Thursday, July 12, 2007
22 posts it tells me
22 is the number of total posts what I have wrote. Not a lot as the year anniversary approaches.
Perhaps I could start a theme going? Some kind of motif? As it is, all this wittering about what to put in blogs is very post-modern, really.
I wonder what Beckett would have put in his blog? Stuff about Hamsters, Helsinki and Humus probably. But really, that's just a guess. He'd probably have written 4 words in four pages. All the same word, of course.
Anyway, I'm still not really convinced anyone but me reads this accursed thing. It's like waiting for Godot right enough, musing aloud: only a monologue instead of a dialogue. Which is preferable to a demagogue after all. Which in turn is better than a pedagogue. These days, best to steer clear of all words with a ped- at the start. Just in case. Not sure how pedalo is received though. Are there angry mobs ready to burn the hapless watercraft for their unfortunate monikers? And I'm not sure where pedantry comes in either. But goodness only knows there's plenty of them pedants out there these days. Probably poised to correct me on my mixing substantive and conditionals and whatever. I'm still trying to let my inner anality go. It can be tough when I am confronted with grocer's apostrophe though.
Is anality a word even? If it ain't, it damned well should be.
Ach, sometimes it's nice to ramble uncontrollably. Just not on your land, eh Madonna?
I had a good rant about that gap toothed slag on a message board recently. Perhaps I could reprise it for you here next time?
There you are. Something to look forward to. Unless you are reading this, Madge. You're not, are you?
Perhaps I could start a theme going? Some kind of motif? As it is, all this wittering about what to put in blogs is very post-modern, really.
I wonder what Beckett would have put in his blog? Stuff about Hamsters, Helsinki and Humus probably. But really, that's just a guess. He'd probably have written 4 words in four pages. All the same word, of course.
Anyway, I'm still not really convinced anyone but me reads this accursed thing. It's like waiting for Godot right enough, musing aloud: only a monologue instead of a dialogue. Which is preferable to a demagogue after all. Which in turn is better than a pedagogue. These days, best to steer clear of all words with a ped- at the start. Just in case. Not sure how pedalo is received though. Are there angry mobs ready to burn the hapless watercraft for their unfortunate monikers? And I'm not sure where pedantry comes in either. But goodness only knows there's plenty of them pedants out there these days. Probably poised to correct me on my mixing substantive and conditionals and whatever. I'm still trying to let my inner anality go. It can be tough when I am confronted with grocer's apostrophe though.
Is anality a word even? If it ain't, it damned well should be.
Ach, sometimes it's nice to ramble uncontrollably. Just not on your land, eh Madonna?
I had a good rant about that gap toothed slag on a message board recently. Perhaps I could reprise it for you here next time?
There you are. Something to look forward to. Unless you are reading this, Madge. You're not, are you?
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Global Warming is Not a Good Name For it
I can see why the movement has sort of moved towards Climate Change.
It's tough to associate the average global temperature with going up when we've had such a wet dull summer here.
Of course, I know there are cogent reasons for it, and have tried to explain to people (from my limited understanding of the whole thing) that the Gulf Stream moving is not a good thing for the UK and will lead to more extremes, not really 'warming' as such...
There are still loads of people out there happy to deny anything is going wrong, as every year fluctuates between greater flooding and record high scorchers. Maybe they're right. I tend to go with the huge bulk of scientists on the subject though, on the basis they know more about it than I do. Just like I trust High Court Judges and Surgeons. These days, though, we spend five minutes reading the Wiki page on a subject and flatter ourselves we have a full understanding. I've mentioned this before, though, haven't I?
Oh well, time to swim to the gent's....
It's tough to associate the average global temperature with going up when we've had such a wet dull summer here.
Of course, I know there are cogent reasons for it, and have tried to explain to people (from my limited understanding of the whole thing) that the Gulf Stream moving is not a good thing for the UK and will lead to more extremes, not really 'warming' as such...
There are still loads of people out there happy to deny anything is going wrong, as every year fluctuates between greater flooding and record high scorchers. Maybe they're right. I tend to go with the huge bulk of scientists on the subject though, on the basis they know more about it than I do. Just like I trust High Court Judges and Surgeons. These days, though, we spend five minutes reading the Wiki page on a subject and flatter ourselves we have a full understanding. I've mentioned this before, though, haven't I?
Oh well, time to swim to the gent's....
