All entries for Tuesday 25 May 2004

May 25, 2004

Wolverhampton and Bolton, centres of the philosophical world

Writing about web page http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2004/table/0,14557,1216869,00.html

Now i don't want to put down our poorer relations, but i can't imagine any possible world in which Wolverhampton and Bolton could have better philosophy departments than Warwick. And yet that's exactly what the Guardian's league tables claim. Wolverhapton even beats the LSE and Kings!

Does this prove that such systems of assessment are complete nonsense?


Robert O'Toole : 25 May 2004 20:20 |  Comments (2) |  Report a problem

I am the pirate biker

I spent the afternoon at the Oxford Eye Hospital with an orthoptician and a consultant. It's a good hospital, and they were very thorough. The message again was that I will just have to wait for the damaged nerve in my eye to recover, possibly another nine months.

The consultant suggested that I wear an eye patch when riding my motorbike, as my eye is now fully open but not under control. I asked if i could get a parrot to sit on my shoulder and a skull and cross-bones flag as well. I'm sure he's heard that joke many times before, but he did seem to laugh sincerely.

So this perhaps is what I will look like:

To find out what Emma will look like on my bike, see this rather dubious web page .


Robert O'Toole : 25 May 2004 18:27 |  Tags:       |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem