good A Tinnie from my Tin Pan Alley panhandling pally! On Sunday I made a new friend! Wandering through town, I already taken in multiple cultures in Trafalgar Square where there had been whirling water carriers, Vietnamese water-puppets & West Indian revision of West African dancing. I watered my horse in Soho and was strolling north along Charing Cross Road
good Jones the Phone don't you feel the poetry and promise of this animated gif? it was there where i saw it only momentarily but it caught my eye; maybe because i'd just come off the phone to a lovely lilting lady from wales slaving away in a swansea call-centre
words June Reading List The Psychology of Language - Trevor Harley An excellent introduction to psycholinguistics. It covers lots of ground that is of interest to psychologists & less so to linguists. So that's stuff on speech production and perception (fun with phonemes) lots & lots of reaction time experiments, some elegant
good Glastonbury piccies: http://look.onemonkey.org/glast04 it was good but not great.. this was partly due to the energy sapping qualities of mud, the absense of any bands I absolutely had to see & being unable to rendezvous effectively with my nearests & dearests. but it had it's
words Stasiland - Anna Funder http://www.granta.com/authors/1884 It was a good bookgroup choice. it was not a book i would have picked myself but I was really pleased to read it.. both because it was educational and cos she did a great job of telling the individual tales by which was
words May reading list A lot less than normal this month & late to boot due to my preoccupation with cramming for my exams. Psychopathology - John Stirling & Jonathan Hellewell A Scottish Higher level textbook giving a whistlestop tour of some psychological disorders; schiz, depression, eating disorders, etc. Necessarily brief but the final
words Three Monkeys on the underground Brueghel's Two Monkeys This is what I see in my dream about final exams: two monkeys, chained to the floor, sit on the windowsill, the sky behind them flutters, the sea is taking its bath. The exam is History of Mankind. I stammer and hedge. One monkey stares
words April Reading List Damsel in Distress - P G Wodehouse Another seemingly effortless piece of Wodehouse brilliance. It is reassuring to know that he actually spent ages rewriting drafts, refining his lines and polishing his sparkling wit. Dreaming War - Gore VidalA collection of essays about American Imperialism, blood for oil, other US
good Urbs in Berlin http://look.onemonkey.org/urberlin No time to talk at moment, but here are my pics from a superb weekend in my new second favorite city! http://look.onemonkey.org/urberlin and here's something about my new favorite toy:-
words By George, It's Bill's 440th birthday! Yes, St George's day has swung round again, but there will be no celebrations in the name of some bloodthirsty, semi-mythical Turk, (if you must do that, St Nicolas is a better choice) I don't want to be involved in anything remotely jingoistic that might involve
words I am book cross I helped some friends move house on last Thursday, it made me painfully aware of the volume of junk I posses. Lots of heavy possession which will have to lunk out of my flat in a short while. I've resolved to rid myself of much of it but
psycho Context is Everything - Susan Engel http://www.williams.edu/P...ngel/engel.html I have just finished reading this excellent book (subtitled 'The Nature of Memory') and it reminds me why starting my psychology degree is the best thing I've ever done. This wonderful semi-popular, semi-academic book on the transactional, narrative
good god is sort of a gas i've just played a computer at twenty questions.. http://y.20q.net:8095/ Apparently, it some sort of AI knowledge base project but a fairly crap one because it seems to be mainly about making money and crap novelties (okay so 250,000 connection neural net in your
good you may know me by the company i keep in the course of realising that by referring to it, i unwhacked my googlewhack*, i discovered the googletool which displays Pages similar to blog.onemonkey.org I haven't figured out how they do it but it is interesting. Firstly it is flattering to be compared to pages as
good a few things a few things 1. did you notice the number of words in my last post? :> 2. Got my first ever googlewhack while looking for Libraryology. Benjamin Zephaniah's poem that pisses on this. 3. Of all God's creatures it is the little lamb, prancing and gambolling in the fields,
psycho (untitled) added a couple more bits of old coursework to my psycho directory.. Two experiment designs Does context affect remembering and knowing or the generation effect? A within-subjects, between-subjects comparison. Testing recall span with word length and articulatory suppression using auditory stimuli. and one 'exam style' essay Discuss the
good Mussels, mammals and a few other animals I'm going to Berlin in a few weeks, I shan't miss their Museum f¸r Naturkunde. Here's what my guide book says: mussels, birds and mammals Seven dinosaurs is more than enough for me, and, even better than that, by my estimation there must
words March Reading List Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett TP takes on war, the military and misogyny on his own terms and after his own now famous style. The setting is of course Discworld and the technology of the day, is approximately C18 in old money, but as always the parallels and satires apply
good Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen & a Moose went to a party can anyone confirm the veracity of this anecdote from The Act of Creation? Some years ago, at a fancy dress ball - in Monte Carlo, I believe - a competition was held ot decide which among the dozen or so guests masquerading as Charlie Chaplin came nearest to the original.
