Goodness knows I have seen some very weird 'if you bought/liked/read/threw this book across the room, you'll like X other book' suggestions (I may have mentioned, Goodreads actually recs books on the basis that I put Some Other Book on my 'Gave Up' shelf...)
But I'm really honestly not sure that any algorithm would go 'I see you have given My ( Read more... )

This a.m. was obliged to be up and about earlier than my usual wont in order to be a Meedja Nexpert Hedjog being filmed in converse over some historical manuscript and ephemera items.
And I think this went fairly well (The Famous Shirt is surely capable of conducting that conversation all on its own without me inside it) but one can really only ( Read more... )

Though the travel was not unduly arduous: the minicab turned up slightly early and made good time to Heathrow in spite of traffic, slight hiccup at check-in when the self checkin machine wouldn't bring a luggage tag, but this was dealt with fairly expeditiously, going through security was fairly painless.
Flight was slightly delayed, but managed to ( Read more... )

Something to do while waiting for your flight instead of browsing the duty-free? Helsinki airport is decorated with stuffed hares and wolverine, and much of its rich animal life - beavers, lynx, bears - can be shot under a strict licence system.

Enquiring minds wish to know whether licences may be obtained in the departure lounge and whether guns ( Read more... )

Four, count 'em, four buses of the same number arriving at the stop the other day. (The canonical number for buses arriving simultaneously is three.)
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Went to An Event at Institution of Highah Learninz With Which I Have Been Associated In Various Ways for several decades; and am still unable to navigate: it always turns into a cross between an ( Read more... )

Or maybe these things are just confusing, because sometimes it's one thing and sometimes it's another?
Clicking on links that either open within the tab I'm in or in a new tab, and treating one as if it were the other - i.e. closing down when I should be paging back, or vice versa.
Taps that do or do not turn themselves off. Several times lately I ( Read more... )

Though perhaps not in any particular personal sense, hectic though the year has been:

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The Temptations, Ball of Confusion, 1970.
Though I find the confusion only increased by those cerise and orange getups (v 1970), the slick choreography, etc.
See also this somewhat curtailed version involving gold lame suits:

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Very annoyingly, somebody said something, or there was a conversational interaction, during one of the meals on the train (where table sharing was obligatory), which I thought, that would make an interesting discussion point whenever I next get the opportunity to post to DW...

... and then I forgot what it was.

Sorry, folks. I know it would have ( Read more... )

In This much I know: Famous people share their life lessons in today's Observer Magazine, David Bailey avers:
My greatest fear is that my dick will drop off. It's every man's worst nightmare if they're honest.

(Makes one wonder if the 60s jingle 'David Bailey/Makes love daily' was to ascertain that it was still attached...)

I'm intrigued that his ( Read more... )

And possibly causing me to judge the actual book a bit unfairly?

Anyway, the set-up is that there is a secret organisation in which the members have noms de guerre which are [names of individuals famous in a particular field].

Except, a leading character's n-de-g is that of an individual who, though famed in the wider category of which [particular ( Read more... )