Meanwhile I've been watching the distant Cricket which forms a steady wallpaper amid the sky falling in news of the world...
I think I may be alone in this, but my appreciation of the cricket has been severely tested by the sponsor's logo on the playing area.
The green and white cricket aesthetic is blighted by the large red rectangle always on behind the stumps saying everything's for sale and impeding the view.
Alas, soon not even Lawn Bowls will provide nostalgic tonal sanctuary. The strict dress code of that ancient order is increasingly relaxed.
Comments: ashes
nb. Recycled content. I used the same cricket pic and reference to Bowls when I last posted on this vexing topic 2 and a half years ago. But then it was green and Orange - at least the colours were complementary, and the logo was not so close-in to camera. Luxury.
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 03:30 PM
Lawn bowls! Is nothing sacred anymore. Surely, this means we're now very deep into ripping up the fabric of society.
Posted by cs at July 25, 2005 03:34 PM
Quite literally.
Must say though I might be tempted to give Barefoot Bowling a go.
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 03:37 PM
Yep, that sounds like fun, 'neath the toes and all.
Posted by cs at July 25, 2005 04:37 PM
The link is a South Australain thing...No Vic clubs?
Have a feeling I might have to live in a more "Rock'n'Bowl" suburb to join that Secret Life of Us /Crackerjack trend of 4 years ago already.
Still there's a croquet club down the road...
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 07:23 PM
They had the same thing at the rugby union at the weekend. When the camera was close in on the play the grass was black and even though they were supposed to be on the halfway line there was no line drawn.
At least you don't get this rubbish in the gentlemen's game (gentlemen who fight and drink beer) football (meaning soccer).
Posted by Russell Allen at July 25, 2005 09:50 PM
Or Wimbledon?
I did a quick google search on this topic hoping to find Guardian essays on the steady loss of cricketing beauty etc, but oddly not much turned up. Except something about Wimbledon's marketing power (tradition?), the lack of regulations about playing area advertsing and the line b/w sponsor support and intrusion. This latest look is definitely intrusive - breaks up the frame of the game, just as the ads break up the flow of Test cricket.
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 10:14 PM
Still there's a croquet club down the road...
Ah, my big-hat-wearing days, filled with women in fine frocks and glorious memories. Nice to begin about 2pm, after a nice lunch, champers still flowing, the Stones blaring across the backyard, and whatever else you may happen to enjoy going down ... my only problem was to confine my temptation to hit another's ball flying over the fence. A good time was invariably had by all, as I only (alas) vaguely recall.
Posted by cs at July 25, 2005 11:13 PM
Champers and croquet would certainly be a nice combo.
It was only ever cordial when we played at home.
Wonder if the younger demographic have moved into the ranks (rinks) of croquet as well as Lawn Bowls on certain free-form barefoot evenings.
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 12:32 AM
Now you're talkin' Miss B.
Don't forget choice of enveloping music, as you slip the hoops.
Posted by cs at July 26, 2005 12:48 AM
Hmm... might have to consider a "Top 10 enveloping songs for playing Croquet" post.
(& is there a meme in that?)
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 09:55 AM
Possibly though am restricted mainly to stuff by Noel Coward or Handel.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 26, 2005 02:54 PM
Hmmm I was thinking something in the Lounge genre...
But maybe a Handel Coward mashup might work?
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 06:45 PM
well when I say Lounge...?
http://members.lycos.co.uk/spaceagepopagogo/sld022.htm
(I used to blog about croquet quite a bit y'know...
http://boynton.blogspot.com/2003_05_11_boynton_archive.html#94248591)
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 08:49 PM
a sample here. Does sound like music for croquet actually...
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/gallery_e/BreuerHoraStaccato.mp3
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 11:17 PM
Monday, July 25, 2005
Saturday, July 23, 2005
glass stairway
Stairway to Heaven on wine glasses
(via bifurcated rivets and music thing)
Woman Playing the Glass Harmonica
Comments: glass stairway
A wonderful poem on the least likely of themes. Thanks for that, B.
Posted by Dick at July 25, 2005 08:44 AM
Yes, a lovely poem - but may I confess that I just can't bear "Stairway to Heaven".
Posted by cs at July 25, 2005 01:07 PM
Yes - I like those themes least likely poems, Dick.
Do you mean the Glass version, CS? I'm not fond of the song either (despite Rolf Harris) but I actually really liked this sound - sans lyrics. Haunting.
Waiting for someone to perform it - or some part of it - at the next rantwittering.
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 01:26 PM
"Balls!"
-- Withnail.
Posted by Tony.T at July 26, 2005 02:41 PM
"in form and moving, how express and admirable"
-- Hair.
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 06:38 PM
(via bifurcated rivets and music thing)
Woman Playing the Glass Harmonica
Comments: glass stairway
A wonderful poem on the least likely of themes. Thanks for that, B.
Posted by Dick at July 25, 2005 08:44 AM
Yes, a lovely poem - but may I confess that I just can't bear "Stairway to Heaven".
Posted by cs at July 25, 2005 01:07 PM
Yes - I like those themes least likely poems, Dick.
Do you mean the Glass version, CS? I'm not fond of the song either (despite Rolf Harris) but I actually really liked this sound - sans lyrics. Haunting.
Waiting for someone to perform it - or some part of it - at the next rantwittering.
Posted by boynton at July 25, 2005 01:26 PM
"Balls!"
-- Withnail.
Posted by Tony.T at July 26, 2005 02:41 PM
"in form and moving, how express and admirable"
-- Hair.
Posted by boynton at July 26, 2005 06:38 PM
Friday, July 22, 2005
balloon tune
When I'm floating up in the blue there is nothing I can do
I'm taller than an elephant and twice as powerful too...
Five weeks in a balloon
Comments: balloon tune
"If you are hanging onto a rising balloon you are presented with a difficult decision. Let go before it's too late? Or hang on and keep getting higher? Posing the question, how long can you keep a grip on the rope."
-- Danny, Withnail & I
Posted by Tony.T at July 24, 2005 04:01 PM
"I've been holding on for this long, to let go now would be a waste"
-- Peter Costello, every moment of his waking life
Posted by Russell Allen at July 24, 2005 04:12 PM
Ascension or assumption?
Posted by boynton at July 24, 2005 04:19 PM
Coin toss on that one I reckon.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 24, 2005 06:25 PM
- it was actually a pub Trivia question we had the other night, I hit "Publish" before I read yours Russell - but it works quite well, don't it. Like a game of consequences.
(Could have said Abbott or Costello.)
Meanwhile I'm waiting for Tony to attach a Whitnail quote to Stairway to Heaven and/or Wine Glasses.
Posted by boynton at July 24, 2005 07:17 PM
I'm taller than an elephant and twice as powerful too...
Five weeks in a balloon
Comments: balloon tune
"If you are hanging onto a rising balloon you are presented with a difficult decision. Let go before it's too late? Or hang on and keep getting higher? Posing the question, how long can you keep a grip on the rope."
-- Danny, Withnail & I
Posted by Tony.T at July 24, 2005 04:01 PM
"I've been holding on for this long, to let go now would be a waste"
-- Peter Costello, every moment of his waking life
Posted by Russell Allen at July 24, 2005 04:12 PM
Ascension or assumption?
Posted by boynton at July 24, 2005 04:19 PM
Coin toss on that one I reckon.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 24, 2005 06:25 PM
- it was actually a pub Trivia question we had the other night, I hit "Publish" before I read yours Russell - but it works quite well, don't it. Like a game of consequences.
(Could have said Abbott or Costello.)
Meanwhile I'm waiting for Tony to attach a Whitnail quote to Stairway to Heaven and/or Wine Glasses.
Posted by boynton at July 24, 2005 07:17 PM
headlines
Gerry Thomas, inventor of TV dinners, dies - Woman gives birth on flight to New
York - Retired grocery clerk could become earl. *Jump to more headlines ...
seattlepi.nwsource.com/ - 61k - 20 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
I was googling TV dinners and this collection of headlines leapt out.
Comments: headlines
Retired Grocery Dinner Gives Birth To Earl of New York on TV!
Posted by supermaxwell at July 22, 2005 02:18 PM
Flying TV Dinners could jump...
(Actually - this reminds me, see Leevi)
http://www.leevilehto.net/default.asp?a=8&b=6&c=0&d=0&e=0&id=120&kun=kommentti
Posted by boynton at July 22, 2005 02:30 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2005
couch potato
And to return to the television theme of Monday, this week it's tele-centric at Scrapiteria
grog flog
He drives a succession of classic 50s roadsters even shapelier than his women and his "What kind of man reads Playboy?" pad has one of the first answering machines ever seen on screen – all bakelite console and big tape spools.
Nabakov has posted on Kiss Me Deadly at After Grog
(Wonder if the answer machine was a Peatrophone? Or a later model - there are a couple of pics here if you scroll midway down to Touch Tone Phones and Adapters )
Comments: grog flog
Where are they now? You know. The people who said the AGB couldn't get any better!
Posted by Tony.T at July 21, 2005 02:04 PM
out getting hammered?
(on DVD I mean)
Please leave a message after the Tone...
Posted by boynton at July 21, 2005 02:45 PM
*Beep* Tony T. has left the keys is the trusty yet unhinged hands of Nabokov. Please leave a message and we'll use it as a confession for an unsolved double murder in St Kilda.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 21, 2005 07:26 PM
Or (as found by DB) send a message by Sea:
http://dirtybeloved.blogspot.com/2004/06/twophoto-sam-maynard-art-statement.html
Posted by boynton at July 21, 2005 10:16 PM
"unsolved double murder in St Kilda."
Bandali "Legs" Nabakov strikes de nouveau! His claim that he was cutting room flooring the latest Yahoo Serious fillum with "Baby Face" Barista well into the night has a thousand Cab Savs just doesn't cut the alibi dijon!
"Where are they now? You know. The people who said the AGB couldn't get any better!"
He was taken in the middle of the night to a soccer field in Chile (the application to have this doubting Thomas extradited to the Independent Principality of MCG Fields Forever fell at the first hurdle and had to be inhumanely put down) and was never heard of again (he was indeed refused the time-honoured privilege and cliche of languishing in a jail for years) ... other than as a dissenting, disembodied voice on General Augusto Taylochet's "If you wish to download this Tone, press 3" answering machine.
Ah goody, the semi-trailer has just pulled up ... it's tablet time again! Excellent, there'll be Bellbirds over the White Cliffs of Dover just you wait and see. (I believe they're the cliffs Charlie Cousins fell off.)
Posted by Sedgwick at July 22, 2005 09:53 AM
Excellent work, Gov.
or *10#
last seen taking a cab sav to the G with a Hammer...
Posted by boynton at July 22, 2005 12:27 PM
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
onlookers anon
I found this when searching along the bands theme ...
Onlookers on right ("not guests").
The old Am I an onlooker or a guest? question can get quite existentialist.
Comments: onlookers anon
Existentialistical? Ponder that.
Posted by Tony.T at July 20, 2005 03:09 PM
Indeed I would ponder so if it rhymed.
I would even use it if rhythmical.
As it is I thought the "-ist" was wrong
But it went so nicely with guest and question, (not to mention hidden "list") who cares.
Posted by boynton at July 20, 2005 03:20 PM
Bands theme????????
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right......
groupies in the middle?
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at July 20, 2005 08:21 PM
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place??????
Posted by boynton at July 20, 2005 11:51 PM
Onlookers on right ("not guests").
The old Am I an onlooker or a guest? question can get quite existentialist.
Comments: onlookers anon
Existentialistical? Ponder that.
Posted by Tony.T at July 20, 2005 03:09 PM
Indeed I would ponder so if it rhymed.
I would even use it if rhythmical.
As it is I thought the "-ist" was wrong
But it went so nicely with guest and question, (not to mention hidden "list") who cares.
Posted by boynton at July 20, 2005 03:20 PM
Bands theme????????
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right......
groupies in the middle?
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at July 20, 2005 08:21 PM
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place??????
Posted by boynton at July 20, 2005 11:51 PM
brit lit
BritLitBlogs
via wood s lot
BritLitBlogs is the brainchild of six British literary bloggers. Each working hard at bringing readers to forgotten or overlooked books, our BritLitBloggers decided that combining their latest blog entries together in one place would highlight the breadth and depth of British literary blogging
via wood s lot
read message
A gmail widget in the form of a postage stamp - via antiquated (back from hiatus)
The stamp will turn red when you have gmail waiting (A blush - a rush of anger?)
A similar widget for comments would be nice with appropriate reactive colours.
The stamp will turn red when you have gmail waiting (A blush - a rush of anger?)
A similar widget for comments would be nice with appropriate reactive colours.
Monday, July 18, 2005
paint dry
It's strange but these days I'm finding I would generally prefer to watch Paint Dry than watch the television. (via bifurcated rivets)
My current favourite TV series is The Collectors, but even then I'd prefer to be out in the op-shops or watching the nature strips for a vintage television thrown out in the hard rubbish. I did see one round here a few years ago. This year we only exchanged ricketty furniture by stealth.
Of course if the paint story had a good narrative and interesting characters, I might watch it on television
Comments: paint dry
That was an informative page, but I kind of wish I hadn't seen it. Somehow, it's taken away all the romance and I'll never look at Dulux Wash and Wear the same way again.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 18, 2005 06:30 PM
Let alone the romance and suspense of "Kelvin Solid"...
Must go - watching Bud on Talking heads...
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 06:51 PM
In fact my timing was quite bad. A square eyes evening ahead.
(It's full on Animal Rights viewing on ABC tonight.)
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 08:27 PM
"The Polymer Centre banner, consisting of our logo on a blue ground, has not being displayed by your browser."
Written by boffins, no doubt.
Posted by Tony.T at July 18, 2005 09:51 PM
Luxury!
It's full on "I want to go into some rickety cabin in remote Alaska, save Hilary Swank from Robin Williams, get in a gunfight and die" over here.
I'd say "enjoy the ABC" if it weren't for the subject matter. "Hope you learn something from it" sounds snippily pedagogical. Time to shut up.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 18, 2005 09:55 PM
Yes, T, that's a Firefox thing (or config. or whatever) It works in IE.
I hope you watch it.
I think I set myself up for such pedagogical retorts, Gummo.
(Forgot to watch WWTBAM - for research purposes of course)
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 10:16 PM
I'd prefer paint too, followed by a TV that sat there doing nothing, followed by a TV with only Oz, Desperate Housewives and SBS world news...
Posted by groomzilla at July 19, 2005 02:06 PM
Or Oz, SBS world news, Collectors
and Desperate Houseflies?
http://www.desperatehouseflies.com/
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 02:11 PM
Am I the only one in viewer land that gets a kick out of Boston Legal?
Posted by cs at July 19, 2005 05:39 PM
I get a kick out of William Shatner.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 11:19 PM
Yes, Shatner's timing is a perennial wonder. James Spader's also killing me, but even with all this the show would still be nothing without the brilliant dialogue. A gem.
Posted by cs at July 20, 2005 08:49 AM
My current favourite TV series is The Collectors, but even then I'd prefer to be out in the op-shops or watching the nature strips for a vintage television thrown out in the hard rubbish. I did see one round here a few years ago. This year we only exchanged ricketty furniture by stealth.
Of course if the paint story had a good narrative and interesting characters, I might watch it on television
Comments: paint dry
That was an informative page, but I kind of wish I hadn't seen it. Somehow, it's taken away all the romance and I'll never look at Dulux Wash and Wear the same way again.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 18, 2005 06:30 PM
Let alone the romance and suspense of "Kelvin Solid"...
Must go - watching Bud on Talking heads...
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 06:51 PM
In fact my timing was quite bad. A square eyes evening ahead.
(It's full on Animal Rights viewing on ABC tonight.)
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 08:27 PM
"The Polymer Centre banner, consisting of our logo on a blue ground, has not being displayed by your browser."
Written by boffins, no doubt.
Posted by Tony.T at July 18, 2005 09:51 PM
Luxury!
It's full on "I want to go into some rickety cabin in remote Alaska, save Hilary Swank from Robin Williams, get in a gunfight and die" over here.
I'd say "enjoy the ABC" if it weren't for the subject matter. "Hope you learn something from it" sounds snippily pedagogical. Time to shut up.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 18, 2005 09:55 PM
Yes, T, that's a Firefox thing (or config. or whatever) It works in IE.
I hope you watch it.
I think I set myself up for such pedagogical retorts, Gummo.
(Forgot to watch WWTBAM - for research purposes of course)
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 10:16 PM
I'd prefer paint too, followed by a TV that sat there doing nothing, followed by a TV with only Oz, Desperate Housewives and SBS world news...
Posted by groomzilla at July 19, 2005 02:06 PM
Or Oz, SBS world news, Collectors
and Desperate Houseflies?
http://www.desperatehouseflies.com/
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 02:11 PM
Am I the only one in viewer land that gets a kick out of Boston Legal?
Posted by cs at July 19, 2005 05:39 PM
I get a kick out of William Shatner.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 11:19 PM
Yes, Shatner's timing is a perennial wonder. James Spader's also killing me, but even with all this the show would still be nothing without the brilliant dialogue. A gem.
Posted by cs at July 20, 2005 08:49 AM
bands
Strange piece of spam just in and deleted:
Is this the Band? Or this?
If you’ve ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right. We call it wedding bands...
If we don’t like wedding bands we should examine what we are putting out. Don’t live with insecurity, negative thoughts and irrational behavior. Use wedding bands and get rid of your reactive mind.
The Page You Just Searched For Does Not Exist!
Is this the Band? Or this?
Sunday, July 17, 2005
needlepoint
Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men via panopticist
The Tackle
Comments: needlepoint
This one reminds me of something I was trying to explain to a completely uncomprehending Parish the other night; which was, as His Bobness writes in his stunning recent book:
"Sometimes you say things in blogs* even if there's a small chance of them being true."
(*Actually, the Bobstar says "songs", but same diff.)
Posted by cs at July 17, 2005 04:03 PM
Ken must have been tangled up in blue.
Posted by Tony.T at July 17, 2005 05:01 PM
His Bobbin-ess.
meanwhile:
"A hunter might really like to hang a picture of his favorite dog in his den or office. It could even be mounted as a pillow if you wish"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69799427@N00/21107935/in/photostream/
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 09:02 PM
I have a picture of my dog in my den Miss, but pillows?
Posted by cs at July 18, 2005 07:38 AM
I have a picture (or three), but no. No pillows.
(No Den either)
Anyway my needlepointing would probably be naif at best, and possibly very Abstract.
Such a pillow would be destined to be found in an Op shop many years later and posted on a Blog.
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 01:38 PM
"Like Joe V. Reed, Francis LeB. is another guy whose wife does needlepoint too. They come home at the end of the day and relax with a cocktail and a little stitching. Maybe there's something to this--a marriage where the partners who needlepoint together will stay together?"
The Tackle
Comments: needlepoint
This one reminds me of something I was trying to explain to a completely uncomprehending Parish the other night; which was, as His Bobness writes in his stunning recent book:
"Sometimes you say things in blogs* even if there's a small chance of them being true."
(*Actually, the Bobstar says "songs", but same diff.)
Posted by cs at July 17, 2005 04:03 PM
Ken must have been tangled up in blue.
Posted by Tony.T at July 17, 2005 05:01 PM
His Bobbin-ess.
meanwhile:
"A hunter might really like to hang a picture of his favorite dog in his den or office. It could even be mounted as a pillow if you wish"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69799427@N00/21107935/in/photostream/
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 09:02 PM
I have a picture of my dog in my den Miss, but pillows?
Posted by cs at July 18, 2005 07:38 AM
I have a picture (or three), but no. No pillows.
(No Den either)
Anyway my needlepointing would probably be naif at best, and possibly very Abstract.
Such a pillow would be destined to be found in an Op shop many years later and posted on a Blog.
Posted by boynton at July 18, 2005 01:38 PM
Saturday, July 16, 2005
mash ups
Raining, slightly sore head - good weather for:
GoodBlimey! A collection of mashups, or bastard pop
via the ultimate insult
Comments: mashups
I'm sure that was my Kelpie Ms Boynton.
Posted by cs at July 16, 2005 03:50 PM
Oh dear - that makes me feel even more guilty, CS.
There was something slightly mystical about the encounter - dog in the light at the end of the tunnel.
People thought it had my name on it - but maybe it was yours, afterall ;)
I saw a very similar one in same location a few days later - with owner. I'm hoping it was a happy outcome.
Meanwhile it is true (as you predicted) that you do get to see them in your dreams. In time. Some solace.
Posted by boynton at July 16, 2005 04:18 PM
Yes, I feel sure they got lucky.
Posted by cs at July 16, 2005 05:38 PM
Wow, it's sunny. I can see blue sky for the first time in Melbourne in years.
Posted by cs at July 17, 2005 11:29 AM
- and isn't it a wonderful thing ;)
No time for blogging - a bluey to walk.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 11:49 AM
GoodBlimey! A collection of mashups, or bastard pop
via the ultimate insult
Comments: mashups
I'm sure that was my Kelpie Ms Boynton.
Posted by cs at July 16, 2005 03:50 PM
Oh dear - that makes me feel even more guilty, CS.
There was something slightly mystical about the encounter - dog in the light at the end of the tunnel.
People thought it had my name on it - but maybe it was yours, afterall ;)
I saw a very similar one in same location a few days later - with owner. I'm hoping it was a happy outcome.
Meanwhile it is true (as you predicted) that you do get to see them in your dreams. In time. Some solace.
Posted by boynton at July 16, 2005 04:18 PM
Yes, I feel sure they got lucky.
Posted by cs at July 16, 2005 05:38 PM
Wow, it's sunny. I can see blue sky for the first time in Melbourne in years.
Posted by cs at July 17, 2005 11:29 AM
- and isn't it a wonderful thing ;)
No time for blogging - a bluey to walk.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 11:49 AM
Friday, July 15, 2005
racing
Collectors aside, the best human drama TV I've seen for a while was the DNA doco last week..
Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
... intra-departmental cricket match.
(googling Cricket + Crick and Watson = It's not...)
The Secret of Photo 51
Comments: racing
Good effort picking up the cricket match, Miss B.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at July 19, 2005 07:06 PM
A shame we don't get to see the Biophysicists Bowling.
eg Gosling out for a Duck.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 11:29 PM
Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
... intra-departmental cricket match.
(googling Cricket + Crick and Watson = It's not...)
The Secret of Photo 51
Comments: racing
Good effort picking up the cricket match, Miss B.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at July 19, 2005 07:06 PM
A shame we don't get to see the Biophysicists Bowling.
eg Gosling out for a Duck.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 11:29 PM
Thursday, July 14, 2005
dentistry
The Cartoonist: Dentists. Of course.
Solipsistic: There must be known Truths in Dentistry!
Comments: dentistry
Dentistry shmentistry!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasygoat/51900.html?mode=reply
Posted by Sedgwick at July 14, 2005 05:06 PM
What strange writing at Solipsistic. Sedgwick, ick grossed me out again.
Posted by Link at July 14, 2005 05:19 PM
Yes, ick indeed.
(But notice how the smiling Dentists do not show their teeth. Maybe they are not allowed to advertise)
Strange and wonderful writing there, Link.
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 05:27 PM
Solipsistic: There must be known Truths in Dentistry!
Comments: dentistry
Dentistry shmentistry!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasygoat/51900.html?mode=reply
Posted by Sedgwick at July 14, 2005 05:06 PM
What strange writing at Solipsistic. Sedgwick, ick grossed me out again.
Posted by Link at July 14, 2005 05:19 PM
Yes, ick indeed.
(But notice how the smiling Dentists do not show their teeth. Maybe they are not allowed to advertise)
Strange and wonderful writing there, Link.
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 05:27 PM
weak
I did reassure a visiting Armadillo last night that the weather was cold even for Melburnians. (Who nonetheless can embrace the glacial al fresco cafe experience on the odd winter evening.*)
Yesterday by chance I think I caught the first bit of sunshine in a week.
It was pretty weak, but you don't knock such random blessings of Vitamin D in bleakest Bearbrass.
In other news, I have only just noticed my italics issues in IE. (It's all Firefox round here now)
Obviously a rogue i tag, but I have cast my heavy eye through a month of recent entries looking for an unclosed i to no avail. I may have to give up and enjoy the different slant
Comments: weak
One meet up I wished I hadn't missed, and although the horse what was responsible for my absence ran a creditable third at the Valley last night thereby qualifying for the final next Friday. One insincerely hopes that the Barista found the florin I advised him to place on its each-way nose (actually the young equine Gringotts has a decidedly roman nose) when I forwarded my apologies.
http://gogringotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/race-and-result.html
Unfortunately it would seem that I may have been a bit previous in booking the Brambles security van to turn up at the end of race meeting. Did feel a little foolish as I secreted the remaining two and sixpence from my original stake of five guineas into the heavily armed and size twelve fisted guard's cash box.
All I ask is for there to be a profit in my own life time ... and for Barista's repel boarders backlist to stop banning me from commenting by dint of my alleged questionable content.
Posted by Sedgwick at July 16, 2005 07:39 PM
You were much missed, GG, but the gee gees's were evidently a good Friday night bet.
Punting, not punning?
(Sorry - still insufficiently sober... Maybe I should limber up with some of those "Brain Games" of a couple of posts back)
And I know the secret of Barista's and Balcony's Bouncers...
leave out your url...
Posted by boynton at July 16, 2005 08:08 PM
Using the monkey and the typewriter method (the method much loved of Dan Brown and J K Rowling ... oooh errr ... bitchy bitchy!) I finally worked out the secret of entering the Baristarian Temple of Doom.
When I got there I found I had nothing questionable to say.
Cold Saturday nights'll do that to you!
(I recollect that at one stage I had a similar struggle to bypass the portcullis over at After Grog.)
Posted by Sedgwick at July 16, 2005 08:35 PM
um I am without IE but suspect the rogue tag is in 'brain games'. try putting the (/i) before the (/blockquote) instead of after.
Posted by Kent at July 17, 2005 05:20 AM
Kent, think you're right. I was always taught it was (/i) before (/blockquote) except after (/c).
Posted by Sedgwick at July 17, 2005 08:56 AM
Thanks Kent. How dumb of me to be so unsymmetrical.
Alas, i just tried it but IE is still in i mode.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 11:47 AM
Being in the trade I couldn't resist looking into this one...check your link to "Listing...with reflections", there is an (/i) tag thats missing its right pointy bracket (technical terminology).
Posted by damien at July 17, 2005 12:13 PM
voila...
Merci Damien.
My html cred is indeed listing.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 12:21 PM
I'm here 'til Friday and we've just arrived home from the arts centre where we witnessed the master of mainstream, Williamson wield his influence. Witty? you say? I'm looking for some shows or anything a drama teacher might use during the week - (meant to mention it the other night but too stupid).
Here's my email if you think of anything.
email: jen.mcculloch@ozemail.com.au
Posted by jen at July 18, 2005 10:33 PM
Not sure about tickets - but Lear at The Malthouse?
The other show there Black Swan of Trespass looks good.
"The Country" Red Stitch in St Kilda.
Non Parlo Di Salo.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/non-parlo-di-salo/2005/07/14/1120934358364.html
and Dancehouse?
http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/hit-list/default.asp?fid=3599
might be good for teaching
http://www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsSub.asp?id=2644&state=1
Hope this helps. Nice to meet you, Jen.
Melb not quite so bleak today - Blue Sky Again.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 10:53 AM
Yesterday by chance I think I caught the first bit of sunshine in a week.
It was pretty weak, but you don't knock such random blessings of Vitamin D in bleakest Bearbrass.
In other news, I have only just noticed my italics issues in IE. (It's all Firefox round here now)
Obviously a rogue i tag, but I have cast my heavy eye through a month of recent entries looking for an unclosed i to no avail. I may have to give up and enjoy the different slant
Comments: weak
One meet up I wished I hadn't missed, and although the horse what was responsible for my absence ran a creditable third at the Valley last night thereby qualifying for the final next Friday. One insincerely hopes that the Barista found the florin I advised him to place on its each-way nose (actually the young equine Gringotts has a decidedly roman nose) when I forwarded my apologies.
http://gogringotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/race-and-result.html
Unfortunately it would seem that I may have been a bit previous in booking the Brambles security van to turn up at the end of race meeting. Did feel a little foolish as I secreted the remaining two and sixpence from my original stake of five guineas into the heavily armed and size twelve fisted guard's cash box.
All I ask is for there to be a profit in my own life time ... and for Barista's repel boarders backlist to stop banning me from commenting by dint of my alleged questionable content.
Posted by Sedgwick at July 16, 2005 07:39 PM
You were much missed, GG, but the gee gees's were evidently a good Friday night bet.
Punting, not punning?
(Sorry - still insufficiently sober... Maybe I should limber up with some of those "Brain Games" of a couple of posts back)
And I know the secret of Barista's and Balcony's Bouncers...
leave out your url...
Posted by boynton at July 16, 2005 08:08 PM
Using the monkey and the typewriter method (the method much loved of Dan Brown and J K Rowling ... oooh errr ... bitchy bitchy!) I finally worked out the secret of entering the Baristarian Temple of Doom.
When I got there I found I had nothing questionable to say.
Cold Saturday nights'll do that to you!
(I recollect that at one stage I had a similar struggle to bypass the portcullis over at After Grog.)
Posted by Sedgwick at July 16, 2005 08:35 PM
um I am without IE but suspect the rogue tag is in 'brain games'. try putting the (/i) before the (/blockquote) instead of after.
Posted by Kent at July 17, 2005 05:20 AM
Kent, think you're right. I was always taught it was (/i) before (/blockquote) except after (/c).
Posted by Sedgwick at July 17, 2005 08:56 AM
Thanks Kent. How dumb of me to be so unsymmetrical.
Alas, i just tried it but IE is still in i mode.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 11:47 AM
Being in the trade I couldn't resist looking into this one...check your link to "Listing...with reflections", there is an (/i) tag thats missing its right pointy bracket (technical terminology).
Posted by damien at July 17, 2005 12:13 PM
voila...
Merci Damien.
My html cred is indeed listing.
Posted by boynton at July 17, 2005 12:21 PM
I'm here 'til Friday and we've just arrived home from the arts centre where we witnessed the master of mainstream, Williamson wield his influence. Witty? you say? I'm looking for some shows or anything a drama teacher might use during the week - (meant to mention it the other night but too stupid).
Here's my email if you think of anything.
email: jen.mcculloch@ozemail.com.au
Posted by jen at July 18, 2005 10:33 PM
Not sure about tickets - but Lear at The Malthouse?
The other show there Black Swan of Trespass looks good.
"The Country" Red Stitch in St Kilda.
Non Parlo Di Salo.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/non-parlo-di-salo/2005/07/14/1120934358364.html
and Dancehouse?
http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/hit-list/default.asp?fid=3599
might be good for teaching
http://www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsSub.asp?id=2644&state=1
Hope this helps. Nice to meet you, Jen.
Melb not quite so bleak today - Blue Sky Again.
Posted by boynton at July 19, 2005 10:53 AM
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
brain games
Games for the Brain
Play neverending quiz and memory games to train your thinking skills
(via birfucated rivets)
The Word Hunt game is a good analogy of my writing brain on a slow train day, waiting for that elusive concept to arrive.
I also liked the Question game, though I need to fine tune my descriptions apparently...
(It was "mouse" actually - which can indeed be a moving thing.)
Comments: brain games
It cannot spot the obvious...
What does it look like? A. Express Train
What does it do? A. Transport People
How do you use it? A. To Travel Between Places
Actual answer - Express Train.
Given answer - Reading your mind I sense the answer is buses or...
Posted by Russell Allen at July 13, 2005 06:40 PM
I tried to describe The Question Game itself...
(seriously - but got a bit whimsical on last)
3: What do you do with it?
Amusement, post an entry about it on my blog...
(That was po-mo wasn't it)
Anyway - the answer was ... ASPX...
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 02:40 PM
Play neverending quiz and memory games to train your thinking skills
(via birfucated rivets)
The Word Hunt game is a good analogy of my writing brain on a slow train day, waiting for that elusive concept to arrive.
I also liked the Question game, though I need to fine tune my descriptions apparently...
Reading your mind I sense the answer is flash or menu or mouse or right or select or tool or tutorials or want.
Please be more elaborate in your answers.
Reading your mind I sense the answer is moving or thing...
(It was "mouse" actually - which can indeed be a moving thing.)
Comments: brain games
It cannot spot the obvious...
What does it look like? A. Express Train
What does it do? A. Transport People
How do you use it? A. To Travel Between Places
Actual answer - Express Train.
Given answer - Reading your mind I sense the answer is buses or...
Posted by Russell Allen at July 13, 2005 06:40 PM
I tried to describe The Question Game itself...
(seriously - but got a bit whimsical on last)
3: What do you do with it?
Amusement, post an entry about it on my blog...
(That was po-mo wasn't it)
Anyway - the answer was ... ASPX...
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 02:40 PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
strange planet
glimpsed as I was logging out of hotmail last night...
Comments: strange planet
See your Hotmail and raise you a Gmail Boynts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/theferaleye/gaseous_email.jpg
Posted by Sedgwick at July 12, 2005 06:01 PM
What's the G for in Gmail, GG?
I would have found it impossible not to click on the sponsored link to find out why every second American is chronically ill.
Something to do with King Kong baking?
http://www.thenewhomemaker.com/node/69034
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 06:17 PM
Coincidently, as we speak ... well that would be coincidently wouldn't it? (unless you're a journo in which case is would be 'ironic') Lady Livial (sic) is composing some gluten free Lemon Shortbreads.
(Less Brackets more Hinge young GG me lad!)
Posted by Sedgwick at July 12, 2005 07:13 PM
whereas gluten free Anzacs would be iconic.
; (semi-colonic) )
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 07:39 PM
my gmail adverts today were all about kilts and skirling bagpipes thro' the glen. It's better than horrorscopes I tell ya.
Posted by laura at July 12, 2005 10:03 PM
I used to love the Google Ads that used to adorn Blogger, spiders that crawled around the blogspots that would sometimes throw a wonderful Found combo of words and phrases to reconcile.
Well - it worked on slower days...
Google used to have more whimsy in their side ads too - or was I imagining it?
In any case, maybe that's enough of an incentive to activate the Gmail invite that was kindly sent to me.
Think the ninemsn thing might be wearing thin...
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 11:37 PM
Can anyone lend me a couple of cups of king kong puree? I'm assuming that the proportions for King Kong scones are roughly the same as those for pumpkin scones http://www.thatsmyhome.com/hannahs/scones/pumpkin.htm
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 13, 2005 10:51 AM
"Cut in the butter until it resembles coarse meal."
I like "In the Kitchen with Bob" - although I had thought the Yield might be: about one scone.
4 pages of scones!
Quite like the Maple Nut and Pear Scones with Maple Pear Butter Scones, and Dill Scones would be a good name for a trivia team.
Posted by boynton at July 13, 2005 12:51 PM
My personal favourite automated ads are the ebay ones on Google. You can get some crazy stuff.
"Miracle Workers. Find a great selection online at ebay"
Posted by Russell Allen at July 13, 2005 06:35 PM
this is making me hungry for scones. I wonder if it's possible to make scones with kosher nuttelex instead of butter.
Posted by laura at July 13, 2005 07:57 PM
I'm sure I've seen Existentialism on eBay, but not not toDay.
Only "Concepts"
Sponsored Links
Concepts
Products and information about
Concepts.
eBay.com.au
Laura - apparently it is:
http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/factsheets/Factweekend.htm
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 02:21 PM
Comments: strange planet
See your Hotmail and raise you a Gmail Boynts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/theferaleye/gaseous_email.jpg
Posted by Sedgwick at July 12, 2005 06:01 PM
What's the G for in Gmail, GG?
I would have found it impossible not to click on the sponsored link to find out why every second American is chronically ill.
Something to do with King Kong baking?
http://www.thenewhomemaker.com/node/69034
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 06:17 PM
Coincidently, as we speak ... well that would be coincidently wouldn't it? (unless you're a journo in which case is would be 'ironic') Lady Livial (sic) is composing some gluten free Lemon Shortbreads.
(Less Brackets more Hinge young GG me lad!)
Posted by Sedgwick at July 12, 2005 07:13 PM
whereas gluten free Anzacs would be iconic.
; (semi-colonic) )
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 07:39 PM
my gmail adverts today were all about kilts and skirling bagpipes thro' the glen. It's better than horrorscopes I tell ya.
Posted by laura at July 12, 2005 10:03 PM
I used to love the Google Ads that used to adorn Blogger, spiders that crawled around the blogspots that would sometimes throw a wonderful Found combo of words and phrases to reconcile.
Well - it worked on slower days...
Google used to have more whimsy in their side ads too - or was I imagining it?
In any case, maybe that's enough of an incentive to activate the Gmail invite that was kindly sent to me.
Think the ninemsn thing might be wearing thin...
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 11:37 PM
Can anyone lend me a couple of cups of king kong puree? I'm assuming that the proportions for King Kong scones are roughly the same as those for pumpkin scones http://www.thatsmyhome.com/hannahs/scones/pumpkin.htm
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 13, 2005 10:51 AM
"Cut in the butter until it resembles coarse meal."
I like "In the Kitchen with Bob" - although I had thought the Yield might be: about one scone.
4 pages of scones!
Quite like the Maple Nut and Pear Scones with Maple Pear Butter Scones, and Dill Scones would be a good name for a trivia team.
Posted by boynton at July 13, 2005 12:51 PM
My personal favourite automated ads are the ebay ones on Google. You can get some crazy stuff.
"Miracle Workers. Find a great selection online at ebay"
Posted by Russell Allen at July 13, 2005 06:35 PM
this is making me hungry for scones. I wonder if it's possible to make scones with kosher nuttelex instead of butter.
Posted by laura at July 13, 2005 07:57 PM
I'm sure I've seen Existentialism on eBay, but not not toDay.
Only "Concepts"
Sponsored Links
Concepts
Products and information about
Concepts.
eBay.com.au
Laura - apparently it is:
http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/factsheets/Factweekend.htm
Posted by boynton at July 14, 2005 02:21 PM
list
13 Reasons For List Lust via grow a brain
Listing...with reflections
13. What is the opposite of a list? A personal letter, a poem, a page of a diary, a piece of music—possibly the last bastions of uncommodified, unranked, un-numbered self-expression.
Listing...with reflections
Monday, July 11, 2005
puzzles
Broadcasting the Boat Race
Rhythm on the River
Rowing Scenes from the Examples from Our Permanent Collection pages at...
Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles via Exclamation Mark
Rhythm on the River
Rowing Scenes from the Examples from Our Permanent Collection pages at...
Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles via Exclamation Mark
Saturday, July 09, 2005
lab qotd
Twenty years hence, the Yorkshire terrier could be the most popular breed. And people will think Yorkies are tough as nails, while Labs will be dismissed as chew-happy slobs.
Top Dog: Why Americans love Labrador retrievers.
Comments: lab qotd
Oho! So yer not actually giving up blogging just yet? You were just doing that woman thing of fishing for complements while pretending to be all helpless and adrift. But I'm wise to yer feminine wiles, they won't fool me...oh look, you got yer fishing lure all tangled up there...here, let me help you.
Yeah labs, the Don Candy of dogs. I've seen one of 'em walk straight through a flyscreen door without apparently noticing. Whereas a Yorkie or Jack Russell would somehow talk you into opening the flyscreen and bringing the food out to them.
While a blue heeler would offer to share the food he'd found.
"I thought you locked the car?"
"I did, but it seems I left the eskie out...and I thought clipped shut?"
"Hi guys! Haven't seen you for 14 minutes! Great! You're back! Fantastic! Wanna go for a run? I left you the quiche crust!"
Posted by Nabakov at July 10, 2005 09:57 PM
no no no - just musing out loud...
(a spot of fishing does wonders for the blogging nerves though.I expect)
I'm disappointed to see Labs are the current Everydog - (jumbo dog for McMansions, apparently.)
Can believe the Flywire screen test - my dog nonchalantly put his paws through a window when he was shut out for a minute.
Bluey profile is right too - although this one holds back on the boisterous greeting. She has some cat-like characteristics I sense.
I enjoyed another stretch of borrowed labrador company recently which has convinced me of their essential lopey,dopey,happy compatability. Despite their current 'levis' status.
Posted by boynton at July 10, 2005 11:53 PM
jig saw
Vitamin Q: JIGABOO Bad etiquette when doing jigsaws with others
I do confess to having committed sin number 5 once or twice in the past
Hiding the last piece and pretending to find it later
(maybe being number 6 in the birth-order makes one occasionally subversive)
Comments: jig saw
I'm a goddam jigaboo!
The number of sins I commit are numerous with particular focus on being an edge nazi, placing corner pieces early and boasting of previous jigsaw accomplishments.
My worst sin is I shun sea and sky to the point where I consider the puzzle complete when I only have them left.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 11, 2005 05:20 PM
Actually I haven't done a jigsaw for a while - but I remember the Edge equation.
Ans various assortment issues. (people with)
And how about the jigsaws where the blues of sea and sky merge unless viewed under a microscope? (Not to boast of past accomplishments or anything)
All quite nostalgic really.
Posted by boynton at July 11, 2005 06:06 PM
I don't know anyone who isn't an edge nazi :-/ Looks like mine was a jigaboo childhood. And I must say it isn't a question of leaving the cat to do the sky (n. 18), but rather getting him to please not disperse and devour that oh so fascinating pile of VERY WELL SORTED PIECES!
Posted by Kent at July 12, 2005 01:22 AM
meanwhile a labrador would greet any stray pieces as crumbs from the table - the sky is falling, manna from heaven.
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 10:09 AM
I do confess to having committed sin number 5 once or twice in the past
Hiding the last piece and pretending to find it later
(maybe being number 6 in the birth-order makes one occasionally subversive)
Comments: jig saw
I'm a goddam jigaboo!
The number of sins I commit are numerous with particular focus on being an edge nazi, placing corner pieces early and boasting of previous jigsaw accomplishments.
My worst sin is I shun sea and sky to the point where I consider the puzzle complete when I only have them left.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 11, 2005 05:20 PM
Actually I haven't done a jigsaw for a while - but I remember the Edge equation.
Ans various assortment issues. (people with)
And how about the jigsaws where the blues of sea and sky merge unless viewed under a microscope? (Not to boast of past accomplishments or anything)
All quite nostalgic really.
Posted by boynton at July 11, 2005 06:06 PM
I don't know anyone who isn't an edge nazi :-/ Looks like mine was a jigaboo childhood. And I must say it isn't a question of leaving the cat to do the sky (n. 18), but rather getting him to please not disperse and devour that oh so fascinating pile of VERY WELL SORTED PIECES!
Posted by Kent at July 12, 2005 01:22 AM
meanwhile a labrador would greet any stray pieces as crumbs from the table - the sky is falling, manna from heaven.
Posted by boynton at July 12, 2005 10:09 AM
Friday, July 08, 2005
accordion swing
I bought this 45 yesterday. Alas, I can't translate the note written on the back, dated 3. 0ct. 1957 Melbourne
Meanwhile - Accordion snow...
Comments: accordion swing
You are so gonna love this site.
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.html
If not, you can have your money back.
Posted by Nabakov at July 10, 2005 10:00 PM
Yes I'll order the lot, thanks.
Blog Ennui
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_q/discourage.html
Feminine wiles:
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_a/excercise.html
Is Blogging addictive?
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_p/emotioninc.html
Posted by boynton at July 10, 2005 11:36 PM
Thursday, July 07, 2005
smallest player
A strange object
From a portfolio of 321 b&w and 164 colour photos from the 50's-70's (via the cartoonist))
From a portfolio of 321 b&w and 164 colour photos from the 50's-70's (via the cartoonist))
socks
iPod Socks
Size:
Fits all iPods except iPod shuffle.
(via daily jive)
possibly for soldiers
Comments: socks
Why does an iPod need protection from the cold? And surely that pattern can be modified for the Shuffle. It is not exactly the most inspired of knitting patterns unlike this cuddly womb - http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html
Posted by Russell Allen at July 7, 2005 05:33 PM
Hmmm...seems this thread might be taking an anatomical turn. More of this ilk here:
http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/000839.html
(Ideally I was seeking a SFW knitted stomach or an item of educational textiles)
Posted by boynton at July 7, 2005 06:00 PM
Size:
Fits all iPods except iPod shuffle.
(via daily jive)
possibly for soldiers
Comments: socks
Why does an iPod need protection from the cold? And surely that pattern can be modified for the Shuffle. It is not exactly the most inspired of knitting patterns unlike this cuddly womb - http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html
Posted by Russell Allen at July 7, 2005 05:33 PM
Hmmm...seems this thread might be taking an anatomical turn. More of this ilk here:
http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/000839.html
(Ideally I was seeking a SFW knitted stomach or an item of educational textiles)
Posted by boynton at July 7, 2005 06:00 PM
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
big questions
Science explores 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century...
So Much More to Know … A roundup of 100 additional problems
via the presurfer
Comments: big questions
I loved the 'What can replace cheap oil and when?' HELLO? Even i know the answer to that one.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 5, 2005 07:25 PM
yeah. whatever.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at July 5, 2005 10:33 PM
"If true, it will give them a wealth of information about the distribution of prime numbers and other long-standing mysteries."
Prime numbers are mysterious enough to me.
I like the sound of this question:
"What powers quasars?"
Posted by boynton at July 6, 2005 11:12 AM
Powers Quasars sounds like a space bounty hunter looking to rid all the scum and villany from the universe.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 6, 2005 11:32 AM
Powers Pulsars, his sidekick?
Posted by Kent at July 6, 2005 12:25 PM
Do mathematically interesting zero-value solutions of the Riemann zeta function all have the form a bi?
Don't sweat the details. Since the mid-19th century, the "Riemann hypothesis" has been the monster catfish in mathematicians' pond.
So Much More to Know … A roundup of 100 additional problems
via the presurfer
Comments: big questions
I loved the 'What can replace cheap oil and when?' HELLO? Even i know the answer to that one.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 5, 2005 07:25 PM
yeah. whatever.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at July 5, 2005 10:33 PM
"If true, it will give them a wealth of information about the distribution of prime numbers and other long-standing mysteries."
Prime numbers are mysterious enough to me.
I like the sound of this question:
"What powers quasars?"
Posted by boynton at July 6, 2005 11:12 AM
Powers Quasars sounds like a space bounty hunter looking to rid all the scum and villany from the universe.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 6, 2005 11:32 AM
Powers Pulsars, his sidekick?
Posted by Kent at July 6, 2005 12:25 PM
Sunday, July 03, 2005
disaster
Whoops...
and this would be a good way to declare a hiatus (theoretically that is)
Net disaster via Idle type
Comments: disaster
Shreik! fabulous.
Posted by Brownie at July 4, 2005 12:11 AM
Very impressive!
Posted by Link at July 4, 2005 09:37 PM
Apparently the chainsaw is amusing.
The snail is quite nice too - good for sluggish days.
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 10:16 PM
and this would be a good way to declare a hiatus (theoretically that is)
Net disaster via Idle type
Comments: disaster
Shreik! fabulous.
Posted by Brownie at July 4, 2005 12:11 AM
Very impressive!
Posted by Link at July 4, 2005 09:37 PM
Apparently the chainsaw is amusing.
The snail is quite nice too - good for sluggish days.
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 10:16 PM
Saturday, July 02, 2005
empty cup
From an ad for Bushells Blue Label Tea from a 1930's Australian Home Encyclopaedia
A choice purchase today at an Opportunity Shop.
Comments: empty cup
Imagine if the cup had been half full...
Posted by Gerry at July 3, 2005 02:35 AM
I'm trying to read the leaves to see if someone has something to look forward to...
Posted by boynton at July 3, 2005 01:53 PM
Bizarre. It's positively zen.
Posted by Dick at July 3, 2005 03:56 PM
- or negatively so?
Who knows...
Someone.
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 12:37 PM
What is the sound of one cup breaking?
Posted by Gerry at July 5, 2005 12:01 AM
Friday, July 01, 2005
black lab sleep
People I sleep with - Black Lab Rescue
(via Plep and em)
Comments: black lab sleep
That is pretty sweet. I noticed a search dog on the teev yesterday was just alive with excitement. Wahoo... off with da boss for some fun.
Posted by David Tiley at July 9, 2005 02:25 AM
I thought I saw a spaniel? As a sniffer dog.
btw: That page doesn't seem to lead back to the index:
http://www.peopleisleepwith.com/
I chose the black lab - for obvious reasons - but this photo is wonderful:
http://www.peopleisleepwith.com/bick.htm
“When we go to bed at night,” said Dawn, “they all hop up and get their spots. If I get up for any reason in the middle of the night, I lose my spot. It’s that simple. The second I’m out of the bed, Cocoa, a chocolate lab, will put her head on my pillow and that’s it. I have no other space. Then, to make matters more complex, Pookie, and sometimes Leroy, the black cat, will awaken me with unbelievably loud purring as they sleep right near my head.” I asked if they had planned on having eight animals sleeping with them. “No, we never intended that. They’re all foundlings. We’ve never purchased an animal.”
Posted by boynton at July 9, 2005 12:31 PM
(via Plep and em)
Comments: black lab sleep
That is pretty sweet. I noticed a search dog on the teev yesterday was just alive with excitement. Wahoo... off with da boss for some fun.
Posted by David Tiley at July 9, 2005 02:25 AM
I thought I saw a spaniel? As a sniffer dog.
btw: That page doesn't seem to lead back to the index:
http://www.peopleisleepwith.com/
I chose the black lab - for obvious reasons - but this photo is wonderful:
http://www.peopleisleepwith.com/bick.htm
“When we go to bed at night,” said Dawn, “they all hop up and get their spots. If I get up for any reason in the middle of the night, I lose my spot. It’s that simple. The second I’m out of the bed, Cocoa, a chocolate lab, will put her head on my pillow and that’s it. I have no other space. Then, to make matters more complex, Pookie, and sometimes Leroy, the black cat, will awaken me with unbelievably loud purring as they sleep right near my head.” I asked if they had planned on having eight animals sleeping with them. “No, we never intended that. They’re all foundlings. We’ve never purchased an animal.”
Posted by boynton at July 9, 2005 12:31 PM
Thursday, June 30, 2005
june end
Now that there is a pleasing symmetry to the archives, it is tempting to leave this game...
(but then, July is another day)
In the meantime - a couple of heartening posts on the positives by two favourites:
Patteran Pages What's a Blog For
Fragments from Floyd The Primordial Ooze of the Blogosphere
Comments: june end
What's a blog for ?
For someone who has no real people to talk to !
Posted by at June 30, 2005 04:13 PM
I have plenty of confidantes, thanks.
(None of the anonymous ilk in real life.)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 05:11 PM
Never trust a blogger!
lf you can't see their eyes and face then......
Posted by at June 30, 2005 06:09 PM
au contraire.
Meeting bloggers has been one of the unexpected rewards of this activity.
No shocking revelations at all.
(Although now in the Gravatar-Age, I might be disappointed when bloggers don't look like their picture.)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 06:16 PM
If you leave now it will be linked irrevocably in a subliminal, unreachably inarguable way with my abominable procrastinatory malfeasance, and what a burden that would be in addition to the rest of it.
Not yet. You can't.
Posted by Ajax etc, at June 30, 2005 06:47 PM
Ok
I've just got to get over my regard archive...
Look forward to subliminal obliquenessance
Sorry to vacillate in public...(most undignified) though I'm sure such ambivalence is an ongoing thing with many bloggers.
There is a time for read-only blogging though?
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 07:16 PM
Sorry - anon, re-reading your first comment I may have misunderstood.
Thought you were having a go at us bloggers.
(Those I have met in RL all seem to have their fair share of RL companions)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 07:58 PM
thankyou
Posted by at June 30, 2005 08:18 PM
what is RL?
Posted by at June 30, 2005 08:19 PM
Real life.
Whatever that is ;)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 08:37 PM
You are here for our entertainment. WE will tell you when you can leave. Until then, blog.
Posted by Gerry at July 1, 2005 12:22 AM
And I was starting to think that meeting bloggers in RL was the best part of it all. But Dick Jones has a persuasive and lyrical and very familiar case to make - thanks for linking. Floyd is just terrifying. 30K new a day?!
Posted by Kent at July 1, 2005 04:27 AM
(Although now in the Gravatar-Age, I might be disappointed when bloggers don't look like their picture.)
Especially the ones who you thought were dragons, goblins, mikhail gorbachev (gorby to his mates), and the Freedom Tower. Though meeting them in a smoky boozer may be problematic if you don't like people staring at you.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 1, 2005 05:25 PM
Blogging is like the mafia. Just when you think you're out, they pull you right back in again.
Anyway, it's not over till we have the spring 2005 Blogger Round-Robin Tennis Championships. Only wood or metal rackets (no carbon-fibre), no upmarket brand name sportswear, and a drinking game driven by aces and doublefaults. "Lets" count as a Chapmans.
Posted by Nabakov at July 1, 2005 05:26 PM
Cheers, Gerry.
Yes, Kent, I think Dick Jones' post will be a good one to read in times of general ennui.
The fear factor of Fred's stats is modified by the attrition rate, fortunately. Makes sense.
Hope to see an eventual return of DOTB - or its successor?
They sound scary Russell, but haven't seen them around myself. The standard fare seems pretty horticultural and zoological.
It would be a bestiary of bloggers at the next pub crawl - (what a racket)
- or Tennis Match, Nabakov.
Damn - just when I threw away my Ken Rosewall wooden Racquet. Which was warped to boot.
I'll endorse the No-Brand Rules, and the drinking game - especially the Double and Foot Fault clauses.
(In the meantime a mini-bloggers fest could always be convened around a Table-tennis table.)
Posted by boynton at July 1, 2005 07:50 PM
Looks like your staying boyn? Good. I'm off to P.Pages. Timely. You are (BTW)a model of dignity.
Posted by Link at July 2, 2005 08:37 AM
cheers.
June loomed as a destination for a while - mainly for reaons of neatness.
As good a reason as any, probably.
(finally updated your url, Link)
Posted by boynton at July 2, 2005 06:50 PM
Boynton, please don't go!
Posted by Nick Piombino at July 3, 2005 07:00 AM
Thanks, Nick.
All seems rather self-indulgent now - to think out loud and express the fairly constant sense of ambivalence about blogging that has been with me since early days.
Main concern is the need for Reading time (not just the backlog of other blogs, but --- those things, what are they called again...)
Link bloggers (who never disclose anything directly) are a tonic to read.
A hiatus would precede an official departure I think.
Posted by boynton at July 3, 2005 01:58 PM
Recently, as you might remember,
I took quite a bit of time out from
steady blogging to read. But Boynton
ending officially- that's a blow to Blogland!
Perhaps you've gotten what you needed
to get out of it artistically or creatively,
and feel you have
to move on: I can only guess.
If you decide to keep the archives
available- you
may see a similar fate with Boynton
as with t.v. shows
like The Young Ones.
People more than ever need
to find a way to laugh and smile-
intelligently. Whenever Boynton's
run does end, if it is kept extant,
I predict the "reruns"
would continue to earn it a
continuous, appreciative following.
Posted by Nick Piombino at July 3, 2005 03:05 PM
Classy blogging rarely has a name you know,
but Boynton it is.
Congratulations on TWO YEARS.
Posted by Brownie at July 4, 2005 12:07 AM
Nick - that's much appreciated.
"artistically or creatively" - possibly.
Hardest thing about blogging may well be (as Dick refers to in his post) striking the balance between voices. The generic template invites an expectation of forum, of the temporal and ephemeral, of public and private bookmark. Let alone running narrative or original jot. I see why people have multiple blogs, but a niche blog getting more niched might not be a good idea for my stats and my fragile stats-ego.
However/bottom line: there are still plenty of blogs that inspire me, daily.
Thanks, Brownie.
Though there is always that thing, like the mysterious tea-cup, is it something to be proud of? ;)
Blogging is always nervous about its status when it gets serious...
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 12:34 PM
Please keep on blogging. I noticed we started our blogs around the same time. Two years is quite a cycle, and it does make you think about blogging and its pertinence.
Thank you for a lovely and always interesting blog.
Posted by ernesto Priego at July 4, 2005 03:33 PM
thank you, ernesto.
Anniversaries should lose their bite.
2 years could lose its itch.
It's only in the mind of the blogger, after all ;)
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 10:14 PM
(but then, July is another day)
In the meantime - a couple of heartening posts on the positives by two favourites:
Patteran Pages What's a Blog For
Fragments from Floyd The Primordial Ooze of the Blogosphere
Comments: june end
What's a blog for ?
For someone who has no real people to talk to !
Posted by at June 30, 2005 04:13 PM
I have plenty of confidantes, thanks.
(None of the anonymous ilk in real life.)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 05:11 PM
Never trust a blogger!
lf you can't see their eyes and face then......
Posted by at June 30, 2005 06:09 PM
au contraire.
Meeting bloggers has been one of the unexpected rewards of this activity.
No shocking revelations at all.
(Although now in the Gravatar-Age, I might be disappointed when bloggers don't look like their picture.)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 06:16 PM
If you leave now it will be linked irrevocably in a subliminal, unreachably inarguable way with my abominable procrastinatory malfeasance, and what a burden that would be in addition to the rest of it.
Not yet. You can't.
Posted by Ajax etc, at June 30, 2005 06:47 PM
Ok
I've just got to get over my regard archive...
Look forward to subliminal obliquenessance
Sorry to vacillate in public...(most undignified) though I'm sure such ambivalence is an ongoing thing with many bloggers.
There is a time for read-only blogging though?
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 07:16 PM
Sorry - anon, re-reading your first comment I may have misunderstood.
Thought you were having a go at us bloggers.
(Those I have met in RL all seem to have their fair share of RL companions)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 07:58 PM
thankyou
Posted by at June 30, 2005 08:18 PM
what is RL?
Posted by at June 30, 2005 08:19 PM
Real life.
Whatever that is ;)
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 08:37 PM
You are here for our entertainment. WE will tell you when you can leave. Until then, blog.
Posted by Gerry at July 1, 2005 12:22 AM
And I was starting to think that meeting bloggers in RL was the best part of it all. But Dick Jones has a persuasive and lyrical and very familiar case to make - thanks for linking. Floyd is just terrifying. 30K new a day?!
Posted by Kent at July 1, 2005 04:27 AM
(Although now in the Gravatar-Age, I might be disappointed when bloggers don't look like their picture.)
Especially the ones who you thought were dragons, goblins, mikhail gorbachev (gorby to his mates), and the Freedom Tower. Though meeting them in a smoky boozer may be problematic if you don't like people staring at you.
Posted by Russell Allen at July 1, 2005 05:25 PM
Blogging is like the mafia. Just when you think you're out, they pull you right back in again.
Anyway, it's not over till we have the spring 2005 Blogger Round-Robin Tennis Championships. Only wood or metal rackets (no carbon-fibre), no upmarket brand name sportswear, and a drinking game driven by aces and doublefaults. "Lets" count as a Chapmans.
Posted by Nabakov at July 1, 2005 05:26 PM
Cheers, Gerry.
Yes, Kent, I think Dick Jones' post will be a good one to read in times of general ennui.
The fear factor of Fred's stats is modified by the attrition rate, fortunately. Makes sense.
Hope to see an eventual return of DOTB - or its successor?
They sound scary Russell, but haven't seen them around myself. The standard fare seems pretty horticultural and zoological.
It would be a bestiary of bloggers at the next pub crawl - (what a racket)
- or Tennis Match, Nabakov.
Damn - just when I threw away my Ken Rosewall wooden Racquet. Which was warped to boot.
I'll endorse the No-Brand Rules, and the drinking game - especially the Double and Foot Fault clauses.
(In the meantime a mini-bloggers fest could always be convened around a Table-tennis table.)
Posted by boynton at July 1, 2005 07:50 PM
Looks like your staying boyn? Good. I'm off to P.Pages. Timely. You are (BTW)a model of dignity.
Posted by Link at July 2, 2005 08:37 AM
cheers.
June loomed as a destination for a while - mainly for reaons of neatness.
As good a reason as any, probably.
(finally updated your url, Link)
Posted by boynton at July 2, 2005 06:50 PM
Boynton, please don't go!
Posted by Nick Piombino at July 3, 2005 07:00 AM
Thanks, Nick.
All seems rather self-indulgent now - to think out loud and express the fairly constant sense of ambivalence about blogging that has been with me since early days.
Main concern is the need for Reading time (not just the backlog of other blogs, but --- those things, what are they called again...)
Link bloggers (who never disclose anything directly) are a tonic to read.
A hiatus would precede an official departure I think.
Posted by boynton at July 3, 2005 01:58 PM
Recently, as you might remember,
I took quite a bit of time out from
steady blogging to read. But Boynton
ending officially- that's a blow to Blogland!
Perhaps you've gotten what you needed
to get out of it artistically or creatively,
and feel you have
to move on: I can only guess.
If you decide to keep the archives
available- you
may see a similar fate with Boynton
as with t.v. shows
like The Young Ones.
People more than ever need
to find a way to laugh and smile-
intelligently. Whenever Boynton's
run does end, if it is kept extant,
I predict the "reruns"
would continue to earn it a
continuous, appreciative following.
Posted by Nick Piombino at July 3, 2005 03:05 PM
Classy blogging rarely has a name you know,
but Boynton it is.
Congratulations on TWO YEARS.
Posted by Brownie at July 4, 2005 12:07 AM
Nick - that's much appreciated.
"artistically or creatively" - possibly.
Hardest thing about blogging may well be (as Dick refers to in his post) striking the balance between voices. The generic template invites an expectation of forum, of the temporal and ephemeral, of public and private bookmark. Let alone running narrative or original jot. I see why people have multiple blogs, but a niche blog getting more niched might not be a good idea for my stats and my fragile stats-ego.
However/bottom line: there are still plenty of blogs that inspire me, daily.
Thanks, Brownie.
Though there is always that thing, like the mysterious tea-cup, is it something to be proud of? ;)
Blogging is always nervous about its status when it gets serious...
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 12:34 PM
Please keep on blogging. I noticed we started our blogs around the same time. Two years is quite a cycle, and it does make you think about blogging and its pertinence.
Thank you for a lovely and always interesting blog.
Posted by ernesto Priego at July 4, 2005 03:33 PM
thank you, ernesto.
Anniversaries should lose their bite.
2 years could lose its itch.
It's only in the mind of the blogger, after all ;)
Posted by boynton at July 4, 2005 10:14 PM
Monday, June 27, 2005
by gummo
The following is a special guest meta post by Gummo Trotsky
(which does make one pine for the 'potemkin.)
The Top Ten Things I’m Not Missing
I’m in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, at the fringe where suburbia dissolves into the sticks, dog-sitting. It’s very quiet, Carruthers, too damn quiet. Will this accursed silence never cease? The natives are restful tonight; I’m not. Damn this silence; I want traffic noise! Will they never start driving so I can get some sleep?
That state of mind is what got me back onto the web in the wee smalls of this morning, lurking a few of the blogs that I used to be so scrupulous about visiting daily and finally dipping my toe in the water by posting comments at a couple of sites. Then it occurred to me that this was a little like dipping your toe in the waters of the mythical Amazon where the legendary piranha fish hang out, or half-consciously relaxing your urethra in the real Amazon.
A few weeks ago, Your site host Ms Boynton suggested I might like to do a guest post on the things I don’t miss about blogging; I gave her a sincere non-promise to do so. Today, I’ve decided to get my bum into the typing chair and deliver, if only to remind myself of a few of the reasons why I’m not (really) doing this blogging thing any more.
1. Waking up to AM every morning, so I can pick up something topical to write about.
2. Resisting the temptation to slip in the “I shoved John Hewson under the tram and he still wouldn’t bloody shut up and then I woke up and he was on the radio” anecdote.
3. The sneaking suspicion that I must have slipped it in to a post, but I’m not sure which one.
4. Searching the damn blog archive for “John Hewson” just to make sure I haven’t ever used it.
5. Getting a hot topic from AM which you know you can turn into a real linkage puller with a brilliant punch-line and then forgetting the punch-line.
6. Writing a brilliant linkage puller, posting it, then checking round the blogs later that day to discover that everybody’s decided to write about Britney Spears instead.
7. Cat blogging. Except for the stuff I’ve done myself which is witty, insightful and in no ways sentimentally self-indulgent.
8. Setting out to do a top ten post and getting stuck at nine.
9. Finding Evil Pundit’s name all over every comment thread of every damn blog you go to like a graffiti tag and the inevitable arguments over whether it’s art or vandalism or good art but very shoddy vandalism.
10. Having to choose between the very obvious stop at nine gag, the equally obvious going up to 11 gag, changing it to a top 40 and putting aside all the other good material for a later post with the working title The Top Ten More Things I’m Not Missing.
- posted by Gummo Trotsky
Comments: by gummo
gummo - good to see you're back (not "your back"). I did notice you snuck in a late comment on the music questions on my pages. I thought of you the other day for the music thingo while I was cooking up a Corned Beef. On special at Bi-Lo, only $7.50 a kilo. Bloody bargain.
Welcome to Melbourne's Leafies. I can't help but agree on the cat blogging. I have found that in my few attempts at cat blogging I too find myself thinking that .."Except for the stuff I’ve done myself which is witty, insightful and in no ways sentimentally self-indulgent"
Thank you too for a new word "linkage puller". You never know, it could enter the lexicon as a name for a few bloggers I know. Merchant Banker. Linkage Puller.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 27, 2005 11:28 AM
Aaaah, cherchez le Gummo! Seek and ye shall find. (Comes over all gratefully nostalgic-like, thank you Boynton thAnk you ball boys, thank you linesm ... well, it is the season of the Wombles of the late night Channel IX common.)
John Hewson, the Lib's Alician (perchance Elysian) cheshire cat. I did but see it passing by ... I think ... in a fading sort of way ... and yet I love it till I die.
(Mind you I've always lacked the requisite vote-winning 'incentivation' so what would I know? F'tang, f'tang, oompa-loompa short and stout ... Guinness ... 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.)
Posted by Flange Desire at June 27, 2005 07:21 PM
Came here to state for Comrade Trotsky, how sorry I was for him needing traffic noise in order to sleep . .and needing AM (whatever that is) to inspire a blogpost . .then got totally distracted by FX's 'linkage puller' as in 'get your hand off it' and further distracted by Ms Flange Desire whose Comment was really impressing me as in 'who is this, obviously too clever to be reading blogs, should be running the damn country sorta thing' but Flange honey, you rooned it by explaining (the brilliant) Alician -never 'explain'- let 'em go without, and Comrade T, suburbia 'dissolves into the sticks' like lava flow thanks, and....what was my punch line? *tunes radio*
Posted by Crystal at June 28, 2005 09:14 PM
I'd be lost without a canine number seven myself, but even as a sentimental soul, I'm starting to think my own dog blogging has lost its bite.
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2005 12:24 PM
Here! Here!
Posted by at June 29, 2005 04:06 PM
1. Great to see you out and about in the blogosphere again Gummo, you old so-and-so Ent you.
2. Which reminds of something I completely forgot.
3. Which is that the last stuff you sent me I should do some stuff with.
4. And that I should also my extract my digit and send you some of my stuff so you can do stuff with it too.
5. Your email adress remains unchanged? If not, let me know at my unchanged email address.
6. Great to see you out and about again - as per point one.
7. See 6.
8."Steamboy" is OK, but not as good as "Spirited Away" or "Princess Monoke".
9. See 7.
10. There is no point ten.
Posted by at June 30, 2005 02:50 AM
11. Remember to put name to comment.
Posted by Nabakov at June 30, 2005 02:51 AM
Cheers Gummo. Hope you get some sleep.
Posted by cs at June 30, 2005 11:38 AM
Good night ... But, where is evil when you need him ;-?
Posted by Jozef Imrich at July 2, 2005 07:50 PM
This just in:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=carruthers%20too%20quiet&btnG=Search&meta=
Posted by boynton at July 5, 2005 11:10 AM
(which does make one pine for the 'potemkin.)
The Top Ten Things I’m Not Missing
I’m in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, at the fringe where suburbia dissolves into the sticks, dog-sitting. It’s very quiet, Carruthers, too damn quiet. Will this accursed silence never cease? The natives are restful tonight; I’m not. Damn this silence; I want traffic noise! Will they never start driving so I can get some sleep?
That state of mind is what got me back onto the web in the wee smalls of this morning, lurking a few of the blogs that I used to be so scrupulous about visiting daily and finally dipping my toe in the water by posting comments at a couple of sites. Then it occurred to me that this was a little like dipping your toe in the waters of the mythical Amazon where the legendary piranha fish hang out, or half-consciously relaxing your urethra in the real Amazon.
A few weeks ago, Your site host Ms Boynton suggested I might like to do a guest post on the things I don’t miss about blogging; I gave her a sincere non-promise to do so. Today, I’ve decided to get my bum into the typing chair and deliver, if only to remind myself of a few of the reasons why I’m not (really) doing this blogging thing any more.
1. Waking up to AM every morning, so I can pick up something topical to write about.
2. Resisting the temptation to slip in the “I shoved John Hewson under the tram and he still wouldn’t bloody shut up and then I woke up and he was on the radio” anecdote.
3. The sneaking suspicion that I must have slipped it in to a post, but I’m not sure which one.
4. Searching the damn blog archive for “John Hewson” just to make sure I haven’t ever used it.
5. Getting a hot topic from AM which you know you can turn into a real linkage puller with a brilliant punch-line and then forgetting the punch-line.
6. Writing a brilliant linkage puller, posting it, then checking round the blogs later that day to discover that everybody’s decided to write about Britney Spears instead.
7. Cat blogging. Except for the stuff I’ve done myself which is witty, insightful and in no ways sentimentally self-indulgent.
8. Setting out to do a top ten post and getting stuck at nine.
9. Finding Evil Pundit’s name all over every comment thread of every damn blog you go to like a graffiti tag and the inevitable arguments over whether it’s art or vandalism or good art but very shoddy vandalism.
10. Having to choose between the very obvious stop at nine gag, the equally obvious going up to 11 gag, changing it to a top 40 and putting aside all the other good material for a later post with the working title The Top Ten More Things I’m Not Missing.
- posted by Gummo Trotsky
Comments: by gummo
gummo - good to see you're back (not "your back"). I did notice you snuck in a late comment on the music questions on my pages. I thought of you the other day for the music thingo while I was cooking up a Corned Beef. On special at Bi-Lo, only $7.50 a kilo. Bloody bargain.
Welcome to Melbourne's Leafies. I can't help but agree on the cat blogging. I have found that in my few attempts at cat blogging I too find myself thinking that .."Except for the stuff I’ve done myself which is witty, insightful and in no ways sentimentally self-indulgent"
Thank you too for a new word "linkage puller". You never know, it could enter the lexicon as a name for a few bloggers I know. Merchant Banker. Linkage Puller.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 27, 2005 11:28 AM
Aaaah, cherchez le Gummo! Seek and ye shall find. (Comes over all gratefully nostalgic-like, thank you Boynton thAnk you ball boys, thank you linesm ... well, it is the season of the Wombles of the late night Channel IX common.)
John Hewson, the Lib's Alician (perchance Elysian) cheshire cat. I did but see it passing by ... I think ... in a fading sort of way ... and yet I love it till I die.
(Mind you I've always lacked the requisite vote-winning 'incentivation' so what would I know? F'tang, f'tang, oompa-loompa short and stout ... Guinness ... 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.)
Posted by Flange Desire at June 27, 2005 07:21 PM
Came here to state for Comrade Trotsky, how sorry I was for him needing traffic noise in order to sleep . .and needing AM (whatever that is) to inspire a blogpost . .then got totally distracted by FX's 'linkage puller' as in 'get your hand off it' and further distracted by Ms Flange Desire whose Comment was really impressing me as in 'who is this, obviously too clever to be reading blogs, should be running the damn country sorta thing' but Flange honey, you rooned it by explaining (the brilliant) Alician -never 'explain'- let 'em go without, and Comrade T, suburbia 'dissolves into the sticks' like lava flow thanks, and....what was my punch line? *tunes radio*
Posted by Crystal at June 28, 2005 09:14 PM
I'd be lost without a canine number seven myself, but even as a sentimental soul, I'm starting to think my own dog blogging has lost its bite.
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2005 12:24 PM
Here! Here!
Posted by at June 29, 2005 04:06 PM
1. Great to see you out and about in the blogosphere again Gummo, you old so-and-so Ent you.
2. Which reminds of something I completely forgot.
3. Which is that the last stuff you sent me I should do some stuff with.
4. And that I should also my extract my digit and send you some of my stuff so you can do stuff with it too.
5. Your email adress remains unchanged? If not, let me know at my unchanged email address.
6. Great to see you out and about again - as per point one.
7. See 6.
8."Steamboy" is OK, but not as good as "Spirited Away" or "Princess Monoke".
9. See 7.
10. There is no point ten.
Posted by at June 30, 2005 02:50 AM
11. Remember to put name to comment.
Posted by Nabakov at June 30, 2005 02:51 AM
Cheers Gummo. Hope you get some sleep.
Posted by cs at June 30, 2005 11:38 AM
Good night ... But, where is evil when you need him ;-?
Posted by Jozef Imrich at July 2, 2005 07:50 PM
This just in:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=carruthers%20too%20quiet&btnG=Search&meta=
Posted by boynton at July 5, 2005 11:10 AM
Saturday, June 25, 2005
tennis
Tennis game via the presurfer
Tennis match
Comments: tennis
Hah! Call that a tennis game? Where's the chip and charge option?
Hah! Call that a tennis court? Where's the ashtray and eskie?
Posted by Nabakov at June 30, 2005 03:00 AM
and not a PERDRIAU in sight.
http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/85
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 10:54 AM
btw:
was going to post this Tennis party:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/21750/B21746.htm
which reminded me of something...
This image (from a year ago):
http://www.alternity.co.uk/a-g20.html
Spooky - hah!
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 11:06 AM
Tennis match
Comments: tennis
Hah! Call that a tennis game? Where's the chip and charge option?
Hah! Call that a tennis court? Where's the ashtray and eskie?
Posted by Nabakov at June 30, 2005 03:00 AM
and not a PERDRIAU in sight.
http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/85
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 10:54 AM
btw:
was going to post this Tennis party:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/21750/B21746.htm
which reminded me of something...
This image (from a year ago):
http://www.alternity.co.uk/a-g20.html
Spooky - hah!
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 11:06 AM
Friday, June 24, 2005
listening
PopArchives has a blog
Music and sidetracks of the 50s, 60s and 70s, more or less related, or not, to my Australian song history site PopArchives.com.au.
Through a post on The Bearded Beatle I followed the link to Bluehaze Solutions' Multimedia Vault - a treasure trove of audio and nostalgia.
I've listened to Commercials and other bits....
a brief selection of 1970's Australian sound (radio) commercials from the tape archives here
which includes the classic Amoco ad on Part 1 (6:27)
More Beatles at Flobberlob
(with some Peter Sellers and ( previoulsy) a Gloucester Cheese sample)
see also Beatles accordionists
Comments: listening...
Can't get enough of those Beatles. Love, love me do...
Posted by Patry at June 24, 2005 12:41 PM
8 days a week
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 03:01 PM
Not to mention pub trivia nights!
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 24, 2005 06:51 PM
What album's that one off, Wicky?
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2005 05:10 PM
It's been a hard day's night.
But I'm still working on that ...uhm
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 25, 2005 05:10 PM
Beats me, Tone... I'm still trying to figure out who are the Beetles?
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 29, 2005 05:01 AM
Music and sidetracks of the 50s, 60s and 70s, more or less related, or not, to my Australian song history site PopArchives.com.au.
Through a post on The Bearded Beatle I followed the link to Bluehaze Solutions' Multimedia Vault - a treasure trove of audio and nostalgia.
I've listened to Commercials and other bits....
a brief selection of 1970's Australian sound (radio) commercials from the tape archives here
which includes the classic Amoco ad on Part 1 (6:27)
More Beatles at Flobberlob
(with some Peter Sellers and ( previoulsy) a Gloucester Cheese sample)
see also Beatles accordionists
Comments: listening...
Can't get enough of those Beatles. Love, love me do...
Posted by Patry at June 24, 2005 12:41 PM
8 days a week
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 03:01 PM
Not to mention pub trivia nights!
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 24, 2005 06:51 PM
What album's that one off, Wicky?
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2005 05:10 PM
It's been a hard day's night.
But I'm still working on that ...uhm
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 25, 2005 05:10 PM
Beats me, Tone... I'm still trying to figure out who are the Beetles?
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 29, 2005 05:01 AM
Thursday, June 23, 2005
music meme
I was tagged by mallrat - who wrote an inspiring post on music and memory, showing there's life in the old meme yet.
Total volume of music on your computer:
Now there's an idea...
The last album you purchased was:
Yesterday for fifty cents. I bought it for the cover.
Andre Kostelanetz Strauss Waltzes
I grew up with it, and oft gazed at those purple flowers now understood to be irises.
Having just written about Hair in the dreaded childhood relativism genre (merit is proportional to the level of associated meaning, so there) I didn't hesitate to acquire a copy of old beloved picture, hard copy of abtsract memory.
I remember reading an article by Alex Ross (via Hot Buttered Death*) which suggested the evocative power of record covers in childhood:The look and feel of the records were inseparable from the sound they made.
( and The Rest is Noise blog was another music find yesterday)
Meanwhile, googling Kosty:
Song playing right now:
One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz
Five songs you’ve been listening to a lot recently, from several genres:
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Tag 5...
Any bloggers who want to muse on the meme and/or vary the theme.
(Update: I suspect an open invitation is rarely taken up y'know - so how about :
TT, db, ramage, t and t in addition to anyone...)
Comments: music meme
As soon as I get to that literary one from a while ago- maybe I'll even do both on the same day!
Maybe today!
Or tonight which it rapidly becomes, here.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/o/workfort.htm
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 24, 2005 11:21 AM
Yes and I was worrying about TAG or NACHT.
I mean, to tag or nicht.
Such tagging is of course an open invitation, but very chuffed you'll be taking it up.
(That hymnal is a jukebox/resource I could have used...)
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 11:44 AM
btw - I misunderstood the flowers again.
They do not seem to be irises at all today.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 12:23 PM
yes, the flowers look somewhat orchid-ish from the small pic...
Posted by terry at June 30, 2005 12:10 PM
Hmm - could be
http://troyb.com/photo/gallery/028-36-PurpleFlower.htm
or somewhere b/w an orchid and a trumpet lily, perhaps.
http://lilies.blomsbulbs.com/newvariety.cfm
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 12:28 PM
Total volume of music on your computer:
Now there's an idea...
The last album you purchased was:
Yesterday for fifty cents. I bought it for the cover.
Andre Kostelanetz Strauss Waltzes
I grew up with it, and oft gazed at those purple flowers now understood to be irises.
Having just written about Hair in the dreaded childhood relativism genre (merit is proportional to the level of associated meaning, so there) I didn't hesitate to acquire a copy of old beloved picture, hard copy of abtsract memory.
I remember reading an article by Alex Ross (via Hot Buttered Death*) which suggested the evocative power of record covers in childhood:The look and feel of the records were inseparable from the sound they made.
( and The Rest is Noise blog was another music find yesterday)
Meanwhile, googling Kosty:
Kostelanetz albums are standard thrift store fare these days, so if you're longing for a taste of what life in modern offices and retail stores was like before the onslaught of "Easy Oldies" or "adult contemporary music" or "smooth jazz," pop down to your local Goodwill and pick up a two-sider of Kosty--anyone will do. You may lose consciousness before the first side is over, but for just a moment, things will seem more placid and hopeful. So you're not making a million on E*Trade. So you're not endowed with a wireless integrated messaging appliance yet. These, too, shall pass.... Space age pop
Song playing right now:
One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz
Five songs you’ve been listening to a lot recently, from several genres:
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Tag 5...
Any bloggers who want to muse on the meme and/or vary the theme.
(Update: I suspect an open invitation is rarely taken up y'know - so how about :
TT, db, ramage, t and t in addition to anyone...)
Comments: music meme
As soon as I get to that literary one from a while ago- maybe I'll even do both on the same day!
Maybe today!
Or tonight which it rapidly becomes, here.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/o/workfort.htm
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 24, 2005 11:21 AM
Yes and I was worrying about TAG or NACHT.
I mean, to tag or nicht.
Such tagging is of course an open invitation, but very chuffed you'll be taking it up.
(That hymnal is a jukebox/resource I could have used...)
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 11:44 AM
btw - I misunderstood the flowers again.
They do not seem to be irises at all today.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2005 12:23 PM
yes, the flowers look somewhat orchid-ish from the small pic...
Posted by terry at June 30, 2005 12:10 PM
Hmm - could be
http://troyb.com/photo/gallery/028-36-PurpleFlower.htm
or somewhere b/w an orchid and a trumpet lily, perhaps.
http://lilies.blomsbulbs.com/newvariety.cfm
Posted by boynton at June 30, 2005 12:28 PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
hunches
One of the minor incidents in a memorable week involved Bronte, the Jack Russell terrier, being attacked by a Rottweiler in the park.
Or - according to her official history as typed by the vet:
Biten by rooti over hunches
But there were no hunches at the time. No inklings or portents around the park at all.
Or - according to her official history as typed by the vet:
Biten by rooti over hunches
But there were no hunches at the time. No inklings or portents around the park at all.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
weeding
University library dumps rare books
A spokesperson for the university said: "We had only a very short window to remove a large quantity of books."
via wood s lot
An old problem? Anger grows after British Library junks rare books August 2000
Weeding isn’t just for Gardens
Actually if you google library books + dumpster you see a fair bit of weeding activity, furtive and otherwise.
A few specialist stories: A Chiropractic Library in the Dumpster
A few Dumpsters and anonymous tipsters
All About Deselection for Librarians - a lighter view.
Comments: weeding
Incredible really. You can understand if the books are just worn out novels, or mouldy or something, but the BL? Throwing away deposit copies? Bloody hell. I read somewhere about a USA university burying books they could no longer "afford" to store.
Posted by laura at June 21, 2005 08:30 PM
Important note: Ron Sexsmith on The Basement tonight ABC TV I think
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 21, 2005 08:50 PM
Burial. Very Grave.
In the last link they suggest a bonfire.
Tongue in cheek. I think. Who knows.
FX - Thank you!! Would have missed it! I'm a big fan.
I think I caught it last time - but liked it enough to watch again! Another Corner gig I missed, damnit.
btw - general music note. I wonder if you have seen this blog?
http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/
Posted by boynton at June 21, 2005 09:03 PM
Whatever happened to the good old fashioned table with books labelled 'FOR SALE'? Or did a surplus of thousands of books just appear in a stealthy fashion?
Questions only answerable by Miss Marple.
"That's Christie. Was 3rd row down on the left but those were moved. If you go out the back and take 32 steps east and dig you'll find it there".
Posted by Russell Allen at June 22, 2005 08:53 PM
Over the years I've done pretty well at the tables, at the local reading/weeding establishment.
I've never tried digging for books, though.
Posted by boynton at June 22, 2005 11:50 PM
The deselecting/weeding process was my least favourite part of my library training. At my local library one day I was given a list of items that had been deselected from the children's section and told to go pull them from the shelves. I hated that. Not because it was hard, but because I didn't like the idea of having to do it. I know libraries have only limited space and resources, especially public ones, but I think people have a view of libraries as repositories of books and other things.
That said, I'd understand it better if the library at least tried to sell or donate the things rather than just throw them out. And whichever clown at the BL came up with the policy of discarding last copies should be shot.
Posted by James Russell at June 23, 2005 12:17 AM
Would it be infra dig to comment that the safest place for a Chiropractic Library would be in a dumpster?
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 23, 2005 01:36 PM
Nice to have an insider's perspective, James, and I think the idea of de-selection might weed me out as a potential Librarian. I can see the obvious necessity, but have let my own collection run wild.
It's scary to think that occasionally you might have a rogue minimalist in charge of the aesthetics though.
The remark, like the fate of the books, might be considered spineless, FX.
Posted by boynton at June 23, 2005 07:37 PM
A spokesperson for the university said: "We had only a very short window to remove a large quantity of books."
via wood s lot
An old problem? Anger grows after British Library junks rare books August 2000
Weeding isn’t just for Gardens
Weeding the collection is a somewhat furtive activity that librarians engage in. There are even a number of euphemisms that we in the profession employ in order to disguise our actual activity. “De-selecting” is a very proactive word we sometimes use, trying to convey the active engagement of the weeder with the weeded, so to speak. “De-accessing” is a more passive description, suggesting the weeded books just sort of evaporate into the ozone. But, truth to tell, there’s a strong feeling of defensiveness among librarians about the whole activity of weeding...
Actually if you google library books + dumpster you see a fair bit of weeding activity, furtive and otherwise.
A few specialist stories: A Chiropractic Library in the Dumpster
A few Dumpsters and anonymous tipsters
All About Deselection for Librarians - a lighter view.
Comments: weeding
Incredible really. You can understand if the books are just worn out novels, or mouldy or something, but the BL? Throwing away deposit copies? Bloody hell. I read somewhere about a USA university burying books they could no longer "afford" to store.
Posted by laura at June 21, 2005 08:30 PM
Important note: Ron Sexsmith on The Basement tonight ABC TV I think
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 21, 2005 08:50 PM
Burial. Very Grave.
In the last link they suggest a bonfire.
Tongue in cheek. I think. Who knows.
FX - Thank you!! Would have missed it! I'm a big fan.
I think I caught it last time - but liked it enough to watch again! Another Corner gig I missed, damnit.
btw - general music note. I wonder if you have seen this blog?
http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/
Posted by boynton at June 21, 2005 09:03 PM
Whatever happened to the good old fashioned table with books labelled 'FOR SALE'? Or did a surplus of thousands of books just appear in a stealthy fashion?
Questions only answerable by Miss Marple.
"That's Christie. Was 3rd row down on the left but those were moved. If you go out the back and take 32 steps east and dig you'll find it there".
Posted by Russell Allen at June 22, 2005 08:53 PM
Over the years I've done pretty well at the tables, at the local reading/weeding establishment.
I've never tried digging for books, though.
Posted by boynton at June 22, 2005 11:50 PM
The deselecting/weeding process was my least favourite part of my library training. At my local library one day I was given a list of items that had been deselected from the children's section and told to go pull them from the shelves. I hated that. Not because it was hard, but because I didn't like the idea of having to do it. I know libraries have only limited space and resources, especially public ones, but I think people have a view of libraries as repositories of books and other things.
That said, I'd understand it better if the library at least tried to sell or donate the things rather than just throw them out. And whichever clown at the BL came up with the policy of discarding last copies should be shot.
Posted by James Russell at June 23, 2005 12:17 AM
Would it be infra dig to comment that the safest place for a Chiropractic Library would be in a dumpster?
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 23, 2005 01:36 PM
Nice to have an insider's perspective, James, and I think the idea of de-selection might weed me out as a potential Librarian. I can see the obvious necessity, but have let my own collection run wild.
It's scary to think that occasionally you might have a rogue minimalist in charge of the aesthetics though.
The remark, like the fate of the books, might be considered spineless, FX.
Posted by boynton at June 23, 2005 07:37 PM
Monday, June 20, 2005
super copy
It’s Supercar – 1968 Mazda 110S brochure - Now at last, WHAMMO! it’s here
via grow a brain
The Mazda 110 S had to be as good as we thought it was. We couldn’t afford to make any mistakes. So we tested our car. And tested it . And tested it. Which is where the moon comes in…
We tested it so much - that we drove it the equivalent of three times to the moon ... Moon and Miscellany
via grow a brain
Saturday, June 18, 2005
fine
I was looking for the English version of Tout va très bien... or Madame-Ah! La Marquise-Ah! which I rarely have on vinyl y'know, I think on a Sidney Lipton and his Grosvenor House band record. If there was a link on the web you'd hear a better translation than this.
But I did find the original version mp3 within this collection of French songs.
(see Rétro en vrac 43 - Tout va très bien madame la Marquise )
But I did find the original version mp3 within this collection of French songs.
(see Rétro en vrac 43 - Tout va très bien madame la Marquise )
meanwhile
today on ninemsn yesterday:
Comments: meanwhile
Done! I'm so much happier now I've signed the papers. Soy latte and a lamington is it dear?
Posted by Russell Allen at June 20, 2005 08:00 PM
Ah it all falls into place...
Buying a café (latte) is a fairly realistic dream that I could aspire to.
Some day.
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2005 09:07 PM
I was a mere tea drinker for so long but now I have fulfilled my dream. I went the whole hog and went a latte. I thought about a cheap short black to start if you're going to make the investment why settle for less than the best.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 20, 2005 11:35 PM
Comments: meanwhile
Done! I'm so much happier now I've signed the papers. Soy latte and a lamington is it dear?
Posted by Russell Allen at June 20, 2005 08:00 PM
Ah it all falls into place...
Buying a café (latte) is a fairly realistic dream that I could aspire to.
Some day.
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2005 09:07 PM
I was a mere tea drinker for so long but now I have fulfilled my dream. I went the whole hog and went a latte. I thought about a cheap short black to start if you're going to make the investment why settle for less than the best.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 20, 2005 11:35 PM
Friday, June 17, 2005
feedback
On that last link I like the simplicity of the
Feedback + or -
Could simplify comments policy elsewhere in those contentious blog threads and the vexed question of civility etc. In your corner...
I must say I received one of those stray - comments out of the blue about my confusing content yesterday, eg:
WTF It has nothing 2 do with windceaters y is this even under this name
It would be much more user-friendly for someone to just hit the - feedback button in these cases.
Comments: feedback
+++++++!
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 17, 2005 07:33 PM
I would have to diasgree. I quite like it when people tell me I'm a moron because (a) it takes me down a couple of pegs, and (b) i realise that they are actually wrong and I bask in the heavenly glow of my own inflated self-worth.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 17, 2005 11:23 PM
merci etc, that'll skew my stats.
Though ideally one might have to publish a daily report on the + /- index.
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:30 PM
Ok so that's a "-" Russell?
I agree. But only so long as the negative prose is sufficently diverting. Lots of expletives about windceaters is good, and you can't beat a simple y.
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:41 PM
The good thing about blogging is the random dialogue that presents itself after a post. A +/- system then turns a blog into a "How Did You Rate This Article" kind of arrangement which is truly shithouse.
I can't believe people bother voting in that kind of thing. Like watching Today Tonight and they say 80% (read: 4 people) of viewers reckon that you shouldn't give kids red cordial. Polling blows!
Posted by Russell Allen at June 18, 2005 05:39 PM
Y, I agree. I was not 80% serious.
(Though sometimes when you see the sameold patterns in long threads it seems everything could theroetically be reduced to the basics. Gravatars, figures, worms, polls, code)
I've never trusted red cordial myself, having mistaken my sparkling wine for that cordial beverage on the odd occasion.
Posted by boynton at June 18, 2005 05:53 PM
I wonder if anyone has given their pet AI program a blogger account for a birthday present. It'd do a great job of linkblogging. Just imagine the performance it could lay on in one of those 'civil' political discussions. Feed it a policy statement and watch it rampage.
Actually, fed virtual Jaffas and technorati, it'd probably rise to the top of the sphere.
Hmmm. Now I'm starting to wonder about you "people".
Posted by kent at June 19, 2005 02:10 AM
Ħ!
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 19, 2005 11:45 AM
I remain
Cordially Yours
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 19, 2005 05:56 PM
K: Rolling Java-script down the aisles?
A: +
FX: Too much of said drink, cordially anyone's ;)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2005 12:29 PM
Feedback + or -
Could simplify comments policy elsewhere in those contentious blog threads and the vexed question of civility etc. In your corner...
I must say I received one of those stray - comments out of the blue about my confusing content yesterday, eg:
WTF It has nothing 2 do with windceaters y is this even under this name
It would be much more user-friendly for someone to just hit the - feedback button in these cases.
Comments: feedback
+++++++!
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 17, 2005 07:33 PM
I would have to diasgree. I quite like it when people tell me I'm a moron because (a) it takes me down a couple of pegs, and (b) i realise that they are actually wrong and I bask in the heavenly glow of my own inflated self-worth.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 17, 2005 11:23 PM
merci etc, that'll skew my stats.
Though ideally one might have to publish a daily report on the + /- index.
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:30 PM
Ok so that's a "-" Russell?
I agree. But only so long as the negative prose is sufficently diverting. Lots of expletives about windceaters is good, and you can't beat a simple y.
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:41 PM
The good thing about blogging is the random dialogue that presents itself after a post. A +/- system then turns a blog into a "How Did You Rate This Article" kind of arrangement which is truly shithouse.
I can't believe people bother voting in that kind of thing. Like watching Today Tonight and they say 80% (read: 4 people) of viewers reckon that you shouldn't give kids red cordial. Polling blows!
Posted by Russell Allen at June 18, 2005 05:39 PM
Y, I agree. I was not 80% serious.
(Though sometimes when you see the sameold patterns in long threads it seems everything could theroetically be reduced to the basics. Gravatars, figures, worms, polls, code)
I've never trusted red cordial myself, having mistaken my sparkling wine for that cordial beverage on the odd occasion.
Posted by boynton at June 18, 2005 05:53 PM
I wonder if anyone has given their pet AI program a blogger account for a birthday present. It'd do a great job of linkblogging. Just imagine the performance it could lay on in one of those 'civil' political discussions. Feed it a policy statement and watch it rampage.
Actually, fed virtual Jaffas and technorati, it'd probably rise to the top of the sphere.
Hmmm. Now I'm starting to wonder about you "people".
Posted by kent at June 19, 2005 02:10 AM
Ħ!
Posted by Ajax etc. at June 19, 2005 11:45 AM
I remain
Cordially Yours
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 19, 2005 05:56 PM
K: Rolling Java-script down the aisles?
A: +
FX: Too much of said drink, cordially anyone's ;)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2005 12:29 PM
Thursday, June 16, 2005
talking books
"TALKING BOOKS" ARE A NEW LITERARY MEDIUM FOR ALL.
The story of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew's history making 1947 raft voyage from South America to Polynesia, read by Welsh born actor Alan Haines. A Listening Library 16 rpm "Talking Book
Kon-Tiki and other sea stories via PCL Linkdump
Listen to the voices of many of the best writers of the English language. These uncut, behind-the-scenes interviews were the foundation of Don Swaim's long-running CBS Radio show, Book Beat
Wired for Books via Idle Type
The Spoken Word: Joyce on Tape
The story of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew's history making 1947 raft voyage from South America to Polynesia, read by Welsh born actor Alan Haines. A Listening Library 16 rpm "Talking Book
Kon-Tiki and other sea stories via PCL Linkdump
Listen to the voices of many of the best writers of the English language. These uncut, behind-the-scenes interviews were the foundation of Don Swaim's long-running CBS Radio show, Book Beat
Wired for Books via Idle Type
The Spoken Word: Joyce on Tape
blog qotd
Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble advises fellow bloggers to never write when "your life is in turmoil and/or you're unhappy." ...
A blogging QOTD (from '03) cited in Writing the codes on blogs via a media dragon
in the meantime
Comments: blog qotd
Disclaimer: not that my life is in turmoil and/or of course.
I just thought this particular prescription might kill about half the blogospherical content in one hit, or the impulse thereof anyway ;)
Posted by boynton at June 16, 2005 04:23 PM
Hell, if I followed that advice, I'd never have written a line until, probably last month.
That's why I started with political blogging- it helps to get the angst out of your system. Now that my life has a bit of serenity and order in it, I have no interest in politics whatsoever. Sport all the way for me!
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 17, 2005 05:55 PM
What? You taken up heroin, Wicky?
Posted by Tony.T at June 17, 2005 05:57 PM
Hope the serenity continues well into the Ashes tour.
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:21 PM
Sorry to hear that Ashes are turning into public relations dust ...
Posted by Jozef Imrich at June 21, 2005 12:21 AM
testing times
Posted by boynton at June 21, 2005 12:32 PM
Just gives sports bloggers more to write about.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 22, 2005 07:05 PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
blog rss poetry
Surrealist Poetry make a poem from your blog
(via Topher Tune's Times)
Comments: blog rss poetry
Blair Bollocks a meaningless
to bat Industrial War close
Superannufragilistic expialidocious now for
Doncha missim? Kicks Off! Sophie
Wonderful!
Posted by flute at June 15, 2005 01:25 PM
Sort of like it but am disappointed that all the words come from only the headings. I refreshed several times but the same words came up every time. Oh well, buggers can't be cheezers.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 15, 2005 05:19 PM
I am having a new experience. Mr Blaxland Merlot is assisting me. I did the poem tttttthing. when it mentioned Linux, I lost my bottle.
Posted by Brownie at June 15, 2005 07:06 PM
I kinda like the 'limited parameters' of headings.
As with Flute's example, it kicks rss...
(as does Mr B Merlot's input)
But if you want more, there is another at Topher Tune's that uses lotsa text.
Posted by boynton at June 16, 2005 10:36 AM
yah yah laptoplessness
singing dogs lab bites broken
yeah yeah artifacts
my favourite 78 rpm strangers
(via Topher Tune's Times)
Comments: blog rss poetry
Blair Bollocks a meaningless
to bat Industrial War close
Superannufragilistic expialidocious now for
Doncha missim? Kicks Off! Sophie
Wonderful!
Posted by flute at June 15, 2005 01:25 PM
Sort of like it but am disappointed that all the words come from only the headings. I refreshed several times but the same words came up every time. Oh well, buggers can't be cheezers.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 15, 2005 05:19 PM
I am having a new experience. Mr Blaxland Merlot is assisting me. I did the poem tttttthing. when it mentioned Linux, I lost my bottle.
Posted by Brownie at June 15, 2005 07:06 PM
I kinda like the 'limited parameters' of headings.
As with Flute's example, it kicks rss...
(as does Mr B Merlot's input)
But if you want more, there is another at Topher Tune's that uses lotsa text.
Posted by boynton at June 16, 2005 10:36 AM
artifacts
I'm starting to get the surrealist spam in my junkmail, which is quite diverting.
One even had the title Or leave Or Surrealist
Things like:
Meanwhile another from a no-nonsense botherer genre said:
Comments: artifacts
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the machines have gained the higher ground
but the water's still rising
greetings to you
estivate while the world market holds
a place for you resilient smelt
lemming forget anticipatory
you'll be amazed Alberta
Posted by Juke Moran at June 15, 2005 03:49 PM
amazed
Posted by alberta at June 16, 2005 10:38 AM
Of course, Juke, I was inspired by recent examples @ another place. Perhaps I should have linked.
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In both cases, however, the price would have been silence... And at the end of the day, it's bad news
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the more secrets you've got, the less secure you are, the idea that radio will catch on
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It is about your life, is more serious than a heart attack, and you only spite yourself to not carefully read every word here
Comments: artifacts
O spite! That FROG in winter's mud still
waiting the ants busy at their feast
and update drunk the insolence of unreply
quandary and quandary and washed in the complex bother
the machines have gained the higher ground
but the water's still rising
greetings to you
estivate while the world market holds
a place for you resilient smelt
lemming forget anticipatory
you'll be amazed Alberta
Posted by Juke Moran at June 15, 2005 03:49 PM
amazed
Posted by alberta at June 16, 2005 10:38 AM
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Posted by boynton at June 21, 2005 01:19 PM
Monday, June 13, 2005
Sunday, June 12, 2005
good times
Celebrities Playing Table Tennis via the Presurfer
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Ach, that Hillary Clinton rocks whatever she plays ;-?
Posted by Jozef Imrich at June 13, 2005 12:25 AM
You Really Got Me.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at June 13, 2005 11:55 AM
End of the season...
(well - the Table in the carport has been idle of late, alas)
Posted by boynton at June 13, 2005 01:35 PM
A lonely life?
Posted by at June 13, 2005 03:24 PM
Is that by the Kinks?
Posted by boynton at June 13, 2005 04:01 PM
No its by the desperates !
Posted by at June 13, 2005 05:08 PM
My personal favourites have to be the Governator (pic3) playing with stupidly oversized paddle ["der ball - it iz tuu small for my laser-guided tracking system"], and Donnie Osmond playing with authentic chinese grip. That guy is a pro.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 13, 2005 07:05 PM
Yes, Donnie sets the standard. That's the level of skill one expects around the Carport table here.
I wanted to include: Mr Ed.
Ginger Rogers (pic 1)
and personal favourite: Cesar Romero.
(not just for the Table Tennis, but
for the Wall Feature - which reminds me of the ornamental plant in "Mon Oncle". A feature that is very competitive in the composition, anyway)
Posted by boynton at June 13, 2005 07:44 PM
Its Ray and Dave Davies!
Posted by Brownie at June 14, 2005 10:41 AM
I like Cesar's pic too because of the vigour in his smash. I love seeing celebs be ultra-competitive in seemingly meaningless events. It's a continuation of the 'who's-got-the-biggest trailer' comp that separates the men from the boys.
Posted by Russell Allen at June 14, 2005 12:02 PM
Yep. I chose the Kinks over the Beatles. It's a great shot.
Indeed Russell - but 'seemingly' is right - there's nothing meaningless about... Ping-pong ;)
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 02:03 PM
The Village Green Table Preservation Society?
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 08:01 PM
what more can we do
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 08:26 PM
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Your shot.
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 09:06 PM
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*smash*
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 09:16 PM
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"It's rolled under there. Bugger! I can't reach. Can you?"
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 09:36 PM
(____________)
I think it's rolled under the canoe. Can you?
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(like all of the content on this blog - a true story, natch - as is my next serve)
*Smash*......
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 09:47 PM
Well then, if we've run out of ping pong balls, let's try a ....golf ball.
(Also a true story. But with an unhappy ending - "patio, younger brother, minor scalp wound, noisy recriminations, etc, etc".)
Fuck it. Cocktail time! Pass the Pimms for a sundowner. And put on "Waterloo Sunset" while yer up.
Quite out of breath there for a while. Chin chin!
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 09:56 PM
I keep my golfballs in a box by the Table tennis table. True. (10 years of collecting Studley Park found objects while walking hounds.) One night there was a terrible rumbling in the carport...golf balls all took off one by one, rolling out to the garden.
I never thought of playing Ex-treme Table tennis with them at all. Until now.
Kinks 'Greatest Hits'. cheers.
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 10:06 PM
"...while walking hounds"
Golfhounds? Bred to mush along wheeled golfbags, hand you your nine iron at a fingerclick, point yer ball in the ruff!, ruff!, sneakily piss on the others' balls - and trained not to do what comes naturally in sandtraps?
Amazed no one had seriously thought of this before. Cheap, hand-trained, tireless and much more versatile four-legged caddies, proudly sporting doggie tartan warms from the St Andrews' gift shop.
And fed the biltong tees at the end of each round.
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 11:38 PM
Yes...
http://wesleyprints.com/wholesalegallery/golf/teetime.html
A ruff aproximation of my canine team had we ever strayed on to the course to play.
Though it seems that llamas are the four-legged caddy of choice - of course this might be one of those google myths, the same bit of text doing the rounds of the google bunker?
(A fair proportion of the golf balls i my collection were indeed collected very discreetly by the Jack Russell terrier on our rounds.)
Posted by boynton at June 15, 2005 12:20 AM
Thank you for the Daze.
Posted by Tony.T at June 16, 2005 12:17 PM
One's serve is quite dazzling.
(run out of kinks)
Posted by boynton at June 16, 2005 12:44 PM
my favourite truth
Lucy:"You're all confused, aren't you?"
Jerry: "Aren't you?"
Lucy: "No."
Jerry: "Well you should be, because you're wrong about things being different because they're not the same. Things are different except in a different way. You're still the same, only I've been a fool... but I'm not now."
Lucy: "Oh."
Jerry: "So long as I'm different don't you think that... well maybe things could be the same again... only a little different, huh?" Screwball Lines
20 minutes into The Awful Truth it began to dawn on me. This wasn't the film I endorsed recently... I had confused my screwballs, and thought I was hiring My Favourite Wife. Same cast, different story. And despite the presence of Asta, The Awful Truth wasn't quite as memorable as MFW....well you know what I mean...huh?
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Never mind all that, the really Awful Truth is that Ted Turner owns all The Thin Man and Topper movies. I suppose they are on PayTV, but when I was very young they were always on TV and I loved them all. The Thin Man scripts were very risque and Nora Charles was a Very Liberated Woman.
thanks for the link to the fabulous Asta The Wonder Dog.
Posted by Brownie at June 14, 2005 10:46 AM
You know, I couldn't decide between The Awful Truth and The Thin Man the other night. Seen it once years ago - and will get it next time.
One of the things I hate about Pay TV - and the Pay Tv culture - is losing the shared experience of watching classic movies. I was lucky to watch a few midday's with my mother when 7 and 10 both ran them, not to mention Bill's Golden Years. All the lore of people's favourite movie and stars etc.
Asta is wonderful and almost the best thing about The Awful Truth *is* the hide and seek sequence. Well I've watched it several times ;)
The (long haired) Jack Russell does bear a slight resemblance...
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 01:58 PM
Best screwball comedies? No contest sister.
"His Girl Friday"
"There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey."
"No thanks - I jumped out that window a long time ago."
"I still wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
Done what?
Divorced me. It makes a man feel he's not wanted.
Oh, now look, junior... that's what divorces are FOR!"
""No. No. Keep the rooster story. That's human interest."
" Listen the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach a week before he cut his throat."
Apparently Jim McBride screened it for his cast before shooting "The Big Easy" and then had an on-set competition to see who could deliver their lines the fastest. But they still couldn't outpace Cary, Rosalind and the gang.
Having said that, "The Big Easy" is worth revisiting for its cheerful screwball attitude. Good script and director and a great cast (including John Goodman at his scene stealing best) that's clearly having a lot of fun with eachother.
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 08:24 PM
Yes - I must catch up with HGF.
as good as "Holiday" or "The Palm Beach Story" though?
or even My Fav. Wife - which has this great beginning that I thought was quite striking, almost absurd when I watched it a coupla years ago.
(er...that is, maybe not quite so striking as I thought seeing that I couldn't distimguish it for about 10 minutes. Maybe they all merge)
I need to have a proper browse next time I'm in the Video shop. I've been grabbing a quick handful of anyold 'old' titles to go with the 'blockbuster' (usually the lamest of the lot)
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 08:40 PM
Then check out "You Never Can Tell"
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0044223/
Made in 1951, post classic screwball era but a great screwball film none the less. The main character is a murdered dog, reincarnated as a human private eye still determined to protect his mistress. And with a ponytailed sidekick who was a horse in her former life.
Posted by Nabakov at June 14, 2005 08:58 PM
Dick Powell...shall do.
Apparently as a small child I was wont to say:
"When I was a horse..." (looking at a pastoral scene on motoring excursions). My sisters who believe in these things may think there's something in that.
Posted by boynton at June 14, 2005 09:24 PM
My Favourite Wife was in the abc late night teh cool Cary Grant season a couple of years ago. Think I made it as far as Mr Blandings before going in for treatment. Did MFW start off with Irene Dunn just showing up again? I seem to remember some outrageous bedroom bantering.
Posted by laura at June 17, 2005 03:59 PM
I don't know from water buffaloes, but I reckon ditto Nabakov - His Girl Friday is the best.
Posted by Tony.T at June 17, 2005 04:41 PM
I remember that CG season, Laura.
It was after the 'early Hitchcock' re-run.
They need to replay it.
Yep - MFW has Irene Dunn wandering in from the cold.
I thought it was great.
Must watch HGF soon it seems.
Still think Palm Beach Story is better...
Posted by boynton at June 17, 2005 11:13 PM
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