Connioseurs of 1970s UK police soap operas will remember the refrain “Let’s be ’avin’ you” when an arrest was about to be made. Our attention has been drawn to an example not of nominative determinism, but of locational determinism – the existence of a police facility on Letsby Avenue in the Yorkshire town of Sheffield (it’s right next to Sheffiled City Ariport). Sadly there is as yet no news of an “Onyer Way” or “Evenin Hall” in the vicinity.
[HT Feedback @ New Scientist]
1. A perfect weekend watching Tom & Jerry on tv and laughing…, 2. Amur Leopard, 3. A TRIBUTE TO A DEAR FRIEND. (KILKENNY, IRELAND), 4. Untitled, 5. ₪ Rhizomatic in-between typewriter ₪, 6. “Timemachines”, 7. 14th August 2007 / Day 226, 8. The cake i Made for my mother’s birthday, 9. Embracing the sun … {}, 10. day 151 Caught with crabs in my merkin! , 11. Walking in the rain 1_2499, 12. Smiles of Tibet in Exile
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd’s flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker).
The Questions & Answers:
1. What makes you laugh? Cats
2. What makes you cry? Animal suffering
3. Who is the one person you trust the most in the world? My Mother
4. Who broke your heart? Jill (no, not you Mistress Weekes; long before that!)
5. Where was your first kiss? I really don’t remember
6. What body part do you love most (your body)? My mind
7. What body part do you love least (your body)? My fat
8. What candy fits your personality? Coffee creme chocolate
9. What color would you paint your room if you could pick any color? Magnolia
10. A word that makes you laugh? Merkin
11. What emotion do you express most often? Depression
12. Who inspires you? The Dalai Lama
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. for the Flickr My Meme group.
The first in an occasional series bringing you unusual and interesting words.
1. autumn leaves, 2. week 31/52. 28 days; 4 weeks; 1 month., 3. The Mood O Meter, Independent Subarus, Victor Idaho, AKA Gallagher’s, AKA Sue’s Roos, 4. green veined white
5. red cabbage, 6. Tomb plate, Standish, 7. summerishere, 8. Looking landwards across Slapton Ley
9. Bloom, 10. Red Arrows Lowestoft 08, 11. The Drunken Ducks, 12. Untitled
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
I was just playing with the Mosaic Maker tool at Big Huge Labs and created this from the most recent 12 of my Flickr favourites. Thought it was worth keeping. It’s a super sample of some of the brilliant photography on Flickr: follow the links to each one; they’re well worth it.
OK so here, a bit late, is this week’s Friday Five …
1. Name one movie you wish everybody could watch.
2. Name two books you wish everybody could read.
3. Name three goals you wish everybody could achieve.
4. Name four people you wish everybody could know.
I am going to assume the people don’t have to be alive now, but could come from any era. So I’ll nominate:
That was hard! Four people I wish I knew would be easy, but to translate that into something for everyone is much, much harder.
5. Name five places you wish everybody could visit.
[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Five.]
The “Feedback” column this week’s New Scientist contains this item …
Thanks to Terence Dunmore for alerting us to a report in the 11 June issue of Professional Engineering about the UK’s new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE regulations). It warns readers: “If you are a producer of WEEE, you must make sure it is disposed of in an environmentally sound manner, including the treatment, reuse, recovery and recycling of components where appropriate.”
Dunmore is puzzled. “Isn’t the local sewage department already doing just that?” he asks.
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 23/52 (2008 week 31).
Haven’t done a Friday Five for ages, mainly because the topics chosen each week haven’t interested me. But I’ll do this week’s, if only because it’s easy!
1. What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.)
Thick and slightly wiry and slightly wavy. There’s a self-portrait form a month or so ago here, so you can judge for yourself.
2.What color is your hair currently?
Naturally grey (white at the front; not so grey at the back). When very young I must have been very fair (and my hair was dead straight) but I went mid-brown as I got older and got a (natural) wave in my teens. I started going grey fairly young, and it doesn’t bother me at all, I actually quite like it.
3. What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair?
None; ever.
4. If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?
I’ve often thought about going completely grey. Or of course I could go lime green. But in all honesty I don’t see the point and can’t be bothered. Men with their hair dyed to hide the grey always look too uniform a colour so it stands out so.
5. What is your hair’s length?
Short. I actually went to the barber this morning so it is now a nicely tidy 3cm or so all over. It stays that way, except that I don’t get it cut often enough, but by the time I’ve been 5 weeks without a haircut it’s annoying me. Even as a student in the early 70s I never grew my hair for any longer than a term — and that was only bone idleness!
[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Five.]
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 22/52 (2008 week 30).
Notice the prehensile toes, just to prove my real ancestry. 🙂
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 21/52 (2008 week 29)
