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[www.tombihn.com] … The inside label carries instructions on washing and caring for the bags. Because the bags are sold in Canada, the instructions are also printed in French. The French version, however, contains an additional phrase: “NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N’AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI.” Translated to English, the…

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ok, so, accoring to dave walker i am not the only person who has a personal gripe about the marketing cliche, 24x7x365 dave prefers plain 24×7 (ditto) – or 24×365 (which is a little implausible to my tastes) i’d prefer 24x7x52 which is at least a calendar year (modulo leap years, which would make it…

Farnborough Air Show [farnborough.janes.com] [www.farnborough.com] is upon us once more, and the window by my office desk is populated by dogfighting aircraft and demonstrations of technique that scare the pants off you…

Apparently it’s too dangerous for politicians to remain in parliament without Big Ben being exploded to fall on top of them. Apparently (irony abounds) the current concrete defenses could act as “dangerous missiles” if they get blown up. No shit, Sherlock? The expensive solution: put up steel barriers that will destroy the look of the…

So this photography student in Seattle is out taking pictures of local landmarks, when… The police officer had failed to rebut my arguments, but he was definitely being a lot nicer now (which was quite welcome). He’d been explaining how the SPD are required to investigate all calls, which I said I understood, but I…

Read [www.livejournal.com] – I can’t decide whether I consider this a point in his favour, or not. On the whole I suspect that I do consider it a point in his favour, but my estimation of him as a man is so low that standing on top of any sort of ladder will not suffice…

expensive day: eyetest done (fix the left axial misplacement on my left lens, glaucoma and retina check, grill the optomotrist, the works) and new glasses (polycarb rimless) and sunglasses (bikeproof black rims with rayban-green lenses) on order, six new business/casual shirts, new vests, four new belts, two pairs cufflinks, other oddments, some basic groceries, and…

Hmmm… A pair of Indiana-based Americans visit me, and Reagan dies. Another Indiana-based American visits me, and Brando dies. Is this a curse? Indiana versus old actors?

…and so the security-geek’s event correlation thread kicks in once more; over the last three weeks I have seen two separate old Tears For Fears get playtime on various of the music channels on TV, as well as a rerun of a Top of the Pops appearance doing Mad World. “Aha!”, sez I, “this behooves…

After four nights of visitors the house needs a cleanup, the garden needs a flamethrower and weird booze abounds such that I don’t know what to do with it. Well, that’s a lie. “Drink it” is probably a good start. Valerie was astonished – nay, horrified – that I had never before encountered something called…