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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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Coming Soon On Jonny Nexus dot Com
Hi all, I’ve got a bunch of things I want to write about, but having just got back from a week or so away I’m busy catching up on various emails and so on. So, partly so they don’t seem a bit untimely when I do them, and partly just to remind myself of what…
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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 II: Why Esperanto?
In yesterday’s post I explained why I wanted to learn a second language. In today’s post I’ll try and explain why I’ve selected Esperanto as my language to learn. Why? Well it basically comes down to three things. It’s easy. I like the ideals and culture behind it. And I love the elegance of the…
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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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Learning Esperanto Part I: Confessions of a Monoglot
My name’s Jonny, and I’m a monoglot. I speak and write English, and that’s it. I know many non-English speakers will think I’m lazy. Stupid even. I think I’m neither lazy nor stupid, but if it’s any consolation, being unable to speak more than one language is a quite a source of annoyance to me.…
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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…
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Analysis Of A Joke: Lazy? Offensive? Both? Neither?
A few nights ago I went to the Krater Comedy Club at Brighton’s Komedia. I’d seen other acts, the Maydays for example, at Komedia, but had thus far avoided the Krater Comedy Club, figuring its humour would be targeted at pissed-up hen and stag parties. But my brother was in town, and we wanted to…
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