Category Archives: miscellany

blog-o-matic

26 Monday Feb 2007

Posted by in humour, miscellany

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Can’t think of what to post on your blog today?

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On the World Wide Web Thingie

Sometimes I wonder we cannot continue to participate in acts of aggression. How is this related to the World Wide Web Thingie, you may ask? OK, I will tell you something here now… About the time I broke up with my ex my hair was silly. Well well, you may say. OK, but back to the story. But it was different that time. I collided with the powers of a truth and stuff. But wait until you hear how…

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in the year …?

25 Sunday Feb 2007

Posted by in miscellany, music, video

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Today I heard an American television presenter say the year 2005 as “twenty-oh-five” and I totally cringed. But this reminded me of a question that, to date, no one has been able to answer for me. Which is – when do we stop saying “two thousand and something” and start saying “twenty something”?

Clearly once we get to the year 2525 it will have to be pronounced the way Zager & Evans did back in 1969. But until then . . .?

my tag cloud

22 Thursday Feb 2007

Posted by in media, miscellany

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Created by WordPress.com Tag Cloud Generator by //engtech

Isn’t this coolisimo? I’m going to use mine instead of having a longish Category list on my sidebar (though there is a link to the page there). Otherwise the cloud tag/category page can be found with my other pages, just above the header. The present version looks nicer on the page I think; it’s more spread out here.

If you want to make your own tag cloud you can find easy-to-follow instructions over at //engtech’s blog.

auction frenzy

20 Tuesday Feb 2007

Posted by in clothing, media, miscellany

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I think Audrey would have liked this.

The sale of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress from classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s is to fund 15 new educational centres in India.

Yeah I know, it seems rather obscene to value a dress this much, but the end result achieved something very important and special. A nice news story, for a change.

superstitions

13 Tuesday Feb 2007

Posted by in culture, life stuff, miscellany

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Are you superstitious?

Today is martes trece or Tuesday the 13th … the Spanish equivalent of Friday the 13th (though I’ve never been able to find out why). I always joke that it doesn’t affect me because I’m not Spanish, and Friday the 13th doesn’t either because I live in Spain. But deep inside something niggles, like a wee part of me maybe isn’t joking, you know?

So while I don’t think I’m particularly superstitious I do think twice before walking under ladders – though of course I don’t think black cats are unlucky in the slightest. Quite the opposite, but then isn’t that also being somewhat superstitious?

And so, just curious as to how many of you out there are superstitious, and also if you know of any cool and unusual superstitions other than the typical ones: broken mirrors, the number 13, black cats, etc. f_blackcat.gif