I’m getting so fucked off with this mortgage thing. The mortgage broker feller, who sounds increasingly sullen every time he rings me, has just told me for the second time that I don’t exist. Apparently, Abbey National, who I’ve been with for 14 years, can’t find any record of my existence at my previous addresses.
This is how educated PC Zone are. Suzie is shouting about Titan Quest, when Will wanders over to correct her as to the location of Agamemnon in the Elysian fields and the story behind his ending up there. I just overheard Editor Jamie say, “No, we can’t pluralise demo on that page because it’s a
Tuesday 8 March 1663/64 (Pepys’ Diary) Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that she had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by a desire of my aunt Wight to get some for her, who hath a mind, unknown to her husband, to get some for her
85 – Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps That’s just plain beautiful. This is a summary map of the Hollow Earth, with all its different entry points and layers, including a small floating sun in the middle. So this is what people reverted to after the flat earth was discredited. Strange maps has the
Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio We’re playing this track because it features electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, major key tonality, prominent use of synth, acoustic sonority, folk roots, dynamic vocalists, acoustic instruments. After months of listening to Pandora, it seems to have calmed down and
On 2 Mar ’07, 8.08am GMT flyerjimmy said: HI I wonder if i can use this picture (see link) On my cat-ladder site – a site about Cat-Ladders 🙂 Here’s the address to the site: http://katt-trappa.blogspot.com/ PLEASE! Where is the picture taken? Which town/country. Yours sincerely / Jimmy Robertson – Stockholm/Sweden Uh, yeah. Sure. Cool
BF Skinner was a world famous psychologist who did experiments on conditioning, following Pavlov, where he showed you could get anyone to do anything with enough positive reinforcement (negative reinforcement isn’t as effective, oddly). Humph. Lauren Slater has written a very personal book Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century all about
I’m all preregistered. Now to decide whether I actually want to go.
Enough. Everyone seems to think I will write one day, why I don’t know. Damn the premonitory bullying. I will start now. Here’s my portent. Here’s my book. So Judas is crying. He cries a lot at the moment. Perhaps he always was a weeper, a grabber of momma’s shawl, a chaser of comforting skirts.
Penny Arcade! – The Home Of The Gods, Part One The thing that really gets me with this whole thing is that the kid knows full well that by equating what he’s done to a video game, that he will generate controversy and media coverage. It makes me sick that the media is jumping all