The weather is now sufficiently cool that I can enjoy a steaming cup of tea ( Read more... )

The EU negotiator is a dead ringer for Cameron Diaz.

20 hours on planes, with a 10-hour layover - surprisingly pleasant ( Read more... )

Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal compares humanity to fish, which swim through the oceans without any idea of the properties of the water in which they spend their lives.

Zhuangzi: Fish: What is water?

I wonder whether it is possible to be subversive through the mere act of existence.

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This may have been a day of disasters for me (at home and to a lesser extent, at work), but I remain confident of one thing...

One can never be too blase to remain unsurprised by this weird old world.

Take for example, the discovery of a giant coral-devastating worm:


Aquarists at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay have discovered the identity ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I resigned from my job.

Then again, I also dreamt I was a ranger in Ithilien, laying false trails to disguise my passage.

We'll just ignore those, shall we?

Instead of declaring our moods, we should simply declare what's on our bedside tables. Here's a possible dictionary of moods by books:

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
"Exhausted. Feel invisible. Foresee long hard slog + many a detour."

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Read more... )