tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165014492012-02-17T00:41:46.107+08:00* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RANTS, RAMBLINGS, AND OTHER REPOSITORIES OF RANDOMNESS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The author retains an artistic license for this journal, and as such may fabulate, exaggerate and discombobulate. The reader is advised to engage his/her own brain in the perusal of these writings. Beware of possible fabrications, alliteration, puns, bad jokes, extreme silliness, and all manner of strange and wonderful words. Enjoy!Aurealahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12115144910232426988noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16501449.post-58380499927348415232010-02-04T14:45:00.004+08:002010-02-18T10:38:18.100+08:00

Current mood: Posing as a not-so-romantic poetCurrent music: ‘Blood Money’ by Luke PickettThe way things are shaping up, it doesn’t look like I’m able to get out more than, oh, about one blog entry a year. I’m sorry guys, but life just kinda gets in the way. (However, before you get any ideas, I’d state quite positively that death would be an even greater deterrent to blogging.) It’s a curious

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Current mood: RetrospectiveCurrent music: Led Zeppelin, would you believeI am APPALLED at how long it has been since my last post. Good grief! Where has my YEAR gone?! Did I get a visit from the Thieves of Time? *Shock, horror* Here we are, a month into 2009, and my poor little blog has been mouldering away for aeons in hopes of attention...Of course, my relentless, infernal busyness has been

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Current mood: PoeticCurrent music: 'Moonlight in...' Well, you'll seeIn a recent spate of haiku writing (blame Edsters; it was his idea), I thought I'd turn my attention to rewriting the lyrics of the old jazz standard, 'Moonlight in Vermont'. This wonderful song was written almost entirely in haikus, apart from the middle section. It has been recorded by so many big names in jazz that one is

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Current mood: Arty Current music: A becoming silence (I don't have any opera on me)Pavarotti is dead. The King of the High C's is no more. The Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival Hall have both raised black flags, and opera fans around the world are in mourning for a man who was a legend in his own lifetime.Picture taken from http://www.amcostarica.com/020204.htmAdmittedly, I myself am

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Current mood: Un peu françaisCurrent music: Reliving the memories of songsMy my, I have grown lazy haven't I? What with the combination of writer's block, apathy, and actually being a busy bee, I haven't written in quite a while. I used to write once a fortnight. I must be getting old or something; the brain's getting rusty, you know...As far as the 'being busy' goes, last month it was all to do

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Current mood: PhotographicCurrent music: ZilchAfter the stupendous verbosity of my last entry, I have decided that words have become a bit too much for my loyal but stunned readership and so, as a little light relief, I shall focus on the visual rather than the textual element this time. The infuriating process of uploading all of the pictures below will probably drive me insane, but I suppose

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Current mood: Answering backCurrent music: (Super) Duper Sessions by Sondre LercheTah-daah! Edsters and I have now finished writing the answers to the interview questions in the last post. I shall now present them here in all their monochromatic glory.Just a note before I begin, though - although most of these questions have only one answer, some of them have two - one by me, the other by my

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Current mood: QuestioningCurrent music: Sweet jazz tunes by my friend Reinis - check out his MySpace siteProverb of the day: Great minds think alikeHow now, dear readers! Your humble blogger has not been sitting idly by since Christmas, despite the fact that I couldn't afford to go anywhere, both money-wise and time-wise. I have been keeping myself busy. And no, I don't just mean the

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Current mood: Christmassy Current music: The 'Fa La La' song What ho, dear readers! How have you been keeping? The past months have been busier than ever for me, with deadlines converging and mandatory social gatherings picking up speed, hence my increasing inability to get down and bloogie. Sorry, I meant write a blog entry. (Did I really say that? Oh gawds. It's far too late for me to keep on

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Current mood: LimerickyCurrent music: Peter Cincotti is singing, swinging and Sway-ingI have a new mystery reader! Hurray!In celebration of the fact, and because he did ask quite nicely for one, I am going to post yet another limerick.Unfortunately, as I haven't any information about him apart from his name, Samson, I've based my limerick on what little I know of the biblical hero and his rather

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...can run over fistful of maliciously scattered thumbtacks and burst, for all I care. As long as I'm not on the bus, anyway, which seemed by and large to be the case today.L'autobus est mort, vive l'autobusPicture taken from: http://www.erikhenne.com/P_belize.htmCurrent mood: RantingCurrent music: The wheels of the bus can drive me mad, drive me mad, drive me mad...I don't know what it is, but

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Current mood: Rhymical Current music: A cappella tunes Hi everyone! Thanks for all your comments on my last post. As there did not seem to be any kind of consensus on which blog entry was the best, there will be no 'winning blog entry'. I shall just have to satisfy myself with the saying, 'it's different strokes for different folks', and keep churning out blog entries in whichever style that

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Current mood: CelebratoryCurrent music: What sort of music should one play at a party held for a blog, for cryin' out loud? Looking back through my previous blog entries, I've suddenly realised that it's just over a year since I posted the first entry for 'Intergalactic Rigamarole'. To be precise, Blog Entry No. 1 was published online on Thursday, September 08, 2005, 7:14 PM Hong Kong time. So

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Current mood: Damp (literally) Current music: Rain-like, tinkly piano music by Yann TiersenPicture taken from http://www.tiny-vessels.net/photoblog/?p=31 I've always appreciated a good rainstorm. I like to sit by the window and watch, marvelling at how the rain pours down in sheets as it is swept by the wind, enthralled by the dramatic flashes of lightning, fascinated with the way the water

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Current mood: IntrospectiveCurrent music: The sound of silence. No, not the Simon & Garfunkel song - the actual sound of silence.Where has July gone? Where has August gone? Where, in fact, has the whole ruddy summer evaporated to? It is now September and the world is suddenly teeming with schoolchildren. Aaaagh!I know, I know, I haven't posted in such a terribly long time that you're probably

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Current mood: Eternally grateful to my fantabulous friends (who read this blog)Current music: The computer's whine - a hint that I'm going too fast for it to keep up?Thank you, thank you to my wonderful Anblogeda readers! Where would I be without you? Having pondered deeply on some of your comments on the previous post I now have two more entries for 'How to Mull Correctly'. Enjoy.***************

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Current mood: Mullnish (or I would be, had I a cheese sandwich to eat)Current music: The drone of bagpipes from yonder mystic loch. Nah, not reallySome time ago, whilst idly surfing the Weird Web of Wonders, I found a screensaver based on the book, 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A dictionary of things there aren't any words for yet' by the late, great Douglas Adams, and his friend John Lloyd. In

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Current mood: PeckishCurrent music: Oliver Talkes - as yet unsigned singer/songwriter of beautiful, acoustic folk songsYes, yes, all right, so it's been nearly a month since my last entry. Well, I've been busy - I finished my old job in a lab and have just started my new one, which involves absolutely no chemical fumes nastier than those from Tippex, or perhaps ozone from the photocopier. Instead

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Current mood: Somewhat philosophicalCurrent music: Snatches of Tchaikovsky are surfing the brain-wavesIf you've ever seen the classic Disney film, 'Fantasia', you'll be familiar with the animation sequence accompanying Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite', where flowers that have drifted down onto a stream start bobbing and turning like a multitude of tiny dancing ladies. It was very nicely done,

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Current mood: Green around the gills from salad overdoseCurrent music: Leonard Bernstein's 'Chichester Psalms' are doing the rounds... Large choirs singing in Hebrew, huge blaring orchestras, swinging in 7/4 time - can ya beat that? I bought a salad takeaway for lunch today. It said on the box, 'Smoked Salmon & Potato Salad', so I thought, "Where's the harm?" Unfortunately for me, 'Smoked Salmon

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Current mood: MusicalCurrent music: MoodyOn this day in history:Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was born in 1842...and Gabriel Urbain Fauré was born in 1845.Astrology has this to say about May 12:"Jupiter, the ruling planet for this day, gives the person born on this day a vast wellspring of wisdom that they use in an expansive nature." ~ Perry from Birthscopes.com Well, perhaps so. It totally and

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Current mood: Timing outCurrent music: 'A Thousand Years' by StingMove over Lara Croft - I have here a totally brand new concept that will change the world! Not Tomb Raider, but... Time Raider. How about becoming an adventurer who travels through time, collecting ancient artefacts before they actually become ancient? So, for example, you would be able to see what the Venus de Milo looked like

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Current mood: EggishCurrent music: A single line of 'My Funny Valentine' is looping through Radio BrainwaveHello! I hope you all had a happy Easter the other weekend, full of fluffy chicks and cute bunnies and a dead man cruelly nailed to two bits of wood (don't worry, He got to reincarnate in three days). My long weekend was tragic in that it was totally devoid of chocolate. I couldn't find so

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Current mood: In the mood for food Current music: My stomach is singing the 'Where's My Sandwich?' song The infinitely-resourceful-and-sagacious Terry Pratchett, author of the renowned Discworld series and keen observer of humanity, once pointed out an inherent defect of human nature: "...Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If

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Current mood: ObservantCurrent music: Peter Cincotti, jazz pianist/vocalist extraordinaireHey, guess what? I've just won a lucky draw and am now entitled to bring 9 friends with me on an all-expenses-paid world tour! Woohoo! Watch out world, here we come! We're gonna see the sights in London and Paris and New York and Sydney and Rome, and laze around on beaches in Hawaii and Santorini and

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Current mood: Word-playful Current music: The music of poetry Guess what? On Monday I went to the kick-off for Hong Kong's International Literary Festival 2006 - a poetry reading by Seamus Heaney, the famous Irish poet who won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, and is hailed by some as the "world's greatest living poet". It was an excellent session, where Mr Heaney interspersed the reading of

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Current mood: Could be better (I have a cold - bleargh!)Current music: A musical cacophony of coughsAll right, all right, you've made your point. No-one likes me getting political. Hrmmph. Not one single comment from any of you folks, and I don't even know who Visitor No. 500 was. Pooh.So today I'll just let you have a look at some photos and artwork.First up is Olaf Mooij, a Dutch artist who has

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Current mood: Peace fighter (is that oxymoronic?)Current music: 'Hard to Make a Stand' by Sheryl CrowThose of you who regularly read this blog will have noticed that I generally tend to steer clear of anything on the news, since no news is good news, and you'll probably be fed up with hearing about it anyway. So, however angry I was about the London bombings, or whatever compassion I felt for

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Current mood: Linguist (It was a toss-up between 'linguist' and just plain 'wordy')Current music: Anggun - a talented and beautiful Indonesian-born singer, who carries out songs in English, French, and Indonesian to perfection but is STILL not a household nameAnyone who knows me (or, in fact, who reads this blog) will probably guess that I'm not overly keen on the increasing laziness in writing.

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Current mood: CelebratoryCurrent music: Well, it would have to be Mozart now, wouldn't it?Today is the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth! I hope he is having a good time in whichever ethereal plane he currently inhabits. He was born in Salzburg on 27 January, 1756. Hmm, he was a 'Tuesday's child' - which meant that he was full of grace, if you believe the rhyme. Although we usually refer to him

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Current mood: JabberishCurrent music: The Jabberwocks' performance of '7' is currently on loop in my headAll right, all right, it's yet another rave review from your friendly neighbourhood music critic. Except I'm never very critical because I only bother to talk about music I like... Anyway, my latest craze is a cappella music - music without instrumental accompaniment. 'A cappella' is Italian

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Current mood: Connecting with the world (except for that part of the world involving telemarketers)Current music: Peter Cincotti sings Kermit the Frog - 'The Rainbow Connection'Eureka! I have discovered the most effective way of making unwelcome telemarketing and survey phone calls as short as possible, whilst still maintaining the veneer of politeness. Well, at least the technique seems to work

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Current mood: PhilosophicalCurrent music: The chanting of monks on a mountainside. No, not reallyI just spotted the following statement on a form: "Any information below this line is invalid" This statement is then followed by a line. Having a somewhat antagonistic turn of mind, I felt compelled to mentally add to it: Any information below this line is invalid_____________________________________

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Current mood: MusicalCurrent music: Norwegian songs in English... No, hang on, I mean English songs by Norwegians... Oh, you figure it out."What is it the Norwegians have?" I hear you cry. "Fjords? Glaciers? Beautiful blond people? Rampant polar bears running wild on the streets? What?"Well, possibly all of the above. But what I'm referring to is: Good music videos.Lazy DaisyPhoto by Astralwerks

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Current mood: Christmas is over (all twelve days of it)... Awww. Current music: Cerebral radio - 'The Perfect Year', from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1993 musical, 'Sunset Boulevard' Happy New Year! How are you all? Did you celebrate the arrival of 2006? I spent the strike-of-midnight moment getting showered in confetti, which is very jolly. I was watching a little post-prandial circus show at the time

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Current mood: Just moochin' alongCurrent music: Robert Post! Let's have a whale of a timeIs your life droning pointlessly on like an automatic bread-slicing machine? Do you feel trapped in the cogwheels of the artificial society that is laughingly called the 'real world'? Are you fed up with hearing about super-efficient, highly effective people, who go around reading business-meets-self-help

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Current mood: Penguins! Penguins!Current music: As far as I'm aware, Lemon Jelly have not yet recorded a song called 'Nice Weather for Penguins', a phrase which should describe how cold it gets in the winter; otherwise, that's what I'd be playingLast Friday I went to Antarctica to see the penguins. As proof, I took a photo of them with my phone....Whaddaya mean, the penguins look a bit cardboardy

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Current mood: DuckyCurrent music: Lemon Jelly – Nice Weather for DucksHaving mentioned Ogden Nash in my last entry, I feel compelled to include a little example of his humorous poetry, if only for the benefit of those who haven't heard of him. The following verse is dedicated to our web-footed friend: The Duck by Ogden Nash Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks.It quacks.It is

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Current mood: Poetic(ish)Current music: Ooh, a mystery jazz band is playing outside... How exciting!I have decided that my special tribute for the winner of the 'Guess the Proverb!' quiz shall take the form of a limerick. I shall now present the prize in an appropriate manner....And the winner is... [Drum roll] ...Edsters! [Please applaud here]A brilliant young man called EdstersCould solve

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Current mood: Fashion-police mode, with a stingCurrent music: James BluntHalloween has come and gone, ghosts and ghouls have haunted the streets, and all manner of undead have walked the earth. But none were as scary as... The men in pink. [Cue bloodcurdling scream]Yes, today's rant is a rather shallow complaint about men in pink shirts. I'm not talking about those pale pink collar-and-buttons

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Current mood: Somewhat cynicalCurrent music: Robert Post's colourfully surreal music video, 'Got None'Halloween is coming, witches are abroad... Which I suppose is a good thing really, 'cause it means they aren't mucking around here. They're probably hanging around St Tropez on the French Riviera, or maybe Ibiza, or perhaps even Bondi Beach near Sydney. Well, if you were a Mistress of Darkness

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Current mood: Thinking Deep Thoughts (The meaning of life, the universe and everything = 42)Current music: Lemon Jelly - In the BathFrom my experience, the bath is a great place in which to have deep thoughts. Perhaps it's the relaxing and peaceful feeling of being surrounded by nice warm water. Or maybe there's just a time warp in my bathroom, whereby time stretches out in unexpected ways, and

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Current mood: ChilledCurrent music: Emilie SimonGather round, pull up a comfy chair, and bring the popcorn... You'll want to watch movies after this. I have been indulging of late in one of my favourite escapist activities (viz, going to the cinema) and am now going to rave about the films I've seen. First up is 'The Emperor's Journey', the French documentary about emperor penguins, who travel

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Current mood: BoggledCurrent music: Aaaagh! Guys with megaphones have invaded again!Howdy folks, how was your weekend? These days I spend my Saturdays learning how to dance the salsa, though it will be some time before I start to look real swish and flashy, as opposed to looking like a complete dolt which I (probably) currently do. My latest Thing To Do on a Sunday is sudoku, which is not the

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Current mood: Distinctly film-buffian, dah-lingCurrent music: What The Funk again (I have their new EP! Hurray!)I have been immersing my mind in books and movies of late, and have only just finished reading another brilliant Jeeves book by the inimitable P.G. Wodehouse. Having skimmed a couple of the Jeeves & Wooster stories whilst staying with my best-friend-for-yonks one Christmas, I decided to

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Current mood: NonplussedCurrent music: Coldplay are playing. Is it just my imagination or is the room getting colder? Life Explained Great picture, isn't it? It's one of those things you find floating about on the Internet that explain something fundamental. However, if you think women are complicated, try your luck with temperamental computers...Have you met Eliza? She is, I quote, "a friend

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Current mood: Conversational Current music: The orchestra of the mind has been playing Beethoven all day I heard that recently, there was a workplace 'Dress Causal Day'. This news left me slightly bemused as I would have thought they meant a 'Dress CaSUal Day', but as the aim was apparently to raise money for a cause (i.e. for charity), then it could in fact be argued that 'causal' is

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Current mood: Googly-eyed (must... stop... surfing... the... Net...)Current music: No music, but there's a couple of noisy folks with megaphones outside Recently I spotted a sign on the side of a truck, which said: "Education for International Mindedness". I suppose this is the exciting New School of thought, in contrast with the Old School, which preferred "Education for International

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Current mood: PedanticCurrent music: Coldplay - true Rainy Day MusicI've been listening to the Coldplay song, 'Speed of Sound', and being of a scientific turn of mind I have naturally started to ponder on the speed of sound and the speed of light (which is a phrase that also pops up in the song). I think Coldplay might have exaggerated slightly when they claim that "birds go flying at the speed

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Humeur courante: Néant Musique courante: Rien Je suis une fille invisible. Personne ne peut me voir; je suis transparent, comme le verre. Je n'ai aucune voix; je suis silencieux dans un monde sans air. Personne ne peut m'entendre dans ce vide. Je n'ai aucun lien, je n'ai aucun raccordement. Je flotte dans ce ciel sans étoiles. Je suis ignoré, je suis oublié, mais c'est normal, parce que je suis

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Current mood: In the mood for funCurrent music: Lemon Jelly - 'Ramblin' Man' (oh, the joys of travelling!)*POP*During a lull this afternoon at work, there was a delivery of some equipment that was packed in bubble-wrap. Not being particularly busy at that point, a couple of us started popping the bubbles, which were probably Super-Duper Sized because each bubble was nearly 3 cm in diameter, which

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Current mood: FruityCurrent music: Peter Cincotti (jazz singer-songwriter-pianist) - 'On the Moon'My friend sent me a couple of pictures after reading my earlier blog entry with the 'How to Prepare Kiwi' cartoon (see 'Darwin and the brown fluffy things', 9 September 2005). I thought it only fair that her contribution should be included! (Merci beaucoup, "Alice"!) I particularly liked this one:If

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Current mood: DriftingCurrent music: There ain't no music on the _ _ _ _ (Guess the word)Have you guessed today's topic from the title? Yep, it's the 'Moon', though I'm darned if I know why one would call a particular full moon a 'Strawberry Moon'. Apparently it's a Native American term for a full moon in June... Maybe that's when you get strawberries?Sunday was the Mid-Autumn Festival - the

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Current mood: BreadedCurrent music: The Beatles - All You Need Is Love Ahahahaha! Success! I haf discoverrred zat by konnecting ze lightning generrrator to a coil wrrrapped arrround ze dough, I kann use ze elektrik kurrrrrrent to invigorrrate ze brrread und make it rrrise up out of its metal cell... Riiight, that's enough Dr Frankenstein and fake European accent for today. But the latest

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Current mood: TelephonicCurrent music: Ringin' Let us take a moment to mentally salute Alexander Graham Bell. While he wasn't the actual 'first inventor' of the telephone - so many people had a hand in developing this miraculous invention, that it's hard to say who should really get the credit - he certainly made quite a large contribution in creating the telephone system. If you want to know

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Current mood: GarrulousCurrent music: Sondre Lerche (Norwegian retro-pop-rocker)Howdy folks!I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. I spent part of mine trying out the new bread machine with my mother. We were expecting a complete disaster ("Oh no, there's not enough water!" "Aaaagh! It's not going to have enough time to rise!") but the final result was miraculously edible, though admittedly

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Current mood: Friday-night-happy (whole weekend stretching out ahead... aah!)Current music: What The Funk, aka 'WTF' - the best jazz/funk band in the worldI'm currently listening to some fantabulously cool jazz/funk by my friend's band, WTF. They're a bunch of 6 incredibly talented guys who are, to my mind, the Next Big Thing in the jazz genre. If you're in London you should go to their gigs,

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Current mood: AnticipatoryCurrent music: The song being broadcast from the little radio station inside my headHello everyone!This is my wonderful new blog, isn't this just lovely? It's a place where I can write down all my utterly random thoughts and opinions and observations, for the amusement and learning of my readers. How fantastic!I sound like a complete newbie. Which wouldn't be quite

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