Category: Abilities
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The question
Why is a raven like a writing desk? What came first, the chicken or the egg? What is the sound of one hand clapping? When would when never happen? Why are some words the same but different? When can importance be irrelevant? At what point does new become old? How, when it’s warm, can you…
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Let the changes begin…
All of this talk about Phoenixes and new beginnings has set me thinking. Things need to change to remain fresh, and hopefully good. Things can’t stay the same. They have to evolve… adapt… update. And that is just what I’m doing. The first thing to go is a biggie. Hanging up my Cape Well, figuratively…
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Starlings
I’m still in Outer Space at the moment. Exploring various parts of the Universe that have only recently been discovered by us ‘mere’ Earthlings. Everywhere I look right now, I see the Phoenix. On the side of a lorry, in a book, in a blog post, on TV. It even cropped up whilst I was…
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Ison from Oort
Distance is nothing and size doesn’t matter, all things considered. Well, it is and it does, obviously, but when you think of the vast distances involved in the Universal side of things the overall meaning of the word distance / size becomes somewhat diminished. Take the distance between stars, for instance. They need to be…
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Chamaeleon: A Rogue Planet
You don’t really think of the early Seventeenth Century and connect it to a multi national corporation. Well, I don’t, and I find myself thinking of the early Seventeenth Century quite a lot! However, back in the day, there were one or two multi national corporations in existence. The British had the East India Trading…
Tom