Mark Goody, (@marramgrass on twitter) linked to these images of snowflakes under a microscope. look weird but cool. original site ::[[click here]]::
2010Thu16Dec
advent 16 – Paulo Nutini Pencil full of Lead lyrics.
Filed in advent 2010, music, thinkingListening to Paulo Nutini’s album, Sunny Side Up, For the first time I heard the lyrics to the song, pencil full of lead. Have a read. 1, 2, 3, 4 I got a sheet for my bed, And a pillow for my head I got a pencil full of lead, And some water for my [...]
Christmas lights at House of Fraser, Glasgow (i didn’t buy anything.)
Anaïs Mitchell ‘Hadestown’ is definately in my top ten albums of 2010. I have just seen on the Celtic Conections website that they are putting on the album during the festival. with Anaïs Mitchell herself, Ani DiFranco and my friend Iain Morrison. now that should be a concert worth seeing. well done celtic connections. tickets [...]
Christmas doesn’t start until I have listened to ‘The Darkest Night of the Year’ twice. It is an album of quality songs and a complete Christmas feeling without needing to be tinsel and sleigh bells. gorgeous album for a dark night. Over the Rhine-The Darkest Night of the Year-08-Mary’s Waltz
Graciousness is a quality of mind that does not separate truth and beauty. Talk of truth always makes it sound as if truth were the cardinal virtue. yet without beauty, truth becomes blind and can be turned into a blunt and heartless imperative. When we hold beauty and truth together, truth will always have a [...]
2010Sat11Dec
advent 10 – Who is happy and when? – Happiness 2
Filed in advent 2010, thinking, wonderinThomas Nagel writing in the New York review of Books, writes on happiness, his article reviewing two books on the subject of happiness. Exploring Happiness by Sissela Bok and The Politics of Happiness by Derek Bok. As reviews of the distills the two big books into a very readable essay. (Ah, yes, on the blog [...]
quality control as per my daughter 1. Find item on floor 2. Lift item off floor 3. Shake item 4. Bite item 5. Hit item off floor see if it brakes 6. Bite item again 7. Shake Item 8. Lose interest and discard item …repeat until bedtime. so far our toys seem to have passed [...]
Fees for university. I dunno what to think to be honest. I went to a private college which charged about £3300 per year. I got my government £1200 per year and had to pay the difference. I am still paying off my student loan form that time but I got a job due to the [...]
Tuesday night is a good night for TV. Mad about the house on BBC3 is everything that reality TV should be, real, dramatic, demanding emotionally involvement and it does it really well. The basic conceit is simple, A couple are given £10,000 and three weeks to make up their house. Easy right. The Catch is [...]
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