Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Aug 4th, 2008
I wondered briefly this morning how my time is distributed between newspapers and books, the Internet and TV. I was reading a book and keeping an ear on the Andrew Marr show, BBC TV’s Sunday morning political offering. It’s worth a look for its hand-picked selections from the Sunday papers.
Mr. and Mrs. Potential Voter hissed [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 3rd, 2008
Last night, by chance, we watched one of the most powerful programmes I’ve ever seen on television. It was billed in the Sunday Times as
7:30 We Are Together Two first time film-makers tell the story of a South African orphanage’s children’s choir that is trying to get to London for a series of concerts.
This doesn’t [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 29th, 2008
A hat tip to Jeremy for this amusing rumination on the meaning of the word down.
Strictly speaking, the author doesn’t take Larson’s point of view on dog comprehension
but his contention about dogs not asking questions is only technically correct. We’ve all known intelligent, telepathic, face-reading, emotional blackmailing artists of canine persuasion who didn’t need to [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 24th, 2008
The New York Times has a nice article on evolution over the last 40 years.
I’m thinking about a new laptop. Here’s how mine have evolved over 25 years.
First, I had a PC like a sewing machine — in 1983, before the IBM PC took off. It weighed 10 Kg, had 64k memory and twin 5ΒΌ” [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 13th, 2008
I woke up with firm intentions to stop procrastinating and get into the library and do an honest day’s work on my cretinously late dissertation proposal.
I can’t help with the shopping
I told the number 1 shopper, who likes my company but who has noticed that we spend more when I “help”.
First, I’ll just read a [...]
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