Alastair Horne
Academic, second class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Baritone. Often mediocre. He/Him
- The eternal question; is Midland Bluebird actually running the advertised (and university-subsidised) 07:37 service today? No bus at the stop at 07:36. A bus arrived at the stop at 07:42 and has taken on passengers – is it now going to wait until 07:52 to depart (when the next service is due)?
- A more suspicious mind than mine might suspect that Midland Bluebird is advertising services it doesn’t run.
- I love the arrangement of this, but something about Jarvis’s performance here seems off to me: it feels not quite half-hearted, not quite unconfident, but something in that vein. (And I expect I’m in a minority of one on this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wd1...
- If the racists want cheaper beer, maybe they should make savings elsewhere – how many pints could they get by ditching their X subscriptions?
- Ronnie was last seen at the local park, insisting to tired and upset local kids that no, they couldn’t go home until he’d scored the remaining goals he needed to reach 1,000 career goals, and explaining that of course these counted as first-class goals.
- Cristiano Ronaldo earns £488,000 a day and is on strike because Saudi Arabia’s PIF haven’t bought his club enough new players. Welcome to football dystopia. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
- Just bought an ebook almost entirely because the translation apparently introduces an entirely new character to the original text, which seems somewhat wild.
- Just watched episode 1 of the 1980 BBC Tale of Two Cities, another Dickens of which I know next to nothing.
- Deliberating over treating myself to a Remarkable Paper Pro Move…
- Ordered. :-O
- Delivered.
- Djokovic lost; hooray.
- Made myself a lunch of mushroom omelette, peas, and chips, and I should do this more often.
- “The universities minister, Jacqui Smith, also defended the government’s approach as “fair”, citing the salary premium graduates enjoy.” Painfully obvious that universities minister Jacqui Smith lacks the slightest interest in universities and university students. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
