The boys were commenting yesterday of Mauna Kea and here’s a nice take on it. Here’s a video of a bike rider going up it. Some info: 1. Mauna Kea, like neighboring Mauna Loa, is a shield volcano, characterized by lava pouring out layer upon layer for millions of years without an explosion. In contrast, [...]
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It’s Wednesday [all day] and that, of course, means it’s Pengy Day: Now you’ve all seen this clip but I just have to see it again. Never mess with a Penguin: This includes the Penguin at his worst: … Danny de Vito’s not much better. Oh, the pathos: For Dearieme:
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Well, predictably, I’ve been hacked and can neither sign in to the Albion Alliance site [which is still up] nor to the forum. When they can’t answer the political questions, they prefer to go for the dirty tricks. It’s all a bit pointless really because we just rest everything from scratch [20 minutes], issue new [...]
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In a discussion yesterday, under attack for the votemeter post, I reminded my mate from whom I stole the idea that it was his votemeter I was promoting. “Yes but not that way, with those other things in there.” Now I would suggest that a person can’t win. More than that, I take his own [...]
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If the rain comes they run and hide their heads. They might as well be dead. If the rain comes, if the rain comes. When the sun shines they slip into the shade (When the sun shines down.) And sip their lemonade.
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1. The singer known as The Sparrow was …? 2. The Pseudo-Aristotelian text De mundo (393b) refers to two Britannic Isles – Iernē and …? 3. The Anglo-Portuguese document signed in 1373 between the Kingdom of England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, is the oldest known extant …? 4. What does Byblos, now [...]
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Francis Cabrel’s famous number. There were so many youtubes of kids up and down France singing this – it was an insight into French life: First, the boys: Compare that to the girls:
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This from downunder: Children as young as five are being taken to “life coaches” by concerned parents pushing their youngsters to get their little lives on track. Schoolchildren are being booked in by their parents to help them get friends, achieve more and work toward positive outcomes in their life. One company, Be Happy in [...]
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In the first part, it was mooted that we could, today, easily move to voting from home via votemeter and that parliament becomes a bureaucratic executive for the legislation coming out of the votemeters. They would still propose legislation arising from PMBs from the voting chamber but that legislation would be voted on directly from [...]
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I really don’t understand what the woman is going on about below. Cows are lovely creatures, as I’m sure many would agree. I once taught at a rural school where they were forever coming in the door and going for mini-stampedes around the place. One once ended up in the Headmaster’s office. When I was [...]
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Two players play the following game with a fair coin. Player 1 chooses (and announces) a triplet (HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, or TTT) that might result from three successive tosses of the coin. Player 2 then chooses a different triplet. The players toss the coin until one of the two named triplets [...]
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How narrow are our musical tastes and they may be getting even narrower. Even when two people agree, for example, Dearieme and myself on jazz, he likes certain instruments and angles and I like others – differences in emphasis but nevertheless differences. I blogged on it once before but in Russia, one of my many [...]
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Speak Klingon – the most popular non-national language after Latin. Or teach your baby son to speak it. Learn at the Institute. You might like to read up on it: A description of the actual Klingon language can be found in Okrand’s book The Klingon Dictionary (Published by Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 1985, second [...]
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A man I’d like to describe as a friend of mine and certainly someone I admire and respect, sent me an email: Odd – you think you’re a Tory but your approach to politics is more like that of a Whig radical – perhaps your conservatism is about conserving the democratic progress of the last [...]
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Here he is on September 29th, 2008: Replacing EU membership with a Swiss-style bilateral free trade accord … Here he is on November 29th, 2009: I’d abolish the Common Agricultural Policy, thereby giving a greater boost to Europe’s economies than any number of bail-outs and stimulus packages. Scrap the directives that tell us what hours [...]
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Money injection doubled in four months [govt base money]:Broad money supply collapsed though [banks hanging on to it and not lending]: The money multiplier theory does not hold water this time around. So, to expect history to repeat itself, meaning post-war period is being delusional. The history is going to repeat itself then it’s the [...]
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Film and music: 1. What was Citizen Kane’s first name? 2. What’s another name for Annie Mae Bullock? 3. By which name is Allen Konigsberg better known? 4. Who is Julia Wells? 5. Nicholas Coppola used which name in films? Answers Charles, Tina Turner, Woody Allen, Julie Andrews, Nicholas Cage
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Satchmo and friend: Quick excerpt from Fats: Just a bit of Chris Barber fun:
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For best effect, click on pic and then click on the resultant pic again and again until it zooms. Then enjoy the rest of the afternoon.
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Another ferry sinking in Indonesia and this highlights a problem I’ve been going on about for a long time – unsafe designs and exceeding designed passenger carrying capacity. Obviously, we can’t do anything about Indonesia but we can do about our own ferries – we’re an island nation [for now]. Look again please at the [...]
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Just reiterating those poll stats: The Ipsos MORI survey in Sunday’s Observer newspaper showed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party on 31 percent, the centre-right Conservatives on 37 percent and the Liberal Democrats on 17 percent. The longest recession on record, a damaging scandal over politicians’ expenses and anger over military losses in Afghanistan have [...]
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You’d be aware that the Albion Alliance has been urging people to write to their own MPs and potential MPs in their constituencies to get them to commit to a referendum on Europe. One such writer received a reply: “There is a strict Parliamentary protocol which prevents an MP from intervening in matters raised by [...]
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Let’s start with the problem but it has to be said that the reasoning behind the solution is complex, unless you are a mathematician: Al Turing and Bertie Einstein, two layabout mathematicians from West Brom, are told that integers x and y have been chosen such that 1 < x < y and x+y < 100. Turing is given the value [...]
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Let’s begin this evening’s readings in outer space: Jams O’Donnell presents Marzials [1874]: And scudding by The boatmen call out hoy! and hey! All is running water and sky, And my head shrieks – “Stop,” And my heart shrieks – “Die.” My thought is running out of my head; My love is running out of [...]
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Cherie’s comment about Lillian Gish: Cute, demure and sophisticated. Some of the best qualities in a woman. … has to be tongue in cheek or else she’ll have half of womanhood down on her – the now outdated half. Of course, Cherie said “some of the best qualities”. I’d like to reiterate some things said [...]
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Oh brilliant [not]: The collider was designed to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts apiece and smash them together in tiny fireballs in an effort to replicate and study the conditions of the Big Bang. The first time protons circled the collider, on Sept. 10, 2008, the event was celebrated with Champagne [...]
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Chapter 9, in which piglet is completely surrounded by water. Blinking heck and I slept right through it One dead, dozens trapped in “biblical” floods. British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 2.5 metres. Troops also dropped down on lines from Royal Air Force helicopters, breaking through rooftops to [...]
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This will be the last post for the evening. Do you like any of these bridges? Which do you like best? Call them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5:
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And then one day things weren’t quite so fine I fell in love with Lily I asked my dad where Lily I could find He said, ‘Son, now don’t be silly’ ‘She’s been dead since 1929′ Oh, how I cried that night If only I’d been born in Lily’s time It would have been alright [...]
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The Awards go, with appreciation, to Cherry Pie for making well over 200 comments and to Lord T & Andrew Scott for making well over 100 comments. Feel free to either ignore the badge or copy and paste at your leisure. Adjust size to your taste.
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