Humans are hoarders. Collectosapiens. Stamps, train numbers, bird songs, you name it — if something exists, then there is a collection of it. Yet despite knowing that, I felt a spike of joyful surprise upon hearing this sentence: “We also collect randomness around the world.” Collections and randomness make for an unlikely pairing. Collections tend …
Three Men and an Idea
Ideas don’t spring from a vacuum. They don’t turn up at your door, fully-formed, like in Three Man and a Baby. No, to cook up an idea you need the right people in the right place — a twinkle-eyed Ted Danson, a Plot Device Lady, and some moonlight. This is obvious, right? Except, according to …
One Finger to the Big Screen
Have you ever walked out of the cinema mid-screening? If so, then you have my respect. I’ve considered it a number of times. Johnny English had me feeling nauseous, partly due to John Malkovich’s bizarre french accent. Yet I sat there, dry-heaving into my Pick ‘N’ Mix bag. Why? Because I’d inadvertently signed a social …
The Learner Experience
As someone who’s often hunting for a sneaky nap-time opportunity, I am, for the most part, excited by the prospect of self-driving cars. That said, there will be inevitable losses, most of which have been discussed to death. One such loss — albeit a quiet one — has been on my mind recently: the loss …