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- Geoff (Hurst) -- Class I -- "first"
- Simon (leBonn) -- Class II:1
- Desmond (Tutu) -- Class II:2
- Douglas (Hurd) -- Class III "turd"
(I matriculated '91. And not in London.)
I grew up in the 80s, mid-way along the length of the Severn, and have very strong memories of night "fishing" for eels with my father. IIRC, the preferred method was a tangled mass of wire and standard fishing line and as many worms as we could dig up, placed in a weighted hessian sack, with holes therein. Then it was just a question of waiting. Eels went in; they could not come out.
I suppose in some small way I've contributed to their catastrophic decline. I honestly feel some guilt for that.
UK Census 2021 (England and Wales): https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/cultural...
If you are writing a screen-play.
I was waiting for this punchline; I was not disappointed. Now I can get back to figuring out mbsync has decided to stop fucking synching mailboxes.
Maybe there's a swing back in that direction with the "fediverse"?
Of course she is.
What did it for me was June 2016 (aah, Brexit), and two blokes from very different parts of my life— whom I both love for very different reasons— went to the most perverse ad hominem attacks on each other (they have never even met) on my profile. Such a weird hatred that I decided I did not want to be a part of that.
Not everyday you come across random Kafka references!
*mineral spirits
But thanks! "Animal spirits" intrigued me, so I read the entire article. A clusterfuck from top to bottom, particularly the bit about the cracked glass patterns... something better explained by thermal shock of cold water from fire-hoses on hot glass, and not the use of BBQ lighter fluid as an accelerant.
Haunting words: "I almost sent a man to die based on theories that were a load of crap."
Maybe in 100 million years? Chump change, of course, even in biological time; but then "we" won't be worrying about triangles.
And that India was fabulously, spectacularly wealthy… like all of the gold and silver (taken and squandered in China by the Spanish) from the Americas plus some to spare.
"The Anarchy" and Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" make for great reading for the armchair historian.
Are you my surgeon? About six years ago I was to undergo somewhat novel surgery and the chappie asked if he could record the procedure, it being a research hospital and all). "Sure," I said, "if you can assure me I will feel no pain."
He said that he could not promise that, but they he could assure me I would not remember it even if it did.
And that's the alpha and the omega of my philosophizing. If I can't remember it happening, did it even? How does this map to criminal justice?
Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever device.'
Mitochondria would like a word… I mean, almost all eukaryotes have 'em.
(and those aren't speaker grills either; just aesthetic markings)
https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/classical-indian-phil...
> The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
~ https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Ecclesiasticus-Chapter-...
That I came across when reading the Bible in English (the OT later in Latin because Enya, strangely enough, and then much of the NT in Greek). Not because my parents, nor I, were religious, but just because it was there, and I had time for such diversions precisely because I was so not required to study much at school. Considered a bit of a dunce, you see.
Chose my undergraduate university based on it's motto, back in English that's something like "these days of leisure foster learning". Chose PERL because I seem to recall Larry Wall saying something about programmers should be lazy.
And that lead me to a career adminning Solaris boxen.
Ain't life funny!