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Gone fishing.
Any further entries will be over at Dreamwidth, for the same reasons as everybody else. Same handle -
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The neverendum continues.
So how does someone with no apparently marketable skills go about emigrating? -
Twenty years.
I should say something about it having flown by, and in some ways I suppose it has but it also seems like several lifetimes ago ( Read more... ) -
The say-something-even-when-you've-nothing-to-say policy is working quite well.
But I imagine you'll all get bored with it quite soon.
Apparently the Europe campaign has started already. Twice today people tried to give me a leaflet telling me why Scotland's better in the EU. So the rest of you aren't, apparently. You heard it here first1I didn't take their leaflet. Firstly because I doubt I'll find anything in a leaflet that ( Read more... ) -
So I went to see The Assassin
It was pretty much exactly what I'd been told to expect - a slow film without that much plot but absolutely beautiful. Some of the indoor scenes reminded me of Peter Greenaway. Apparently the actor playing the assassin herself was down for one of the lead parts in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but her manager insisted that doing a Coke advert ( Read more... ) -
Not much to say
I could have gone to Glasgow on Monday to see Snuff, but because I was tired I stayed in and polished my boots.
Today, Blackjacks are breathing down our necks.
I may go to see a film tomorrow
When I say I don't really have much to say, I'm not joking. -
2 days and counting.
WRT the death of Antonin Scalia, and the obituaries and meconium thereof:
It has been so long since I linked to a vid here that the method is unrecognisably different.
Also, from the generally highly readable Crooked Timber, this fair and balanced piece on Scalia's practical philosophy of law and society, including links to extracts from the ( Read more... ) -
Twyman’s Law - “Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong”.
I've been looking for that so I'll note it here.
In other news, still alive. Just about. -
I hope you're taking notes. There will be a short quiz next period.
Right. Anyone care to guess which relevant point the following records have in common? There may be a small prize ( Read more... )