We walked along it so many times when we were living in Brussels. We wrote about it briefly here. Luckily Leeds has its own Canal:
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Showing posts with label article. Show all posts
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Monday, November 1, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Lame lame lameness of the day
My new online paper of choice the independent comes through with the hard-hitting stories that matter ....
Julia Roberts smiles on crowds at Eat Pray Love premiere
Breathlessly reading the first paragraph I learnt that "... [she] lit up London with her beaming smile"
What with smiling AND standing on a brightly coloured carpet "the mother-of-three did not disappoint the hundreds of fans."
Me thinks that Julia Robert's fans' disappointment thresholds must be low.
Julia Roberts smiles on crowds at Eat Pray Love premiere
Breathlessly reading the first paragraph I learnt that "... [she] lit up London with her beaming smile"
What with smiling AND standing on a brightly coloured carpet "the mother-of-three did not disappoint the hundreds of fans."
Me thinks that Julia Robert's fans' disappointment thresholds must be low.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Norways interior
It's cut off from the road and was a location for the Empire strikes back. Travel article from the Torygraph on Norway's mountains.
Monday, August 30, 2010
'Little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well'
A US army reserve colonel posted to the international command in Afghanistan doesn't seem to be on message in Powerpoints R Us.
Random motion, ad hoc processes and an in-depth knowledge of Army minutia and acronyms are also key characteristics of a successful staff officer. Harried movement together with furrowed brows and appropriate expressions of concern a la Clint Eastwood will please the generals. Progress in the war is optional.
and:
Even one tiny flaw in a slide can halt a general's thought processes as abruptly as a computer system's blue screen of death.
I'm guessing he's currently re-experiencing the unemployment that he mentions at the head of the article.
Random motion, ad hoc processes and an in-depth knowledge of Army minutia and acronyms are also key characteristics of a successful staff officer. Harried movement together with furrowed brows and appropriate expressions of concern a la Clint Eastwood will please the generals. Progress in the war is optional.
and:
Even one tiny flaw in a slide can halt a general's thought processes as abruptly as a computer system's blue screen of death.
I'm guessing he's currently re-experiencing the unemployment that he mentions at the head of the article.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
New Europe
The Economist seems to be in a somewhat whimsical and fanciful mood. It's only gone and redrawn the European map.
Mapping stereotypes is in a similar vein. Some are funny, some less so.
Mapping stereotypes is in a similar vein. Some are funny, some less so.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Big life questions
Ever keen to provide answers, the interweb provided the answers to my questions:
Yahoo answers told me why do we have toe and fingernails?
Meanwhile, the NY times came through on my can I get my toenails removed permanently? dilemma. (Answer: yes you can; some ultramarathon runners do it; they use acid; it's a bit extreme.)
Full disclosure: I was clipping my toenails at the time
Yahoo answers told me why do we have toe and fingernails?
Meanwhile, the NY times came through on my can I get my toenails removed permanently? dilemma. (Answer: yes you can; some ultramarathon runners do it; they use acid; it's a bit extreme.)
Ultramarathoners tend to keep quiet about toenail removal, Mr. McDougall said, because they “tired of being freaks, and they don’t want to add anything more freakish to their résumé.”
Full disclosure: I was clipping my toenails at the time
Friday, September 18, 2009
Nutters
Great article by Alexander Cockburn on the state of America.
Just think - a president elected on a huge wave of popular hope, unable to twist a single arm in his own party, unlikely even to pass financial reform amid the greatest wave of public hatred of Wall Street since the 1930s, trying to pass off as health 'reform' a gift to the insurance industry of 30 million new customers, to be required by law to pony up insurance premiums and then be cheated.
and
Among these Glenn Beck legions a solid fraction were surely one stroke or tumour away from financial ruin, yet are still ready to tear to tiny pieces any advocates of publicly funded health insurance as though they were hawking the Communist Manifesto at a Christian revival meeting.
Just think - a president elected on a huge wave of popular hope, unable to twist a single arm in his own party, unlikely even to pass financial reform amid the greatest wave of public hatred of Wall Street since the 1930s, trying to pass off as health 'reform' a gift to the insurance industry of 30 million new customers, to be required by law to pony up insurance premiums and then be cheated.
and
Among these Glenn Beck legions a solid fraction were surely one stroke or tumour away from financial ruin, yet are still ready to tear to tiny pieces any advocates of publicly funded health insurance as though they were hawking the Communist Manifesto at a Christian revival meeting.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
(Un) Real?
living without money
Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal. Money is one of those intriguing things that becomes real because you believe it is real.
Back over the other side of the Atlantic Mark Boyle lived for a year without money and wrote a book about it. He was featured in The Gruinaad several times and here's an interview.
Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal. Money is one of those intriguing things that becomes real because you believe it is real.
Back over the other side of the Atlantic Mark Boyle lived for a year without money and wrote a book about it. He was featured in The Gruinaad several times and here's an interview.
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