WOKING

I tried to type "blogger.com" but accidentally went to blanket.com..

Burchill Recycler

..The concept of Work or Spoon was invented by SpoonMan one day while preparing to grind another thin shard of his life away at "That Place"...

Work or spoon

"...Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka:

Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action..."

"...General Dreedle ... was incensed by General Peckem's recent directive requiring all tents in the Mediterranean theater of operations to be pitched along parallel lines with entrances facing back proudly toward the Washington Monnument. To General Dreedle, who ran a fighting outfit, it seemed a lot of crap. Furthermore, it was none of General Peckem's goddam business how the tents in General Dreedle's wing were pitched.

There then followed a hectic juridictional dispute between these overlords that was decided in General Dreedle's favor by ex-PFC Wintergreen, mail clerk at Twenty Seventh Air Force Headquarters. Wintergreen determined the outcome by throwing all communications from General Peckem into the wastebasket. He found them too prolix. General Dreedle's views, expressed in less pretentious literary style, pleased ex-PFC Wintergreen and were sped along by him in zealous observance of regulations. General Dreedle was victorious by default..."

"...Each time he went AWOL, he was caught and sentenced to dig and fill up holes 6 feet deep, wide and long, for a specified length of time. Each time he finished his sentence, he went AWOL again. Ex-P.F.C Wintergreen accepted his role of digging and filling up holes with all the uncomplaining dedication of a true patriot....since the holes were in no great demand, he could dig them and fill them up at a leisurely pace, and he was seldom overworked...."

"..."...Actually, Colonel Cathcart did not have a chance in hell of becoming a general. For one thing, there was ex- P.F.C. Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected, or mis- directed any correspondance by, for, or about Colonel Cathcart ...."

.. lives in Mexico DF with his mum Lorena and dad Ali.



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.."AWS now requires that you explicitly set the page parameter to the number of the page you wish to retrieve. "..

=1 then?

Great.

Announcement, Aug 17th

.. for me from now on...

(OK, I've still got the telly but it's in a very un-prime position in the corner behind a plant..)

"What's so special about agriculture? Subsidies were vital to cure the postwar food shortage but that was long ago. Their main function now is to prevent developing countries from exploiting one of the few activities where they have a natural advantage.

It is difficult to think of a single rational argument why US taxpayers should shell out $3bn to bribe farmers to grow cotton, a subsidy of 100% of the value of output.

As a result the US has captured 40% of the world cotton market, depriving labour-intensive developing countries of countless jobs.

Europe is worse. Oxfam claims the EU, scandalously, spends 3.3 euros for every euro of exports of sugar beet..."
( Guardian, 21 June)

"... under the rigged rules of international trade, North America and the European Union still protect their markets against developing-country exports, thereby reducing the industry’s contribution to poverty alleviation. A restrictive system of Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) import quotas, combined with high tariffs, has hurt economies in the developing world, costing them an estimated 27 million jobs and $40 billion each year in lost exports....... "
(Oxfam, May 2004)

KickAAS (Kick All Agricultural Subsidies)

It would cost each person in the UK £2.85 per annum over the next ten years.

www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/debt/callforchange.doc

DemoGNG, a Java applet, implements several methods related to competitive learning...

Buy something from AMAZonnn via THIS and they'll send me 2p. (ok 1p). It's also Not Yellow and there are No Tabs.

"But what happened then, of course, was that I would turn the volume right down, ignore the coffee and climb back to the snuggly, warm embrace of my duvet. Then I'd slowly come to my senses at around 10.30am, doze until noon, and finally stagger to my feet in a fit of self-loathing."
How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson

A font walks into a bar, slams down a package on the counter, and says to the barman: "oy, barman, sign this or else". And the barman says, "Well now, you're a bold courrier"...

Renee Zelwigger walks into a fonts-only bar, and the barman says, "why the typtface"...

A font walks into a bar and starts telling a ridiculous story to the bar staff, one of them asks "So what's your point?"

"A font walks into a bar. The bartender says 'I'm sorry, but we don't serve your type here.'"

(please add more...)

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Fortunately, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton

All the images above are from Steinbeck_Country
I really am going
I'll need this
Maybe I'll stay here.
If you don't know what I'm talking about start here... The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern...

splitflock (v)
Being separated from your buddies by a flock of tourists pacing urgently towards macdonalds. As in: "Where is Tal?" - "Oh, he was splitflocked back at Debenhams"...

busblip (n)
An alarmingly close brush with a bus - often happens to persons who step momentarily off the curb to avoid a splitflock.