Posted in Blather on February 28th, 2006 No Comments »
I understand (sort of) modern communication tools – cell phones, e-mail, text messaging and so on. What I don’t understand is people.
With the exception of one person, no one ever phones me when I am at home. I suspect there are cameras tracking my movements. As soon as I leave my condo, they call me. […]
Posted in Blather on February 27th, 2006 3 Comments »
One my other blogs, The Burble, has been languishing. It’s where I ramble about movies. But I’ve finally found a reason to get it into gear.
I watched the movie The Weather Man and posted about it. The movie is not my usual cup of tea (as the expression goes). It doesn’t reflect how I see […]
Posted in Blather on February 24th, 2006 8 Comments »
The best way to winterize your gazebo is to have it in a country where, eventually, it snows. (Well, that’s a kind of winterizing.)
Yes, this week we finally got snow. Still, there’s not a lot of it. Not like we would normally have. And this snow is about three months or so […]
Posted in Blather on February 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
I am currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. And I’m really enjoying it.
Actually, it’s one of the reasons I’m up way too late these days. I start reading and the next thing I know … “Yikes! Look at the time!”
Anyway, I came across this in the book and liked it. So […]
Posted in Blather on February 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
Good grief … or good gravy, as my mother use to say … it’s only Thursday. Where do these weeks come from? You know, those weeks where there are 12.2 gazillion things to do and everything seems muddled and buggered up?
Perhaps it’s not the week itself, but how the week is perceived. “The fault, dear […]
Posted in Blather on February 21st, 2006 5 Comments »
Lacking the mental capacity to compose a coherent post, I offer the following cognitive belches (seven in all):
1) I’ve got so many things to do this week that I am not doing any of them. I seem to be like that. There’s a limit to what I can manage – go past it, I just […]
Posted in Blather on February 20th, 2006 4 Comments »
I bought a book the other day – The Ode Less Travelledby Stephen Fry. It’s a book about writing poetry. No, really.
Now, I think I know enough about language and particularly English that I don’t need a book about how to write a poem. So why pick this up? The answer is simple and […]
Posted in Blather on February 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
Don’t ask … well, go ahead and ask. Why change this blog’s look? I suppose two reasons.
First, it’s always good to change your clothes when they begin to take on a displeasing odour. So it is with blogs, I think.
Secondly, and the real reason, I have always hated the colours of the other template […]
Posted in Blather on February 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
Winning is nice, but winning really means something when you’re not expected to. My favourite part of the Olympics is when the people who aren’t supposed to win go ahead and win anyway.
Like the Swedish women’s hockey team. They beat the U.S. women’s team 3 to 2 in an overtime shootout.
I didn’t want the […]
Posted in Blather on February 17th, 2006 5 Comments »
The science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon is credited with the quote “Ninety percent of everything is crap.” As I recall, what he actually said was “Ninety percent of everything is crud,” yet in today’s world we prefer crap to crud. But here’s the thing …
It’s one of my favourite quotes (one I’ve […]
