Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Possibly the best band name ever to come to me in a dream.
Bonus for the eagle-eyed: I’m not sure if the dream original was singular or plural. I’m also not sure which would be better.
This morning at the breakfast table:
—Do you need the milk?
—No, there’s no cereal left.
—It’s very good with the biscuits. But I will not tell you, so I can eat them all myself.
‘Twas five in the morning, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, except for Petros.
When all of a sudden, from out of the blue,
Crash! Bang! (Tinkle. Tinkle.) Who could it be? Who?
A drug-addled woman, a girl really, lay
On the front doorstep — what was she trying to say?
“Just let me come inside to [...]
Birds in general are weird, but our friendly neighbourhood reiger (heron? crane? stork? whatever) is especially so. What in the name of all that’s feathered is he doing on the roof of the houseboat next door, spreading his wings, wobbling his throat and stepping around in circles?
A couple more pics below the fold.
They’re made out of meat (via). Also, “They’re made out of meat”.
LibraryThing might not be “all the wonderful”, but it’s a lot of the wonderful. Still, it’s pretty scary when it knows more about the state of my relationship than I do.
Sifting through my recommendations I found Changing Babies by Deborah Moggach. You can bet I clicked that button labelled “Why” in double-quick time, and found: [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Someone (who I won’t name, but she’s given me permission to use the quote) answered my question about her love life the other day with the following:
“I’m in a complicated relationship on facebook yet single on bebo.”
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
They’ve given me a new desk. They being the university, and the stated reason being that health regulations require everyone to be able to adjust the height of their desk.
Now this is obviously nonsense. We already have height-adjustable chairs, which give you the full range of body-to-desk relative positions. The real motivation, I suspect, is [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
So here’s an unconventional way of catching that certain someone’s eye. The following notice was written in pink highlighter on a sheet of paper strapped to the back of a woman’s backpack, as she cycled off the ferry (I’ve anonymised the address, but I’m pretty sure I have the vagaries of grammar correctly):
> To man [...]
Sunday, September 9, 2007
This morning’s internal post brought a dynamic initiative from the university: they’re going to enhance my employability by a modest capital investment leveraging my existing information processing skills.
No, really, they’re making me more employable … by giving me money to buy books with.
They have no idea what they’re in for…
(For those who really need the [...]