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peak hours

I was on the tube this evening and read this sign.

It was so well made that I thought it might be real for a good few seconds longer that I really should.  Kudos to the creators of this piece of art.

the 49-hour weekend

Daylight savings time is a bit like a interest free savings account for time. In March you make a deposit of one hour into the time bank and just when you are getting throughly sick of the economic disaster and encroaching winter you can make a withdrawal - provided you didn’t deposit that hour [...]

diameter and radius

When you are calculating the quantity of playpen balls needed to fill your front room it is very important to ensure that you know your geometry.  So for example - my front room is about 3.5 metres square (or 12.25m2).  If I wanted to fill this to 2 feet high (say .6m) then this would [...]

the week starts here

On Saturday I started the day by listening to two programmes of This American Life (go and check out the recent one about the $700bn bailout), dusting and cleaning my room and not going running.  By 2pm I realised just how stunning the day was and I so I got up, packed a book and [...]

it’s just too expensive

It makes me sad that I cannot afford to fill my house with playpen balls.  Heck, I can’t even afford to fill a room.  Hmmm, maybe I can rent them.
http://www.chiliahedron.com/ballroom/