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Still Alive

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Apologies for the lack of content over the last little while, and the last week particularly–the preparations for The Big Move have just destroyed whatever slim shards of free time I can normally wrest from my schedule.
Since everything is now on the truck and on its way, and I’ll be spending the next three days [...]

I expected more from Pride

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Greed:
High

 

Gluttony:
Medium

 

Wrath:
Medium

 

Sloth:
Very High

 

Envy:
Medium

 

Lust:
High

 

Pride:
Medium

 

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April Whinging: Near-death experiences and complaint letters

Friday, May 1st, 2009

OK, so… April. Yeah, that wasn’t a party.
First there were the two weeks in a four week period that I was on the road for work–that’s more being away from home than I like.
Then there was the massive and literally stunning workload–I don’t want to go into detail about my job here, but the scope [...]

March 20, 2009 12:18 am

That was the 1500th post. That seems utterly ridiculous.

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Some Movie Recommendations

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I wrote this up for another online venue, but I might as well put it (lightly edited) here. The idea was to recommend five movies that you think are “good” and that people are less likely to have seen. I chose these:
From the Heist/Caper/RomCom Of The Old School pile, I’d choose O’Toole and Hepburn in [...]

January 5, 2009 2:20 am

No blogging tonight. I got distracted. In fact, I think probably not even enough sleep.

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The final meme of 2008

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Saw this at Margo Lanagan’s blog, and felt like doing it.
Things you’ve already done: bold.
Things you want to do: italicise.
Things you haven’t done and don’t want to—leave plain.

Started your own blog – you are reading it, running strong for more than a couple of years
Slept under the stars – in a Roman ruin outside Ouchy [...]

Meme-ery

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Infected via Wheeler and Gwenda, I find that:
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…
Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful
19 Islamic, 16 Impressionist, 11 Ukiyo-e, -29 Cubist, -30 Abstract and 14 Renaissance!

Islamic art is developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine styles were taken over [...]

Really Not A Suprise

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive) [...]

Lazy Omnivore Post

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Yes, that’s right, I’m going to the meme well again. This time for Andrew Wheeler’s Omnivore’s Hundred (which I’ve seen a lot of places, but first saw at the other Andrew Wheeler’s blog.). I think the “expected” result, in so far as there is one, is that people would find there are lots and lots [...]

Just because I love the answer

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Following on from The Colonel (I guess that should be Sir The Colonel, considering his result):
Your result for The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test…
The Harlequin
You scored 32% Cardinal, 46% Monk, 38% Lady, and 43% Knight!

You are a mystery, a jack-of-all-trades. You have the king’s ear, but also listen to murmurings of [...]

For the record

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

And one last time

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
—Søren Kierkegaard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the [...]

And Again

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering.
—Thomas Merton

Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to [...]

Commonplaces

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke, Of Reading

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are [...]