Observations on the world and its inhabitants
In this blog post there is a fictional account of what Mork might report on ‘the humans’. Some are too young to recall who is Mork. In 1978, a wild-haired comedian named Robin Williams played a one-off alien on an episode of Happy Days. The character, Mork from the planet Ork, was so popular it ...
I continue to be fascinated by the advance of technology and the the direction of prices. With TVs this is totally amazing. See also How Samsung TV Prices Dropped Over a Decade! £35,000 to £2400 (at Feb 2025) So at 31/08/2025, one could splash out on a good quality 85-inch Samsung TV that would have ...
If you were well off and bought an 85-inch Samsung TV in 2014 – the price would have been around £35,000!! Wot! I knew that was a ridiculous price but it was the sort of price for that size of TV back then – 10+ years ago. So I took a photo in 2014. All ...
Wonders of Life is a series available for free on BBC Iplayer – for those with a TV licence. This is a good series. I came across some clips on YouTube then hunted it down. The first one I watched was “What is Life?” Prof Cox explains things so that ordinary people can understand. It ...
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