Poll just for insomnius

Ok you guys*, so I have decided to start a proper public blog (as opposed to my occasional ramblings and rantings on this journal, which I don't expect to be read by anyone except my friends and sometimes not even them), ie something which might be entertaining and/or useful to the world at large. In my travels these last few years, I have ( Read more... )

Today is obviously a good day for things arriving in the mail -- I've just been sent a free inspection copy (to keep!) of David DeGrazia's "Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status", which is exactly what I needed to support Chapter 3 of my dissertation, didn't have when I was writing it but will gleefully make use of in writing the ( Read more... )

can't work, brain'll eat me ( Read more... )

Further to my previous post about flavours and colours of chips crisps I-still-call-them-chips-dammit! I have decided to waste some time by making a poll. I don't care if you have more than one possible answer - just pick the first one that comes into your head. No checkboxes for you ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the ways in which people post memes, and how my preferred style of posting memes in my journal is a product of how I react to other people's meme postings. I'm sure we've all experienced the annoyance of having an entire page of f-list filled with variants of the same meme with huge graphics that take ages to load, or ( Read more... )

Reading your f-list for distraction (because I need to waste more time on things that are not work, given how much of it I currently have to do!!) is not much use during that uneventful window of time when everyone, wherever in the world they are, is either about to go to sleep or has just woken up and not posted to LJ yet. So instead I shall ( Read more... )