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“I don’t know if I’m the first one to think of this, but…”

Spotted on social media... The damage inflicted to a plane by a bird strike. I don’t know if I’m the first one to think of this, but what if we put a big magnet on the nose of the plane so it creates a magnetic field that…

Another video

A quieter video. Because this morning, I did try to watch a bit of the live stream video that I suggested to you yesterday. But wow. It was a tough watch. Mainly because of the Boksburg accents and the general varbe, boet. It's Dawie Louw Drarving A Nissan R Thurty Farve Skar Larn,…

Speed Classic Cape Town

Car racing is not really my thing, but there's been a lot of buzz about this inaugural hill climb around the slopes of Table Mountain (it's actually a bit more Devil's Peak, but who's counting) this weekend. Up to 10,000 spectators expected, and a lot of road closures and…

Sorry, if you didn't get the nod to come over to Passion Island, I'm afraid I can't divulge any details.

Yep. All of them. And all of the others, too.

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That flew over me earlier.
Because: Holidays Are Striped!

(and actually, I completely agree with their reasoning!)

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The whole Milnerton High School thing is awful, but on the bright side, now that it's been exposed, all the toxic rugby-related issues at South African schools are surely completely finished now, right?

I mean, Milnerton was the only place that sort of stuff happened, right?

Right?

Right.

The return of Mock The Week? But…

Well, yes. But actually, maybe. Or not? Metro reported thus: The scariest thing about this was that it was apparently four years ago. I thought that it was 2023 or something. And with a whole Google search, it turns out that neither of us were right. The last…

We keep going

Another win, and this one after we'd been really poor in the first half. And then we went and scored three goals. I don't know what happened, but it looked like the same old, same old when we got to half time, and then someone put a firecracker under our collective arses in the…

Another day, another car park

Gone are the days of the twice weekly sojourns to the old car park in Milnerton. But Tuesday afternoons bring me to a different car park at the moment. We nearly died getting here. In slow motion, sure, but still. The Stanhope Road bridge in Claremont - IYKYK - was…

Buys Ballot’s law

I honestly thought* when I saw this that it was how Trump "won" the election, but as probably all my readers already know, Buys Ballot’s law is: the relation of wind direction with the horizontal pressure distribution named for the Dutch meteorologist C.H.D. (Christophorus…

First home win

It's almost November. I shouldn't be writing that title. But it happened, despite the BBC's best efforts to pretend that it didn't: O'Hare with the only goal, and I think that even this image - taken as he wheels away to celebrate - somehow sums up our season so far: Everyone going…

Yesterday, I discovered Derek Paravicini

I mean, discovered for me. He was already very much about, like when the KhoiSan when Jan came to the Cape and the Indigenous Americans when Chris went across the pond. I just found out about him for the first time yesterday. Who is Derek Paravicini? Derek…

High landing?

Slow news day? You can rely on the gutter press in the UK to try and make a story out of nothing. Thankfully, you can also rely on the good old British public to not let them get away with it: He's got a good point. Although I've had a couple of really low landings that didn't really…

About those lemurs

Yesterday, we filled you in on how to identify your raccoons. Not that hard, given that there are only 3 species, and they are pretty much geographically distinct. Your only real issue is around Panama, which is pretty much the same as when you are traveling the length of the…

Know Your Racoons

Almost forgot to blog this evening after a bit of a weird day. So quickly let me educate us all on racoons: There's absolutely no need to know this information in Africa (unless you are heading for a pub quiz), but then you never know when you might be heading for a pub quiz, so…

A good night for the football

Not had very many of them recently, and not the biggest fan of international football, but both South Africa and England are on their way to North America for next year's World Cup. England's progression was a bit of a foregone conclusion, but Bafana Bafana needed to…

It was going quite well

I've been rearranging spring cleaning my office, and it's taking a while to get done. Mainly because other tasks keep getting in the way. But I had no excuse this afternoon, when I was tidying out a cupboard and found a couple of old hard drives. And then started looking…

Pub quiz issue

When your pub quiz round goes awry because people - allegedly intelligent, educated people - don't know what an anagram is. Honestly, I have no words. And if I did, they would be all jumbled up. If you're going to struggle you're supposed to struggle on getting the answers correct.…

I’ve been using Amazon

and...? And I'm pretty impressed. They've entered into the fray in SA with a mountain to climb in terms of getting market share in online shopping delivered to your door, given that Takealot have been around for a long while here with virtually no opposition. But Amazon have…

How Science works

It's not rocket science. Well, I suppose some of it is. The bits with rockets, most specifically. But generally, science works by using the Scientific Method: a tried and tested method which has been around for millennia and which has stood us in (very) good stead during that…

New diet drink

Look, we could all* maybe do with losing a couple of kilos. And eating healthier isn't always financially viable, or very pleasant. And so we can cheat a bit with drugs or Professor Cookbook's fad diets. Or this new diet drink. "Blasts fat and food" it says. And those are the two…

100 up

That's a full century of consecutive weeks of achieving my Health Insurance exercise goal. See? I've been doing some rudimentary calculations, and I think that takes us back to November 2023. I would have had more weeks, but I'd just had Covid (again). Which rather ruined a birthday trip…

Meanwhile, in America…

Spotted online today. I've been too busy rewiring an office to have too much to say about these, but: Honestly, I think we went beyond his expertise many, many years ago. It's actually his brainworm that's in charge now. Honestly, I thought that this was made up. How could…

Ace of Base on a Dutch Street Organ

I mean, need I really say more? It was always a happy, poppy song anyway, but the jauntiness of this is weirdly infectious. Lots more where this came from too: Boney M, Coldplay, Avicci, Phil Collins, Fleetwood Mac... the list goes on. Just click through here.…

I don’t like this…

...but not just for the reasons that Casey Neistat shares in this video. Absolutely, I agree that AI is going to kill creative industries. And that's both scary and sad. Progress is moving so quickly these days that we're struggling to keep up with it and even worse, we're…

Life is tough sometimes

I know that this correlates badly with yesterday's post, but wow. It's not like we're a million miles away. It's just not quite happening. And as I've said before: the teams that win the league are the ones who can play badly and get away with it. We're playing ok, and…

The good stuff

It's been a pretty good 24 hours, and when things are good for that long, it's worth documenting. Nothing huge, just a run of good things and I'm absolutely here for it. News that they're doing up the peas sign back home in Sheffield (more on that this weekend). Last night was a…

Every last drop.
Like Day Zero in Cape Town.

But with ink.

It’s expensive

Printer ink I mean. Except, you need context and so actually, printer ink isn't that expensive. But let's pretend that it is, because then this cartoon makes so much more sense. Of course, these days, you'd be looking at the ridiculous price of pixel light if you were moaning about…