They say you learn something new every day. Well, here's what I learned today...
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
A question of politeness
Asking the question "Can I ask you a question?" is inherently rude. Clearly, someone who asks it feels the need to have the other person's permission to ask a question, yet they are doing so anyway.
I was until recently a graduate student at Oxford, looking at heat transfer to turbine blades in jet engines. Following a brief stint in the fast world of Formula One, I'm back at my old lab looking at... heat transfer to turbine discs in jet engines. It's almost as if the last two years never happened! I drink rather a lot of tea and juggle badly... often while swearing at my computer. And they say men can't multitask.
I'm under no illusions that anyone actually reads my blogs, but frankly I don't care...
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