Category: real life

  • A Degree of Modesty

    Last week I decided to pop by the university and get a PhD. Since then, a lot of people have been asking, “do you feel any different now that you have a PhD?” Well yes, of course I do. Whenever I insist that someone call me “doctor Phronk”—whether it’s government documents, or my friends, or…

  • Toaster Chicken, the Galaxy, and the Perks of Being Social With Social Media

    I recently came across these in the supermarket: Two words that should never go together are toaster and chicken. So of course I bought a box, and was soon obsessed with toaster chicken; mostly because “toaster chicken” is so fun to say, but also because FlatJacks are surprisingly good, in a chicken nugget sort of…

  • The Best Most Listened-To Albums of 2010 – Winners

    Here they are: the ten albums I listened to most this year, according to my Last.fm charts. This is an objective way of determining my favourite albums, whether I agree with the numbers or not. Let me know your own favourite music of the year, if you’re into this whole music thing. Oh, and happy…