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January 28, 2005
Just singin' and (break)dancing in the rain
Who knew Gene Kelly could bodypop? [links to QT *.mov file, found thru Pixelsurgeon]
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January 17, 2005
Edinburgh
True to form, it was raining when I got off the train. Edinburgh is famed for its rain, and if it isn't, it should be. It rains here like nowhere else; fat drops of water, film noir style, hitting the pavement with a loud spack. Every time it rains here, I expect to see Humphrey Bogart getting a kicking when I walk past the entrance to an alley, or shadowy figures conspiring in doorways. When it rains, Edinburgh pretends to be so much more than it is.
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January 14, 2005
"Bring home a piece of adventure!"
"The Soyuz and Mt Everest Bag Series
Authentic bags with personality and a story.Soyuz bags feature a authenticated piece of the 2004 ISS Soyuz TMA-3 or MIR TM-8 landing parachute. A Certificate of Authenticity signed by the flight engineer is enclosed with every bag.Mt Everest bags feature a piece of tents from Camp 2 on Mt. Everest."
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Not a stereotype
Not in any way. No.
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Student kleptomania? Never...
Quote of the day (so far), with regard to Apple's new Mac Mini:
Krank said he couldn't see the Mac mini taking off in education and replacing the eMac.
"Anything small enough to put in a backpack doesn't belong on a college campus," he said.
Source.
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January 12, 2005
Welcome back, communication
It's been a while, hasn't it? What with one thing and another, NB has been rather...uh, totally neglected over the past six months. This would, I imagine, be a much bigger deal if I could claim the existence of an audience. As it stands, the very small event of me picking up a keyboard once again does not rank particularly highly in the all time chart of uniformly uninteresting events. I take some comfort from this. In fact, if anyone happens to be reading this, congratulations! You've just experienced the birth of a bouncing baby non-event.
There is a sense in which blogs are essentially pointless. They are cultural ephemera, entirely meaningless outwith the contexts they reference, are related to, are inspired by. In essence, they carry as much weight as a conversation in a bar or a thought rattling around in someone's brain.
But there is more than just that. Combine the intimate relationship between a blog entry and the event that it relates to, as well as the persistence of the form (blogs have the advantage of permanence over conversations and thoughts) and the blog represents a kind of record of human existence, which is as banal, enlightening, pathetic and inspiring as anything you'll see on a monitor.
-j
Newsbomb likes:
Chungking Express (dir. Wong Kar Wai, 1993)
Tourist - Athlete (Parlophone, 2005)
Eye To The Telescope - KT Tunstall (Relentless, 2004)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
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