A few years ago, I wrote about a company, the horribly named Genetic Savings and Clone, which cloned dead cats for their owners. They were recently forced to closed down, partly because there weren’t many customers and partly from pressure from animal […]

Have you ever noticed how jury selection is pitched to the proletariat the same way timeshares are sold? “Hey Bob, you’ve just won the county lottery and you may have won the chance to be on a jury. To claim your prize, […]

I get asked by a lot of people if I’ll ever leave the US. Well, I hope they are just asking and not hinting. Actually, I’m not sure whether I’ll leave the US, I never plan that far ahead, but that said, […]

Grr, patents make me angry. Well, not patents themselves, but how patents are portrayed in advertising. A lot of ads try to present patents as some form of government approval. Just because a product has a dozen patents doesn’t make it good. […]

I classify politicians in the same food group as children in that they should be seen and not heard. Sadly, they’re breaking this cardinal rule at the moment as it’s an election year. My God, American politics bugs the crap out of […]

I’m a numbers person. I see patterns in numbers which I blame on taking advanced mathematics. But I don’t get Sudoku and I don’t understand the fascination with this game. I suppose I should preface that statement by saying I’ve never bothered […]

Some of you may know that I come from a small industrial town in England called Slough. A few of you here have either come from there or have worked there. Slough, as cities go, has a rep, but not a good […]

For a borderline spaz such as yours truly, the US road systems are a godsend. There’s a logic behind them all that makes it easy for a stranger like me to navigate—with the exception being freeway on and off ramps. This is […]

Congrats to the New York Giants for winning the Super Bowl at the weekend (even if the 49ers narrow loss still stings). However, I do take issue with their “world champions” status. Correct me if I’m wrong but all the teams in […]