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Quote : Goals
Goals are a form of self-inflicted slavery.
[Scott Adams, Dilbert Cartoon Strip; 10/12/2011]
[49/52] Moon & Birch
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Week 49 entry for 52 weeks challenge.
December moonrise over our silver birch tree.
Ten Things – December
The final episode of my monthly series of “Ten Things” for 2011. Each month during the year I’ve listed one thing from each of ten categories which have remained the same each month. So today completes the ten lists of twelve things about me.
Something I Like: Fresh Snow- Something I Won’t Do: Go Horse Racing
- Something I Want To Do: Write a Book
- A Blog I Like: Postsecret
- A Book I Like: Charles Nicholls, The Reckoning
- Some Music I Like: JS Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium
- A Food I Like: Treacle Tart
- A Food or Drink I Dislike: Butternut Squash
- A Word I Like: Antepenultimate
- A Quote I Like: If we don’t change our direction we’re liable to end up where we’re going. [Chinese Proverb]
Something I Like: Fresh SnowAdvent Calendar 10
An Advent Calendar of superb and/or amusing
photographic images from around the internet.
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The Mufia
Yep, you read that right … the Mufia are out and about tomorrow.
Apparently tomorrow (Saturday 10/12) will see a “The Muff March against ‘designer vagina’ surgery” along Harley Street, London’s centre private medicine.
High time to stop the medicalisation of the normal!
Links of the Week
This week’s collection of links to items you may have missed …
First off something scary. Just look at the size of this giant bug!
Not all critters are quite so scary … For instance, we know the crow family are highly intelligent, now Ravens have been shown to use ‘hand’ gestures to communicate.
But then who would have thought that there are cognitive benefits to chewing gum.
Now here’s a job that you never even dreamt existed, nor wanted … castrating sheep with teeth, which has been shown not to be a great idea!
Here is a list of ten of the most dangerous chemicals in the world. And to think I’ve worked with some of those, as well as a few which aren’t on that list!
Talking of dangerous, this one is really worrying … ‘End of virginity’ if women drive, Saudi cleric warns. WTF do these people think they are! Made me see red.
But then again the Egyptian authorities are clearly no better (and equally make me see red), prompting a young Egyptian woman to stand up for women’s rights and argue that modesty objectifies women. She reinforces this by appearing nude too. Two reports in a weblog here and this one from the Guardian. More power to her elbow. Let’s all hope for her safety.
Finally, for amusement, more on the vulva cupcakes. Maybe a new fashion statement?
Advent Calendar 9
Quotes of the Week
The usual eclectic mix. Firstly something dear to my heart …
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Alan Bennett]
So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable: but every utterance which he makes in public except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties, must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism. [It would] be inappropriate for the judiciary to be associated with any series of talks or anything which can be fairly interpreted as entertainment.
[Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, 1955]
I suppose one shouldn’t expect anything less po-faced coming out if the 1950s, but oh, dear we are on our dignity aren’t we! Next something I’ve long suspected, from someone who should know …
Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle.
[Bertrand Russell, philosopher and mathematician]
There are three faithful friends:
– An old wife
– A shaggy dog
– And ready money
[Thoughts of Angel]
Slightly dodgy ground there, methinks! And finally …
The best of all stratagems is to know when to quit.
[Thoughts of Angel]