A propos of nothing, I got a bit miffed yesterday when all the news outlets seemed to be intent on talking about the wonders of the "Higgs Bosun". At least, that's how they were all pronouncing it.

Finally, when I was listening to Tony Livesey's 5Live show last night, I finally got hacked off at the fact that this was being trumpeted as a great thing and they couldn't even get the name of the actual object right, so I texted the following:

"Higgs Boson: It is pronounced bow-zon, not bosun. It doesn't work on a boat."

And they actually read it out. And listened. After that point they were very careful to get it right for the rest of the show, even corroborating it with one of the physicists they were speaking to at the time. Frankly, I got a disproportionate sense of satisfaction out of getting someone in the national media to get just a tiny, tiny thing right.

How sad am I? (this is rhetorical; I know what the answer to that is)