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Transcendence
I am now listening to this conversation between Roger Scruton and Jordan Peterson, about transcendence. While so listening, I found myself thinking back to this morning, when I listened to the first...
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Photoing the Mona Lisa in the Louvre
6k: (I know someone who will like this picture …) Who can he mean? He’s talking about this picture: I like it. And like I say, the Age of the Smartphone will be with us for quite a while yet. I can...
View ArticleBe polite to autodidacts
I like this: Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. One of many items of wisdom from that prolific memer, Anonymous. And if someone misspells a...
View ArticleWhy England are getting better at football
I’ve just watched England beat Montenegro at football, in Montenegro, 5-1. A few days ago England beat The Czech Republic 5-0, in London, and I watched some of that too. England are looking good. Here...
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Me and my camera at the ENO
Today, thanks to GodDaughter2, who is a singing student, I got to see a dress rehearsal of a new opera being staged by English National Opera called Jack The Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel. I had my...
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GD2 does a selfie session with a fan
Yesterday a big gang of friends and family, me among them, heard G(od)D(aughter)2 do her end-of-year recital, way up at the top of the Royal College of Music just near the Albert Hall. It was terrific....
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Big Thing alignments from Lord’s
One of the many things I like about watching cricket on the television, along with things like that I can see properly what is going on, is that in between overs, those high-up cameras often look...
View ArticleThe only thing that qualifies as art in that photograph is the photograph itself
Here. A large proportion of what’s on social media consists of the stupidest things said or done by the people you most dislike.
View ArticleTattoos should actually make your more employable …
Like: Tattoos should actually make you more employable because it shows you can sit in place for hours while tiny needles are jammed into your skin and that’s what every corporate meeting I’ve ever...
View ArticleA cricinfo commentator muses wisely about the nature of language
Snatched from the cricinfo online text commentary on this cricket match yesterday: Hugh: “@ Dez, Spelled is perfectly acceptable, as well as spelt. Like lit and lighted. In any event the thing about...
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KC Gandhi squeak a win
Churchy just tweeted this: He doesn’t say where he found it. Having got to a thousand, Dhanawade then wanted to dig in and make it a big thousand. But he was cruelly cut short, just as he was getting...
View ArticleFarce repeating itself as farce
This is rather good: Seriously, I remember back at Essex University in the early 1970s how the Lenin-with-hair tendency thought that the answer to every problem in the world then was to occupy...
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Perpignan photos
A year ago yesterday I was in St Cyprien, and a year ago today I was in Perpignan. However, I was in Perpignan again on January 9th of this year, when the weather was much better and hence so were my...
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Reflections in blue sunglasses
According to my hard disc, I photoed this photo on October 6th 2004. I fefinitely photoed it with my ancient Canon A70: Not bad. Clearly visible on the right spectacle lens, as we look, and especially...
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“I wish you bad luck …”
I don’t know which of the people I follow on Twitter drew my attention to the tweet that contained the quote that follows, a tweet which has been hanging around on my hard drive ever since I...
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Cat kindergarten
Why was I not informed about this remarkable building, erected in 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany, until now?: I am interested in unusual buildings. On Fridays, I like to do creature-related postings here,...
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Alex Singleton’s website
Yes, incoming from Alex Singleton: Hi Brian, Hope you are keeping well. I thought you might find this amusing – a full and frank confession of my time as a teenager:...
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Some well written advice about how to write well
At 6k: I sort of knew this. I now know it better. I might buy this book. I now need a longer sentence, one that drives the point home a bit, but not too much, because after all I didn’t think of this,...
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