and so on

I am infinity You may worship me, but from afar _

what number are you?

this quiz by orsa

 

But where am I, I wonder?

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Curious - I am not certain if this tells you what you are or what you want to be. When I tried to be nice, I got a nice answer. When I tried to be weird I got... well, you know. As for where - we have Melways for that.
Posted by phlip at April 1, 2004 11:22 AM

actually I thought it was a pretty good quiz in terms of questions. (I would have loved to have been 'imaginary' but didn't try to skew it that way.)
And I just consulted the Book. Alas, there is no "Infinity" rd, avenue, circuit or close in Greater Melbourne. Nor "Eternal St" - though Springvale Road must seem like it sometimes.
Closest I could get to it is the old "Eden" again, Philip.
And while Eden Court at Cape Woollamai (634 D 8) sounds good, maybe I am more situated at Edenhope in Kilsyth?
Posted by boynton at April 1, 2004 11:41 AM

I am the Natural Number e
I go with the flow
Posted by Nora at April 1, 2004 04:16 PM

I go with the Flo

I have the scars to prove it.
Posted by boynton at April 1, 2004 04:36 PM


Yes - 51 K6 is a possibility. Other than that we are hard up. Perhaps someone could knock over (literally) an Eighth Street for you.
Posted by phlip at April 1, 2004 05:06 PM

I could always oblige - as I recall, that is the way I drive.
Yes I could souvenir a sign from 245 D9,E5, once I had driven through and knocked it sideways.

(for those of you without a Melways handy this is
a reference to "Eighth Avenue" in a place called Eden Park - which I confess I hadn't heard of.
On the Northern Fringe. Looking at the map, it looks quite the place for such an enterprise with a series of long straight roads stretching into sprawling melways infinity.
Posted by boynton at April 1, 2004 05:20 PM


That is a handy coincidence.

Someone with a lot of imagination got involved in the town planning in that place. I wonder what happened that in the midst of the numeric nomenclature a "Murray Road" appeared? There is a really good toboggan park just a handful of blue squares away, that's a positive. Many a happy day has been spent there risking life and limb.
Posted by phlip at April 2, 2004 08:22 AM



via okir - (who is Imaginary which is infinitely better)

musiciennes

In the mood for the Organ

Les Femmes Musiciennes A collection of 10 prints from the 16th century by Tobias Stimmer illustrating female musicians

meanwhile Percussion is challenging

(another of the wonderful links on the Elizabethan Costuming page)

lifter

dog lifter

(via the Presurfer)

e collar

The vet draws a diagram that looks like an eye. I watch it and nod as she runs through all the contingencies starting with c and ending with pathology.

And we wouldn't like to see him become fecally incontinent. We agree.
It would be a profound irony, given that he has always been fecally gifted.

He's just been described as a dream patient as he wakes up from another general and a week of the indignity of an E collar ahead.

(this was his condition)

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am glad for you that he is helped now and will get better (I assume?). I don't even want to imagine how it must be if my dog would get ill and need surgery. Anyway, good luck, I'm sure you'll be extra nice to him this upcoming week with the collar.
Posted by Anne at March 30, 2004 10:57 PM

Thanks.
He's 15 in June, so he's at the age where I would celeberate his longevity and ignore any lumps if I could. Unfortunately, this one would cause complications if left alone.
The whole pack is adjusting to the oddness of collar and the disruption of routine. We all blame the collar. It obviously has mysterious powers.
Posted by boynton at March 31, 2004 09:56 AM

ruff

constructing an Elizabethan Ruff

from the vast Elizabethan Costuming Page

Lucky Doug won't be needing me to construct any post-operative elizabethan corsetry

ustinov

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world." Sir Peter Ustinov
BBC News. A life in Quotes


He was inexhaustible. It was like talking to Europe, talking to history.
- Clive James

I tried to find some online audio. Peter Ustinov reading The fables of James Thurber

adam west

It was all very exciting to hear the theme song over the cartoon skyline at Adam West.com ( even if the song stopped just short of the batman!) - the Pow! of nostalgia.

via a vast collection of things to see at Exclamation Mark

dahlia time

I happened to hear the phantom extra hour announced on radio in the early hours of the morning (as we adjust our clocks around about the equinox)
Six hours later I heard kids skateboarding down the empty street on a sunday morning with its sundry hour somewhere up its sleeve
So suddenly we can't leave our evening stroll much later than six and the park is already getting dark around seven.

It's dahlia time, a lovely time of the year according to the gardening pages of the Age.

Nora Heysen Still Life of Dahlias in a Jug

dahlias

(and the time of the date stamp also needs adjusting)

ping pong3

Badda-Ping! The Whacky World of Olympic Table Tennis
You may think of Ping-Pong as a goofy game that bored adolescents play in suburban basements until they lose the ball under the radiator. But talk to Reed and her teammates and you learn that table tennis is an intense sport with all the earmarks of big-time athletics -- steroid scandals, colorful characters, Byzantine romances and groupies. Also, there's a lot of glue sniffing.
(via Arts and Letters daily)

I keep running into ping-pong, arts and whiff-whaff daily. Almost inspires a quest for a second- hand table through the Trading Post to set up in this generous suburban carport.

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I always thought ping-pong was the version where you had to bounce the ball on your own side rather than hitting it over the net?
Posted by dj at April 1, 2004 10:48 AM

Really?
According to dictionary.com Ping-Pong was
"A trademark used for table tennis and associated equipment.", in a 'sailboard' sort of way?
I don't know if it's taken on this sort of definition from the recreational player's point of view.

btw According to dictionary.com Ping-pong also means:
"A phenomenon which can occur in a
multi-processor system with private caches where two processors are alternately caching a shared location. Each time one writes to it, it invalidates the other's copy."

that's got something to do with bouncing twice over the Net, hasn't it? ;)
Posted by boynton at April 1, 2004 12:43 PM

heartmap

Heartmap

Watermark translates the complexities of medical and technical subjects into persuasive, aesthetic, and easy to understand visuals

(via Quiddity)

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So it's left at the Overpass and then go past the toll booth and turn right?
Posted by Scott Wickstein at March 27, 2004 04:05 AM

or left, as the persuasion takes you ;)

And maybe that would be the third (over)pass -

for whom the triple bypass tolls?
Posted by boynton at March 27, 2004 06:53 PM

A gallery of old Board Games (via Life in the present)


I like this one.
My copy of the game is overall in excellent condition but missing both the false teeth and the monkey

Something to play at a retro fondue party maybe?

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It might be just me, but judging by the girly's reaction (frog aside) it appears the blonde fellow's hand might be a bit more peregrinatory than permitted under the rules.

Yes, it might just be me. (The student formerly known as the undefeated Ararat High School Form Party Spin the Bottle Osculatory Champion. 1958 -64.)

Ps. the 'ch-a-ppy (later replaced by 'fellow' appears to be questionable content. My point entirely.
Posted by Sedgwick at March 25, 2005 05:06 PM

She looks pretty content too.

Yes it seemes like spin the bottle writ large.

"Do you want to play Feeley-meeley?" would certainly sound bolder in a social situation I imagine. Tho' perhaps some mystery would be lost in its bored directeness...
Posted by boynton at March 25, 2005 05:38 PM

Bawd games ... just the ticket.

And let it be placed on the record that in all my years of playing Spin the Bottle, never once did I receive a writ, large or otherwise.
Posted by Sedgwick at March 25, 2005 05:49 PM

I liked this game growing up and am looking to buy for my grandchildren. anyone know where? have been looking for years.
Posted by at September 15, 2005 01:59 AM

sheep pool

Sheep pool is kind of combo of the dreaded demon balls and the more orthodox sheep dog trials of Mouton's park.

(via diversionz)

p&p

I believe you belong in Pride and Prejudice; a
world of satire and true love. A world where
everything is crystal clear to the reader, and
yet where new things seem to be happening all
the time. You belong in a world where your
free-thought puts you above the silly masses,
and where bright eyes and intelligence are
enough to attract the arrogant
millionaire/prejudiced young woman of your
choice.


Which Classic Novel do You Belong In?
brought to you by Quizilla

I know this has been around but any excuse for a remotely hosted picture and the result surprised me. I thought I had blown my chances at belonging in P&P by several un-austen-like answers.
(via cup of chicha)

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I got this response:"In my not so humble opinion, you, of course, belong in the Picture of Dorian Gray, and do not try to deny it. You belong in the fashionable circles of Victorian London where exotic tastes, a double life, decadence, wit and a hypocritical belief in moral betterment make you a home. You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world."
Posted by Nora at March 25, 2004 04:30 PM

better take your smelling salts with you when check in to see how your portrait's doing, Nora.
Posted by boynton at March 26, 2004 11:43 AM

dorian gray. such an opposite to my scruffy, genial, penny challenged life..
Posted by David Tiley at March 26, 2004 11:30 PM

the portrait must be living the high life behind your back, David ;)


Posted by boynton at March 27, 2004 06:48 PM

interrobang

Yes, I'm with Sarcasmo in endorsing the interrobang - the question/exclamation mark combo as a punctuation mark of our times. (Although the page in question does describe it as A twentieth century punctuation mark. Passé already? Perhaps the levels of curiosity have dipped since 1962, a bit like OMG gradually leaving WTF to it.

Alas there is no html code to render the sign. One promised a bang but delivered a whimper:

¿

although maybe the inverted question mark is more 21st century. Less excitement, more of the shrug.

I hope the code is created soon, along with a whoosh

(more at wikpedia)

brazilian music

Joe Sixpack's Guide To Brazilian Music
By popular demand, I've finally created a list of Brazilian records that I would recommend above all others. It's a difficult, reductionist task, and one that I've resisted for years, since I feel that Brazilian music has such beautiful variety that it demands a more extensive consideration.

reaffirms my old vow to buy some Joao

via a cool collection of links at Quiddity

aibo

After another bad incident in the park, I'm half thinking of swapping the evilFlo ® for an Aibo

AIBO® is Sony's Entertainment Robot. The name AIBO® is derived form the words "A.I." (Artificial Intelligence), and roBOt. Also, in Japanese, "aibo" means "companion" or "pal" (via fishbucket)

The LED's in the Illume-Face may be more entertaining in a christmas-tree-light sort of way, if pets are to be clowns, although I doubt that the organic interaction of the tactile touch sensors on the back, head, and chin is as pleasing as the old analog way of patting an animal. Anatomically the rear view suggests that a fundamental problem of urban dog ownership has been eliminated.
And judging by evilFlo's record of anarchy, I don't like the sound of Various autonomous behaviors based on recognition of owner’s face and voice
A little autonomy can be a dangerous thing - and send owner's face into an Illume spin.

Maybe K9 might have an idea.

rap rat

There was a sign on the bridge at the Park yesterday with gaps in the letters from weathering or tampering. This is what was left:

heir natur

raps encourage the rat

passion players

I was offered a piece of cake by Pilate yesterday. Or maybe it wasn't Pilate but one of the High Priests. They were taking tea casually after rehearsing the annual Passion Play in the park. Earlier I had jumped as I rounded a corner and heard men shouting passionately in a quarry. I don't think it was in Aramaic. I wonder though if the passion will be jacked up a notch this year under the influence of Mel.

Some churches putting more 'Passion' in Easter plays
To become a more "physical" Jesus, Campbell hit the gym with a personal trainer. "I don't think Jesus was buff but he was certainly fit, like in the movie."

cyber shopper

Online shopping has buyers entranced
but who is regulating quality

Cyber shopper at Jeff Bohlander Illustration (via life in the present)

desert discs

After-show googling State of Play took me to the BBC Desert Island Discs program and Bill Nighy's choice, with a sprinkling of Stones. Past guests include Margaret Attwood, P.D.James, Billy Connolly and Henry Blofield.