2011 — 5 March: Saturday

A grey overcast suggests there's little point in trying to see the Spitfire later this morning.1 Sorry, Big Bro.

It's 09:22 and the second cuppa is now drinkable. Not that I'm addicted to or dependent on tea in any way, you understand.

What is one to make of this? Amusing or a musing? Source and snippet:

"Blues," though, have their own problems, which Regnerus and Uecker take tentative stabs at addressing. Urban, educated progressives — citizens of what has been called "the NPR archipelago" — use contraception more often, wait longer to marry, and experience fewer divorces.

Evan Hughes in The New Republic


I didn't realise my preferred radio listening defined me so intimately :-)

I was amused/amazed...

... to see this curiously inverted piece of marketing from Microsoft:

IE6

That clumsy "off of" reminds me of the wonderful story "Allamagoosa".

It's been over a year...

... since my last delicious "hit" of "Weeds". Nobody of my immediate circle seems either to watch it or enjoy it, but I think it's a delicious blend of satire and acute comic observation. Often side-spliffing :-)

DVD

Too long. Thanks, Mr Postie.

Just (15:31) finished listening to yesterday's Mark Kermode film review podcast. Brilliant stuff. Well worth the licence fee regardless of how little live TV I choose to watch, or record. Now, where's my cuppa got to?

I caught a brief, distant glimpse of the Spitfire circling the airport, having heard its characteristic sound for several minutes.

Do you suppose...

... the current issue of "Private Eye" is entirely accurate with this question on religion from the imminent census?

Spoof census

Fascinating profile of young Mr Murdoch.

  

Footnote

1  Besides, there's the next crockpot to be stuffed.