Harmless Drudgery

Random thoughts from a wordsmith, budding lexicographer, and 'snapper up of unconsidered trifles'.

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Saturday, 12 September 2026

A very good year

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The year 1951 is notable for three reasons: Michael Rennie starred as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still <parenthesis> (which fea...
Friday, 14 August 2026

Dolphins, Pythons, and Belly-buttons

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Things came together the other day, as I listened to Natalie Haynes standing up for Delphi (which presumably had something to with dolphins...
Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Zidane, you're rocking the boat

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  (He hasn't yet, but when he does – and he's not the most equanimous of ex-footballers, so give him time – there's a ready made...
Thursday, 9 July 2026

This is what a T-shirt looks like

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A quickie before  I head West in search of coolth. If I didn't have graphics turned off by default I'd have missed this bit of casua...
Monday, 29 June 2026

Magnifica Humanitas

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The point de départ  for today's offering is this selection of quotes from Pope Leo XIV's recent  encyclical : “A more moral AI is n...
Wednesday, 24 June 2026

The Sapiens and the cow

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In a fairly recent ... <tangent> OK, 17 September. There comes a time in the mid-seventies when recentness becomes a somewhat flexible...
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Aught to know better

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 A few years ago I wrote ( here ) about "for aught I know". And I'd been chewing away at this piece of gristle for some years ...
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After a misspent youth as an aspiring folk-rock hero and freelance polymath, I became a technical writer in the IT world and then - when I finally ran out of lives, having dodged redundancy for more than 10 years (towards the end of which I coined the word 'sub-Damoclean', to refer to my own position) - a teacher, resource creator, and writer.
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