OK, so there was a bit of a hoohah over on Shuttercal. I was going to keep shtum but... well, you'll see. I had great hopes for it, but it wasn't to be ( Read more... )

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is begging the question; discuss.

I'll accept snark, tangents, the Picasso school of Physics and good old-fashioned Bad Science.

[EDIT - Oh, and common or garden reasoned argument, of course.]

You know, I can write. I can write very well, if I do say so myself, and on any subject, with due research. But I am pants at running a business. I'm far better at being employed than self-employed. This whole touting myself to websites or indeed terrestrial businesses who may or may not want a writer like me - it freaks the hell out of me. I ( Read more... )

Ma, I'm sure this sauce would work with white fish (I had something similar in Goa) or with Quorn. But besides you guys and myself, I had baggy in mind when I was making it ( Read more... )

I think I may just have received the final warning on my car ( Read more... )

Fed up with all the 'what kind of flower/car/special snowflake are you' memes, I decided to start my own, one which looks outward rather than inward. You can do it too, if you want. The suggested rules are as follows:-

1. Instead of eating restaurant or takeaway food, don't.
2. Instead of going shopping for food, don't.
3. Instead, eat the contents of your ( Read more... )

MUSE

Tu es ma première pensée chaque matin
ma dernière à l'heure du coucher
Tu apparais dans mes rêves
de jour ou de nuit
Je ne sais pas
si je peux arrêter de t'aimer
Je ne sais même pas
si j'en ai envie

( English version under here )

I really don't know what I'm doing.

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I keep thinking there's something I need to remember but I can't work out what it is. I've tried talking to myself, a kind of live-streaming brainstorm if you will, and I get near to it but then it goes again. All I know is it's important. An event? A thing? Something someone said? A bird? A plane? I have NFI ( Read more... )

Inspired by melissa_maples I am finally going to attempt the 100 Pushup Challenge. I just followed the instructions and took the initial test: I managed exactly zero full/boy pushups before collapsing in a giggling heap on the floor. Knee pushups, same result. To be fair, in my life I have never been able to do pushups. At school I was good at gymnastics ( Read more... )