I have been re-organizing stuff round here (decorating) and found a slim volume aimed at gels from the typing pool in their first gaff. It’s called, “Cooking in a Bedsitter” by Katherine Whitehorn. First published in 1961 this “New and Fully Revised Edition” dates from 1982 [it was probs anachronistic then].
Here is a sample [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2012’
How times change…
Friday levity
H/T Andrew Bolt
Neil Armstrong
I know Nick has had a draft lying around for a while (so have I; I just keep them on my own hard drive), so I hope he doesn’t mind me jumping in, but some comment should really be made on the passing of Neil Armstrong before the week is out. It already feels a [...]
The well established definition of madness
…is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Standing on the sidelines and seeing this slow-motion car crash unfold seems a bit like heckling a steamroller. Nonetheless, the truth shall set you free and all that, so let’s examine the current proposed remedies for the economic malaise.
Well, on the one hand [...]
Peer and Unclothing in Las Vegas…
As The Lone Stranger rides into the Sun Set, and is summoned to Balmoral for words of advice and admonishment from his “Dad” (though what sort of ticking off Chuckles Buggerlugs III can possibly administer after the “Tampon Tapes” episode, I can’t possibly imagine. Hasn’t got a hairy be-kilted leg to stand on, has he?).
Is [...]
My heart bleeds…
Oh dear, how sad, never mind. I’d shut the whole place down entirely myself.
You have one new text message ~ duck!
Now if I was Iran and I wanted to fuck with Israel in a way that hurts ‘em, but not to such a degree that it invites or otherwise justifies a military attack, I look at this report and I chuckle.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9470414/Israel-texts-to-warn-of-missile-strikes.html
The idea is apparently* that if Israel attacks Iran and if Iran shoots back, there [...]
The taxi telescreen ~ even Orwell didn’t guess at this.
This is a really good example of how something, once unthinkable, becomes the exception, then less the exception, then accepted and finally, the rule.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9878114.Council_appeals_taxi_cam_ruling/?action=complain&cid=10664009
For reasons best known to themselves, Southampton City Council think it’s okay to record your every movement and sound when in one of the cabs they run the protection racket for (i.e. [...]
Complete and utter Bollocks Study of the Week Pt 69.
But bloody nice try guys!
This is the study that all us fellas would absolutely love to be true, but it’s the usual crapola based on statistical insignificance and wishful thinking.
But come on ladies, it might be true, think of all the expensive shit you shovel on your faces in the hope of beating wrinkles, the [...]
Selective policing
Since when is it the position of the police to police insensivity?
Since when do the police get to invent new laws? Such as: Possession of a dog in the presence of a Muslim?
A dog can render a Muslim ritually unclean, since when is it the role of the police to enforce some groups religious ritual on [...]
What makes you happy?
I mostly do philosophical pro-voluntaryist, anti-state posts and this may come across as a bit curmudgeonly so I thought a post on what makes you happy.
For me it’s a myriad of things from a nice glass of wine or brandy or a good meal, an open fire in the cold winter, a pool on a [...]
This is an easy one surely?
As a voluntaryist, you tend to find yourself outside the mainstream on most political issues of the day, but every now and again, a tiny ray of light appears. So it is with this report
http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/ending%20expensive%20social%20tenancies.pdf
which makes the modest and sensible suggestion that if a council or housing association owns a house in a very high [...]
Bleg
Anyone out there an expert, the real deal, in Exchange 2010? In migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 for a client I cannot induce the 2003 public folders to move or replicate to the 2011 site.
I need an experienced ear….
BTW, the Australian Government are about to fall. The forecasts are Julia will be gone [...]
How to get to the stars…
The Alcubierre drive (or Alcubierre metric see: Metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a valid solution of the Einstein field equations as proposed by Miguel Alcubierre by which a spacecraft might achieve faster-than-light travel, making travel to other stars a possibility. However, it should be understood that this is different from a ship [...]
Monty Hall
Now I first came across this as a postgraduate. Astrofizz. I was on a night out with Leeds University Maths postgrads. I grokked it first off. I really did and I knew why. The mathematicians (and bear in mind this is the second biggest school after Cambridge in the country) were going up the fucking [...]
