Hope you all have a good 2010 and more will follow - honest.
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Thursday, 31 December 2009
Thursday, 13 August 2009
I came across this on a Favourite quote thread on UKPagan and loved it. It's be Niel Gaiman and taken from American Gods:
"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen–I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of The Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies too. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
Brilliant and apparently you can get it on a t-shirt.
"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen–I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of The Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies too. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
Brilliant and apparently you can get it on a t-shirt.
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Carl Rothwell
You may have noticed a new blog in the list of blogs that I'm following.
This is for the artist Carl Rothwell, who I have become aware of thanks to geeks.co.uk.
I really like his style, very fluid and sharp. Check it out.
This is for the artist Carl Rothwell, who I have become aware of thanks to geeks.co.uk.
I really like his style, very fluid and sharp. Check it out.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Book of death dates......
This article here Would You look in the Book of Death Dates made me think, would I?
Would I want to know how many more sleeps there was until the end?
Would knowing free me or enslave me?
Think about it. Do you want a deadline for all those things that you might do?
We've all got things that we'll do "one day", be it learn a language, finish the DIY, write a novel or whatever it is that fills your idle dreams, would knowing the date of the end motivate you or make you feel that there wasn't enough time to do it in?
I suppose it depends on what you find out when you look and the kind of person you were.
So would I want to know?
I don't think I do want to know.
But would I be able resist looking? That's a different matter entirely.
Would I want to know how many more sleeps there was until the end?
Would knowing free me or enslave me?
Think about it. Do you want a deadline for all those things that you might do?
We've all got things that we'll do "one day", be it learn a language, finish the DIY, write a novel or whatever it is that fills your idle dreams, would knowing the date of the end motivate you or make you feel that there wasn't enough time to do it in?
I suppose it depends on what you find out when you look and the kind of person you were.
So would I want to know?
I don't think I do want to know.
But would I be able resist looking? That's a different matter entirely.
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Monday, 27 July 2009
Tamiflu - what they aren't making clear enough
I know that most of the people who read my blog will know this but I'd thought I'd share this for the wider web community following a conversation with my doctor this morning (I have a nasty virus NOT swineflu just so you know and I never thought I had swineflu either).
Basically it is very easy to get a reference code for a dose of tamiflu (just ticking the right boxes on the online survey will get you one), but it only works on Swineflu (H1N1) if you have it when you take the Tamiflu - if you take it now and get Swineflu (H1N1) later on then you're not going to get any more Tamiflu (because you've had your allotted dose) and you'll be screwed because even if they give you Tamiflu then it won't work because you've had it once.
This is something that I don't think they are making clear enough to people at this moment in time.
Right then, I'm off back to my sick bed to listen to Slayer until I feel better.
Basically it is very easy to get a reference code for a dose of tamiflu (just ticking the right boxes on the online survey will get you one), but it only works on Swineflu (H1N1) if you have it when you take the Tamiflu - if you take it now and get Swineflu (H1N1) later on then you're not going to get any more Tamiflu (because you've had your allotted dose) and you'll be screwed because even if they give you Tamiflu then it won't work because you've had it once.
This is something that I don't think they are making clear enough to people at this moment in time.
Right then, I'm off back to my sick bed to listen to Slayer until I feel better.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Random thoughts of a sleepy techie
I finished nights 36hours ago and I'm still knackered...the things we do for those we love, eh?
So seeing a lack of sleep always does 'wonderful' things to my mind I thought I'd share some of my musings from the last 9 days with you.
i) is Einstein's theory of relativity the reason why 6 hours in bed only feels like 3?
ii) what do the bees know that we don't?
iii) why don't the met office employ cattle? After all they seem to have a better handle on the weather than us humans do.
iv) why do the self activating lights at work take longer to come on for some staff than for others?
v) am I the only bloke I know who thinks Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure & Bogus Journey are film classics?
vi) if the Greeks and the Egyptians had managed to master the idea of the steam railway then no-one would ever have heard of Nazareth's most famous son.
vii) Why doesn't Catholocism market the vampritic elements of it's religion to goth's - it might stop congregations shrinking.
vii)Having grown up in the late 70's/early 80's, being fed food full of additives and preservatives is it unreasonable to claim that not having them in food today is causing me to have withdrawls?
That'll do for now, I think, after all if there is anyone out there still reading this blog after they may want something a little saner after this.
So seeing a lack of sleep always does 'wonderful' things to my mind I thought I'd share some of my musings from the last 9 days with you.
i) is Einstein's theory of relativity the reason why 6 hours in bed only feels like 3?
ii) what do the bees know that we don't?
iii) why don't the met office employ cattle? After all they seem to have a better handle on the weather than us humans do.
iv) why do the self activating lights at work take longer to come on for some staff than for others?
v) am I the only bloke I know who thinks Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure & Bogus Journey are film classics?
vi) if the Greeks and the Egyptians had managed to master the idea of the steam railway then no-one would ever have heard of Nazareth's most famous son.
vii) Why doesn't Catholocism market the vampritic elements of it's religion to goth's - it might stop congregations shrinking.
vii)Having grown up in the late 70's/early 80's, being fed food full of additives and preservatives is it unreasonable to claim that not having them in food today is causing me to have withdrawls?
That'll do for now, I think, after all if there is anyone out there still reading this blog after they may want something a little saner after this.
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Monday, 6 July 2009
Disclaimer?
So they have finally made 800 pages of the oldest surviving bible available on line (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm).
Wouldn't it be ironic if one of the pages contained the disclaimer: " All characters in this book are purely fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead,is purely accidental".
Wouldn't it be ironic if one of the pages contained the disclaimer: " All characters in this book are purely fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead,is purely accidental".
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