Well That Was Odd

Woken from doze, if not sleep, by an astonishingly loud hammering. What's more astonishing than it waking me up, which, let's face it, isn't that hard, is that it was probably coming from the ground floor. I'm on the 6th. Best guess is drunk person trying to get into their mates place, but by the time the guy from down the hall & I could figure out where the noise was coming from, Dennis the ...

.... I'm thankful for the internet, which is frequently a source of great amusement and also restores my faith in humanity (almost as often as it destroys it!). I am thankful for fandom and the astonishing quantity and quality of its creative output. I am thankful for fandoms that don't take themselves too seriously and are hilarious and fun even for lurkers (Star Trek, I'm looking at you). I am ...

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] Some notes on the Dubai phase of the global recession

... fell to 70.5 cents on the dollar from 84 yesterday and 110.5 a week ago, according to Citigroup Inc. prices on Bloomberg.“Nakheel is now standing on the brink of failure given the astonishing amount of cash Dubai would have to inject on it in order to see the enterprise survive,” said Luis Costa, emerging-market debt strategist at Commerzbank AG in London. Obviously, announcements of delay of ...

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] Some notes on the Dubai phase of the global recession

... to Citigroup Inc. prices on Bloomberg.“Nakheel is now standing on the brink of failure given the astonishing amount of cash Dubai would have to inject on it in order to see the enterprise survive,” ... to Citigroup Inc. prices on Bloomberg.“Nakheel is now standing on the brink of failure given the astonishing amount of cash Dubai would have to inject on it in order to see the enterprise survive,” ...

... twist(s) before it happens. If anyone dares spoil the book in the comments, there will be hell to pay. 1. Most likely a given -> pills are to suppress sexual..attraction/lust/etc. Might be astonishing to grade schoolers? 2. Wtf seeing beyond -> uh...do they see in black and white? Color? It's all a mind trap. 3. Release sounds suspiciously like death. DEEEATH. Or the real...normal world is...

Backlog to the Future (October Reading)

... Autistic Whatever, you'd do better to google "autism" or "autism books" and do some nonfiction reading, but if you're looking for an interesting story, this may be of interest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (M. T. Anderson): A fictional slave's narrative in immediately pre-Revolution Boston. What people always neglect to mention ...

I am such a mystery, after all.

... One of each! I live with my Dad, he is cool and writes laws. My Mum runs the district court in Tauranga and visits us heaps (including Monday week, apparently) CLOSEST FRIENDS Many, which is both astonishing and gratifying. Aimee and Liz and Lee and William and Coley and Emily and Nicki and Nicole mostly, but I am lucky enough to have great friends who I adore, so there are heaps of people to ...

Научные новости 25 ноября 2009

... от первого лица и звучит как типичный nut case, когда говорит, что Дарвиновская теория в принципе ошибается. Его оппоненты не отстают, заявляя буквально следующее: «Williamson has made the astonishing and unfounded claim that the ancestors of the velvet worms directly gave rise to insect caterpillars via hybridization» (Вильямсон сделал потрясающий и ничем не обоснованный вывод, что вельветовые ...

FOX NEWS STANDS UP FOR THE TRUTH: THERE WERE NO TERRORIST ATTACKS AT ALL DURING GEORGE BUSH'S TERMS!

...is actually a good thing). Former Bush administration spokesperson and current Fox analyst Dana Perino joined in, complaining that no one is calling the massacre at Ft. Hood a terrorist attack. She then made this astonishing statement: PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that we can prevent it from happening ...

Adelaide, still

... basketball hoops. (It's a rare piece of hard rubbish that makes it to the rubbish truck; anything halfway useable gets thrown into the back of a passing car.) Jacaranda trees, which are astonishing: gnarled angry-looking bare trees line whole roads and then pop out thousands of purple flowers overnight, all startling and visible from the air; and then a week later the flowers fall off and the ...