The Parable of Virgin Media

I wanted to buy a new car. My old one was slow and unreliable. There was only one car showroom in town, really. Oh, there were other ones, but they were a long way out of town, and they sold … Continue reading The Parable of Virgin Media

Pornography – Upgoer 5 – 1

Upgoer 5 is a description of a Saturn 5 rocket created by xkcd.com artist Randall Munroe. See here: http://xkcd.com/1133/ For this, he uses a vocabulary that consists of no more than ‘ten hundred’ words. The following description uses no more than that vocabulary. People usually wear clothes, even when it is very hot. It is interesting that people who come from a place where it is always hot, and where the other people have all lived there for a long time, and where the people who come from other places have not made them change what they do very much, … Continue reading Pornography – Upgoer 5 – 1

Evolution – Upgoer 5

Upgoer 5 is a description of a Saturn 5 rocket created by xkcd.com artist Randall Munroe. See here: http://xkcd.com/1133/ For this, he uses a vocabulary that consists of no more than ‘ten hundred’ words. The following description uses no more than that vocabulary. Living things make more of themselves. It is one of the special things about living things that they make more of themselves. Some things make more of themselves all on their own. They are usually very simple things which are too small to see with your eyes. If you could see them, they would look like tiny … Continue reading Evolution – Upgoer 5