Smell the roses
You spend your early life doing things for the first time. You spend your late life doing things for the last time. In between you do a whole lot of things without really noticing. Sadly.
Questionable
Using the blog to put together a book, gradually. If you want to come along for the ride then start below with the Introduction. INTRODUCTION “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” (these days more often referred to as the “Dunning-Kruger Effect”) has been the downfall of the human race since there was one, and
Vestiges of evolution
Suppose I had found an ape lying dead upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the ape happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer I had before given, that for anything I knew, the ape might have always been there. … There must have existed, at some time,
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Abracadabra
The trick in dealing with anxiety is to forget the evils of the past, and not to fret about the perils of the future, while living entirely in the present. The problem is finding out the secret of how the trick is done.
Winning so much
Was it Warren Buffet who said “of course there is a class war and my class is winning”? No matter, it’s the thought that counts. It comes in response to the neoconservative meme, going back a few years now, in which parties vaguely of the Left (Australian Labour, American Democrats, British Labor), are accused of
The day after yesterday
If your popular musical tastes were formed in the 1950s and 1960s little written after that time will seem very good.
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Well, all comment threads really
YouTube comment threads are an embarrassing display of the ignorance of the world in the 21st century.
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Memories are made of this
Proust’s taste of a madeleine catapulted him to the memory of a time and place. We all have our madeleine moments. Perhaps, like Proust, the taste of a cake, or of fish and chips, or of a certain flavour of soda drink. Not just tastes though – smells: of a wood fire, or sun lotion,
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