“On the one hand we remark the bold carriage and mental vigour of a man attired in a new suit of clothes; on the other hand we note the melancholy features of him who is conscious of a posterior patch, or the haunted face of...
Category - Culture
We were enjoying our treat of scones with jam and cream at the nursery cafe. Just to paint the picture accurately, this was a plant nursery, not a child nursery or an artificial intelligence startup nursery. So there we were...
Everyone has some sort of general perspective on the world, be it gloom, doom and kaboom or sugar and spice and all things nice. It all depends on who you ask. So I trolled around for an interesting bunch of people and I...
Surely now is the time to call for equal rights for all the different typefaces of the world. Fonts have feelings too, whether they are full blooded serifs, shy little sans serifs, script fonts that can only mimic a handwritten...
Come with me on my personal tour of cardboard, and together we will unlock a new world of drama, impersonation and flavour benchmarks. My curiosity about cardboard began recently when I read a movie review, which gave a...
They know if they miss buying some now, they will have to suffer eating supermarket doughnuts that are as cold, rubbery and unappetising as a dog’s chew toy. So they buy the fresh warm doughnuts in front of them. And a box...
“There is no such thing as a weed. Weeds are just plants growing in the wrong place”. So said Angus McBeard, the huge and hairy owner of our local garden centre “Thistles and Thorns”. I had simply asked him what...
I grew up in the Wild West, the wild western suburbs of Sydney, in the 1950s and 60s. In some surprising ways it was just like the American Wild West of the 1850s and 60s. We knew all about the real Wild West from TV series...
“Marie Kondo your fridge” the headline urged.* As you probably know, Marie Kondo is the tidiness and decluttering queen. Who doesn’t like her concept of “tidying up in a way that will spark joy in your life and change it...
A Short&Humorous interview with Professor Evan Level, Ph.D, Professor of Flatitudinal Studies, Pancake University, Flatchester. S&H: Professor Level, I understand that you have revolutionized tertiary education by...