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Angus Patient Expert

San Francisco, California
This blog relates our experience of living with a small child, our daughter, with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia - we hope it will provide comfort and information to others in similar situations to our own as well as being both therapeutic for ourselves and a record of what will be surely a... Full Bio
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Stuff the Jubilee by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Queen Elizabeth II "ascended" to the the throne on 6 February 1952 and is thus celebrating her Diamond Jubilee. I remember her Silver Jubilee back in 1977 when I ... Read on »
The Sky is Rising by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer The Sky is Rising - a detailed look at the state of the entertainment industry Read on »
Anti-ACTA Demo 11 Feb by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer London will see a major anti ACTA  demonstration on Saturday 11 February. Link here . Read on »
The Cost of Knowledge by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Boingboing gave us an incredible collection of posts last week and there follows some links to these ... Our first is to The Cost of Knowledge - a website protesting agai ... Read on »
Llareggub by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer After Morais' lesson in Anglo-Saxon last week, I gave him a lesson in Welsh inspired by Dylan Thomas ' Under Milkwood (which I saw narrated in Bangor when I was a teenager ... Read on »
Day to Day Life Goes On by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer We have two Nigerian clients here at work - "Day to Day" and "Life Goes On".  Surely they are twins? Read on »
Aphorisms XV! by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer "Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies ... Read on »
SOPA & PIPA - Jan 18 Day of Action by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer In this post on boingboing Cory Doctorow writes everything I have thought about the SOPA and PIPA legislation currently before the US Congress. I quote in full ... "On J ... Read on »
Travel size paper city Paris by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer This miniture paper cut-out model of Paris, featuring the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, a boulangerie and patisserie as well as people and cars ... it only ... Read on »
Aphorisms XV by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue" Oscar Wilde Read on »
A new species by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer We believed that our common octopus here probably belonged to the genus Octopus. However, the Directorate of Livestock, responsible for issuing phyto-sanitary certific ... Read on »
Algebra by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer My algebra is not what it was in my school days ... but this is very funny! From the Futility Closet : "Faced with the simultaneous equations and a lazy stu ... Read on »
Psychogeography by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer I'm not a great fan of the term "psychogeography" but it has a pedigree and there seems to be a lack of a suitable alternative to describe human effects on the environment. ... Read on »
Fuck and Bugger ... Bugger and Fuck by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Fuck CST (our telecomms provider and only ISP) with a redhot poker/crowbar, fuck the power company, fuck this or that client who hasn't paid, fuck you Angus and fuck you Mor ... Read on »
Gertrude Stein by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer From the Futility Closet ... "When Bennett Cerf published Gertrude Stein’s Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind in 1936, h ... Read on »
Public Service Announcement by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer "Outdoor cats risk injury, disease, or getting hit by cars and millions of small birds and and other animals are killed each year by outdoor cats. Your outdoor cat can fi ... Read on »
Reply from MAFIAA Fire by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Hey Angus, Thanks for contacting MAFIAAFire! Sure, we are most happy to answer questions about the addons, and tech people can check them out for themselves as well as i ... Read on »
Aphorisms by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer The Futility Closet is a wonderful source of aphorisms of which my regular readers know I am particularly fond. Two more below ... “Sleep is death enjoyed.” — Friedrich H ... Read on »
SOPA,MAFIAA Fire, Mobile Phones and more by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Lots has been happening on Internet access and censorship in the last few months.Western/Northern governments have been praising the attributes of social networking sites, s ... Read on »
Free Study by Angus Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Thanks to Futility Closet ... “A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” — Samuel Johnson “Knowledge whi ... Read on »