| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
ebee
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10:13p |
My adoraton of a certain meerkat is becomings a prob. I is wantings hims. Simpies! |
bateleur
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9:48p |
FaceBook Absurdity #102781
When someone I know adds a new friend on FarceBook, it now appears on my newsfeed and I have the option to "Like" it. What's the etiquette here? If I don't click "Like" does that imply I'm a little grumpy about my friends having other friends and am sulking in the corner of the playground pretending I didn't want to play with them anyway? Current Mood:  amused |
cuthbertcross
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8:26p |
aarg - it's all gone horribly wrong -
Quote from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) babysaxon this afternoon... "mummy I really want to play the Wet Princesses game". " babysaxon , it's REALLY wet. " "Yes, but mummy it's pink, and it's got princesses in. I want princesses. " So we played this . Admittedly, I bought it for a quid secondhand so I DID bring it into the household, but only on the grounds that if you deny girls pink things they become OBSESSED. This way by the time she's seven, she will have decided that pink is babyish and move onto purple. So only three years to go of the Pink Wet stuff then.... Current Mood:  embarrassedCurrent Music: Football *sigh* |
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9:21a |
It's all gone quiet... Ah, that's coz she can't talk
http://thoughts-on-everything.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-all-gone-quiet-ah-thats-coz-she.html Wow getting your brain to think in blog frames is hard after so long off. This week I have mostly been moping in bed and on the sofa with what I
first thought was flu but turned out to be a nasty bout of tonsilitus.
Who'd have thunk something so teenage sounding could wipe you out so
thoroughly! So I managed 7 days in the new job before having to phone in sick.
Very not ideal as I was due to meet two clients on the day in question
- and one of them in Finland! Running a temperature of 39 degrees I
was rather emotionally unstable and had quite a 'poor me' weep after
making the call to the new boss. The weeping continued that night
while at an NHS walk in centre (I of course have no doctor, having had
to start work on the first working day of living in twickenham. Not
sure how to resolve that) because by then I was such a sub-human I
couldn't hold my head up straight. 3 days of enforced silence (a delight for the boy and no hardship for
me, feeling as I was) and dehydrating sweats and I am beginning to
feel better. Thank the lord for penicillin. I just wish the tablets
didn't taste so rank because I have to take them for another 8 days... |
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10:18a |
Ignorant journalists
The torygraph has a very stupid article today - Household pets that are half-wolf. What irritates me is the apparent lack of research in the article. It's full of scary quotes from vetinarians who (presumably) explained what was going on, then got their most sensationalist comments quoted. The one that really got my goat was someone called Beverly Cuddy, editor of 'Dogs Today' (And what a high-class website that is) who said "To live in a domestic situation with a part-wolf is insane".If they can interbreed, what on earth makes her think that dogs are not part wolf anyway? Wolf - Canis lupusDog - Canis lupus familiaris (Sub-species) |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
inskauldrak
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8:53p |
Internet worries? Try Asbestos
Good, honest, human beings have been killed by dishonesty and disregard. I'm pretty damn sure that Asbestos was what killed my Great Uncle Ted (although he at least got to retire beforehand). If the rule of law is to have any meaning then there must be justice for them as didn't have that comfort and their families. Please sign this petition: http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/acallforjusticeAnd why? Here's why: |
bateleur
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9:55a |
Message of the day
Hey you? Yes, you. Since you asked - FOAD. This has been a public service announcement from the brainspace that says - no, we don't play that passive aggressive bullshit game any more. Have a nice simple aggressive version, since apparently the total re-brand of email addresses, LJ etc wasn't clear enough first time round. Buhbye now. Current Mood: Unimpressed. |
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
a_llusive
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11:09p |
Watching 'Life'
The latest Attenborough series is so full of painstakingly acquired, excellent wildlife footage that it becomes impossible to appreciate each section - they're taken for granted because they're edited together. Like the Vienna Museum van Oudheden, a surfeit of excellence is underappreciated. The specialness of each species observation fragment, the effort it took to take is only glanced upon in the accompanying segment on filming - just only for one short section on one creature. |
ebee
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9:19p |
This week is mostly being feulled by A) Beaaaaautiful shoes werenerd got me of purpleness B) My NFL Pats hoody of warm C) meeting lovely people, some accidentally. D) Sheer will to be Right About This. I'd rather just be happy than D but hey...mostly the same? |
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12:03p |
MMOrons
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=5832 As I mentioned before, I’m shopping for a new MMO playground for when the story of Star on Chest comes to an end. First up was Lord of the Rings Online. I finished the four-hour download, installed the thing, and got it all set up. And then I discovered that it is impossible to toggle [...] |
bateleur
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10:00a |
Advertising Fail
Just found some accidental entertainment on a page of our local Yellow Pages listing plumbers. Two of the larger firms have taken out large colour ads. These are visible on the same double page spread. Each shows a map of the areas they cover, features their phone number in a very large font and has a tasteful starburst containing a list of the services they provide. Also, each shows a picture of a member of their telephone reception team waiting eagerly with her headset on to take your call... ...and both ads have used the same blonde rent-a-model for their receptionist. Oops! (Well, OK, more likely to be from a set on iStockPhoto or something these days.) Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
ebee
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6:48p |
Good - My NFL Pats quilted hoody has finally turned up- this was ordered in AUGUST. It is made of win, and warm stuff. Bad- anything associated with work. Good - The weekend. Bad- Most other stuff including ability to communicate with the rest of the world it seems, Conclusion - probably overtired, try sleeping more. Ebee |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
inskauldrak
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7:26p |
The Wall – Spare A Thought For Mikhail
I remember when the Berlin Wall came down, just a week before my tenth birthday. It’s not just that I grew up in a house where it was normal to the family to watch the news in the evening. I come from a politically active family left-wing family so even by that age I was aware that there was a thing called the Cold War; that neither side in it always did good things, that Capitalism wasn’t necessarily a ‘Good Thing’ but that people should be allowed to speak and think freely. I also remember Lepo (now sadly deceased) and Stepan - Estonian and Armenian composers respectively who had become friends with my Dad and all of us when involved in some cultural exchanges a few years before. My Dad remembers how shocked they were to discover some of my family were card-carrying communists, when at the same time they clearly held principles powerful principles around personal and social freedom for all. They came to understand that members of the British Left (at least in our circle, certainly) weren’t Apparatchiks-in-Waiting but campaigners for social justice. In fact Lepo, a noted liberal (so much so he had all sorts of funny plane-routes to use in order to be allowed to travel abroad) was for a time Estonian Minister for Culture – as a ‘noted’ liberal even under Perestroika it wasn’t exactly a job he felt he could turn down! I can also remember meeting Stepan some years later when he was over again and him giving me and Dad each a beautiful wooden cross (Mum and Joan got Icons) “to help us get into heaven” – he knew we weren’t religious and wasn’t trying to persuade us to change, just showing that he cared. I mention this because I suppose part of that experience meant that even at 9 years –old I didn’t regard people in ‘the East’ as aliens. I also mention it because even then, they had mentioned (I later learned) that there was a feeling that things were going to change. So, I am filled with joy at the memory of so many people feeling free and a wolrd where there’s no Stasi is a better world. But I am also struck by what I could sense then although I can only interpret it with hindsight: something else was changing. Rightfully, no-one was going to mourn the passing of the Wall and all that it stood for. But there were those that could see that people gaining some personal freedoms would soon be used as an excuse to try and devalue their rights in other areas. The other reason I think the whole thing is more vivid than it should be in hindsight is that I did do almost have my degree in International Relations and ‘Soviet/Post-Soviet Government & Politics’. This is what informs the title of this post. You see if the Kremlin had indicated initial displeasure at border relaxation in parts of Eastern Europe the upswell might not have had a chance to begin. If Mikhail Gorbachev had chosen, rather than commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall the last few weeks could have been a rolling commemoration of something far bloodier than Tianemen Square and Molotov Cocktails would have been renamed Gorbachev Cocktails. The West would not have intervened. |
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