Archive for the Miscellanea category

Wild swimming

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

As a teenager in the 70’s I went swimming three or four times a week in Stevenage Swimming Pool. In those days health and safety was not taken too seriously, so we had a 6ft springboard, running jumps from a 12ft top board and could play all kinds of games such at jostling to retrieve [...]

Laceyleague predictions

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Putting the Laceyleague predictions for the new season into the spreadsheet I use to calculate the points I couldn’t resist a little analysis. Taking the average predicted positions (in brackets) of the 18 entries gives the following table.
1 Chelsea (1.22)
2 Liverpool (2.39)
3 Manchester United (3.22)
4 Arsenal (3.61)
5 Tottenham Hotspur (5.39)
6 West Ham United (7.94)
7 Newcastle United [...]

Labyrinths are unicursal

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

A labyrinth is a unicursal path – a single path with no forks, no junctions, no crossroads. It’s what makes it a labyrinth and not a maze. A maze is a series of choices, a puzzle to be solved. A labyrinth is a journey, the only choice to be made is walk or don’t walk. [...]