Category Archives: Trivia

Cordwainer Smith

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Terence Park

Just looking back at Cordwainer Smith’s Instrumentality

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Xeno-Archaeology

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Terence Park

Xeno-archaeology: the study of strange ancients.
Explanation: a future science that deals with the past. Continue reading →

Posted in Trivia | Tagged Banu Hilal, Dead civilisations, Dead planet archaeology, Live planet archaeology, Mongol, Terence Park, the study of strange ancients, The Tau Device, Xeno-Archaeology | Leave a comment

Under Winter’s Bough

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Terence Park

Winter’s Holme went very well – I stuck to the descriptions of winter and festivities around it. Few picked up on the scandalous sub-text. This calls to mind a line in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, always winter but never Christmas. … Continue reading →

Posted in Trivia | Tagged Burnley Literary Festival, C.S. Lewis, nomad, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sufi music, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Under Winter's Bough, Uzbek | Leave a comment

The Glass Fly

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Terence Park

Took Irwell Writers session today and read from Kalila and Dimna — Selected Fables of Bidpai, as retold by Ramsay Wood*. Went on to an exercise in retelling fables, folk tales, sayings – let’s pretend we’re Walt Disney. My offering … Continue reading →

Posted in Trivia | Tagged Disney, Fables, Fables of Bidpai, Folk tales, Irwell Writers, Sayings, The Glass Fly | Leave a comment

The Whitaker

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Terence Park

Over the past few days I’ve been toying with writing up my notes on Energy Risk – outside the crazy world of books is an even crazier world of finance, and risk modelling. In a former life, I did risk … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Trivia | Tagged A Guide to First Contact, Dystopia, Jim Taylor, Poetry, silt from distant lands, the school inspector, the whitaker | Leave a comment

ScribbleCon – Todmorden, Yorkshire

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Terence Park

I’m almost ready for ScribbleCon which is being held at The Golden Lion, Todmorden on 28/05/2016. There will be comic book stalls and magazine stalls plus talks including: 10am – 11am: Rachael Elwell (Lines Form Spaces) Linocut Print taster workshop … Continue reading →

Posted in Trivia, Writing | Tagged Dave Boydell, Jimmy Woodington, Rachael Elwell, Sam Parfitt, Scribblecon, Todmorden Carnival, Vanessa Guy | Leave a comment

Getting to Light Speed

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Terence Park

From a discussion elsewhere, I picked up on the question: Getting to light speed – how long? Assume constant acceleration of 1g where g = 9.8m/s² Using the standard formula v = u + at We want ‘t’ From the … Continue reading →

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Creative Writers and the new Daily Telegraph

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Terence Park

It’s time for a bit of reflection. When I first joined My Telegraph – the blogging platform of The Daily Telegraph (DT) – back in 2008, it was with a view to planning ahead for the impending decline of MySpace. … Continue reading →

Posted in General, MySpace, Opinion, Trivia | Tagged Creative Writing Group, Disqus, Facebook, Kate Day, My Telegraph, MySpace, New Telegraph, Nick Petrie, Reasoned Debate, Short Story Club, Stream of Consciousness, The body lies still but the spirit lives on, The Daily Telegraph | Leave a comment

EU Security (or David Petraeus knows best)

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Terence Park

The relentless machine of rent-a-quote trundles on and, in the light of the Brussels atrocity, the debate on Brexit has now been drawn to one of security. A former head of the US intelligence services and highly respected, former member … Continue reading →