Richard P Grant
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Category Archives: Ill-considered rants
Communication breakdown
Twitter is dead. Long live … whatever comes next. Twitter actually died a few years back. It was around about the time when your timeline began to fill up with images. About the same time that The Algorithm started showing … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, Internet
Tagged social media, twitter
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Girls on film
You will remember, in the Before Times, how Professor Robert Kelly’s interview with the BBC was photobombed by his children (and how ninja-ly his wife, Jung-a Kim, rounded them up). Even then I thought how very humanizing was this little … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, Office life, People, you
Tagged children, chime, teams, webcam, zoom
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Get off of my cloud
In my previous life, I pontificated on the etiquette of iPods and in particular the signals that earbuds send out. My central thesis was that if you were foolish enough to approach someone at the lab bench who was wearing … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, Office life, The stupid, it burns, Work
Tagged day job, iPod, sociopathy, stupid coworkers, writing
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On Social Media
We are social creatures. No doubt there are evolutionary reasons why this is so and why it persists, although I’m not qualified to do more than speculate. However, it seems self evident that there are advantages to acting as a … Continue reading
Road Rage
One of things that annoy me—let me be honest, and say that along with pigeons, cycle helmets and Henry Gee, one of the many things that annoy me—is the inability of apparently otherwise intelligent folk to use a computer. But … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, Internet
Tagged internet, pigeons, somewhere on the autistic spectrum
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More to a sinner
When people ask who were my influences, I find it difficult to give a straight answer. I cannot name a childhood hero in whose footsteps I wanted to follow, neither was there someone whose guidance or mentoring I’d particularly like … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, People, Personal
Tagged angels, apes, grace, influences, inspirations, One Isaiah than the other, Patrick Moore
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On diversity
I was in a minority last night, and not just because I was one of the few men at #talkfest, the third such event hosted by the Biochemical Society. Last night’s affair was addressing diversity in blogging. I’m not going … Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, People, Politics, Public Engagement, Science, you
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