Month: March 2010

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Oh my, Omar …

Writing The Long Way Around

I watched an interesting programme about Omar Khayyam last night which chimed with some of the things we have been looking at in our Theory and Authorship module. One of the first things you need to know about Omar Khayyam is that he was super smart. He was a mathematician and did something cool with the ‘cubic equation’. This means absolutely nothing to me; even after a demonstration with two rods, a length of string and a hula hoop, but apparently it was groundbreaking.  Khayyam was also a meticulous astronomer responsible for the calculations that provided a calendar year more … Continue reading Oh my, Omar …

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Research and Evil Dolls

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Really, I ought to be grateful for the past 36 hours of rain as it has made it almost impossible for the snow to lie. Last week I inadvertently watched the movie The Day After Tomorrow and am now terrified when I see large blocks of cloud forming. Living in the UK it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between large blocks of cloud heralding catastrophic shifts in weather conditions and a new ice age, and plain old large blocks of cloud. Although I am leaving it until tomorrow to be unspeakably fatal, I achieved a few things today which, really … Continue reading Research and Evil Dolls

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This Charming Man – more deviant behaviour

Writing The Long Way Around

When my 80-year-old mother tells me she has been the victim of a scam … or even bad service, I have a tendency to overreact. This week my mother received a telephone call from a bastard trying to get her bank and debit card details. He got pretty far before she twigged and she had the nous to put down everything else she was doing that day to go to her bank and sort it all out. So far so good. I of course, being incensed that someone tried to hurt my mother, went into full overreaction mode. When I … Continue reading This Charming Man – more deviant behaviour