Archive for February, 2009
Those lying, cheating bastards at British Gas.
I’m having a ‘little dispute’ over my electric bill at the moment with British Gas. The tale is long and frustrating, but essentially they claim I’m owe them nearly a thousand quid, and that the last time I paid my bill was a year ago (which is bullshit). They also told me I’ve never paid [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Funny news story of the week
So it’s only Monday, but I really can’t see anything topping this one.
Male driver calls a woman suing for whiplash injuries ‘a freeloading fat chav’.
Insurance giant AIG has launched an investigation after the form – complete with a cartoon drawing of the accident scene – began doing the rounds on the internet.
The driver – who [...]
Finally; half term comes to an end
And not a second to soon, I’m going stir crazy in here. The weathers not good enough for trips to the park, and the girl is an absolute cow whenever you take her out on long distance trips. So I’ve been stuck in with them a whole week.
I haven’t been blogging this week because of [...]
Kids home for half term
So I’m not getting much blogging done – just odd moments of research when the boy gets off Sonic and the girl isn’t playing Everquest. At the moment she’s watching Sonic and he’s squirming around butt naked on my lap. He has some sort of moral objection to his underpants at the moment. After checking [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Miserable Sunday
I hate this time of year. I always get one cold after another and end up feeling like crap around my anniversary (been with the old man 22 years tomorrow). The girl has a hacking cough and the boy has conjunctivitis. Joy.
I’ve been checking over some of the older material in the blog, which I [...]
Proto Berber has too many words for camel
An odd title, but it’s my diary so I’ll call it what I like.
I’ve been looking up Afro Asiatic languages and ascertaining their location and dating from the technology and animals seen. ONe thing struck me.. there are just too many words for camel for it to be more than 2,200 years old. Why? Domesticated [...]
Through the looking glass.
I was looking for a link to a published article on the Y chromosomes of Southern Europe involved with the Neolithic expansion. I was amused to see ES was one of the first sites up, and quite frankly the entire page it was on made me laugh like a drain.
Most entertaining was the constant misuse [...]
Over 2,000 hits a day now on MAB.
Woo hoo.
Really I should call the anthropology blog the not doing the ironing blog. I must spend an average of six hours a day feeding into the damn thing. I spent a couple today putting together the new blog header..
Which I think is more representative of what you’ll find in it. I tried a black and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The reading subject of the day.. Proto Indo-European and proto Semitic
I’ve been reading up into these two languages, and after a little digging it bame apparent both shared certain early agricultural words for grains, sheep and bulls, etc; which as far as I’m concerned torpedoed any case of proto Semitic originating in Africa, as It meant PIE and PS had to be neighbours. I’ve kind [...]
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