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good name for a baby

caspar is not a common name, but it is one I like. just bumped into a former boss of mine on the street. awkwardly catching up on the news of past colleagues, he rather sheepishly he told me that he has called his fourth child Casper!!! i really don'

wonderland

I was in close proximity to a hero of mine on Thursday. And as I should have expected, it wasn't quite like I expected. Haruki Murakami was giving his first public appearance in this country at the Prince Charles cinema. Talking about his books and, more reluctantly, about

Happy Birthday, Bill

Today is the birthdate of the most famous poet of them all. I have spent most of the morning searching the internet for a decent selection of extended passages. It is slightly woeful. Scattered about I have found snippets and stanza's, the well trodden lines we are all

Bucolic? No. Bukholic, maybe.

The thing with Bukowski is that one is never enough.. You have one and it is finished before you know it. Now your appetite is whetted and you are thirsty for more. The beautiful part is that there is a seemingly limitless supply of them out there. In a refreshing

Bukowski says have a beer

better let Chuck reposte.. BEER from: Love is A Mad Dog From Hell I don't know how many bottles of beer I have consumed while waiting for things to get better I dont know how much wine and whisky and beer mostly beer I have consumed after splits

Bukowski says have a drink... of tea.

Every time you look, along comes another study promoting the value of good cup of tea (or five) every day. This morning is no exception, a certain Jack Bukowski is encouraging us all to drink more black tea. His brother Chuck must be turning in grave. It's a

say yes to drugs

been following a left-field discussion on what i like to call the Psychadelic Ape Hypothesis, namely that the cosmic oneness and general grooviness of psycho-active substances could have aided our ancestors in their evolution to higher states of consciousness, such as what we possess these days.. like i said I

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Feeling the presence of God

Just watched BBC2 Horizon program "God on the Brain". First half was all about how temporal lobe epilepsy can lead to religious visions & experiences. They had the eminent (but hard to spell) neuropsychologist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran descirbing how it is notable that various religious figures had symptoms

you may begin panicing

five weeks till our exams and big lumps of course work and a lot of vision/revision to do before then, i shouldn't be unduly worried but lacking in focus, a lot of the courses are rather amorphous and so there is no single point of reference for

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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." ? Ovid (43 BC-18 AD).

I am the law..

Moore, Metcalfe, Godwin & Murphy have all got law's named after them.. except they aren't real laws in the scientific or legal sense, mainly they are light-hearted observations masquerading as deep insights into the zeitgeist. To get immortalised for this sort of feeble observational comedy devalues

Voodoo Bride

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's government has officially sanctioned voodoo as a religion, allowing practitioners to begin performing ceremonies from baptisms to marriages with legal authority. voodoo priest - available for baptisms, weddings and FUNERALS

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You look up and there are the stars but stars are awfully far. You look down and there is the ground, one day it will open for you. You look around and here we all are, briefly alive and alert. You look out for yourself (as you should) but remember

it\'s april, fool!

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an excellent book indirectly about synaestheisa is A R Luria's "The mind of a mnemonist: A little book about a vast memory" (amazon link ) the subject 'S' had a memory that was for all practical purposes inexhaustible. part of the reason for this was

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following on quite nicely from the last entry something to cheer me up. woo hoo! I've finally found it.. after years of searching i've found the original source of the flimsy premise of this site.. "Come to think of it, there are already a million

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saturday's peace rally in London wash was a great success for most people and something of an endurance test for Belinda and I. we were well prepared.. bel had painted a very colourful placard with Make Tea, not war on one side and Peace on Earth on the

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onemonkey is but one of the millions of simians tapping (seemingly) at random on a keyboard. some bright spark once said that sooner or later one monkey of those monkeys would type the complete works of shakespeare. one wag observed that the internet is a very good counter-example to this

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here's an example of how it ought to be done.. richard herring - warming up - a well written, authentically funny weblog that is regularly updated. does it inspire us to imitation, shame us into action, or fling us into envious despair and despondancy? all three to a

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DO I NOT LIKE THAT? I sit in front of a computer all day, every day and by now you would think i would know the location of the 'q' key, the 'w' key, the 'e' key, the 'r' well you get

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MUST CONTROL FIST OF DEATH I know you mustn't laugh at poor unfortunates, but ha ha ha ha! I found this story about new hope for people suffering from compulsive repugnant thoughts.. science daily link The article starts out "Imagine being tortured by repeated thoughts of stabbing

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anti war march this saturday & we're making a placard and have been trying to think up some decent slogans. Here are my efforts: military expenditure US..............$280 Billion Iraq.............$1.3 Billion who is more dangerous? reverend Blair says: Love thy transatlantic neighbour bomb the shit out

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Yet another beginning.. Incapable of sustaining anything for any length of I'll start again, just like I did the last time or the time before that. And what will we get in the end, well don't know yet i expect whatever it is and whenever it

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Q. Is talent 'god given'? A. We were discussing this sort of thing in a social psychology class last friday.. lecturer is advocate of social constructionism.. which says exactly that all aspects of personality and aptitude are culturally produced. one person is shy, another is outgoing solely due