Tram Town
Sunday, February 27, 2011
| Category: Trivia I've often thought trivia competitions are soft general knowledge quizzes. Sometimes, though, we stumble on real/true/genuine pieces of trivia. Here is one from Jack Klugman's Wikipedia page: In 1957, he appeared in the film 12 Angry Men as Juror #5 and is the last surviving actor who played a juror in that movie.Love that! |
Monday, February 21, 2011
| Category: Creepiness Am I alone in finding this appalling... Canteen takes up online spy technology. You have to wonder at the perceived extent of the nutrition issues amongst parents for this to be a cost effective program. |
Sunday, February 20, 2011
| Category: Offsets Once the whole carbon offset thing is proven to be good, things could lead anywhere. |
Friday, February 11, 2011
| Category: Truth Reality will always trump fiction when you're looking for something to laugh at: Indiana Officials Fear Building Will Be Late-Night Punchline if Named After Ex-Mayor |
Saturday, February 05, 2011
| Category: Music Studio Multitracks Tracks in Isolation Just the guitar or backing vocals or whatever from many well known songs. |
Thursday, February 03, 2011
| Category: Howard I suspect I am going to work my way through the clivejames.com site and read everything. Just after the Kevin '07 election he wrote this insightful piece. The language is probably a bit clever (I found I had to re-read several paragraphs) but what it has to say is quite prescient given the time it was written. |
| Category: Quotations I was looking for the source of the gag about Queen Sālote's lunch and found this really nice article by Clive James titled Saying Famous Things. |
