Random Excuse Generator
For those of us with a professional interest in procrastination theory the news from Australia that Henry Hoke’s Random Excuse Generator has been recreated brings a welcome injection of optimism amid falling financial markets, slipped deadlines, and stumbling projects. This short film produced by Mark Thomson, Research Director at the Institute for Backyard Studies, explains:
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language: Finished at Last
Academic books are a curious thing. They are essential to the careers of academics, who now need to write lots and lots of them to reach the dizzying heights of Assistant Lecturer (grade B) while their superiors reached the same level 30-odd years ago by having lunch with the Dean and offering to pay for [...]
Rydal Water at the End of Summer
Here are a couple of pictures from our walk yesterday, both taken from the Loughrigg side of Rydal Water.
Looking roughly West towards Grasmere.
Looking towards Rydal Mount.
Dusanj Brothers Buy Back Cain’s
I’ve been enjoying a day in the Lake District, but it looks like some people have been hard at work. Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj are back in charge of the Robert Cain brewery. The details are still unclear, but it looks like the brewery jobs and the jobs in the city centre pubs are safe. [...]
Dusanj’s Making a Comeback?
Neil Hodgson in the Liverpool Echo is reporting that the Dusanj brothers look likely to return to Cain’s brewery. A brewery so good they had to take it over twice. We should know for sure by next week, but this would be great news:
The Dusanj brothers are poised to sensationally regain control of Liverpool brewer [...]
Whale Night
The BBC magazine has a piece by Philip Hoare about Moby Dick and the modern plight of whales. Moby Dick is probably my favourite novel, a cross between encyclopedia and adventure story. Like the whale its size is intimidating and its meaning elusive, but it is also funny, self-deprecating, and in the end, extremely gripping. [...]
Cain’s: new owner to be announced soon
The Publican reported yesterday that administrators at the Cain’s Beer Company are close to announcing their plans for the company’s future. And it looks like the Dusanj brothers are the front runners. There’s many a slip of course, but if brewing stays in Liverpool I propose a new Cain’s winter brew, to be called ‘Phoenix [...]
History and Current Affairs
Just before I left to go on holiday in August I gave a couple of interviews for local newspapers, including one for this article by Mike Chapple at the Daily Post, about having to revise the Cain’s book in the light of recent events. It’s an interesting position to be in. Quite a few people [...]
Google’s New Web Browser–Chrome
I admit it, I find web browsers interesting. Installed on the MacBook I’m using to write this are Firefox 3, my browser of choice, its flirtatous cousin, Flock, Apple’s default browser, Safari, for those ‘no messing around’ moments, Camino, which is like Safari but without the corporate sponsorship deal, and Opera, which I’ve been checking [...]
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