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Purloining (because it's a great word) and media obfuscation (isn't English wonderful?)
I found (see: saw, spotted no owner, wiggled over, grabbed, stuffed in bag) a scarf on the train this morning, a pretty scarf of exactly the kind I've been hankering for, and so I made it mine, but because the world is so bloody hi-larious, it's got one of those tags shops put on to stop people purloining things. I legitimatly adopted a lonely ( Read more... ) -
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It's the "Glorious" 25th of May.
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Fortune cookies and shoes
My random purchase of fortune cookies has been vindicated ( Read more... ) -
Work is a bit quiet
On Tuesday there was a clock at uni which was an hour behind. Those in WA will find this funny ( Read more... ) -
Where has the silliness gone?
I finally watched Eurosvision last night and was bitterly, bitterly diappointed. Only one act was silly and absurd, they are all letting the side down! It's as though they've decided the point is to win, and so be serious, and have missed the whole reason that people actually watch Eurovision. I don't want to see talent, I want to see people making ( Read more... ) -
Dualism is connected to mechanism, mechanism is connected to epistemology etc...
I enjoy the art of creating a good essay; you spend weeks (or days, if you like) gathering information, reading through books and journals, making notes, putting things together and then you sit back and try to put it all together. I use a metaphor of a body, the basic outline of the intro, each paragraph and the concliion is the skeleton. Then ( Read more... ) -
Je suis un Russia, avec ex-Frenchmen
My life at the moment is sort of like Russia around 1812; French things keep intruding into my life ( Read more... ) -
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I am currently uploading the photos from my first day at the Louvre, which comes to 89. As I was there for 7 hours, this works out as: 12.714285714285714285714285714286 photos an hour, or 0.21190476190476190476190476190476 a minute ( Read more... ) -
Concerning nostalgia and irresolutions.
Surprise and elation - I am updating my journal ( Read more... ) -
Hiya
I'm not in Europe any more ( Read more... )