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Zen Mischievous Moments #141

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.

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Friday Five: Hair!

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.]

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Reflection of a Window

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Reflection of a Window, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 20/52 (2008 week 28).

I think it is also time that I did another 13 things list, mainly for the Flickr “Thirteen Things” group, so here are …

13 Thinks I Believe

  1. There is no supernatural deity.
  2. All Christians (indeed all theists) are actually Devil-worshippers.
  3. Evolution is the only testable explanation we have for life as we know it.
  4. There is life elsewhere in the cosmos; but we’d better not assume what it looks like.
  5. All life does not have to be based on water and/or carbon.
  6. The scientific method works well until scientists get preconceived ideas or stop testing their (all too frequent) assumptions.
  7. Time, like space, progresses at a variable rate.
  8. Religion has done more harm than good in the world, however religion has also been responsible for much of the great art in the world.
  9. We should all be taught much more about sex and our bodies and this should be discussed openly; this would make us a lot more relaxed and able to talk about such things with each other, our children and medics – which has to be good for everyone’s health.
  10. Freedom of speech is sacrosanct. You are entitled to believe, and say, anything you wish. But I do not have to listen to or agree with you.
  11. Nudity and sex are both natural but do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.
  12. There are more things in heaven and earth than we understand.
  13. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Friday Five: Drink

We’ve not done a Friday Five for a long time, so here’s this week’s …

1. What drink wakes you up best in the morning?
Tea. It just has to be a pint mug of tea. Strong tea, with very little milk — you have to be able to trot a mouse on it! 🙂

2. During the day, what do you drink to keep going?
Mostly tea and Diet Coke. Sometimes fruit juice.

3. Do you drink the recommended 8 glasses of water per day? Why/why not?
No. Why not? ‘Cos I drink plenty of other liquid (usually at least 4 pints of tea a day, without anything else) and I don’t like plain water — well neither would you if you had to suffer London’s recycled liquid concrete.

4. What are the ingredients of your favorite mixed drink? (Doesn’t have to be alcoholic!)
It has to be Gin and Tonic!

5. Are you a coffee drinker? How do you take your coffee, if so?
I hardly ever drink coffee these days, and haven’t for 6 or 7 years. I used to like on coffee in the office, but a dowser & healer I knew worked out that coffee wasn’t good for me (except possibly in homeopathic quantities) so I stopped drinking it. (And no he wasn’t anti-coffee as many of these people are; asked him and he actually dowsed it there and then.) These days I drink coffee probably about once a month — occasionally I fancy a coffee (has to be strong, like the tea) and I’m almost always left disappointed.

[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Five.]