Pamela

hello. this is Pam:



Pam is a Panasonic CF-W7 Toughbook. one or two or none of you may remember that i have been lusting after her kind for quite some time now. here is another picture of her, looking at the mouse pointer as though it were a teeny tiny annoying little flying Jacques Roach getting on her nerves, though you can't really tell from the picture:



yes, that is the much lurved Pam Beesley-from-Dunder-Mifflin being Pam-from-Panasonic's face. over to one side of her not really partially obscured by an errant piece of plastic of not really obscure origin is Mabel's pink iPod. (shhh! it's a surprise.)

i will be here and there on the following dates:

27 June - 2 July - Hong Kong (alas, for beeswax.)
3 - 7 July - Philippines (hurrah!)

just thought i should let someone know.

and now the bits that are supposed to make me seem cleverer than for real:

reading: mainly Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (woot!), David Thomson's Suspects

on the spinner: ScarJo's Anywhere I Lay My Head; She & Him's Volume One (yay Zooey!); Sigur Ros's med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust; My Bloody Valentine's Loveless; Punch-Drunk Love OST composed by Jon Brion; Yo La Tengo's May I Sing With Me; David Bowie's Hunky Dory

Be excellent to each other...

...party on, dude.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/international-carlin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ID9

i never quite got the hang of holiday economics. not that i don't understand the pragmatism of it. just that the demarcation of time being an artificial construct anyway--a fact that i'm fully aware can be used to argue either way, just so you know--it's the *specificity* of holidays--that *particular* combination of day/month/year especially in terms of documented historical events that actually took place on said particular day/month/year--that keeps them from being arbitrary excuses to have a day off work. in that sense, holiday economics undercuts both the letter and the spirit of the 'law' of holidays; all right for holidays that don't really commemorate an 'exact location' in our artificially demarcated timeline, but it subverts the essential orderliness of history. might as well say, oh i don't know when it happen, just that it did; might as well have your holiday on any old day; might as well take all the holidays, lump them together, have One Grand Uberholiday instead of several little ones, do away with the lot all in one day, one week, one month (which, as we've seen in the Office, is never as good an idea as you might think); might as well not have holidays at all. anyway, who says holidays need to be celebrated as holidays?

the way i see it, the Inquirer has got it exactly right.

edit to add: see the Philippine Declaration of Independence here, as posted by E. Cross Saltire on his wonderfully informative (when he's in the mood) Nontrivial Pursuit. (find him on multiply here.)

It's all in our heads

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7442233.stm

no to age banding

http://www.notoagebanding.org/