Gonnae gie us ya finger, ya slag
Even gyms are switching on to biometrics for identification. Cue neds stealing fingerprints ala Ethan Hawke Hunt1 in Mission Impossible. 1 See correction courtesy of chotda in comments.
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Seeing things
I’m so homesick I’m seeing Edinburgh all over the interwebs. Somebody put me out of my misery and tell me if this is the primary school in Sciennes/Marchmont.
Water torture
It’s not exactly a surprise to read that an ex-CIA agent has admitted that water-boarding was used to extract information from al-Qaeda suspects. But the following quote left me slightly stunned: “Like a lot of Americans, I’m involved in this internal, intellectual battle with myself weighing the idea that water-boarding may be torture versus the […]
Le Roi s’Ennuié. Vive le Roi.
The reigning monarch has abdicated. Long live the new monarch.
No time for a full-blown rant
Bereft of inspiration for today’s mindnumbingly boring post, I give you… Mini rants: How on earth can I possibly know by webinfiltration of my brain that Ewen MacGregor is Iago in a new production of Othello and not know who is playing the title role1? Does Wendy Alexander really think she can detract us from […]
cHanukkah
Hanukkah, a Festival of Light™, began at sundown, and it would have passed me by if I hadn’t noticed the unusual emptiness of the lab corridors this evening. I must confess an atheist’s ignorance in not noticing religious holidays come and go. There were so many while I was growing up in a multicultural, multi-religious […]
A teddy bear named Darfur
Sigh of relief on behalf of Mrs Gibbons as she returns to the UK relatively unharmed. If I may put the tin foil hat on for a second, I’d suggest that there was a brief moratorium of criticism of the Sudanese government by the British press during negotiations for Mrs Gibbon’s safety and release. Now […]
Have you done your X-word shopping yet?
If not, stop for a moment to consider the latest pail of cold water on this season of gift-giving. It’s happened to most of us, no doubt1. We’ve either bought something for the sake of giving something or received a gift, no matter how well-meaning, that we just have no use for. I don’t just […]
Winter is upon us
It rained two days ago. The ambient temperature plummeted to 15ºC. The dog was found shivering in our bedroom, whining from the thunderous sound of rain falling on the roof. I didn’t have to water my plants. There were puddles of dirty water on every street corner. On the basis of these meteorological phenomena, one […]
World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day; a day to raise awareness that Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome is still around and remains a global problem. That it remains an epidemic is distressing. Education is critical. Knowing that the disease is caused by viral infection is a necessary first step: the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV;in all its nasty variations) […]
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