grant hutchison
Order of Kilopi

I'd guess that was the plan, being millionaires and all. But pretending to be employed at the local hotel in a town of only 100 inhabitants was not...

Sixteenth century, with the Portuguese. That feeds back into what I mentioned earlier, with reference to vindaloo curry being originally a Portuguese...

Yes, there are a lot of stories about how Chicken Tikka Masala (and Madras and Balti dishes) originated in the UK. I used to eat regularly in a...

Yes. The Boon Companion and I once stayed in a hotel a few miles from a loch which annually hosts a nesting pair of osprey. We hiked across country...

The chapati has a leavened cousin, the naan, and a crispy cousin, the poppadom/papadum. In the UK, a curry night wouldn't be a curry night without a...

In these parts, sea-hawk is a fine old word for either a sea eagle or one of the several different local species of skua. So it's one of those...

I can only refer you to the FDA statement on this topic:Basically, a serving is not a portion is not a carb choice. A portion is what people choose...

Well, the idea (as I'm sure you now know if you were sitting up straight and taking notes during the presentation) is that the various choices...

There's an argument that the moon "stabilizes" the Earth's rotation axis. (In fact, what it does is provide a strong force making the Earth's axis...

For the British Army, a folding Ration Heater Stove and some fuel blocks. Grant Hutchison

The internet has certainly opened up new ways of harassing other people, should one be so inclined--doxing and revenge porn, for instance. And...

This assumption of people inventing accusations out of thin air is exactly what I was talking about, however. If you look at someone as a...

Well, if a person fears being on the receiving end of a sexual harassment accusation every time they seek to enter into a relationship, I'd guess...

From 4th December to 22nd January, it was "leaving the USA". Then logged into the UK in the early hours of yesterday morning, and with me at...

That'll certainly do it--depending on the asthma, that's straight into a moderate/severe risk category, which gets you ahead of me in the queue in...

Yes, journalists love quoting relative risk, because a small change in absolute risk might not create sufficiently widespread alarm and despondency....

I don't know if that's a joke or not. If it isn't--demographically. Grant Hutchison

Pre-internet hospital patients' notes used to get bulky really quickly. Laboratory results would arrive in envelopes at the end of office hours,...

The evidence is that the vaccines are equally effective against the English variant, but may have some reduced effectiveness against the Brazilian...

In my social circle, the concepts "friend" and "wanted to set me up on a blind date" are mutually exclusive. Grant Hutchison

Sorry if I seemed to be preaching at you--I was sure you'd have had the full briefing. My remarks were mainly aimed at anyone else reading this...

Actually, everyone gets posterior vitreous detachment at some time, late 50s onwards. Your vitreous becomes less flexible and shrinks slightly with...

Right there at the top of page 6 in my downloaded copy, and also present in the linked document, though I needed to wait for it to fully load in my...

Depends on vaccine supply, and your state's clinical priorities, which have yet to be established for under-65s. I suggest you monitor the...

It has, yes. Grant Hutchison

Well, that perception seems not to have reached the UK. The idea that you can get into more trouble dating a stranger off the internet than someone...

Wait. Are you saying that meeting a person in the real world, discovering a mutual affection, then arranging to spend time together to see what...

Oh, excellent. Many thanks for posting that. George, sadly, seems not to have been around since May last year. We could have done with this while...

Really? The engineers at my university were second only to the divinity students for their massive alcohol consumption. They had a "song" (more of a...

I was quite happy to lose contact with everyone I knew through university--unfortunately, the internet has let them find me again. It was pleasant,...