2014 — 1 January: Wednesday — rabbits!
Time for a "Happy New Year!" placeholder1 I think, this evening. I've only just finished watching yesterday's Blu-ray of "Children of Men" plus the 59 minutes or so of documentary extras, and am now feeling quite overpowered and more than a little punch-drunk. The film packs a helluva message.
Resuming...
... all I can say is that if this morning's ghastly rain is going to be our typical weather all year... I don't think much of 2014 so far!
Alas, I missed...
... this on its first appearance in February 2005. Some little snippets, and the source:
Progressives had a laugh about one of the Bush administration's terms of contempt for the media elites and thinkers, "the reality-based community." ... Our popular culture sucks, and there's no reason to spend our breath to helping it to suck that much harder.
In Plato's imaginary Athens, the worship of perishable beauty led you on to durable wisdom. All that counts as wisdom now is advice on staying beautiful ... Corporations have destroyed liberalism and feminism in so many ways, including morally. Their fashions (sold with sex since they lack other selling points) do not deserve a liberal's hard-earned political capital.
I had my own terms of contempt for the Bush administration, but this is a family web site. And I just learned yesterday, by the way, that people browsing the still-extant Anti Polygraph site are quite plausibly being targeted by some of the paranoid "powers that be" across the Pond. Why North Americans still give more credence to that ridiculous "technology" than anyone else (except, perhaps, UK PC Plods?) baffles me.
But then lots of things baffle me, particularly before breakfast.
I consider myself...
... an easygoing sort of chap, generally. But watching — not for the first time — rain seep gently through what the rat-bastard lying thief of an Anglian salesman had assured us to be the replacement windows industry's finest, completely impermeable, double-glazing system in my kitchen irritates me somewhat.
Having earlier browsed quite an interesting, albeit inconclusive, piece on AI (here) I'm now left to ponder the careless but wondrous ambiguity in this little piece:
The world clearly lacks a generation of unicycle-riding robots, be they fast pedallers or merely quick studies.
I've mentioned...
... the cause of my long-standing knowledge deficit with respect to Vikings a while ago. Showed off my slightly over-sized new school uniform, too. Well, now here's part of the original letter that kick-started my accelerated early education:
This was after I'd taken the entrance exam for the Junior school of that institution. More than 53 years ago? Good grief! Still, I can but hope it made a pleasing 43rd birthday present for Dad that weekend.