enthusing about the article with this title I found on the Web. She isn’t a nerd. I must warn you that it is long and (surprising, given the author) poorly formatted for screen reading, but I think it is full of insights, some I […]
Read MoreSpookily, after my entry yesterday, Oliver Kamm has been ‘Blogging about the misuse of English today too.
Read MoreWe hate moaning celebs at PooterGeek. Leasey listened to Her Royal Beyoncéness griping about the “pressures” of superstardom this morning on Radio 1. Here’s some text—if you can bear it.
Read MoreThis morning I listened to the increasingly hysterical John Humphrys do his increasingly silly anti-Iraq war thing on the Today programme on Radio 4. After two Iraqi academics had repeatedly told us that the Americans had done “Nothing. Nothing!” for the Iraqi people, John had a rant at the UK diplomatic representative in Baghdad, Jeremy […]
Read MoreMy dad rang me at lunchtime to tell me about this possible development from last Friday’s strangeness.
Read MoreMost PooterGeek readers will probably start to doze off if I mention local government again, which is all the more reason to read this article recommended by local hero Allan Brigham.
Read MoreI like this one
Read MoreA couple of weeks back—prompted by workmates Gayle, Martin and Adam—I sent an email to everyone I knew on Campus, drawing their attention to the interesting motivations of the people sponsoring Operation Christmas Child, a charitable effort to distribute gift parcels to disadvantaged kids around the World being promoted to the staff of our vast, […]
Read MoreSo, for the first time in two years of “working at Cambridge” I’m in town today, teaching in the Genetics Department and Al-Qa-bloody-e-da (or perhaps two bored students) threaten the town and the University with a couple of bombs for lunchtime. It was one of my students who alerted me to the threat first, but […]
Read MoreBecause of the hitches earlier I wasn’t able to post a magically unfortunate Michael Jackson headline. ITV have, er, pulled it, but the traces still remain in Google’s cache if you hurry. UPDATE: It’s now gone from ITV, but good old Channel 4, er, comes to the rescue.
Read MoreApologies for the absences of PooterGeek (and my other sites) today. Something was awry with a server at my usually wonderful hosts UKShells.
Read MoreIt goes a bit like this: Americans are fat people with hunting rifles in enormous cars. They are led by a rich idiot cowboy who would rather drive his gas-guzzling cavalcade over the supine bodies of his country’s underclass than sign binding agreements with other peace-loving nations. They make vulgar films, which they force upon […]
Read MoreGor, blimey!
Read MoreI thought Hollywood Homicide wasn’t bad; Judith and Arnon thought it was bad. Leasey, Jo, Mark, Sonya and I thought Finding Nemo was good. Judith and Arnon also thought Down With Love was very bad. I thought American Pie wasn’t anything like as bad as I expected; and, surprisingly, (film buff) Terry thought it was […]
Read MoreI know as much about rugby union football as I do about crochet, so it was wise of me to listen to the World Cup final on the radio today and have the play described and explained to me. If I’m so ignorant of the game, why did I care enough to tune in? For […]
Read MoreYe gods: another late night in the lab. Now I am finally home I should share with you my one Web catch of the day. Alan Gilbert is a professional photographer in Baltimore who takes excellent photographs of very boring things. One of the oddest in his portfolio is an image of a model train […]
Read MoreWhizzed down to Imperial yesterday evening to see the author of this book lecture on The Evolution of Female Promiscuity. The talk was clear, thoroughly prepared and elegantly constructed, if a little over-performed. While she insisted on drawing attention to some of her clunkier jokes, some of the funniest remarks Dr Judson made were those […]
Read MoreMaoi wrote looking for insights into the English lack of ease with affection. It’s unfortunate that she has (like many of my international friends) mainly been exposed to the spawn of the English upper-middle classes. To get a better handle on these types I recommend that she watches this film and this film back to […]
Read MorePhilip Pullman seems to be everywhere these days. I’ve even just had a conversation with my landlord about him. Leasey (who has just finished reading Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy) pointed out that this interview is worth reading.
Read MoreWhat with the Roadmap being such a roaring success and all it seems a bit cheeky of me to pass on Judith‘s recommendation that we should all have a good look at the Geneva Accord, because, well, to my eyes it’s not completely crazy at least.
Read MoreAs Leasey pointed out, in defiance of PooterGeek, Britney drags on.
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