Funeral v1.0
May 31, 2002
The problem with trying to plan your own funeral is that the things that would be most hilarious to you, the dead guy, are probably not going to be funny to all your loving family and friends gathered together next to your corpse. What would be cuter than loudspeakers blaring ‘hit the road, Jack, and dontcha come back no more...
The problem with trying to plan your own funeral is that the things that would be most hilarious to you, the dead guy, are probably not going to be funny to all your loving family and friends gathered together next to your corpse. What would be cuter than loudspeakers blaring ‘hit the road, Jack, and dontcha come back no more...
Last London Thursday Post
May 30, 2002
They are all ultimates now. Tonight will be the last Thursday I have to fold out a couch, and tomorrow will be the last Friday I have to collapse a couch in London. Everything from here out is all about counting down till a car pulls up in front of my flat at 9:30am next Thursday. And I am increasingly...
They are all ultimates now. Tonight will be the last Thursday I have to fold out a couch, and tomorrow will be the last Friday I have to collapse a couch in London. Everything from here out is all about counting down till a car pulls up in front of my flat at 9:30am next Thursday. And I am increasingly...
No!
May 29, 2002
[I have spent virtually an entire 10-hour day at work today plugging text into templates for a Web site. Alt-tab, shift-select, control-c, control-v, right-click, save-as, size it in photoshop, alt-f, save as, img tags, a href, a name, em, strong, blah blah blah blah blah, the most boring and tedious work you could possibly imagine. Even data entry would have...
[I have spent virtually an entire 10-hour day at work today plugging text into templates for a Web site. Alt-tab, shift-select, control-c, control-v, right-click, save-as, size it in photoshop, alt-f, save as, img tags, a href, a name, em, strong, blah blah blah blah blah, the most boring and tedious work you could possibly imagine. Even data entry would have...
Just Plain Found
May 27, 2002
Sometimes stuff just happens, you know? Stuff that you did not ask for, that you did not deserve, and that you just cannot account for. Stuff that really challenges your lack of faith. On Saturday, finally coming home after my morning constitutional, I was worrying about money, as is my wont when I am short on relationships and sex topics...
Sometimes stuff just happens, you know? Stuff that you did not ask for, that you did not deserve, and that you just cannot account for. Stuff that really challenges your lack of faith. On Saturday, finally coming home after my morning constitutional, I was worrying about money, as is my wont when I am short on relationships and sex topics...
Lost and Found
May 26, 2002
While wandered happily through back alleys on my way to Covent Gardens this Saturday morning last, it suddenly occurred to me, that now, with less than two weeks left in my London stay, I am no longer afraid of getting lost in London. I then proceeded to get quite thoroughly lost, adding an hour's wandering to my easy stroll. But...
While wandered happily through back alleys on my way to Covent Gardens this Saturday morning last, it suddenly occurred to me, that now, with less than two weeks left in my London stay, I am no longer afraid of getting lost in London. I then proceeded to get quite thoroughly lost, adding an hour's wandering to my easy stroll. But...
The Magic of Cameras
May 24, 2002
I would never say that I was intelligent. I would just say that I like to know stuff about stuff. I do not even really care what the stuff is, if it comes up and I am ignorant, I want to know more stuff about the new stuff. 'More than you can shake a stick at', for example. It has...
I would never say that I was intelligent. I would just say that I like to know stuff about stuff. I do not even really care what the stuff is, if it comes up and I am ignorant, I want to know more stuff about the new stuff. 'More than you can shake a stick at', for example. It has...
Clapping
May 23, 2002
Three words for you, my friend, three small words: Solar Powered Purse The very essence of it is so wrong, it must be right. --- I went to an evening 'concerts by candlelight' performance of Mozart's Requiem at St. Martins in the Fields. It was part of my listening day, so I was pleased when the woman on the phone...
Three words for you, my friend, three small words: Solar Powered Purse The very essence of it is so wrong, it must be right. --- I went to an evening 'concerts by candlelight' performance of Mozart's Requiem at St. Martins in the Fields. It was part of my listening day, so I was pleased when the woman on the phone...
Middle Class
May 22, 2002
What is the middle class? It is this easy term we freely bandy about in our discussions, but what do we actually mean by it? How would you define the middle class? The straight definition is all but useless: middle class (plural mid·dle class·es) noun social class with average incomes: the section of society between the poor and the wealthy,...
What is the middle class? It is this easy term we freely bandy about in our discussions, but what do we actually mean by it? How would you define the middle class? The straight definition is all but useless: middle class (plural mid·dle class·es) noun social class with average incomes: the section of society between the poor and the wealthy,...
Quiet Crowds
May 21, 2002
Wandering around Trafalgar Square, there is this striking disparity between the crowd density and the noise level. It is so quiet. Hundreds of people milling around, children chasing pigeons, vendors selling, fountains fountaining, and yet still an eerie silence hangs over the place. Maybe it is the absence of technology. There is no noise of the Midway to have to...
Wandering around Trafalgar Square, there is this striking disparity between the crowd density and the noise level. It is so quiet. Hundreds of people milling around, children chasing pigeons, vendors selling, fountains fountaining, and yet still an eerie silence hangs over the place. Maybe it is the absence of technology. There is no noise of the Midway to have to...
Spiritual Girls
May 20, 2002
Maybe all you armchair psychiatrists out there can help me out. I do not know why it is so easy to invent plausible analyses of other people's behaviour, and so hard for me to figure out even the most glaringly obvious of my own shortcomings. Typically we are our harshest judges, to extremes that even people who hate us probably...
Maybe all you armchair psychiatrists out there can help me out. I do not know why it is so easy to invent plausible analyses of other people's behaviour, and so hard for me to figure out even the most glaringly obvious of my own shortcomings. Typically we are our harshest judges, to extremes that even people who hate us probably...
An Ethical Problem
May 17, 2002
I saw a television show that was very Lord of the Flies-y. Our heros accidentally became entrapped in what appeared to be an inescapable prison. There were no natural resources in the prison, so everyone already there was living on killing newcomers as they were snatched and dropped into the prison. On entering, our heros narrowly escaped getting killed off,...
I saw a television show that was very Lord of the Flies-y. Our heros accidentally became entrapped in what appeared to be an inescapable prison. There were no natural resources in the prison, so everyone already there was living on killing newcomers as they were snatched and dropped into the prison. On entering, our heros narrowly escaped getting killed off,...
AZFNE
May 16, 2002
[I lived my entire life without hearing the word 'twee'. It was a reasonably happy and fulfilling life. Outside of a few large perceived omissions, I thought I had everything that I wanted. I may not have had the sportiest, fastest computer, y'know, but it was a good life. No major absences that I did not have a good handle...
[I lived my entire life without hearing the word 'twee'. It was a reasonably happy and fulfilling life. Outside of a few large perceived omissions, I thought I had everything that I wanted. I may not have had the sportiest, fastest computer, y'know, but it was a good life. No major absences that I did not have a good handle...
Alphabetology III
May 15, 2002
Finally, the last bits on Alphabetology. The subconscious picks words based on the occurrence of letters in the words that more naturally accord with your personality. If you are a blend-in-with-the-crowd guy, you would shy away from using a lot of x's. If you are perhaps narcissistic, you might overuse i's. If you are an outdoorsy type, there may be...
Finally, the last bits on Alphabetology. The subconscious picks words based on the occurrence of letters in the words that more naturally accord with your personality. If you are a blend-in-with-the-crowd guy, you would shy away from using a lot of x's. If you are perhaps narcissistic, you might overuse i's. If you are an outdoorsy type, there may be...
Alphabetology II
May 14, 2002
Yet more on the new science of Alphabetology. The subconscious picks words based on the occurrence of letters in the words that more naturally accord with your personality. If you are a blend-in-with-the-crowd guy, you would shy away from using a lot of x's. If you are perhaps narcissistic, you might overuse i's. If you are an outdoorsy type, there...
Yet more on the new science of Alphabetology. The subconscious picks words based on the occurrence of letters in the words that more naturally accord with your personality. If you are a blend-in-with-the-crowd guy, you would shy away from using a lot of x's. If you are perhaps narcissistic, you might overuse i's. If you are an outdoorsy type, there...
Alphabetology
May 13, 2002
[ABWAG - this has got to be the worst Web site on the planet. The perfect combination of worst layout and worst content. It is easy to have a horrifying design, heck, MSWord will do that for you. But to have content that extensive and that bad... then you are talking magic.] Letters have personality. This is, I trust, such...
[ABWAG - this has got to be the worst Web site on the planet. The perfect combination of worst layout and worst content. It is easy to have a horrifying design, heck, MSWord will do that for you. But to have content that extensive and that bad... then you are talking magic.] Letters have personality. This is, I trust, such...
Ouch
May 10, 2002
Oh sweet god. Here comes the pain. It hurts. In sharp little thumps and sudden unexpected stabs of pain. It started in this afternoon and I did not think much of it. By six there was a regular parade of pain on a circular route through my skull. It hurts and it hurts and it hurts. Why am I being...
Oh sweet god. Here comes the pain. It hurts. In sharp little thumps and sudden unexpected stabs of pain. It started in this afternoon and I did not think much of it. By six there was a regular parade of pain on a circular route through my skull. It hurts and it hurts and it hurts. Why am I being...
Flats
May 09, 2002
I have had to (prepare to be appalled) walk to work these last two days because, on my way home on my very first day back in London, my bicycle got a flat tire. I hate walking. The beauties of nature are best appreciated between eight and eighteen miles per hour, I am convinced of this. At even a brisk...
I have had to (prepare to be appalled) walk to work these last two days because, on my way home on my very first day back in London, my bicycle got a flat tire. I hate walking. The beauties of nature are best appreciated between eight and eighteen miles per hour, I am convinced of this. At even a brisk...
Power Dating
May 08, 2002
All I am saying is 'thank heavens that whole dating thing has finally been systematised for us.' The article is o'er long, but fairly interesting. Surveys and statistics and people making money on yet more books about the big three and blah blah blah. By half-way through the article, reading the numbers about divorce and how people start making better...
All I am saying is 'thank heavens that whole dating thing has finally been systematised for us.' The article is o'er long, but fairly interesting. Surveys and statistics and people making money on yet more books about the big three and blah blah blah. By half-way through the article, reading the numbers about divorce and how people start making better...
And Back
May 07, 2002
I am all over exhausted. Got back to England this afternoon around 12:30 and was back in the office before 3pm. The flight was fine. I finished reading Practical Ethics, of which I challenge some of the basic premises, but since I have no one to discuss it with, I will have to just seethe with my unexpressed objections. And...
I am all over exhausted. Got back to England this afternoon around 12:30 and was back in the office before 3pm. The flight was fine. I finished reading Practical Ethics, of which I challenge some of the basic premises, but since I have no one to discuss it with, I will have to just seethe with my unexpressed objections. And...