March 2011
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christian-bs asked: Why do I like photography?
February 2011
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“We are continually victimised by fate’s mastication.”
November 2010
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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with...”
– Galileo Galilei
October 2010
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“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands....”
– Anthony Blanche (Brideshead Reivisited)
June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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“PeTA wants to bring you a world where you cannot take your children to the zoo...”
– David Martosko, Director of Research at the CCF, talking about PeTA.
March 2010
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May 2009
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A Brief Musical Interlude
I am writing this entry in a rather discontinuous fashion to what I have promised in my previous entry. Rest assured however, that the series on PeTA, their flaws, their hypocrisy, and trickery, shall continue; I daren’t let you all down for fear of what it is that you may wreak upon me!
Unfortunately, examination revision has become something of a time-filler, meaning that my blog entry...
April 2009
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“We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child”
– Alex Pacheco, then Chairman of People for the ethical Treatment of Animals.
March 2009
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What is PeTA?
PeTA, for those of you who may not already be aware, stands for People for the ethical Treatment of Animals (quite a hypocritical title as you shall find out). It is a group, that on the suface claim to be an animal rights group, with the intention of total liberation of animals, proclaiming in their motto “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” As...
February 2009
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On the Origins of Locutions: Mad as a March Hare
Mad as a March Hare
This is an expression used to refer to someone’s peculiar behaviour. It is believed to have originated from Desiderius Erasmus’ “Mad as a Marsh Hare”.
In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll gave the phrase its popularity with the current spelling of “March Hare”, as the Cheshire Cat famously described Alice and the Hatter.
This turn...
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Review - Bistro Français on the Hill
Yes, it has been a fair while since my last restaurant review (the last was on the seventeenth of August, to be precise), owing largely to my January examinations, and straight afterwards, having put myself unreservedly in the hands of the bottle. Moving swiftly, on, I hope that this satiates your appetite for a fresh review (if you have one).
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January 2009
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A brief interude from the silence
Dearest readers,
This is but a short note to wish you all a very much belated Merry Christmas and happy New Year. All is well here, I am at the moment though, tied down by the ropes of revision ahead of my Biolody and Chemistry Examinations on the twenty-second and twentieth respectively. Should any of you be in a similar situation, I wish you the very best of luck, and look forward to posting...
December 2008
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A letter to British media organisations.
Dear Media Mogul, As a British citizen, I have a few comments regarding the quality and content of the programmes that constitute British television broadcasting today. Kindly be so kind as to see to the ensuing points: • US elections. Because there is an election taking place in another major country in the world, it does not mean that we have all spontaneously lost interest in the social...
October 2008
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Moisture on the glass
I must apologise for not having shown any signs of life here recently, as I have been tied down with the ropes of UCAS and all manner of wonderful school-related chores. Not a lot has changed since my last entry; I have finalised my university choices, sorted out my stamp collection a little more, and I am now on my way to completing Grade 5 theory. The only thing that has really changed here is...
September 2008
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Numerical bibliophilia
I have attempted to collect all the numbers regarding all the major world libraries:
5 - Museum artefacts in the Austrian National Library.
8 - Incunabula in the National Library of Estonia.
35 - Corvina Cordices from the Library of King Matthias in the National Library of Hungary.
45 - Microfilm reels in the National Library of Pakistan.
47 - Incunabula in Colombia’s national Library.
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CERN's LHC in numbers
This also includes other stats for comparison.
-271.3 - The temperature (in degrees Celsius) of the magnets after being filled with Helium superfluid.
-193.2 - The temperature (in degrees Celsius) to which the magnets were cooled.
10⁻¹³ - Air pressure (in Pascals) inside the LHC.
10⁻¹² - Air pressure (in Pascals) on the moon.
0.00000000047 - The total mass (in grams) of protons circulating...
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London 2012 Olympics handover "show"
Well, it was called a show, but I would like to contest that naturally (you should know me well enough by now). A show is supposed to entertain people. Seeing as The Olympics is a very large undertaking, perhaps we can be a little forgiving if the entertainment is more mediocre than spectacular, as there is so much eslse to co-ordinate and organise. The opening ceremony, not even I can bash. It...
August 2008
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Review - The Two Brewers Inn
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The Common, Chipperfield
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
WD4 9BS
Food: ★★★★★
The food here, I found to be very, very good indeed. I ordered roast chicken breast stuffed with mozzarella, and served in a tomato sauce, accompanied by roast potatoes mixed British vegetables. The chicken was done to perfection; and the tomato sauce was sharp...
A Trip to Buckingham Palace
I found myself today (the date of writing being Monday, the 4th August) on a somewhat impromptu visit to Buckingham Palace. Whilst having heard word of the trip the previous week, I only found out the date and time this morning when I was on the rounds picking-up the clients.
We boarded the minibuses and left the premises of the Neighbourhood Centre at a little past 13:00 and arrived at the...
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Review - Café Café
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51 high St.
Harrow, Middlesex
HA1 3ST
Food: ★★★☆☆
Good, food, nicely presented, and good size portions.
Atmosphere: ★☆☆☆☆
Whatever atmosphere that there could have been in the restaurant, was drowned-out by the music blaring from the bar/café area, which quite frankly, sounded like something out of a five-year old’s party....
July 2008
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Cryptography
Within this message is a secret message, hidden. There aren’t any prizes for the person who can figure it out, but it’s just a little time filler for you code-breakers out there.
Here:
“MacThemes is a community of developers and designers who share alike a great enthusiasm for the Mac OS X experience and desktop environment as well as a general passion for Apple.”
Best...
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Greetings from a place far away
At the moment, as the title suggests, I’m on holiday in Haifa, Israel which as you can probably guess means that I shall be updating my blog (even) less often. I started this blog in the hope that I would update it fairly regularly on topics that some people would find interesting. Obviousy I was wrong. I do not know why, but I had these sickeningly idealistic visions of this blog attracting...
June 2008
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Lego in numbers
1.5 - The speed of lego brick transporting robots in the old warehouses.
2.5 - The speed of lego brick transporting robots in the new warehouses.
2.5 - The average storage time for lego bricks (in months).
4 - The number of warehouses.
4 - The number of robots per warehouse (old or new).
4 - The number of aisles per warehouse (old or new).
7 - The number of lego sets sold around the world...
Round-up of WWDC Stevenotes
Well, it must be said. WWDC this year was a let-down. Whilst some new features (not products) were introduced, there was not a lot of innovation present; the factor that sets Apple apart from all its rivals. I shall take a gander at the products announced in turn: • OS 10.6 - Snow Leopard Sorry, only mentioned, no information to share. All we know is that is focuses mainly on reducing the...
Diagnosis through urine samples. At Tesco.
One day, leaning on the bar, Jack says to Mike “My elbow hurts like hell. I suppose I’d better see a Doctor!”.
“Listen, don’t waste your time down at the surgery,” Mike replies. “There’s a new diagnostic computer at Tesco Pharmacy. Just give it a urine sample and the computer will tell you what’s wrong, a nd what to do about it. It takes ten...
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m...”
– Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Rattus Norvegicus
For around 4 months now, we have been plagued by a family of rats (please excuse the dreadful, dreadful pun there), who insist upon calling our garden, and in particular the hen coop, their home. Time after time we have seen them running around the garden, stealing food from the bird trays, and on quite a regular basis, getting into the hen coop, and stealing some of the hen food. We always knpw...
April 2008
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“Because none of use are as cruel as all of us.”
– Anonymous
March 2008
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