Category: Piffle
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Correlation Is Causation
Thanks to an app that tracks my food intake and whatnot, I’ve discovered that I’m somewhat allergic to bell peppers. This is good to know, and made me want to learn what else is bad for me. So I designed myself an app to track everything I do, and scale my emotional well-being and log…
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Arbitrarily Marking The Passage Of Time
What better time of year than this time of year to take stock, make plans, and get a new calendar. If I was a better person, I would list 2,017 things, or even just write 2,017 words in this post, but I’m not a better person. I could even break down that number and do…
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A Celebration Of Tom Good’s Jumpers
There seems to be a lot of Christmas Jumper articles about this week. You know the ones. Look at how ironically hideous these jumpers are. Except, they’re not. They are in the style of hideous jumpers, but still made to look pretty good. I hate those articles. But I love jumpers. In particular, I love…
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Top Gear Is A Sitcom
Top Gear is a sitcom. The Grand Tour proves it. It might have started out as a car show, and morphed into a magazine show, but as it stands now, it has become a sitcom, whether by accident or design. And people like sitcoms. The moment it stumbled into that genre, it’s audience ballooned. It’s…
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You Give Me Fever
It’s hard to know what to write when I’ve spent the night having fever dreams. My tonsillitis is back with a vengeance, and I can’t talk without sounding like a bowl of washing up. I can do a mean impression of Ed Milliband right now though. I had an all night long fever dream in…
