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Personal Blog – Martin Thomas
With apologies to Sting! So yes, Martin is now a fully fledged member of the European Union once again, as he finally has the Irish passport to go with the citizenship that he was granted last year, and the background to which you can read about here And it has been a particular privilege to
Free Again Yes, slowly but surely the world of virtual meetings is becoming supplanted by reality once again, which once more means seeing real people at real destinations, as Martin is currently doing in Paris. He is once again at the Paris Neuro workshop, for which the last real meeting took place in the spring of
In some ways there is little more to say about this, but in others a very great deal, and we’ve just posted an extensive blog to provide all the details. But to summarise here, what does this actually mean for YOU? In the short term, nothing, but in the long term, and for us as
Yes, it does really feel like that we’ve all been asleep for a while, except that just a year has gone by, rather than a hundred, since this little virus problem started. It just seems longer! Sadly, most native English speakers are more than a little challenged when confronted with other languages, so I guess
Mister Spock meets Doctor Strangelove! Just in case these two phrases in the title aren’t recognised, the first is supposedly from Star Trek, and the second is the continuation of the full title of Stanley Kubrick’s tale of accidental nuclear armageddon, which in their different ways perhaps combine to form a reasonable summary of the
I’ve long felt a slight kinship with Kurt Vonnegut’s character Winston Niles Rumfoord from his “The Sirens of Titan” novel, who one day had the slight misfortune of “running his private space ship right into the heart of an uncharted chrono-synclastic infundibulum two days out of Mars”. This had the effect of converting him into
Just in case anyone doesn’t recognise the words of the title, they come from Douglas Adams’ seminal science fantasy series, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. They are attributed to the world’s dolphins, as they escaped the planet just in time to survive its destruction to make way for a hyperspace bypass. The manner of
Since Christmas is traditionally a time of goodwill, this is when we let our founder and Chairman Martin out of his solitary confinement for a few hours, so that he can attend our annual dinner and give his now traditional speech, which we all have to bear with as much fortitude as we can muster.