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I discovered two rather odd bits of kit when I was cleaning out desk drawers recently. One is in the shape of a tape cassette, but has a wire coming...

The events I was referring to were about as far as it's possible to get from "merry prank", Don. Grant Hutchison

It depends on the stalker. Trust me. And dog poo would have been a pleasant change. As would a box. Grant Hutchison

Do we disagree? I don't think so. I made no claim about how common or otherwise the two definitions are. DaveC426913 used the first, and I accepted...

Because of, or in spite of, Season 1? Grant Hutchison

"Sorry, you've got the wrong person." Grant Hutchison

Amid all the cramp-prevention advice, it's probably worth saying that if you've recently started taking a new medication, it might be worth checking...

In Scotland, it's either a white horse or a grouse. The barman says "We have a whisky named after you." Same punchline. Grant Hutchison

Yeah, stretching the cramped muscle is a general solution to the problem of cramp. Far be it from me to disagree with the Mayo, but I'd say in the...

One thing a proper course in philosophy (as opposed to a simplistic "great ideas" sort of course) teaches us is that we all hold self-contradictory...

"Station keeping" by pointing upstream and swimming to stay in one place is certainly common, but not really relevant to the colonization of new...

It's interesting how "space opera" has come to be understood in terms of "opera", the musical performance. Whereas it has its origin in a derogatory...

But if they can have this conversation with others, don't they then notice the new conversation that suddenly fires up about, "Hey, Solfe's back from...

Lenses. Grant Hutchison

Ah, thanks. I think I've maybe stirred some omnibus editions into the mix in my memory. Grant Hutchison

Yeah, the movie was John Carter. I was initially puzzled as to how a genre invented in the '40s could be said to trace its lineage to a movie made in...

There was a guy in Belize with one hand, who ran a bar called "Lefty's". The story went that he'd been several days' hike into the jungle when he...

There have been too many conflicting definitions of both "space opera" and "planetary romance", and too many very different kinds of narrative have...

Using an axe for a purpose it was not intended for can actually ruin your whole day, and make significant inroads on the rest of your life. Grant...

It's actually extremely unusual for a lake to have multiple natural outflows, though they do exist - a couple in Finland, if memory serves. If some...

And downstream is at least as important as upstream, in terms of colonizing new lakes. Grant Hutchison

Fish naturally swim upstream? Some fish. At very specific times of their lives. Grant Hutchison

But didn't it happen to them "all of a sudden" when you first disabled your account? Grant Hutchison

There were extensive ice-dammed lakes against the icecap, and a river network draining into them. That drainage system contained the ancestors of...

Ah, good to know. But I also enjoy ironing. Especially shirts. Back in medical school, I pretty much got a girlfriend off the back of my...

So that's about the same for me. I hand-wash, dry and put away cutlery, dishes and pans for two people. When I'm away with my friends, I'm one of a...

Back in the day, when there was nothing on television, we used to pass the time by putting a small paper bag on the floor for our cat to find. He'd...

You're just washing your own dishes? Or do you have some sort of rota system involving multiple people? Grant Hutchison

I'm planning to die without ever owning a dishwasher. I hate dishwashers. I hate loading them, I hate the "cupboard full of dirty dishes" thing that...

Yep, that's the effect she was aiming for. Grant Hutchison