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| Friday, June 24th, 2016 | |
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| 7:10 am | My country, O, my country... A black day for the world, considering the effect of Farage's lot's win is likely to be on a par with the crumbling of the League of Nations. Hopefully this will be enough for Alba to break her chains. Current Mood: numb |
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| Saturday, September 19th, 2015 | |
| 11:10 am | Nest  Arr, here be some pictures of me new cabin, me hearties. Anything not pictured be buried in the chests of boxland, including me Silmarillion. |
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| Sunday, August 30th, 2015 | |
| 6:43 pm | Public notice I will not have any internets in my new place 'til at least the 15th; inbox bailing and online presence in general will be even more sporadic until that's done. |
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| Saturday, June 6th, 2015 | |
| 5:47 pm | Gaps in the Media So there was a Christian terrorist attack on a mosque in Phoenix, Arizona Friday before last - buncha neo-Nazis with guns blockading worshippers in whilst the police took pictures - and it apparently hasn't had any international coverage. I think this is the sort of thing that shouldn't be ignored, so...now you know. |
| Thursday, March 12th, 2015 | |
| 5:51 pm | Death has one more cat, and one more Knight. R.I.P. Sir Pterry and Blackpuss, would that I had words for ye. |
| Thursday, January 1st, 2015 | |
| 12:34 am | Happy New Year! Reckon it's as good a start to the new year as any: brewing tea and covered in lichen.May the waxing year treat y'all better than you expect and at least as well as you deserve. Current Mood: |
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| Thursday, December 11th, 2014 | |
| 10:10 pm | There wasn't much cardboard available.  |
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| Thursday, November 20th, 2014 | |
| 8:46 pm | Note to self: do not drink the zavarka A call for ideas from the structurally-minded: in addition to normal work and a couple of particularly important commissions I have at the moment, I have been tasked with finding some means of creating a giant goat by the 1st of December.I have access to theoretically unlimited cardboard boxes, rocks and newspaper, also some duct tape, binbags, string, packing foam and bits of wooden pallets. Currently thinking of stacking boxes like the haybales of the Gävle Goat and weighting the bottomost for stability. Good plan? The middle might give me trouble...this thing needs to be light and easily dismantled, but have potential for decoration. Current Mood: |
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| Friday, September 19th, 2014 | |
| 8:12 am | Here's betting a 5% lead the other way would have been described as 'sqeaking through'. Current Mood: |
| Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 | |
| 11:45 am | Male Priveledge: an intro for the short-sighted Because it never rains but it hails blood and frogs, a reference post for those who need it right now.**What do you mean 'male priveledge'? You have a job, and I live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road!**Well, congratulations for giving our first example: you get to have the view that your individual circumstances negate your inherent priveledge because society treats men as individuals and women as a kind of general mass, subject to the kind of tokenisim usually affecting minorities. You still have it better than if you were a woman living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road, and if you had a job, it would be more secure and better paid than mine.Male priveledge is the things you can do in this society, and I cannot.Like what? ( A SelectionCollapse )...and many, many more. That's just a selection of the most obvious in the world's least deprived nations. Sometimes, you the guy might experience one or two of these. However, you have the priveledge not to experience all of them, all the time, no breaks, no safe spaces, no holidays.The thing is, society is made up of everyone. That's you, that's me - that's all men, all women, and the odd hermaphrodite. So you don't get to opt out of social problems.When they're mostly caused by men, "I'm not one of those doing it" cuts about as much ice as it would from me sitting on a rock smoking a pipe whilst a mob of my people spitroasts your baby cousins. "I'm not one of those doing it, why expect me to do anything just because they might listen to me? Jeez."Now, if I was a halfway decent person, I might get off my boulder and stand up to keep those remaining infants from the pain and death my tribe decided to visit on them for being there. I wouldn't claim that because I had the habit of sitting facing away from the firepit, heinious things were for sure not happening there. I wouldn't consider simply looking at what was pointed at and considering it could be a real problem for you, rather than immediately, instinctively, coming to my tribe's defense ("It's tradition! Some old guy who probably knows said we've always done it this way! Some of my people get minor burns doing it!") as an amazing act of heroisim, though it would be a good start. I can't disown my people or shed the genes I was born with, but I can help. Not pick you up and whisk you away to where you can't see the massacre either, not speak for you without listening and get you a pile of corn in place of your cousins, but roll up my sleeves, look upon what my kin have done, and damn well go down there.Whoever sent you to this post, that's all they're asking of you.Disclaimer: I am going to get the inevitable slew of 'you're seeing it wrong', 'women oppress women too' and 'right on! - but what about the men? Can we talk about men now?' comments from this, but I am not remotely up to dealing with them at present, so comments will be tackled sporadically if at all. Which doesn't mean - to the leavers of such - that because you can bully me to exhausted silence, that you are right, just that I'm mortal and one person who can't, in fact, make a perfect, immediately world-changing argument for 3 billion people, (or even the few million in the First World).Current Mood: |
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| Friday, April 18th, 2014 | |
| 9:37 pm | Got a catalogue update from Oxbow Academic Texts today ...plus a BAR update and a flyer for a Spanish journal soon to be distributing with Oxbow. I...I just want to know what their Harris Matrices look like... |
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| Saturday, November 30th, 2013 | |
| 9:36 am | Lost a chook Poor Rosa. Cheerful enough one day, gone the next. The Northern winters can be cruel sometimes. |
| Sunday, October 27th, 2013 | |
| 7:57 am | Canada IV The next entries cover the main stretch of the trip but are reconstructed from notes since I was that busy Seeing Stuff that I'd be entirely out of go by the time I had a spot to semi-concentrate in.**( Calgary and the RockiesCollapse )**I have little to say about these days because most of it was 'ooo' and aah' at the views - there are more variations on "mountains" than one might believe in the Rockies, and they are all stunning to look upon.  At the shore of Bow Lake, a rest stop. Current Mood: |
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| Friday, September 27th, 2013 | |
| 2:40 pm | Canada III In Calgary, eventually. **( Further details on East-side daysCollapse )**Getting to Calgary was a bit rough, since my mother's abililty to summon roadworks meant we missed our internal flight, but we got on the next one without hassle and eventually found our way to another friend of mum's for the night. She lives with her son's family, but the wife and kids are away so I got the princess bed. Current Mood: |
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| Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 | |
| 1:38 pm | Canada II Typed in similar circumstances to the above entry: I have to eat soon after waking or be siezed with a day's sick-feeling, so I'm coming to enjoy my quiet First Breakfast before the house is awake, watching the light creep in and turn the tall pines from a high mysterious silhouette to a stand of sun-freckled green fronted by birches. I've seen bluejays and turkeys from afar, and some redstart-like thing that moves like a thrush, but the lump of suet set outhas so far failed to attract anything close enough for identifyable inspection.There was some roadkill awhile back my mum said was a porcupine, but it was pretty flat and her friends didn't stop, so I can't really say I've seen one of those (the sheer amount of splat precluded confusing it with a hedgehog, though, so what the Willamette student from last year was going on about with his 'porcupines all over the streets' in Austria I don't know). Anyway, since last blogging I have briefly visited the Badlands, a weird undulating formation of orange and green clayish ground, failed to make friends with some geese - it was suggested to me that they were Québécquois fois, and would not deign to respond to 'onk onk onk' in English - and spent an afternoon in the bizarrely guard- and postcardless Royal Ontario Museum.( Cut for pictures, since I am inept at image sizingCollapse ) ( Also this. This is the Awesome.Collapse )...by now the house is starting to wake up, so I have forgotten anything else I meant to witter about. More when possible. Current Mood: |
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| Friday, September 20th, 2013 | |
| 3:28 pm | Canada I As requested, some bloggery. Staying about 25 minutes out of Toronto, in a house that'd be considered a mansion anywhere in the Old World. It doesn't look much like it did the last time I was here (I was 4) and of course the old folks and the dog are long gone, but I remember the land that counts as 'garden' - a space somewhat larger than the average city park.I'm up, somewhat sleep-deprived, at 7am local time, trying to keep my tea off all their beautiful things and eating cake because I was told to help myself to food and could not find the bread. Flight in yesterday was unremarkable except for the seat booklet claiming Economy now had "more legroom", which foxed me since posibly the only way to fit a person of my size or over (say, the average Canadian male) in with less would be to assume a foetal position. For 8 hours.The bilingual labelling of most things here is going to leave me with a mental tic for a bit ("thing! Repeat thing!"), I can tell. It's pretty hot here at present, but very misty. A brief walk in the garden yesterday showed up deer tracks, the smell of several animals I don't know (I suspect the foxlike reek is coyote pee) and all sorts of exotic fungi.On the theme of exotic, Toronto's suburbs apparently have a huge Indian/Bangladeshi population, which meant the supermarket we visited (the size of a European hypermarket - easily three times the size of the sprawling monstrosity that is Tesco Kirkwall) was absoloutely full of Asian as well as North American foodstuffs I had never seen before. Familiar foods also took a turn for the weird: the default Heinz beans here are alarmingly brown, due to being cooked in brown sugar and bacon fat, with bacon left in. They also sell milk in bags for some mad reason, ice cream in buckets, and chocolate chips in sacks. O_O Current Mood: |
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| Thursday, August 1st, 2013 | |
| 9:37 pm | Things that make my job worthwhile Still miffed that I've not got out on site this year (yet), but the sample processing with the new grid system really is crazy. Anyway, peculiar lack of student minions today and so naturally I find the shiniest thing from the samples so far: three black stone (?jet) beads, about the size of my little-fingernail. Then the county archaeologist walked past and randomly gave me ice cream.Apologies for lack of comment ability: I am an utterly out of battery animal at present and communication defeats me. Good thoughts to y'all anyway. As always, for more NoB updates, see the site blog. Current Mood: |
| Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 | |
| 5:41 pm | Huh. It shows how little news really does get over the Atlantic that I didn't hear about Senator Davis' 13-hour stand (literally) against the State of Texas until this afternoon. Reckon there are some American heroes left after all. Current Mood: |
| Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 | |
| 8:12 pm | Snow! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.Thanks to everyone who sent me official oldering wishes, too. Internet is currently intermittent at home, which makes for difficulties in replying to anything longer than a few sentences. It's rapidly getting lighter, alas, but yesterday I saw a snowbow.Lots of dark seafaring ducks that won't let me near enough to venture identification about, too. I think they're scoters of some sort, but I'm not sure those grow here in winter. Current Mood: |
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| Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 | |
| 9:57 am | [prods sloooow library internets] So. Internets broke last Sunday, and after some wailing and company-pestering it looks like my lodge-family'll have to wait until 2013 for a new router (this sounds odd to me, but I'm no techie and all I know is I have no internet at home and it's not my hardware to prod).I will attempt to be in London at New Year, weather and industrial action permitting. There may be internets there. Meanwhile, happy winter, enjoy the season and any festivities y'all might have therein. Current Mood: |
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