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Which face do you like best? October 8, 2008

Inspired by Catriona’s post at Circulating Library on the problem with clowns, I looked up this clip from early Sesame Street. The story goes that when I was about 2 or 3 my mother was alerted to screaming from the living room and found me greatly disturbed by this freakish segment of a clown removing […]

the promise of ill-formed opinion fulfilled September 26, 2008

Time travel has been a recurring theme for me over the last few weeks in literature, film and television. I’m sure there are many people who have made careful study of this field of inquiry, but my blog description does promise “ill-formed opinion” so I hate to disappoint. Doctor Who of course has been a […]

the promise of ill-formed opinion fulfilled

Time travel has been a recurring theme for me over the last few weeks in literature, film and television. I’m sure there are many people who have made careful study of this field of inquiry, but my blog description does promise “ill-formed opinion” so I hate to disappoint. Doctor Who of course has been a […]

too much online presence is never enough September 25, 2008

As you can see from the link below on the right hand side I am trying out Twitter. I’m not convinced that I really need another online presence apart from this blog and facebook but suddenly everywhere I look I’m reading about “twittering” so I’ll give it a trial and see what I think. If […]

too much online presence is never enough

As you can see from the link below on the right hand side I am trying out Twitter. I’m not convinced that I really need another online presence apart from this blog and facebook but suddenly everywhere I look I’m reading about “twittering” so I’ll give it a trial and see what I think. If […]

the tardis goes all classical September 23, 2008

Here is Nigel Kennedy playing the Doctor Who theme….lots of feedback

note to self September 18, 2008

“I will not check my work email at home again” See the very informed post at homecooked theory for a connection to my note to myself. Basically I had started to feel that perhaps it wasn’t the best practice in the world to be checking work email first thing in the morning (i.e. before breakfast, […]

note to self

“I will not check my work email at home again” See the very informed post at homecooked theory for a connection to my note to myself. Basically I had started to feel that perhaps it wasn’t the best practice in the world to be checking work email first thing in the morning (i.e. before breakfast, […]

an extremely tasteful birthday card September 5, 2008

Here’s something I was inspired to dig out of my big box of cards and keepsakes. That’s right, it’s an extremely tasteful Melrose Place birthday card. Note the front cover where my wonderful friends drew in the missing cast members. They also labelled each person with their name across their forehead for some reason. This […]

an extremely tasteful birthday card

Here’s something I was inspired to dig out of my big box of cards and keepsakes. That’s right, it’s an extremely tasteful Melrose Place birthday card. Note the front cover where my wonderful friends drew in the missing cast members. They also labelled each person with their name across their forehead for some reason. This […]