Archive for January, 2006

Life rating?

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

This Is My Life, Rated

Life:

7.1

Mind:

7

Body:

8.4

Spirit:

6.5

Friends/Family:

4.8

Love:

5

Finance:

6.9

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Overheard on the street: “she’s out”

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Walking down Second Avenue today, and overheard this lovely gem. Three guys were walking down the street, and one of them was apparently regaling the other two with tales of his new girlfriend.
guy: …yeah, but this new girl, she knows what time it is. Right now, everything’s cool, but I told her if […]

Note to self: no parrots

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

This little article popped up today via CNN.com.
You can read for yourself, but to summarize in a nutshell: some guy’s girlfriend was having an affair, bringing her lover back to an apartment she shared with her boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, she was talking while with her lover, and his parrot began repeating things she […]

President Wong Kar Wai

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

According to a BBC article, Wong Kar Wai has been chosen as the president of the jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
He apparently released a statement which contained an amusingly Wong Kar Wai-ish quote: “Every town has its own language. In Cannes, it’s the language of dream.” Mm-hmm…

Anyhow, I had to steal […]

New Blog

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Welcome to my new blog. I’m just setting it up now, and I will be migrating old posts from old blogs in the future, just so it’s all safe and sound in one place.
I’ll comment on anything and everything here that happens to strike my fancy; so it might seem a bit on the […]

Too Many People

Friday, January 6th, 2006

This BBC article gives some sense of reassurance to someone like me who is constantly frustrated by people’s desire to see what they want instead of what is right in front of them.
Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley: “facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them”.
The environment is obviously a tremendously important topic for human beings, […]

Turkey diagnoses bird flu

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I was looking at news.bbc.co.uk yesterday, as I do pretty much every day at least once, and this headline caught my eye:

Gotta love those cheeky British headline writers…
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