Archive for the 'anxiety' Category
A******** is in E****** now
According to this BBC web site article, the UK builds the smallest homes in Europe. According to the graphic (scroll down), Australia is in Europe now.
When you read stuff like this, it’s so depressing. I guess we’d feel better if Japan was part of Europe, too. I can’t imagine their houses are any bigger than [...]
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Windmills of the Mind
Part of my personality profile is idealist, and though I don’t really know what that means in its entirety, I know that it means that I like knowing two or three ways to do the same thing. I like to use the keyboard shortcut and/or the contextual menu and/or the normal menu click command. I [...]
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Tags: boredom, idealism, personality profiles
3 days of the condor
If it’s Thursday it must be a snow day, the third this week. I’m not keen on snow (not keen on much of anything), but since becoming a teacher I’ve learned to take it as a blessing. An extra day off work in the dark half of the year is not to be sniffed at, [...]
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Tags: snow days
Via BoingBoing, comes this great assessment of the state of the world by Bruce Sterling in Seed magazine. As you know, I love a good apocalypse, and I’ve been watching this one coming for a while.
Sterling focuses on seven reasons we should all be panicking: the climate; intellectual property; currency speculation; the insurance market; the [...]
Filed under: Baby Boomers, Climate, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, anxiety, being chippy, climate change, omens and portents, paranoia | Leave a Comment
Tags: apocalypse, panic
Yoiks!
Today’s Clarkson column in The Times is a pessimistic assessment of our current situation. In reviewing the Vauxhall Insignia (good car, badly timed), he basically advises us all to buy guns and plant potatoes. He’s clearly been watching episodes of Survivors. Snip:
I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple [...]
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Tags: credit crunch, economy, empires
C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
A lot of people display surprise and/or disbelief when they hear from me that I dislike Festivus. Further to yesterday’s post, I’ve been inundated with messages from people calling me a miserable old git, and at this time of year I constantly come under pressure to “cheer up” to “celebrate” and to “get into the [...]
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Tags: Festivus
What have I done to myself?
Older readers will be aware that I have a chip on my shoulder so big that it can be seen from space. This makes it hard for me to be living here in the Tory heartland where every non-Conservative vote is a wasted vote. Were it not for the fact that I had the misfortune [...]
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Are we there yet?
I’ve noticed a tendency, last couple of days, for journalists to be making claims about how long they’ve been watching/following Barack Obama. Rupert Cornwell in the Indie is typical of the breed. Yep, I’ve been with him from the beginning. As if this fact said something about them and how clever they are.
Personally, I wasn’t [...]
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Tags: god botherers, media, obama, us election
Meltdown
After 12 years of internet use, I have reached meltdown point. This is, I think, due to the somewhat schizophrenic existence of the teacher. During the day, I am a [mild-mannered] classroom practitioner who fights a daily battle against bombardment with paper; in the evenings and at weekends, I roam wirelessly about the webernet, pulsating [...]
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Tags: dementia, internet, meltdown, passwords, security
Under Scrutiny
As an Americanist, I am of course qualified to comment on the US elections, unlike the guest on Gaby Logan’s show on BBC 5Live, who expressed the opinion that he did not believe Americans would be able to bring themselves to vote for a black candidate.
I texted in to ask when it was that the [...]
Filed under: BBC, Character, Culture, anxiety, being chippy, notes and queries, weasels | 1 Comment
Tags: mccain, obama, politics, press, us election
