When I get forgetful, I always make the excuse that at my age, there is way too much in my head for fresh memories to consistently stick. But there are times I wonder when it’s more than just an overfull mental filing system. Today, as the car was refusing to start, I went to town […]
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From: Metro Quantum physics is all about things making patterns – fractals that you can draw. You can see the same patterns in a snail’s shell as you see in the stars in the universe. It’s as if they’re the same. Astrology is about patterns in time. There are times when i despair of my […]
…are for better health for us both. And more money (so I don’t have to keep watching every damm penny we spend). And a decent working computer for me. Oh, and a little digi camera would be nice. If you can’t manage any of that, Oh Great God / Goddess / Supreme Genderless Being / […]
I predict, for 2006: that some of you will become parents; that some of you will get married; that some of you will fall in love for the first time; that some of you will fall in love for the last time; that some of you will get wonderful jobs; that some of you will […]
…what I see, what I dream, what I believe, what I know. You do not live my life, you cannot be my Voice!” Getting The Truth Out. Read it right through…..
I’ve never heard of this Russian program before, so I thought I’d try it out. ZET8 comes in three versions: Lite, which is freeware, and Pro and Geo, which are both paid-for. I’ve only tried the Lite version, and I’m quite impressed with it. It has several features disabled – you can’t print, transit forecasts […]
From Deborah Lipp’s blog: What’s this empire coming to? Now they want us to stop greeting people with “Io Saturnalia!â€? “We have all these different cultures in Rome,â€? they tell us. “We shouldn’t offend anyone,â€? they tell us, “We’ve got to be inclusive.â€? We’ve got the barbarians from the north with their tree decorations and […]
Yesterday, we set out to do some shopping. We got in the car, drove five miles to the nearest cash machine and garage. I did the cash machine business, climbed back in the car to go to the garage, B tried starting the car up. “No clutch, we can’t go anywhere” was all he said. […]
Who killed Christopher Robin? Disney, that’s who IT’S enough to bring out the Eeyore in us all. The Disney Corporation has announced that Winnie the Pooh is about to relegate Christopher Robin, his faithful friend of 80 years, in favour of a six-year-old girl. For Disney, it is a rebranding opportunity. But for the legions […]
Finally got Transit off to the printers – late, as it happens. Nobody told me the deadline was going to be much earlier than usual – I decided to get it sorted by the 15th, but it should have been at the printers by then. O well, I’d better check next time…. C. had a […]