I watch a bike program, and I want to go out and ride

I watch a music video, and it makes me want to dance

I watch a sad movie, and get all weepy

I watch an erotic video, and I feel randy.

And if I watch a violent program on TV, I'm not supposed to be affected?

One of the quirks of human nature is we put too much effort into fighting battles that don't really matter.

That's a good start to the day...in the New Year Honours, a CBE for Tim Berners-Lee and an MBE for Fred Dibnah.

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I'm slowly turning into a hard bastard. It's life in the country, it's the rabbit blinded by myxomatosis living under the oil tank, it's the blackbird with the back ripped to shreds by the magpies.

Should I let nature take its course? Should I put them out of their misery? Should I try and help?

Seems I'm mostly for the first option.

Somehow I found myself in a circle of druids, holding hands and chanting, 90 of us cold and windswept before the Long Man of Wilmington. I'd only gone as an observer, pipistrelle the expected participant and teatagg collected along the way. But really we had no option, we were sucked in, swept along by the charismatic chief druid in his white coat of many feathers ( Read more... )

Beautiful clear sky last night, on a midnight whim I dragged the telescope onto the patio and took a look at Saturn. It's about as close as it ever gets to Earth, the rings were tilted wide open and it looked as good as it ever can in a backyard 'scope. An amazing sight.

Once more into the breach, with friends. Slithered through the rain to meet up with mindygoth, and off to Santa Fir to buy Christmas trees. Picking our trees took, oooh, 30 seconds, some people in track suits were rather less decisive (and insisted on making the staff display each tree individually for their consideration). Bought more blinky lights and ( Read more... )

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."...You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A281, A272, A325, B3006, A339, A34. Meeting. A34, A339, B3006, A325, A272, A281. Home ( Read more... )