Never mentioned, in my agitato post on Monday, that the day had begun with turning on my phone to discover a text telling me I had a voicemail as of first thing from my sister -
- this in fact turned out to be a blip by her phone and there was no family crisis.
Phew.
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The solution I thought I had attained to logging in to old workplace email ( Read more... )

O the weirdness:

Isabella Rossellini transforms into a migrating salmon with nothing more than goggles, a body-stocking and an elaborate paper hat, and waits for a worthy mate to notice her.
Welcome to the quirky world of Seduce Me, the latest series of disarming short films from the 58-year-old actress, model and ex-wife of Martin Scorsese best ( Read more... )

One of the kiosks adjacent to the up escalator from the tube at Euston had its shutters down this morning (it's usually open and doing business selling chewing gum, bottled water, etc, when I pass).

Note stuck to the shutter:
Back in 5 mins
|
v
14.05

This was well past 09.00 hrs the following morning....

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O dear PSC, point thah u have misst it, I fear:
When we first started sleeping together, my boyfriend was unable to climax, despite our best efforts. However he initiated sex again while I was sleeping and through this he was able to climax. This has become a regular problem - not able to climax, and then waking me up later in the night. It's not ( Read more... )

Because mummified heads are always popular around these parts:
Skull of French king Henri IV returned to royal family after 200 years. Head looted centuries ago by revolutionaries given to chief of Bourbon dynasty after being identified by team of scientists.
Henri died in 1610 but his skull was pillaged from a grave near Paris during the 18th- ( Read more... )

Email via my work inbox: which propitiously enough begins by addressing me by my actual surname + academic title:
We have learned of your published research on the philosophy of [*]. We would like to invite your participation in our publishing program. In particular, I have in mind a new research or review article for an edited collection ( ( Read more... )

You know, I can quite get behind the idea of studying pre-modern music by looking at the musical instruments in paintings and trying to reconstruct them and seeing what they sound like.

Howsomedever, I would not start with the musical instruments in the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch...

Which were surely intended to be unplayable, except, possibly ( Read more... )

Freedom of speech means that people are also free not to listen. You may speak, but you are not guaranteed an audience. Even if the audience can't get away in an immediate instance, they may be actually or mentally sticking their fingers in their ears and going 'Lala can't hear you', or, like Dr Johnson on encountering a bore, withdrawing their ( Read more... )

Feeling inordinately tired today, which may be a combination of a fairly hectic week + working yesterday. Still: off to Grayshott tomorrow!

Latest news on the computer monitor thing is that it seems to starting up okay first time once more, but thanks for the suggestions.

I was going to do a reading post (which I haven't done for months), but my ( Read more... )

I am having odd and worrying Thing happening with my desktop computer over the last 2-3 days.

I turn it on. The indicator light on the monitor comes on and something appears to be happening but there is just a black screen, with occasional flickering, the fleeting images from which suggest the usual bootup sequence is actually happening.

As I can't ( Read more... )