Category: pessimism

  • disappointing desserts don’t discourage

    So far today I have had two ideas for bloggerel to unleash on the unsuspecting world and have discarded them both after having started writing. They seemed like good ideas at the time, but as they evolved and appeared on the screen they did not look anything like as good as I had imagined. It’s…

  • Breaking Murphy’s Laws

    There are various versions of ‘Murphy’s Law’ going around.  It may be Murphy’s first law of inevitability: ‘If anything can go wrong it will’ or his first law of obsolescence: ‘If it jams, force it. If it breaks it needed replacing anyway’.  There’s Murphy’s law of duplication: ‘The legibility of a photocopy is inversely proportional…