Category: Thoughts

I was told recently that the bright light in the sky low to the horizon in the North is a supernova. It certainly is bright, and might be mistaken for an aircraft if it were moving — but I haven’t found any confirmation of it anywhere. I’m starting to think it’s Venus after all. Have…

A few months ago I read the article Making Other Arrangements by James Howard Kunstler, and I suppose that might have been the catalyst for my decision to change the way I make back-up copies of my data.

I was once told of a man who had hiccups for three weeks, night and day. I get hiccups occasionally, and over the years I have come to try different methods for getting rid of them. For a while I tried swallowing a spoonful of sugar, dry, with surprisingly good results. Eventually the time came…

This week’s Guildford Times is running a story about a notorious local businessman who runs several of the night spots in the town centre, and it made me chuckle. This guy often runs into planning permission problems and the like (such as his plan for a huge casino in the town centre), and he is…

Do migratory birds get jet lag? Does it depend on whether they have used the jet stream?