You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?
Yes.
Everything's going to be fine.

Madame Zazi Sees All

So what do you see, Madame Zazi?
The first card, signifying Love: The blank card, symbolic of the underlying unreality of existence.
Well, there's a surprise.
The second card, signifying Life: The Whirling Golden Wheel.
Life is a whirling golden wheel?
It's symbolic.
Of what?
It's very symbolic. The third card, signifying the Quest for Happiness: Try to Relax.
Well, I'll try. But what's the card?
Try to Relax!
But - That's a card?
It's symbolic. The fourth card, signifying the Search for Truth: Stop.
Stop? Just like that?
The Tarot has never failed me.
So I should... Never mind. What else?
The fifth card, signifying Purity of Essence -
You're kidding me.
The fifth card... Down Home Funk
Down Home Funk?
Very symbolic.
Groovy.
The sixth card, crossing Life and Love... Whatever's Right.
Whatever's Right? So I should just -
The seventh card, signifying Hopes for Peace: the Mushroom.
The Mushroom? What kind of mushroom are we talking about here? Only, I'm allergic to some -
The eighth and final card, signifying The Future: This Is Central Headquarters.
This Is Central Headquarters? What does that mean?
It means you should stop faffing around and get on with your Plan For World Domination.
Really?
Also, you owe Madame Zazi thirty dollars.
I should have listened to the Magic Eight Ball.

(Thanks LeeAnn.)

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Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

Which Angel would you be? By Angel

No, wait! What do you mean, No fire, no sword? What fun is that?

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Busy Day

Spent the day riding trains - big ones and little ones - herding kiddies, photographing kitties, and getting thrown up on.

Pictures - at least of the trains and the kitties - to follow.

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Just Because

Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game,
Laughing and a-running, hey, hey,
Skipping and a-jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our, our hearts a-thumping
And you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hide behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and a-sliding
All along the waterfall
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My, how you have grown!
Cast my memory back there, Lord,
Sometime I'm overcome thinking about
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison

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Woo Hoo! Chuff Chuff Chuff...

Woot!

I'm off to the Galston Valley Railway tomorrow! Must remember to take camera...

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Spiky Goodness

Snapshots taken a day apart. Left: Denbestalanche. Center-left: Carnival of the Vanities. Right: Timblairalanche. I need to write something that will catch Glenn Reynolds' attention again.

Note that the baseline of the graph is 100 visits/page views a day. I hate that. Someone should thwack these guys over the head with Tufte.

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The Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home

Pollsters asked voters the following question: "Which ONE issue mattered most in deciding how you voted today?" Voters were given six choices: taxes, education, health care/Medicare, the war in Iraq, national security/terrorism, and the economy/jobs.

In four of the five states for which exit polls are available--Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina--Democratic voters placed national security/terrorism at the bottom of the list. Only in tiny Delaware, on the east coast and not far from Ground Zero, did Democrats place more emphasis on the issue--and even then, it was in next-to-last place.

Hellooo! People? September 11? War on Terror? Anyone? Anyone?

(Via Best of the Web)

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These People Give Twats A Bad Name

LeaAnn righteously shreds some moron calling himself "James Joyce" over at Kuro5hin - pronounced "corrosion", it's a like politicised version of Slashdot, and the politics range the whole spectrum from centre-left to Democratic Underground lunacy. The Commissar also has something to say about the matter.

Meanwhile, showing the same careless disregard for fact that got it into trouble so recently, the BBC is blaming the MyDoom virus on Linux users. Slashdot readers respectfully suggest that reporter Stephen Evans pull his head out of his arse.

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Oh Bugger

I just dropped my mobile phone down the stairs. I wonder where this bit goes? Hmm...

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Public Service Announcement

Dave Barry's blog has a post up that reads:

ATTENTION, PEOPLE WITH NO CONCEPT WHATSOEVER OF HUMAN DECENCY

Here's a fun art project.

You do not want to click on that link.

When you do not click on that link, you will thank me for this warning.

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