Echoes of Flavio's Ghost Dreaming

At peace with the world, like this boy.
As always when I see one strange or disturbing side of human nature, immediately I feel kind of guilty and think 'gosh, I'm a tiny little bit impatient like that'. But, hey,...

Not sure why this made me think of mark13... :D



nicked from cartayota and a few others

A short while ago there came this email:

( lessons of (GUITAL) )

I've been getting quite a few of these, with slight variations on the same theme (sori...) recently. I wonder what the point is. Some kind of scam or deception involved, for sure...

iPhone Karaoke? Ear plugs to go on buses, then!

This has to be the most cringe-worthy feature of the current Christmas holiday season.... and how about the cameo appearance by Blair.... eek.

.... possibly containing some sort of database... .. [ edit ] ebay page has now been pulled. ( This was the text of the auction. )

first found in gaius_octavian's livejournal (the reference, not the discs:P). Also see this in emmie's LJ for more, er, information:P.

See also in kitch_kash's LJ this entry on protecting yourself from identity fraud ...

A few people here in LJ land have been charting the bizarre names that some parents inflict on their children. This is particularly bad, it would seem, in my part of the world, Venezuela, particularly in Maracaibo -perhaps as a result of the historic trauma of having been raided regularly by the real pirates of the Caribbean for a very long time in its early history. When I was studying music one of my fellow students was a girl called kennedy Jackeline Contini (well, another common Italian surname, changed to protect the innocent). There is some unfortunate soul there going through life with no less a name than Apollo 11th Montiel. When I was teaching music in a primary school in a barrio, so many years ago, I had amongst my pupils one Indira Gandhi, one Richard Nixon (Perez, I think the surname was).. apart from the excruciating made-up names constituted by half the father's, half the mother's name or a misheard version of a TV soap star's name -or even the TV soap's name itself.

The National Electoral Council in my beloved country,, Venezuela, seems to have decided to do something about it, as can be seen in The Register, here -nanny state gone mad, or is somebody finally doing something to prevent idiotic parents from inflicting on their children lifetimes of misery and hundreds of fights on the way out of school..?:P

A Near Miss? Miss Megane Renault? All those fights after school....

found in The Register...

"Then, though, there are the BB’s in the universe: Boltzmann Brains. Random fluctuations of the fabric of spacetime itself which, most of the time, are rather insignificant puffs which evaporate immediately. But sometimes they stick around. More rarely, they are complex. Sometimes (very very rarely) they are really quite as complex as us human types. (Actually, “very very rarely” does not quite convey just how rare we are talking now.) And sometimes these vacuum quantum fluctuations attain the status of actual observers in the world. But, the rarest of them all, the BB’s, are able to (however briefly) make actual observations in the universe which are, in fact, “not erroneous” as Don Page put it."

I need coffee in the mornings and a pint in the evenings. But I'm only a guitarist and a music teacher. What, exactly, do theoretical physicists take, in order to help themselves along? I think I may need some....

Sorry if I have missed your important posting/event/birthday, I'm mostly away in the daytime doing Jury Service, without that much net access...

It's not quite as bad as I had feared, but much, much more boring. And to have the compensation paid I need a letter from my accountant, who I cannot get hold of -I even turned up at his office in Watford yesterday, as we had been let off early, without success... so that's looking murky and bleak and I already was rather skint... anyway, not as harrowing as I thought it might be. And probably no longer than two weeks or so. All that's a bonus...

Snowing in London on the 26th of July...

.. at least according to mr_targ.....

..Whatever next?
(maybe I shouldn't ask!)

-Not snowing here in Camden -not just yet..