Today being Chinese New Year I wish you all
Kung hei fat choi
A happy and prosperous Year of the Ox
All posts by Keith
Men Like Looking at Women
Let’s face it: men like looking at women. And there are good biological reasons that can be used to explain this affliction, at least according to this article at canada.com.
Like the masses of planets and stars, our bodies curve the space around us. We
radiate signals constantly, radio sources that never go off the air. We cannot
help being centers of attraction and repulsion for one another.
Well that explains it all then, really. But for more read the article; it’s interesting even if some will say it is male chauvinist. Personally I don’t think it is, just good biological sense. But then I’m male!
After the Blood Test
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 48/52 (2009 week 04).
As well as an eye test I’ve had to have two blood tests in the last week or so. Boring!
You get a little bit of my daily working environment too — yes I work from home most days now; haven’t been in the office yet this year!
Midweek MiniMeme: All About Flickr
This week we have a mid-week mini-meme; and it’s all about one of our favorite things: Flickr!
So as usual here are the questions and my answers:
1. First person you met on Flickr? Probably RogerGW
2. First pic you faved? Shoveller Lines by my namesake Keith Marshall — it’s really scary ‘cos we even have almost identical tabby cats, tho’ he’s a much better photographer than I am!
3. Person on Flickr you would most like to meet? From amongst my contacts? Well it would have to be ~Misty~; we live quite near each other too!
4. Someone on Flickr you have already met? Melly Melly Me; we’re both owned by the same large It company and when we were working on a project together we discovered we were both on Flickr!
5. Your funniest Flickr friend? This just has to be edartr; just check out his two hilarious dogs!
6. Most endearing Flickr friend? Claire who already belongs to Rom.. Oh to be young again! 😉
1. Tomb plate, Standish, 2. Shoveler Lines, 3. Les socks de jour!, 4. Tig2, 5. oohh and THEN i get a cookie ?, 6. Portrait…
As always these are not my photos so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Wonders of the World Meme
This week’s meme is to say what you think the 12 Wonders of the World are? This can be man-made, natural, things you’ve seen, things you haven’t! Or a mixture!
So here are my twelve …
1. Power of Natural Forces, especially the sea
2. Existence of Life. Even as a scientist just the sheer chemical and anatomical complexity blows my mind
3. Diversity of Life, from amoeba to elephant; from top of Everest to ocean depths
4. Amazon: the rainforest, the fish, the parrots
5. Cats, from domestic cats to terrifying tigers
6. Human Intellect / Mind, without which we wouldn’t have any of the following …
7. Agriculture. How do you get from being a hunter-gatherer to a settled community growing rice and pigs?
8. Stonehenge, being a representative of all incredible building by ancient peoples who as far as we know had no writing and no recognisable mathematics
9. Bread and Wine. How did anyone go, A, B … X to discover them; bread especially
10. Writing, without which we wouldn’t have society or literature
11. Medieval Cathedrals: complex architecture, brilliantly built with no advanced mathematics or science
12. Zero, without which we wouldn’t have maths or science
1. Stormy Seas, 2. Coral Reef, 3. Bugs life, 4. Rainforest Parrot, 5. Wild Jaguar, 6. The Labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, 7. Terraced Rice Fields of Sapa, 8. Stonehenge, 9. Wine and Bread, 10. Book of Hours : Use of Sarum, Prayer to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury (circa 1330), 11. Focs artificials gòtics, 12. zero
As always these are not my photos so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Desk Guard
Harry the Cat in fairly typical pose guarding my desk, ever on the alert ready to repel any work which happens to try invading!
Dark, Dubious & Depressed
“Dark, dubious & depressed” is very much how I feel about January every year! And this year they’re playing in trumps.
I’ve decided that this year I’m going to do a self-portrait a month for the Flickr “12 Months” group. This is the first. (This will replace the weekly SP when I get to the end of the 52 weeks at the end of February.)
Special effects created with Dumpr
Eye-Eye!
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 47/52 (2009 week 03).
I had my annual diabetic retinopathy scan today, where they take (digital) photos of the back of they eye. This entails having eye-drops to dilate the pupils so you can’t see properly for several hours afterwards – not invasive or nasty, just a damn nuisance ‘cos you can’t focus. This is my eyes 3 hours after the drops when they are starting to wear off – and look how dilated my pupils still are!
12 Ways to Win Your Heart Meme
This week’s meme is to tell us 12 ways to win your heart!
To win my heart you need to …
Be my friend
And my sister;
My mother
But not my father.
Share my interests
While remaining true to yourself.
Bring me food
And bring me wine (but the pine logs are optional).
Be my jester (but not my knave, and definitely no strawberry tarts),
My muse
And my soul-mate;
But most of all be my lover.
1. A Rose For My Friends, 2. My sister enjoys the morning sun, 3. mother-baby bathtime – dscf8133, 4. Super Angry Father, 5. Object #1, 6. Siamese Toast Twins, 7. miniature food en masse, 8. wine, 9. Clowns & Jesters at Alexandra Palace, 10. my muse…, 11. soul mates, 12. If u were my lover
As always these are not my photos so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Oh FFS! Get a Life!
This just beggars belief …
Methinks certain persons should not abide in glass dwellings!