2013 — 1 June: Saturday — (sunny) rabbits!

My weekend visitors1 slumber on, missing all this nice, early sunshine (and breezes). I have the job of identifying a nice country pub for lunch. How hard can it be?

Almost too delicious...

... for words. Source and snippet:

Do not believe the rumors of the obsolescence of your path. If Proust was a neuroscientist, then you have no urgent need of neuroscience, because you have Proust. If Jane Austen was a game theorist, then you have no reason to defect to game theory, because you have Austen. There is no greater bulwark against the twittering acceleration of American consciousness than the encounter with a work of art, and the experience of a text or an image.

Leon Wieseltier in New Republic


I know someone2 who once read Proust, but I can't say that greatly impressed me about him, and his wife left him, too, poor lad. It's a high price to pay, surely? But Austen? Well she just impresses me more and more with every re-reading. Amazing writer.

Eye-watering stuff

It's pretty amazing what researchers delve into sometimes. Or is it just the Dutch? Must tease Tall Thomas:

It has been generally thought that the practice of bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism (BDSM) is in some form associated with psychopathology. However, several more recent studies suggest a relative (sic) good psychological health of BDSM practitioners.

Andreas A.J. Wismeijer and A.L.M. van Assen in Journal of Sexual Medicine


"When did you stop beating your wife, Mr Mounce?" :-)

Jekyll

As is not unusual, Peter has suggested I check out some "New Thing" he has not, himself, actually used. Today's example is some magic way of generating static web pages that is lighter-weight than a 'traditional' dynamic blog: Jekyll.

Somehow, I don't think so... when you've been perfectly at home working with markup languages since 1981 there's really not that much about a static web page to warrant the 'automation' and I've no great interest in making my web pages any more complex than they need to be. They suit me, after all.

  

Footnotes

1  "Family" fits the bill, I guess!
2  Nice chap, to be sure. An ex-pedagogue with a battered Volkswagen Beetle (at the time) who also filched all my coffee while we accommodated him for several weeks when he first moved into the area to begin life anew with IBM (see Ernest Bramah quote #4).