The Whippet #146: Keep disguises out of sight
If you try to do the Myer-Briggs test on me, it just returns the ISBN for the Usborne Detective's Handbook
The Whippet #145: Another day in the art mines
Do you know why camels have humps? I mean the second reason why?
The Whippet #144: What of it, if some old sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?
Animals that sound made-up - the map is not the territory- an app that strips out all the questions from literature - camouflage - dust - don't forget you can quit
The Whippet #143: Echidnas pacing the frozen forests
"Throughout history, every society and every culture has dedicated at least a part of itself to making little guys."
Task prioritisation is fake
Do or do not. There is no "prioritise"
The Whippet #142: Experiments performed on a cosmical scale
The Carnegie was built to be non-magnetic, so it wouldn't interfere with compass readings. The anchors were made of bronze and attached to hemp cables a foot in diameter.
The Whippet #141: Say yes and figure out how later
17-year-old ballerina Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat and dances on wine bottles, June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream she had.
The Whippet #140: Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless
Byron’s apocalypse sounds strikingly like nuclear winter, because he experienced something very similar: the eruption of Mt Tambora and the year-long ashcloud that followed
The Whippet #139: Heads or tentacles?
Today I am thinking about: weird career milestones. The ones that absolutely are indicators of prestige, but ones that you never would have deliberately aimed for or thought about achieving
The Whippet #138: Nothing rhymes with money-laundering
If you see a news item about how some artwork or random object has been sold for a madly disproportionate amount of money, assume it’s money-laundering, and you will be right 99 times out of 100.