Connection in the Tunnel

“We were connected. We were reachable by the outside world.”

Optimist Prime

“Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron”, were the words on a Pin that my wife recently pointed out. I love all things movies and comics, so fusing that sentiment with the legendary Hasbro heroes made my day. We can easily discount such a message but we do this to our detriment. I think […]

An Aggregation of Marginal Gains

The main bowling alley in our City has recently become a supermarket. As much as I like a bargain I would have preferred not to lose the place that has so many fond memories. My wife and I spent many an evening shooting pool and hurling balls down the alley at those ten stubborn pins. […]

Faster than Roadrunner

At 186,282 milesper second light is pretty fast. I do believe that there is nothing that can travel as fast as light. There was a near miss recently when the scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider thought that they had raced particles round their17 milecircuit faster than the speed of light. It was thought that […]

1 x Raspberry Pi please

If you heard the term Raspberry Pi, you might well consider a fruit based dessert – covered in single cream. Or maybe even a strange take on mathematics’ 3.14 personality. But today Raspberry Pi, a charitable organisation launched (and soldout) their first batch of mini computers, and by mini I mean credit card sized. The […]

Try

Try, try and try again. It’s all in the attitude.

Lifting the Lid

If I find myself being pulled into one of the popular coffee houses, a force that seems to pervade the restrictions of time, wide diversions and cost, I will undoubtedly be ordering a grande or venti caffeine based delight, usually sweetened with a syrup of some variety, and as I walk away from the counter, […]