If you don’t know this by now…

1.10am local time, 15°C (59F), coolish

Just texted this to someone:—

“Robert here. Keep this on ur phone & look at it sometimes.

“Real power doesn’t come from hate. It comes from Truth. Write more, paint more, photograph more. Do something amazing. Go down a different path. Challenge yourself. Think small. Think big. Do good for no returns. Your time is limited, don’t live someone else’s life. Have fun. Don’t hurt people. Don’t accept defeat. Strive to be happy.”

(SMS message, 12.56am, 10 Jan 2014)

(Image via Silicon Republic)

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Rurdy-Turdy Thursday: One Word Answer

THIS is a new posting category: Rurdy-Turdy Thursday comes out irregularly but always on a Thursday (obviously).

It’s crap.

It’s fun.

It’s stuff you’d rather bin but never got round to it.

It’s stuff all nosey parkers like to read.

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ONE WORD ANSWER

Rubric (that’s old-fashioned for ‘Instructions’)

Answer all with one-word answers. Time limit: Preferably within our lifetime, if not yours. Don’t spoil the fun for others: copy and paste into your own “About” page or something, type in your answers, and tag a bunch of people (including me). Answering them is harder than you think, so up to three words are allowable.

My answers:

Where is your mobile/cell phone …………………. Right
Your hair colour ………………………………….. Deciduous
Your mother ……………………………………… Oldtype
Your father ………………………………………. Newoldtype
Your favourite thing ……………………………… Paper

Your dream last night ……………………………. Awake
Your favourite drink ……………………………… Coffee
Your dream/goal …………………………………. Partying
The room you’re in ………………………………. Stacked
Your fear ………………………………………… Choicelessness

Where do you want to be in 6 years ……………. Abroad
Muffins …………………………………………… Crap
One of your wishlist items ……………………….. Etc
Where you grew up ……………………………… Timely
What are you wearing …………………………… Pinstripe

Your TV ………………………………………….. Movies
Your pets ………………………………………… Gone
Your computer …………………………………… IBM
Your life ………………………………………….. Emergency
Your mood ……………………………………….. Easy

Missing someone ………………………………… Supposedly
Your car …………………………………………. Flogged
Favourite store …………………………………. Laurence Corner
Your summer ……………………………………. Lolligagging
Your favourite colour …………………………… The Red, White and Boring

Last time you laughed ………………………….. Today
Last time you cried ……………………………… Unrecallable
Three people who email me …………………….. Bill the Bills Biller
Three of my favourite foods ……………………. Italian, French, Levantine
Three places I’d rather be right now ……………. Somewhere, Everywhere, Anywhere

Three people I think will do this …………………. Anybody
Your favourite one word ……………………….. Fabulous

And my own cheeky additions:

Your favourite vice ……………………………… Listening
Your favourite good habit ………………………. Observing
Your least favourite virtue ……………………… Gregariousness (big word, huh?)

Favourite English first name ……………………. Ashley
Favourite non-English first name ………………. Fabio (Italian)
Favourite surname …………………………….. Fortescue (for-tis-skew) (English)
Name that stuck after first hearing ……………. B. Speight (spayt)

What’s in your wallet …………………………… Receipts
Top or bottom ………………………………….. Spherical

Your favourite ink colour …………………………………….. Green
Ink colour that makes your handwriting look fabulous ………. Black
Ink colour you’d rather drink …………………………………. Blue
Ballpoint pen nib size …………………………………………. 1 mm (broad)
Highlighter colour …………………………………………….. Blue

Are you the jealous type ……………………….. You?
Favourite meal ………………………………….. Breakfast
Favourite piece of cutlery ………………………. Spoon

What you do for kicks …………………………… Sleep
Favourite aspect of your favourite people ……… Slack

Flight or invisibility ………………………………. Teleportation
Snow White or Goldilocks ……………………….. TRONwhores

Bollocks for you …………………………………. Gentrification (big word again, no?)
Your bollocks that they can’t stand …………….. Everydayness (polysyllabic, no?)

Are you metric ………………………………….. Yes
Are you imperial ………………………………… Yes
Choices come in ………………………………… Fours
You count numbers in ………………………….. German
You think the rest in ……………………………. Any

What animal are you …………………………… Alive
Favourite all-time author (surname only:
multi-barrelled acceptable) …………………….. Mikes
What’s your nickname for yourself ……………. Spanky Pants

Meaning of Life ……………………………….. 42 – xyz(23) to the power of olive oil

(inspiration from this Facebook note)

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Updated 29 Sept 2012 (formatting fixes)

Who’s our guardians’ guardians?

DON’T IMAGINE for a minute that the people running ‘the show’ knows what they’re doing.

Or even want to be doing what they’re supposed to.

For those who didn’t get the memo, the Internet went on strike yesterday (18 Jan.) because of two pieces of legislative faggotry in the USA called SOPA and PIPA. (Google them.)

AlterNet, a news service, has just released this story:

• Irony Alert: On Day of SOPA Protests, Guy Who Authored the Bill Broke Piracy Laws on His Own Website | AlterNet | 19 Jan 2012

To cut a long story short:

• Lamar Smith is a Republican Party senator and the author of SOPA.
• Senator Smith used a photograph for the background of his political campaign website.
• He didn’t credit the photographer or pay for the use of the photo.
• He’s now an Internet pirate.
• Well done!

Meanwhile, some facts about yesterday’s protest:

• 4.5 million people signed Google’s anti-SOPA petition (via Los Angeles Times)
• Another 1½ million people or so signed other major petitions
• 350,000 people wrote to their U.S. Congress members
• 18 lawmakers reversed their decision on the proposed legislation

That’s nearly 6½ million (6,500,000) petitioners — just under the size of Hong Kong’s population, or otherwise roughly 10% of the United Kingdom’s population.

All 6½ million got was only 18 (eighteen) politicians to change their minds for the moment. That’s a piffling number.

For those unfamiliar with the American parliamentary system, judge for yourself the numbers:

• The upper house is the United States Senate, with 100 members who each serve staggered six-year terms.
• The lower house is the United States House of Representatives, with 435 members (plus 6 non-voting members) who serve each two-year terms.
• The upper and lower houses together form the United States Congress, which is the parliament of the USA.

Does this get better or worse?

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“It’s like coming up with a plan to prevent teen pregnancy that includes filling penises with cement.”

— TV host Jon Stewart on SOPA, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
Comedy Central channel (via)

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