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skitch catties
Uploaded with Skitch! A picture of me and the kitties today, one on each shoulder. But you can see that. Here’s Barry in close-up. — read more
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from the streets of Rangoon
News from Burma: > Today security forces shot at protesters killing 8 and injuring many and arrested many in the city center.They also used many tear gas but the monks and people got shock for shooting and more and more joined the protest today.Today I stay at home because I noticed that today there could… — read more
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In Spoleto
: “on the verandah (?loggia) of the Duomo” See no evil Hear no evil Speak no evil Think no evil Do no evil Laugh no evil (Via flickr.com.) — read more
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Tom et Jerry
I was watching All This and Heaven Too this morning, a melodrama from 1940 with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer, when it struck me that when Tom does his famous “Ay love you” speech to the beautiful girl cat (“My love is a fire, a great roaring fire”—as Jerry is giving him a hotfoot), it… — read more
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Sergeant Cecil
Sergeant Cecil Originally uploaded by Jolyon. What a shame that after all the excitement and anticipation of a David and Goliath match, the brave Sergeant should have such a poor showing and come home last. — read more
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DSC00056
DSC00056 Originally uploaded by Jolyon. — read more
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DSC00041
DSC00041 Originally uploaded by Jolyon. — read more
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Martini
Wonderfully elegant Martini glasses in Roast. The drinks were pretty good, too, though, Philistine that I no doubt am, I had never heard of Ketel One before. Martini Originally uploaded by Jolyon. — read more
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cycling meditation
Thoughts from Rainer Ganahl, an Austrian artist in New York, on speeds of cycling (lit. and fig.) and the ‘porcelain’ nature of life: Apart from crossing borders and distances the bicycle taught me something else: speed and multitasking. I have learned negative speed, i.e. relative slowliness in seeing things passing and drifting on the always… — read more
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Technology, Time and Space
Marvellous beginning draft of an essay by the ever-thoughtful Masood Mortazavi, entitled Technology, Time and Space > Paper, as a recording technology, emphasizes the durability of recorded content much more than the mobility of the content it carries. The Internet (some call it the largest copy machine in the world) emphasizes the mobility of content… — read more