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The Campaign For Real Stairs
Stairs are good, good for you, and good for the planet. Take the stairs instead of a lift (an elevator for those of you from across the pond) and you’ll reduce your carbon footprint and improve your fitness level. So given those facts, why the hell do the architects of modern hotels and office blocks…
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Learning Esperanto Part III: Bits and Pieces
Okay, in no particular order… * * * * * I’ve created a separate Twitter account for me to talk Esperanto and follow people who are talking Esperanto. It’s @jonnonekso. (Although that’s something of a provisional user name). I think that’s pronounced something like “Yon-no Neck-so”, with short “o”s. The two names end in letter…
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Learning Esperanto Part 1b: Remembered Things
Well having listed in the previous post all the German that I’d learned, I have of course spent the afternoon remembering things. Firstly, “Wo ist?”, which I think means “Where is?”. Something is, anyway. I remember that one because of an incident that happened in my third year of German. A friend of mine was…
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My All-Time Favourite Media Tie-In Novel
I’ve just started reading a book called Tied In: The Business, History and Craft of Media Tie-In Writing, which is the result of a collaboration by several members of The Internation Association of Media Tie-in Writers. I bought it after Matt Forbeck (@mforbeck), who’s one of the contributors, recommended it on his blog. What’s a…
Jonny Nexus 