good south of the river, over the moon for the first time i'm posting wirelessly, in my new fuck-off flatshare in Loughborough Junction.. we are about to nip down the road for the return of Ministry of Unsound.. and when we stroll home I have an amazingly comfy new bed ready and waiting for me. Life
good Mmm, a baby! He looks good enough to eat! Talking to a Finn in Canada about a friend's new born baby, she reminded me of an off-colour joke i used to make about new born babies: - How much did it weigh? - 7 pounds! - Mmm, that's about 4 hours at gas mark 5!
good freak alert! freak alert! Boarding the 08:13 into town this morning I saw a freak! He had the appearance of an Oofy Prosser or a Gussie Fink-Nottle (I always forget which is which.) One of those frog like faces with protruding eyes, a big flabby neck and no discernible chin, his skin has
bad Intelligence? It is not often I deign to comment on politics or newspapers but something the White House said stung me, although I almost immediately realised they weren't the only ones who were daft or disingenuous in this case. Plus it follows on tenuously from my last post. Moore
dreams mind uncontrol more micronaps 11am The CIA are trying to coax me into a limo to accompany a very important kestrel. 12am A coiled cable on the table turns into a toilet seat
psycho mainstream dreams lest you think my dream collection exercise is airy fairy wish wash and not respectable research, you obviously have not read this weeks Newsweek What Dreams Are Made OfNew technology is helping brain scientists unravel the mysteries of the night. Their work could show us all how to make the
dreams speed breakdown sleeping in a supersoft bed my walnut pickled with alcohol I had dreams of medium weirdness & spirit-ual vividity. I was amongst friends and as always in my drunken dreams I was drinking still (i love these imaginary after-after-hours extra rounds) we were in a double-delux dream version of my
dreams stuff as dreams PROSPERO We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep... -- The Tempest (IV, i, 156-157) A new category to capture the stuff of my dreams. To chronicle the highly personalised fables & allegories I get when REM-ing in my bed.
good MonoMono http://onemonkey.org I only just discovered that the Spanish word for 'monkey' is 'mono'. How fantastic! I'm even more pleased than when my sister pointed out that Onemonkey Limited is not a criticism but merely a restatement of my singular nature.
dreams todays micro naps 10-11am an orange banner hanging down at the back of a medaeval great stone hall, it is shaped like four fingers pointing down. wanting a cup of tea that is neither black nor green nor herbal or anything in between
words July 2004 Reading List Heres' what I read in July: Quicksilver - Neal StephensonTruly monumental, the first 900 pages of his 3 tome Baroque Cycle. Vagabonds, spys and savants swash & buckle, philosophick & politick their way through the Northern Europe of 1660's & 70's in company of Newton,
good Was university the best time of my life? No and yes! The first I went to university in cambridge and it was a whole heap of uselessness.. I was mediocre at my subject & compounded this by attending no lectures, I was predominantly anti-social & socially awkward, I didn't make any lasting friends, I took no drugs, drank in
words Aloadof Orlando? This was the Urban 75 book group choice for July Apparently I described it as "The Bluffer's Guide to Bloomsbury" ... I don't remember saying that but I will gladly take the credit.. It is certainly inline with my opinion & is the sort of
psycho that chimp is yawning - not boring http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/20609.html Jim Anderson from Stirling University has found evidence for sympathetic yawning in a group of adult chimpanzee's in the Kyoto University's Primate Research Center.. That's one more for Prof Matsuzawa to add to his repertoire story:
good one more reason to shop at... er... safeway a couple of weeks ago I was vindicated in an uncertain descision not to desert dessert and to have the cheese course at dinner with my beloved and her lovely mother. I am not normally a three-course diner but what harm can a little cheese do, it didn't
good Hilbert's dream In 1900, David Hilbert composed a list of 23 important unsolved problems in mathematics, at the time he commented: "If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?" (not yet it seems ->
good spending a penny to earn 87 one of the few pleasures to come from going back to work, is that this time I am a contractor and so bill the company every day I turn up. which has led naturally enough to me working out how much it is costing them every time i go to
good Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple By Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say we've no money for
words an appalling book but with highlights i am labouriously working my way through Douglas Hofstadtr's book about translating Marot stanzas, i should quit, it's shit, but occasionally it has fantastic paragraphs, or i find it can pack an odd small fact that smacks my crack.. how about this start to a lipogrammatic
good today's random Gedanken! 1. visualise an apple.... what colour is it? my archetypal apple is green, yet i suspect the more common consensus is on red, with the snow white red/green option being a very small minority (of dwarves??) this [i]Gedankenexperiment[/i] works less well with oranges. 2. German provides some
bad More than my job's worth Tomorrow for the first time in a half a year I have to pull on a suit & rejoin the drones toiling at the nine-to-five in a faceless corporation, so I thought I'd let off a bit of steam baiting some bureaucrats. To the Assistant Registrar, Birkbeck College
psycho MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology Dr. Michael Thomas Dear Dr. Thomas, Here is my application for the MSc. in Cognitive Neuropsychology; I enclose the completed post-graduate application form, evidence of my existing qualifications and my professional CV (for what it is worth.) References from my personal tutor and from a former colleague will follow. As
words Adam's Apple, Eve's Bean Reading The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi in order to learn about the clitoris, I actually found out something new about the male anatomy. Or, at least about it's etymology. Hard though it is to conceive but the biblical significance or origin of Adam's Apple had never
