On Home-grown Terror, Stupidity, and Dawkins
It is easy to see why certain people get killed. The inventor of the kazoo, for instance, is just one in a line of many inventors of children's noisy toys whose fate, had he found a gruesome and untimely death, would have left many parents cold. I don't think he would have lastest long under the new home-grown terror rules that make up the Patriot Act, especially having been a foreign national and all.
The reason for this outburst is that the kid in the upstairs flat has some sort of children's keyboard which has pre-recorded music as well as sound effects. Hearing Frère Jacques interjected with the sounds of a cookoo clock and Eine kleine Nachtmusik being "finished off" with a boing and that repetitively, makes you wonder what kind of mediaeval tortures are still legal to use on inventors in Scotland?
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I managed something fascinatingly dumb the other day. In fact, it was stupidity to the point of ingeniousness. I somehow created a situation whereby I had locked myself in AND out at the same time. How?
Well, I routinely lock the front door, so that explains why I ended up being locked in. The door to my room has a knob on the inside and a handle on the outside connected by a bolt. Unfortunately, the knob end comes out together with the bolt because there is no pin. So I pulled my door shut not knowing that the knob was loose and consequently couldn't open the open the door to my room.
I thought, sod it, I'm going to the bookcrossing meetup and deal with it later which is when I realised that the keys to the flat as well as the screwdriver were in my room so I had to unscrew the handle with a spoon because none of the knives were thin enough.
Richard Dawkins appeared on a German political talk show. Apparently, he was the only one on the atheist side which, given that he was the only non-German speaker, was deemed to be quite unfair by the papers who covered it. One paper wrote that the only thing that was missing were a Rabbi and an Imam to complete the tribunal.
It wasn't his audience anyway. Or perhaps not yet as US evangelicals slowly make their way into Germany. I'd write more about it but it's all in German so for those interested, here's the best article, found in Die Welt.
Comic of the Day:
The reason for this outburst is that the kid in the upstairs flat has some sort of children's keyboard which has pre-recorded music as well as sound effects. Hearing Frère Jacques interjected with the sounds of a cookoo clock and Eine kleine Nachtmusik being "finished off" with a boing and that repetitively, makes you wonder what kind of mediaeval tortures are still legal to use on inventors in Scotland?
dimdalimdalim DAM dim dalim Dam Dam, dimdalimdalim DAM dim dadi Dam Dam boioioioioing! Ahhh
I managed something fascinatingly dumb the other day. In fact, it was stupidity to the point of ingeniousness. I somehow created a situation whereby I had locked myself in AND out at the same time. How?
Well, I routinely lock the front door, so that explains why I ended up being locked in. The door to my room has a knob on the inside and a handle on the outside connected by a bolt. Unfortunately, the knob end comes out together with the bolt because there is no pin. So I pulled my door shut not knowing that the knob was loose and consequently couldn't open the open the door to my room.
I thought, sod it, I'm going to the bookcrossing meetup and deal with it later which is when I realised that the keys to the flat as well as the screwdriver were in my room so I had to unscrew the handle with a spoon because none of the knives were thin enough.
Richard Dawkins appeared on a German political talk show. Apparently, he was the only one on the atheist side which, given that he was the only non-German speaker, was deemed to be quite unfair by the papers who covered it. One paper wrote that the only thing that was missing were a Rabbi and an Imam to complete the tribunal.
It wasn't his audience anyway. Or perhaps not yet as US evangelicals slowly make their way into Germany. I'd write more about it but it's all in German so for those interested, here's the best article, found in Die Welt.
Comic of the Day: