I heard a while back that shampoo is really only detergent, and conditioner is what the Victorians used to call hair oil ( Read more... )

Aogoshima, +32.457718, +139.759167.

A village inside the crater of an active* volcano.

This give a whole new twist to the idea of fatalism.

I was brought up on a diet of Shakespeare, Catholicism, and not much science.

Since my schooldays, I have never read a line of Shakespeare's blank verse, I am an atheist and a physicist.

School teaches you what to avoid.

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You can't see radiation flashes but a camera can.  They look like the reflections off greenhouse roofs as seen from a plane on a sunny day.  They're all over the Googlemap of Sooke BC.  Where there aren't many (if any) greenhouses ( Read more... )

I only just noticed ( Read more... )

If the English language doesn't contain this word, it should.

I was speaking with a member of the NDP.  She is a member of the British Columbia parliament, or the federal parliament, I forget which.  The evening was well advanced ( Read more... )

You know, the one in Rome ( Read more... )

I came across a picture of myself when I was 17.  At that time I was about 52 kg, which is underweight for my size, but not seriously so.  I am now 80 kg, which is overweight but not seriously so.  Nonetheless, I'm going to aim for 52 kg.