Over the weekend, midnightmelody decided to teach me to sing. It was interesting - the first realisation was that I tend to drift sharp and start on a new key with each new phrase. The second was that I apparently have a very clear idea of where a third is (two white notes away in non-technical terms), although am not so good at seconds or fourths. The third ( Read more... )

ozarque has been doing a series on sense-dominant language which I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks. She's also (rightly) been pointing out that there is a lot less touch-dominant language than there is other language ( Read more... )

Moved to my journal because this was getting far too far offtopic.

In response to someone on abortiondebate claiming that socialism is discredited ( I demonstrated that it is necessary for capitalism )

I should have posted about this before - but three posts in a night is probably a personal record...

In mid 2004, karen2205 started running meetups to have coffee in Borders Oxford Street on Tuesday evenings. After a month or so we started rounding off the evening with meals ( Read more... )