FatGeekUK

I love being a dad.

Me and the kids have a sort of long term game of ‘tick’ going on. It’s called the ‘boink’ and you pass it on by prodding the person with a finger while (completely unselfconsciously saying “Boink”).

Anyway, I ’Boink’ed Alex (son, 11 years old, total geek) he turned round and said something like….

“Getting the boink makes me annoyed and being annoyed is something I don’t like”

Well, being the geekdad that I am, I went into a bit of a talk about how he had just expressed a syllogism, then explained what it was, and why it is important and finally, tried to give a bit of background between declarative and imperative computer languages and that syllogisms form the basis of a programming language called Prolog.

Then, I got my copy of ‘Programming in Prolog’ off the top shelf and gave that to him to have a browse through. specifically saying it was just to show what prolog was like, not expecting him to DO anything.

Love being a geekdad.

I am a bit of a geek. Ok, yes, I admit it. I am a LOT of a geek.

But I am not just ONE sort of geek.

In part, I am a bit of a language geek.

I love Pulp Fiction (the film) and Deadwood (the tv series) and Kings (another tv series).

And sometimes I play about with trying to put the good words in the right order.

So, with that in mind, here is another attempt.

The meals at The Empress are balanced soo well and prepared with such attention
to detail and professionalism that it is not apparent upon their consumption just how spicy some of them are. Once passed through the alimentory canal however, the bal
ance is destroyed and the power revealed. Thus I suffer, but with joy at the memory.