One for the cat lovers.

frankie_ecap brought my attention to this earlier today, but that is only because she spends all day on the internet whilst I only log on when I have something to do and I never procrastinate (no sir!) and of course I am highly organised and ...

Anyhow, on Chris Dillow's blog today he makes the following observation:

Traditionally, mankind's self-image has been that we are an intelligent species. This has always been a delusion; if we're so smart, how come we go out to work all hours whilst cats lounge around the house?

This made me smile a lot.

One for the cat lovers.

frankie_ecap brought my attention to this earlier today, but that is only because she spends all day on the internet whilst I only log on when I have something to do and I never procrastinate (no sir!) and of course I am highly organised and ...

Anyhow, on Chris Dillow's blog today he makes the following observation:

Traditionally, mankind's self-image has been that we are an intelligent species. This has always been a delusion; if we're so smart, how come we go out to work all hours whilst cats lounge around the house?

This made me smile a lot.

When worlds collide.

It seems like I haven’t written a post for quite a while, and I haven’t – three weeks or so.

I had a very good Christmas and New Year, and I spent the time in England – in London, Oxford and Somerset, catching up with friends, being (moderately) sociable, and, of course, eating and drinking a lot.

There have been lots of memes going around about reviews of the last year, New Year’s resolutions and so on, and I haven’t done any of them. I really don’t do New Year’s resolutions – I think the dark, damp months of January and February is really no time to set about changing one’s life, and if I thought it needed changing I would (I hope) already have done it.

There was one question on some such meme that did interest me – something like “which LJ people did you meet in real life?”

I seem to have met a lot of people I knew first through LJ in the last year – roughly in order:

white_hart, blonde222, coughingbear, ankaret, liadnan, pashazade, fiendish_cat, topicaltim, unblinkered, da_lj and melted_snowball.

When worlds collide.

It seems like I haven’t written a post for quite a while, and I haven’t – three weeks or so.

I had a very good Christmas and New Year, and I spent the time in England – in London, Oxford and Somerset, catching up with friends, being (moderately) sociable, and, of course, eating and drinking a lot.

There have been lots of memes going around about reviews of the last year, New Year’s resolutions and so on, and I haven’t done any of them. I really don’t do New Year’s resolutions – I think the dark, damp months of January and February is really no time to set about changing one’s life, and if I thought it needed changing I would (I hope) already have done it.

There was one question on some such meme that did interest me – something like “which LJ people did you meet in real life?”

I seem to have met a lot of people I knew first through LJ in the last year – roughly in order:

white_hart, blonde222, coughingbear, ankaret, liadnan, pashazade, fiendish_cat, topicaltim, unblinkered, da_lj and melted_snowball.

The strange connected world of modern life.

As well as LJ, I also have a page on Facebook – as you may remember, since I have posted before about how Facebook doesn’t actually make much sense to me – I get a lot of value from LJ, and derive hardly any from Facebook. Clearly, a lot of people do get a lot from it (not least the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is now a multi-millionaire).

A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.

I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by franki_ecap!).

I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).

I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)

I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).

The strange connected world of modern life.

As well as LJ, I also have a page on Facebook – as you may remember, since I have posted before about how Facebook doesn’t actually make much sense to me – I get a lot of value from LJ, and derive hardly any from Facebook. Clearly, a lot of people do get a lot from it (not least the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is now a multi-millionaire).

A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.

I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by franki_ecap!).

I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).

I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)

I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).

Presidential contenders meme

Stolen from psychochicken... How my views relate to contenders for US presidency:

85% Barack Obama
82% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% John Edwards
80% Chris Dodd
80% Bill Richardson
79% Hillary Clinton
77% Joe Biden
42% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
30% Ron Paul
30% Mitt Romney
27% Mike Huckabee
22% Tom Tancredo
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Presidential contenders meme

Stolen from psychochicken... How my views relate to contenders for US presidency:

85% Barack Obama
82% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% John Edwards
80% Chris Dodd
80% Bill Richardson
79% Hillary Clinton
77% Joe Biden
42% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
30% Ron Paul
30% Mitt Romney
27% Mike Huckabee
22% Tom Tancredo
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

New technology!

In general, I am not one for acquiring things (possibly because I have all the things I think I need), but over the past month I have acquired a couple of new pieces of technology kit.

( More details... Plus a request for assistance from any technologically adept readers out there! )

New technology!

In general, I am not one for acquiring things (possibly because I have all the things I think I need), but over the past month I have acquired a couple of new pieces of technology kit.

( More details... Plus a request for assistance from any technologically adept readers out there! )