Harmless Drudgery

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

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Friday, 22 December 2017

Be'ind the harras

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My attention to words that include the string *AR* has brought to my attention (not that it was ever totally un focused, rather that I now h...

Monday, 11 December 2017

Far brighter than that gaudy...

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LED luminaire . The little children's dower , in this case, is the traditional Christmas lights. Tra ditional – there's a Christma...

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Beating the retweet

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A while ago I learnt an important lesson: Retweet in haste, repent at leisure. <autobiographical_note> When I was working as a rese...

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Some thoughts

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<rant> This rant has been bubbling away for a few weeks, ever since Priti Patel's " fulsome apology ": As so of...

Thursday, 16 November 2017

Placebo - you will, eh?

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“Italy, this is the apocalypse,” was the headline in the country’s leading sports paper La Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday morning [ 14 ...

Monday, 13 November 2017

We need to talk about Kelvin

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On Neil McPherson's Walk Liv ing with the Gods [oops: Gods/dinosurs – easy mistake to make ] recently (not to suggest that he is an e...

Saturday, 28 October 2017

Tenebrae

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Gregorio Allegri wrote his Miserere for the service of Tenebrae , to be performed in the Sistine Chapel. The service gets its name from the...

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@BobKLite: 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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