Archive for February, 2004

Whole Fruit

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

Flashback: It’s summer 1984 and a young robotperson is idly exploring

the departure lounge at Manchester airport. The video games have been checked for free credits, and the chances of finding Star Wars figures [...]

Third person passive

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

Whilst reading my posts you might occasionally experience a moment of

grammatical vertigo, and I apologise if this is the case. It’s probably due to me slipping from first to third person narrative, and although [...]

Round Robert

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

My wife and I were chatting with my mother over Christmas

when somehow, alarmingly, the subject of baby names came up. I remembered that a while ago Mum had told me she’d decided on the name Robert because [...]

Updates

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

It’s worth drawing your attention to a few changes which have happened

under the robotperson hood in the last week or so. I’ve shuffled all the ‘me’ related pages into the new robotica section, and the [...]

The Broccoli Meme

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Have you ever noticed, whilst you’ve been carefully selecting

a nice firm floret in the vegetable aisle, the broken-off stalks of broccoli languishing amongst the fresh brassica in the plastic crate?* [...]

Sit vis nobiscum

Friday, February 6th, 2004

Brighton, it seems, is strong with the Force.

You might remember an email that did the rounds a couple of years ago, just prior to the 2001 census. The message urged recipients to declare their religion [...]

Sweet Poison

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

It is my pleasure to announce the arrival of Stefan’s wine column, Sweet

Poison. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. – [...]