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Continue reading →: European conventions
Europe has a wealth of cultural differences that blend into a pleasing melange. Whether it’s music, food, literature or philosophical outlook, we Europeans and many non-Europeans cherish those differences. Take the legal framework in the EU. We elect a whole bunch of European politicians and ministers serviced by thousands of…
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Continue reading →: Friday feelings
Oh what joy, what utter bliss. Thursday has given way to Friday like a courtier bowing in the presence of greatness. All powerful Friday needs no courtiers. It is the people’s champion raised shoulder high and carried into the arena of weekending with the roars and whooping of a feverish…
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Continue reading →: Can you hear me Neil Armstrong?
One small step, one giant leap…Neil Armstrong, the iconic figure, the perfect sound bite. David Bowie’s album in 1969 captured the feel of space exploration, the journey into the unknown with huge risks taken by pioneers such as Neil Armstrong. There was something surreal about sitting around the family television…
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Continue reading →: The quintessential 10 minute blog
Oh yes, loads of time this morning – so I’ll get stuck in… Friday from the Norse god Freyja who pillaged and raped her way around the Arctic Circle causing mayhem and panic among reindeer and Inuits. To appease her wrath young children were sacrificed, to no avail. Eventually some…
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Continue reading →: just a minute
Yes a one minute blog is all I can spare today, so the subject has to be space/time. If Albert Einstein had travelled in a Ferrrari at the same time as Heidegger’s cat took a taxi to the Brooklyn Bridge via Tipperary, how many sparrows would it take to change…
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Continue reading →: Jenga – Unofficial Rules
Jenga is a game played with rectangular wooden blocks that stack into a tower with 3 bricks per layer. The object of the game is to deconstruct then reconstruct in a way that makes the tower precariously difficult for the next player to remove a brick without the whole thing…
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Continue reading →: Twaddle
There is far too little twaddle available to the drinking classes. To remedy this sad situation I advocate mass rallies, facebook campaigns and the boycotting of common sense for an undisclosed period of time (or until everyone lightens up). The human condition is permanently risible, so there is very little…
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Continue reading →: Intellectual – copy right?
The current vogue for nicking anything that is digitally available is an area where Immanuel Kant and his moral imperatives carries little weight, except in the legal profession or among academics. My own view is that shared use for non-profit is very different to purloining what is not yours for…
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Continue reading →: Subversion – turn it up?
Turning a thing on its head can be amusing, but mostly you just get the opposite. Subvert a revolution, and give birth to a dictator. Start an uprising, overturn the old order, and get a new order with all the idealism and passion of those wet behind the ears, and…
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Continue reading →: InkInk, the sort that comes in bottles and the discerning or old-fashioned writer dips his or her nib (or possibly quill) into before drawing out words of wisdom on the page or vellum. Ink appeals to a certain type of writer, the lover of letters the admirer of calligraphy. You…
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