Archive for the 'omens and portents' Category
For one such as myself, mildly obsessive about type, the fact that since the Snow Leopard upgrade my system’s font usage has been completely fucked up is deeply upsetting.
It started shortly after the upgrade when the font menu started going squiffy in certain applications. Font A was substituted for Font B. Font C stopped working [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology, Time-Wasters, omens and portents | 4 Comments
Tags: font conflicts, font problems, fonts, osx, Snow Leopard, type, typography
Settling
So the question we come to now, is well, how do you go about knowing the field of forces in which you live? How do you know which way the wind is blowing so you can sail properly, when it isn’t as simple a matter of wetting your finger and holding it up to see [...]
Filed under: Climate, climate change, omens and portents | 1 Comment
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
Best Ever Chorus?
FiveLive Breakfast have been having a phone vote for the best chorus ever over the past few weeks. I missed the bit where they asked for nominations, which they whittled down to a final 9, and then did a 4-day vote for the best, which turned out to be “Delilah”, written by Les Reed and [...]
Filed under: BBC, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Culture, Music, happiness, omens and portents | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, anxiety, omens and portents | Leave a Comment
Tags: credit crunch, economy, empires
Peace of My Mind
Cant \Cant\, v. i.
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
When I was growing up, they didn’t make the fuss of Remembrance Day that they do now. Some would say it’s a good thing that we’re collectively giving it the two [...]
Filed under: Culture, being chippy, omens and portents | Leave a Comment
Tags: 11-11, cant, contrarianism, hypocrisy, peace, remembrance, war
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 [...]
Filed under: Culture, anxiety, omens and portents | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under: Middle Age, anxiety, omens and portents | 4 Comments
Tags: dementia, internet, meltdown, passwords, security
Give us back our cod
Gordon Brown, says the Indie, is threatening the Icelandic government with legal action. It’s about time. The last major war between Iceland and the UK was over cod.
For a couple of years now I’ve been listening to Mickey Clark on Wake Up to Money, often discussing how Icelandic Financiers have been splashing the cash on [...]
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, anxiety, being chippy, omens and portents, weasels | 2 Comments
Tags: cod wars, economy, finance, iceland
