Mathematics hadn’t been invented yet, back then.
Maybe we ARE due a gert big meteorite, after all.

Excellent!

It’s been an observed phenomenon for many years that human fertility has been declining. I recall some scientists worrying about it publicly at least 10 years ago.
It’s possible, actually, that this decline in […]

Yes it was. All live material, carefully edited together into a themed collection. Personally, I like it a little bit more than Make A Jazz Noise Here.
There are also bits and bobs from that tour within the You […]

Swerving round little puddles in 4x4s is not just a Thai thing. I’ve witnessed it on country lanes in the UK home counties too.

78 concerts in all, between February and June.
36 in the USA and Canada, 42 in Europe.
The band finally mutinied towards the end of their European tour. After their concert in Genoa, the brass and reed players, […]

Why buy a new unit when you can just buy a replacement HDD and fit it yourself, with no specialist knowledge?
Hard drives are pretty cheap these days, if you need to replace one. With the WD My Cloud Mirror you […]

‘E’s only likkle..

I can see they’d be rather wary of letting people do that and filling the site with Vanity Pages.

And which one of those they’re supposed to be playing, of course.

My friend Rick is a drummer and drum teacher who reads music. He worked in the orchestra pit for various West End musicals for 30-odd years. Mainly on Blood Brothers. He used to take a book with him every night or […]

Big retrospective reissue/superdeluxe/boxset project about to go to market?

“Mankind. You a sinner.”

I would say a new page needs to be formatted correctly to fit in with Wikipedia’s “style”, with some citations as to accuracy and the subject needs to be sufficiently interesting to merit inclusion.

It’s very common for smaller classical ensembles to play without a conductor. Don’t really need one unless it’s a full-blown orchestra or they’re playing something fiendishly complicated.
When Frank Zappa was […]

It’s a matter of training, mostly.
Classical players are trained to follow a score exactly. The notes are all written down and must be played as written, with differences of emphasis, timing etc. as the conductor […]

It was just suggested I should sit for 15 minutes after, when I was given the AZ vaccine.

As someone pointed out on social media yesterday, with that crappy lineup, social distancing is unlikely to be a problem.
I think I might be washing my hair that weekend, assuming I can grow enough of it to make […]

I noticed this on YouTube recently and, having given it a listen, another couple from the same source appeared. Whoever it is has also compiled a Samantha one and a Mrs Trellis one.
They all stop being very funny […]