Gareth - stop this meme thing. Just stop it.

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...
Linguistic

35% Logical, 4% Spatial, 55% Linguistic, 20% Intrapersonal, 37% Interpersonal, 22% Musical, 37% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 27% Naturalistic!


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Hah! Pity I can't draw a stick man - but I did do Collingwood's Principles of Art as part of my Phil & Lit at uni, so some must have stuck after 40 years. Scored 18!

Oh, nicked from Gareth, btw

Your result for The Famous Artwork Test...
The Blank Canvas


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When it comes to exporting its laissez-faire form of democracy, the good ol' USA stinks. 'Most everyone outside the USA knows this. Indeed, it's a large component of the perception of the Ugly American abroad ( Read more... )

I followed the polls and the vox pops and dared to hope.

And It's happened - it actually did happen.

Now I'm waiting for that 'Carter Moment' when Pollyanna fades to reality. It's a great win, but the problems are horrendous, both home and abroad.

I'm hoping the man can do it. Really hoping.

I wonder if this skill is in Joe Biden or Sarah Palin's job description? John Prescott was, mark you, Tony Blair's deputy prime minister for nearly nine years - or, more accurately, the Queen's Second Minister.

Well, better than having Dick Cheney pepper his assailant, I suppose. Leave a comment  2 

I would wish ill of no man, but somehow this strikes a chord.

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Well, I think peach fuzz is sexy.

That is all


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A good friend died today. Bob Friend was my friend. We came to BBC Breakfast Time at the same time in 1983 - me to be news intake editor and he our New York correspondent. We discovered in each other a mutual love for malt whisky and spent many hours chatting through the wee small hours ( Read more... )

Today, as is my wont, I had BBC Radio 4 chuntering away in the background while I frittered the morning away trying to impose some sort of order on the 11,000 image files in my iPhoto app ( Read more... )

Being a grumpy old bastard has its moments. At least I managed to shut up the appalling WackedOut in the Reincarnation thread across there. So far, anyway. Something like 30 posts out of a total of 42. An agenda, peut être ( Read more... )