Meerkat Prompts: The Mobile Phone
Above, you have a picture of the very first mobile phone I ever owned. The Simens C35i was a fairly typical phone for the year 2000, with all the usual refinements of the era....
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Meerkat Prompts: What Should Everyone Know?
What’s something you believe everyone should know. A good question, and there are several potential answers! My first instinct was to suggest that anyone who is physically able to do so should learn how...
Meerkat Prompts: Three Wishes
You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for? Whenever I see this question, I always amazed that more don’t answer with what I see as the most obvious, best wish: omnipotence....
Meerkat Prompts: The Right to Speak
Earlier in the year, I received two very blunt comments to a couple of my posts. I consider these comments to be the precise opposite of how to motivate or convince someone to do...
Meerkat Prompts: Coffee
Once upon a time, this ‘kat didn’t really do coffee. I was more of a tea person. This may have something to do with biscuits, since I have often found tea is great for...
Meerkat Prompts: Anonymity
Time to reproduce a prompt from the prior version of Meerkat Musings. It is worth noting that this appeared to cause a bit of upset last time, for reasons that are beyond me, but...
Meerkat Prompts: Tittynope
Once before, I wrote a post about a fascinating old word. It has fallen out of use (as have many old words), in an interesting demonstration of the evolution of language. This word also...
Meerkat Prompts: Criticism
During the first time around with Meerkat Musings, I had written a post that referenced the halfway point of the year. It transpires I got this wrong. I’m only human (well, I’m only a...
Meerkat Prompts: Furries
Let’s kick-start Meerkat Musings with a dose of self-honesty. For years I have skirted around the edges of this subject and for the life of me, I do not understand why. I make regular...
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