View from summit of Helvellyn on the 27th of February 2005 – Red Tarn half frozen and Striding Edge on the right.
Yesterday, a friend and I were struggling along the icy precipitous ridge of Striding Edge on Helvellyn. The weather was superb. More pictures here.
Nearly one in five of my neighbours are a bit hazy on this point.
17 per cent of Midlanders wrongly credited James Bond novelist Ian Fleming with discovering penicillin, rather than the scientist who did make that breakthrough.
James Bond, licenced (indication) to kill, by disrupting peptidoglycan assembly.
Via Chase me ladies, I’m in the cavalry.
Viz, a satirical comic in from the UK, used to carry a series called Viz Top Tips. They were a parody of the top tips you might find in women’s magazines. Examples included:
WHEN throwing someone a sharp instrument such as a Stanley knife, or bread knife, always throw it blade first as they invariably [...]
The Onion has an amusing set of vox pops about the future of COX II inhibitors:
“They’re gonna ban COX-2 inhibitors? But that’s my third-favorite class of painkillers.”
Lisa Layman
Urban Planner
Many a true word spoken in jest.
If it keeps on snowing I may get to use my ice axe again. I’m off to the English Lakes shortly, and may, legs willing, pass the spot where I took the above photograph and pass over the mountains you can see in these excellent photographs.
I might even practice some ice axe braking, [...]
Followers of the Nail Gun postings on this blog may be interested in an opportunity to join the series. Yes, you can be the proud owner of a 1957 Tornado Nail Gun for 99 pence. The seller is obviously a reader of this blog, hence his comment:
HI YOU ARE LOOKING AT A ANTIQUE [...]
Two items of news in no order of importance about COX-II inhibitors:
1. A European wide review of COX-II inhibitors cardiovascualr safety has been completed and regulatory action has been taken. Details can be found at the CSMWM’s Safety News page, along with links to the EMEA information and a Question and Answer paper from the [...]
As news comes forward that the UK’s drug regulator had concerns about rosuvastatin (Crestor) before it was marketed:
Minutes of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency reveal that it had seen higher rates of a dangerous muscle-wasting disease in patients on Crestor compared with other statins. The disease is a rare side-effect of all [...]
Here’s another one. This is becoming a minor hobby of mine.
“I heard him say f— and when he came out of the room, his eye was scrunched and this nail was sticking straight out,”
Here’s some advice on using a nail gun safely, as well as another nice picture.
Hitting your thumb with a [...]