OK, I looked at the question, thought that 'maths is about finding the simplest and easiest answer' and said '120 x 1'. I'm kicking myself slightly for not thinking of sqrt(120) x sqrt(120) first 🙂 JA(7) saw that 120 is … Continue reading
From a SATS key stage 2 (i.e. for 6-7 year olds) practice question… Harry multiplied two numbers together. His answer was 120. Which two numbers could he have multiplied together? … Continue reading
I'm listening to the complete Round The Horne and in an 1967 episode, Kenneth Horne spots an ad for Julian and Sandy's latest venture, the Bona Bijou Tourette travel agency, via an ad in his monthly copy of Breezy Pics … Continue reading
According to the backs of some dubious copies: … Continue reading
I really will find and finish my 'review of 2008' soon, but apparently Don John (which I was greatly looking forward to seeing at the end of December) will be coming to London's Battersea Arts Centre in April for a … Continue reading
It was the LGBT Consortium conference today and I was asked late on to do something there. More later, but it was staggering how Michael Cashman MEP stood out compared to everyone else. In his fifteen minute speech, the b-word … Continue reading
Someone's published a map of how many steps it takes to walk between inner London tube stations: You'd think they'd get one of the basic tourist gotchas right – it does not take 822+1,275 steps to get from Queensway to … Continue reading
Back in November, I was browsing Amazon when I saw someone had a second-hand Wii Fit available for fifty quid. (For people without a Wii, the retail price for this is £79.99, but supply problems mean they're selling for more … Continue reading
Not that I expect anyone to notice, but our landline is currently not working for voice calls – callers just hear it ringing, but we don't and we don't have a dial tone either. Curiously, the internet / TV over … Continue reading
I've never paid to go to Erotica (or indeed its rival). On the occasions I've gone, it's been via a free ticket (ex-work were doing a bucket rattle a couple of years ago, for example) and still felt I deserved … Continue reading