2013 — 9 November: Saturday
Brian Matthew has just put a smile on my face1 despite the (continuing) ghastly weather. Just tell me how I still know the words to every "verse"? I presume it's because the story forms an automatic, and logical, call and response "memory palace" of sorts.
Fiasco!
I cannot even begin to recommend this too highly. (Link.)
The morning's nearly over, and the nearest approach to excitement, so far, has been an update to my Synology NAS firmware and a rain-soaked 'ACK' from the Winter Fuel Payment Team in Nottingham who are now busily pondering whether or not my claim for a Winter Fuel Payment is valid. Helps keep them warm, I trust.
A quick call...
... from Peter to remind me he's flying off to Las Vegas for a one-week Amazon (I assume AWS-related) "thing". I had forgotten he was going to do this, actually. He's at the airport right now.
His call caught me half way through a rather fatuous article that aptly demonstrates (to me, at least) the dubious nature of some modern research going on in that so-pure field of psychology...
Even if I do have a copy of the book2 that I was tickled to discover had been used as the starting point for this "research"!
If ever I need...
... proof that the world is going barking mad, just point me to this. Mind you, didn't Woody Allen (back when he was a stand-up comedian) claim to keep a pet ant on a lead while at school? [Pause] Further proof is currently being offered by all the damn' fireworks still being so eagerly set off this evening. I just do not understand the appeal.