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2005-06-10 17:29
So this evening looks set to drag on, so I went at and bought
samwidge, pie, coffee, absurdly dated Italian Made Simple book,
Neue Post, and the new White Stripes album.
M'colleague's at a lecture series I'm boycotting, so I'm taking the
chance on a big of speaker action and so far so good, for sure.
Meanwhile:
I nomi delle coso sono importanti. Perci� bisogna imparare i nomi di
molte cose.
The names of things are important. Therefore it is necessary to know
the names of many things.
Most of them answer to "Thingy" in our experience, but sadly they
don't say what the Italian for that is.
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2005-06-10 14:37
And I will go woosh off to Italia! All the gang will be
there! (I know real academics spend their careers bumping into each
other in an assortment of exotic locations, but I am after all not a
real academic, and this will be the first time I've repeated a
conference.)
Meanwhile, there is urgent presentationtinsel to tinker with. (It is
too urgent when it's your funding agency's logo you're fiddling with.)
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2005-06-10 10:47
This week's specialguestbladet is G�vle's excellent Arbetarbladet,
whence:
Det blir inget sommardisko p� Gamla Grand. Fastighets�garen Realia
s�tter stopp f�r de p�st�dda planerna.
There will no sommardisco at Gamla Grand. Propertyowner Realia has
put the kaybosh on the proposed plans.
Parochial is the new cosmopolitan, Varied Reader, and you can tell
anyone we said so.
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2005-06-09 15:51
Ohne Regeln konnten wir nich gl�cklich sein.
Without rules, we couldn't be happy.
(Neue Post, Reader's story.)
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2005-06-09 13:51
- Official OU Stuff
- Althusser,
Filosofin fr�n prolet�r klassstandpunkt
- Berger and Wossname,
The Social Construction of Reality,
Man
- Tolsto�, Anna Kareninininina
I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be coming home with a new, informed
opinion on the greatest novel EVAR, for sure.
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2005-06-09 10:04
Blair
- Bushs lilla kn�hund
Premi�rministern fick blankt nej p� tiggarresa
Blair - Bush's lapdog
The prime minister got a flat refusal on his beggingtrip
Is Blair ever going to figure out that you get no pro quo for
your quid with this Administration?
Even Polandland spotted that! (After backing the invasion of Iraq,
they were expecting preferential treatment on visas. Ho ho ho, silly
Polandlanders!)
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2005-06-08 17:39
Villepin:
"notre plus grand risque, l'immobilisme et la division"
M'apportez le fauteil confortable !
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2005-06-08 13:52
�1. Samwidgecaketips.
(You don't have to mature your samwidgecake in the fridge, if
you don't mind it being rubbish.)
�2. Smelly Hippies vs. the Bleeding
Obvious
Migrating birds are unlikely to be seriously affected by offshore wind
farms, according to a study.
Picture caption:
Birds simply fly around the farms or between the turbines, says the study
Like, wow, man!
�3. Arthur "Cheer up, it might never happen" Schopenhauer
My nights were sour
Spent with Schopenhauer -
What joys untasted!
"Isn't it a pity?" (not the Galaxie 500 one, the Gershwin and Gershwin)
He's picking up some quality voting at the
Timber vis-a-vis the Beeb's silly poll. But is he easy to read in
German? We're looking for a natural next step up from Frau mit
Herz and 7 Tage (thanks MM if you're out there and that was
you!) and we wonder if Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung might
be a goer?
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2005-06-08 10:16
We might be on hiatus, or thereabouts, for a while, while we try to
get some Stuff Together.
Unless we fail or give up or need (as is not entirely unlikely)
massive doses of intravenal diversion.
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2005-06-07 17:34
Beno�t XVI is on a mission. A mission from God, no less! And the
mission from God that he is on is to give not an inch, not a
millimetre, not an �ngstr�m in his quest to purge Yoorp of his silly
mediaeval
death cult:
Enligt den nye p�ven �r �ktenskap mellan homosexuella en fejk och ett
uttryck f�r "anarkistisk frihet" som hotar familjens framtid.
Uttalandet kom samtidigt som flera l�nder behandlar fr�gan om att
legalisera samk�nade �ktenskap.
I sitt tal f�rd�mde han �ven skilsm�ssa och preventivmedel.
According to the new pope gay marriage is a fraud and an expression of
"anarchic freedom" which threatens the future of the family.
The announcement comes at the same time as several lands address the
question of legalising same-sex marriage.
In his speech he also condemned divorce and contraception.
Now he needs to start excommunicating persons who defy his very clear
teachnings, which is pretty much all of even nominal "Catholics", and
then we can move on to Phase II, where we dismantle the Vatican brick
by brick and rebuild it in South America or Africa or somewhere else
that this rubbish still has an audience.
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2005-06-07 15:56
Report, Beeboid!
A cookery book which includes recipes using stale bread and roadside
weeds has become a huge best-seller in Germany.
Hartz IV - A Cookbook For Hard Times shows how to make meals such as
"Poor Man's Parmesan" and dandelion salad. It has sold out in Berlin
and the publisher has already started reprinting it.
A huge bestseller, eh? �berbuchverkaufen Amazon, any comment?
Amazon.de-Verkaufsrang 2.310
Amazon.de-sales rank 2,310
Beeboid, we have decided that this is not, in fact, a "huge
best-seller". You may not appeal. (Behold the power of the
Blogosphere!)
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2005-06-07 13:41
(RSS, isn't it? Wheeeee...)
Zimbabwe is famously off the rails, but
even
so:
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is not dead, the government say
Tuesday, denying a string of rumours, with a spokesman describing the
81-year-old "as fit as a teenager."
�A living teenager or a dead teenager? we feel obliged to ask or enquire.
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2005-06-07 09:51
�1. Glorious Nationalday!
Now with
added
prinsess:
Sverige f�rsta helgm�rkta nationaldag �r officiellt invigd.
Strax efter klockan tio p� m�ndagsmorgonen slog kungabarnen upp
portarna till Slottet.
- Det �r en alldeles speciell dag i dag och alla vet vi varf�r, sade
kronprinsessan Victoria.
Sveden's first nationalday holiday is officially inaugurated.
Just after ten (10) o'clock on Mondaymorning the Royal Childrens
opened the doors to the castle. "It is a quite special day today
and we all know why", said kronprinsess Vickan.
What are the odds she'd forgotten and was bluffing?
�2. Transrapid-Strecke
in Gro�britannien?
You never know:
Gro�britannien pr�ft die Einf�hrung der deutschen Magnetschwebebahn
Transrapid. Nach Gespr�chen im B�ro von Premierminister Tony Blair
st�nden nun Treffen mit dem Verkehrsministerium an, sagte der f�r
Gro�britannien zust�ndige Projektleiter von Transrapid International,
Jochen Kruse, der britischen Tageszeitung "The Guardian". Die
Gespr�che w�rden �ber eine Verbindung zwischen London und Schottland
entlang der Hauptverkehrsstrecke gef�hrt.
Magneticlevitationwooshtrainspeculation is rife in Blighty. Woosh
goes the wooshtrain! Wooooosh! (Sorry, we don't speak the German.)
(I dare you to try and find the relevant article using the Graun's
hilarious "search engine". Seriousy, try it. We found
it, of course, with Google.)
London to Newcastle in one hour 40 minutes? A snip at 16 billion GBP,
for sure.
[Blair's] advisors say the project would pay huge environmental
dividends as it would make domestic air travel virtually obsolete,
with a trip from London to Newcastle taking just one hour 40 minutes.
It will probably never occur to Blair's advisors, or for that matter
to the Graun, that there are people starting in places that aren't
London. I've flown from Bristol to Glasgow with Easyjet, for sure.
But we like wooshtrains anyway, and our recent conversion to
Keynesian economics means that we think it is very much the business
of the state to undertake infrastructure projects that generate
extensive benefits that are nonetheless too diffuse to allow private
enterprise to make a business case for them.
�3. Happy
birthday, Norway!
Norway is celebrating 100 years of independence from Sweden.
(We pass over in not-quite-silence the fact that Norway is in fact
doing no such something, unless you count the prime-minister's blue and yellow
tie.)
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2005-06-07 22:51
They call it blogg
She was the kind of dame made you wish your tweedkavaj was strengthened with l�derrundlar during the elbows, with an easy mist wood expression that could make a guy dropp paper bundles of paper.
"Mr Strindberg?"
I nodded.
"I need to consults to apparitionen."
Didn't they all?
"Look sweetheart, the exists many myths about us detectives. I don't do apparitionen consultning."
[We are indebted to Jonathan K. Cohen, harvestbird , the Systran translation engine, �sa Linderborg and in the near future possibly especially lawyers thereof.]
2005-06-06 15:16
Since Paris stakes its claim to be a major Yoorpean metropolis by
jealously hoarding its listnings away from our prying eyes, we note for
our records that a new production of Tartuffe is on at the
Com�die-Fran�aise until 18 July (en alternance).
We already knew, for some reason, that there's a new
White Stripes album out today, but our newly installed
RSS-beserkning facility brings us a nice review:
La rumeur pr�tend que le couple de Detroit (Michigan) aurait �chou�
cette fois � innover, que leur cinqui�me opus marque un coup d'arr�t
dans leur ascension. La rumeur est folle : avec Get Behind me Satan,
les White Stripes continuent de planer au-dessus de la m�l�e.
It was rumoured that the Detroit pair had failed to innovate this
time, that their fifth album was a step backward. The rumours were
wrong: with Get Behind Me Satan the White Stripes continue to
planer above the m�l�e.
Oh those m�lodies �corch�es !
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2005-06-06 12:12
Well, yes, it has been there a while, but now it's officially
mainstream, apparently:
Revolutionen har n�tt Sverige.
Och alla pratar om den. Hela tiden. I kassak�n p� Ica Maxi i
Falk�ping. P� kaffepausen mellan regeringssammantr�det i
Rosenbad. �verallt.
De kallar det blogg.
The revolution has reached Sweden.
And everyone is talking about it. All the time. In the tillqueue in
Ica Maxi in Falk�ping. At coffebreak in the governmentmeeting at
Rosenbad. Everywhere.
They call it blogg.
(All together now: "What a dull name!")
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2005-06-06 10:58
�sa Linderborg isn't celebrating the Glorious Nationalday, of course,
but instead contemplating a researcher's lot, with backstabbing and
brownnosing and herdinstincts and socialirrelevance featuring
prominently. But is she bitter?
You bet your sweet ass she
is!
Eller f�r att citera Max Weber som menade att ingen forskare enbart
lever f�r sitt kall och kan lyckas undg� att bli bitter och rent av g�
under av att se "medelm�tta efter medelm�tta passera". "Jag har
�tminstone den erfarenheten", skriver Weber, "att det �r oerh�rt f�
som kan uth�rda den h�r situationen utan allvarliga psykiska
skador."
Or to cite Max ["Chuckles"] Weber, who said that no scholar can live
only for their calling or avoid becoming bitter and [something] from
seeing "mediocrity after mediocrity overtake". "I have at least the
experience", Weber wrote, "that extremely few can endure such a
situation without serious psychological injuries."
Cheer up, Chuckles! Posterity loves you! (Well, we do, at least!)
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