Sermon on the nount

More uses for a scissors than distinguished Viennese-Albertan dialect experts think.

If you have to kiss a trombonist, kiss the drunk one

Lie as they may, the truth is that all wind players share mouthpieces. So what’s your best risk mitigation strategy if you have to kiss a musician? Here’s some useful info: Potential risk of salivary-mediated viral hepatitis type B transmission from oral exposure to fomites. Osterholm MT, Max BJ, Hanson M, Polesky HF. Twelve grade…

Organ minders and monkeys

I don’t see that selling a kidney is irreversible, and therefore worse than prostitution or working for the University of Manchester (normblog). Can’t you just purchase a new one when you’re better off and plug and play? Come to that, is there any limit to the number of kidneys you can have, either inside you…

How the mas got its hump

This is on this route, which is currently all shades of green and crawling with lots of very cheerful snails. Mas means farmhouse, although this is more of a barn, to which value has been added by inserting a classic hump.