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Originally posted on my Wordpress Blog
October 24, 2010
You'll love this!
"No I won't."
I can't help it. Whenever someone forecasts my reaction to something which I have yet to experience, it has the effect of predisposing me to the opposite reaction. Perhaps it's just a part of my somewhat contrary nature, an aspect of my personality which has been described, by those I will generously refer to as having a less than generous nature themselves, as being 'bloody minded'. I prefer to think of it as a reflection of my rebellious tendency to refuse to accept things merely on the say so of others.
Am I the only one who baulks at those emails which tell you that if you don't find whatever follows the most hilarious/shocking/fantastic/whatever thing you have ever seen then you are less-than-human/in-need-of-professional-help/dead/whatever? I immediately think that whatever follows cannot be very hilarious/shocking/fantastic/whatever if I have to be told how to react before I've seen/read it.
So, you may, or may not, like/love/hate/feel-indifferent-about the following video, but of course you won't know unless you click to watch. All I will say is that it's by the same guys who gave us the Treadmill Dance.
Originally posted on my Wordpress Blog
October 23, 2010
"You'll love this!"
"No I won't."
I can't help it. Whenever someone forecasts my reaction to something which I have yet to experience, it has the effect of predisposing me to the opposite reaction. Perhaps it's just a part of my somewhat contrary nature, an aspect of my personality which has been described, by those I will generously refer to as having a less than generous nature themselves, as being 'bloody minded'.
I prefer to think of it as a reflection of my rebellious tendency to refuse to accept things merely on the say so of others. Am I the only one who baulks at those emails which tell you that if you don't find whatever follows the most hilarious/shocking/fantastic/whatever thing you have ever seen then you are less-than-human/in-need-of-professional-help/dead/whatever? I immediately think that whatever follows cannot be very hilarious/shocking/fantastic/whatever if I have to be told how to react before I've seen/read it.
So, you may, or may not, like/love/hate/feel-indifferent-about the following video, but of course you won't know unless you click to watch. All I will say is that it's by the same guys who gave us the Treadmill Dance.
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October 22, 2010
Sweaty Palms and Coconuts
I've watched, and held my breath, as nimble young men have scaled coconut palms with nothing but their bare hands and feet, and had the pleasure of drinking the fresh buko juice from the newly plucked coconuts. Watching those guys scamper up the tall trees left me full of admiration for their fearlessness. The guys in this video take that fearlessness to another level entirely. I was surprised to find that the palms of my hands were decidedly sweaty just watching it. (Lezenie na stožiar = Climbing the mast)
Update: It seems the original video was taken down. Here's another. And these people are doing it for fun!
Originally posted to my Wordpress Blog
Sweaty Palms and Coconuts
I've watched, and held my breath, as nimble young men have scaled coconut palms with nothing but their bare hands and feet, and had the pleasure of drinking the fresh buko juice from the newly plucked coconuts. Watching those guys scamper up the tall trees left me full of admiration for their fearlessness.
The guys in this video take that fearlessness to another level entirely. I was surprised to find that the palms of my hands were decidedly sweaty watching it. (Lezenie na stožiar = Climbing the mast)
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October 3, 2010
Burnt Offering
I visited a "holy shrine" yesterday. Or rather, I drove a group of people to a place where they visited a "holy shrine". I waited in the car while they carried out their devotions.
I've put scare-quotes around "holy shrine" because a shrine is only holy to adherents of the particular faith who claim it as such. Not adhering to that particular faith myself, I can't really think of the place we visited as holy, although it was obvious my group of friends considered it so.
It's not important which faith my friends' devotions fall under, nor where the shrine in question actually is. All faiths, I believe, have special places to which a visit is recommended, for one purpose or another. The purpose, in this instance, was, as far as I understand it, to obtain a general 'uplifting of the spirit' rather than anything more specific, as is often the objective of a visit to somewhere like Lourdes, in the south of France, for example.
We arrived early and secured a parking space quite easily. Not long after my friends had left me to make their way to the shrine, things started to get rather busy. Long queues of traffic began to form as the pilgrims arrived in large numbers; quite possibly the result of an extensive advertising campaign over the previous month on many popular radio stations.
I had a bit of a Batman and Robin moment while I was observing the congested motor vehicles, inching their way forward, their occupants hoping for a parking spot close enough, to their intended destination, to avoid a pilgrimage of the pedestrian kind.
"Holy smoke!" I thought, seeing the growing cloud of poisonous exhaust fumes ascending towards the heavens.
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August 27, 2010
A Moving Experience
Been busy moving house. I like my new abode but I'll like it a lot better when all my stuff has settled into familiar locations and I no longer have to think where I put things. Most importantly though, Wimax is now up and running. So much better than connecting via my smartphone.
Meanwhile, Sa Toya has extended the duration of the giveaway of The Jeremy on PP & L, so hop on over if you fancy the chance of a free copy.
And just to give some counterbalance to my shameless self-promotion, if you ...
August 3, 2010
Perspicuously Perspicacious Perspectives
Blame The Scaffold and their 1968 UK hit 'Lily the Pink' for the title. I have no idea why that song popped into my head but pop it did. And having popped, I was obliged to silently sing along until I got to the last line of the chorus, when I found myself singing 'most perspicacious in every case'.
"Hang on a mo! That's not right," I interjected.
I had to go on-line in search of the lyrics where I was reminded that the correct word is 'efficacious'. Of course! 'Perspicacious' means...
