Well duh. “Sleep is the new sex.” Gretchen has discovered that a good nap is ... a good thing. But she does also say that well-rested children sleep better than sleep-deprived children. This is news to me, childless as I am, but seems sensible. Rather like the best mousers being well-fed cats.

As a certified egomaniac, I recently noticed that one of my feeds was not working properly. Aside from investigating all the technical possibilities I’m wondering whether it could also be because I haven’t posted in a while. This might fix that.

The problem is my wrist. In some respects, and of co...

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Graph of site visitors showing a very slight uptick Two of my recent posts have been singled out for mention in a couple of blog carnivals: Tangled Bank and Carnival of the Liberals. Of course, it isn’t as if either host plucked them from the blogosphere. No, I submitted them. But they were accepted, which is nice. And I’m not here to crow, not...

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so here live, talking to myself like a lunatic, innovate that tend to to persuade by a son that I know what I’m talking about.
Best of all, ecto does not seem to be a more to delay if the corrections to facilitate in iListe "

Or, to put it another way: this is slow, slower than typing. But l...

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A harbour with fishing boats and ropes stretched between them casting shadows on the water

Biopolitical alerted me to a paper by Colin W. Clark summarising the current state of misunderstanding of fisheries economics.1 This prompts two thoughts, one about Clark, the other a response to Marcelino Fuentes, proprietor of Biopolitical.

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