Time this week for some pussy porn from the archives. Here’s Tilly doing her cute wriggle act back last Spring.
More words of amusement or erudition encountered in recently historical times.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
[Haruki Murakami; Norwegian Wood]
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
[Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]
I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one’s own family or one’s nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival, it is the foundation for world peace.
[Dalai Lama]
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
[John Madden]
Nothing, not even sheer ability, can make up for the dedication required for a successful business career.
[Ray Eppert]
When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.
1st October 1983. I mend a puncture on my bike. I get pleasure out of being able to do simple, practical jobs — mending a fuse, changing a wheel, jump-starting the car — because these are not accomplishments generally associated with a temperament like mine. I tend to put sexual intercourse in this category too.
[Alan Bennett; Diaries]
Every time you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?
[Robert Tew]
I’d rather do something that’s considered “weird” that makes me happy instead of being boring and sad like the rest of you.
It freaks me out when people in religious institutions try to limit choice, as in the case of anti-abortion legislation. Abortion may or may not be immoral, depending on your view of life, non-harming, karma or whatever, but I think far more important than prohibiting someone from doing something you think is wrong is encouraging people to take responsibility for their own ethical choices. Religion shouldn’t be about keeping or forcing people from doing “wrong” but encouraging people to take control of their own lives and ethical choices, which is why framing the debate in terms of “choice” is so important.
[Gesshin Greenwood at http://thatssozen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/how-you-spend-your-time-is-how-you-live.html]
Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.
[Richard Branson]
Lots of science (though hopefully nothing hard) and lots of history in this issue of links to items you might have missed the first time round.
The more scientists look, the more they realise that many of us are not just a single person but may contain elements of another. In other words many of us are chimeras and it is common amongst many species.
Meanwhile up the Himalayas biologists have found some 211 new species in the last few years: that’s 133 plants, 39 invertebrates, 26 fish, 10 amphibians, one reptile, one bird and one mammal. The latter is a noseless sneezing monkey. We still really do not know what’s out there!
Learn Anatomy By Dissecting Knitted Animals — well almost!
Today Dora, my mother, should be celebrating her 100th birthday. But sadly she died towards the end of May, thus missing out by just over four months. As a tribute, and as this week’s photographs, I thought we should have what are I think the first and last images I have of her.
As far as I know I don’t have any photos from Dora’s childhood (but I should scour the family albums again), so this first is of a self-portrait in oils she painted when she was about 21 (she couldn’t remember exactly when), could be the earliest I have.
In a couple of days time my mother should have been celebrating her 100th birthday, but sadly she died earlier this year. So for this month’s Ten Things I thought we should do something to reflect on the momentous events my mother saw in her lifetime.
Ten Historical Events from My Mother’s Lifetime before She was 21 (in October 1936)
And that is just the tip of the iceberg!
Soheil Rezayazdi has suggested the following Nihilistic Password Security Questions:
Lots stupidity in this vein over at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
The World Beard and Moustache Championships were held recently in Austria and attracted over 300 contestants. Here’s one particularly fine specimen …
