I tried eating vegetarian. I feel like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Brocolli?" Brocolli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, ok? When they ask me what I want, I say, "What do you think I want!? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now. Forget about that. Bring me a live cow over to the table. I'll carve off what I want and ride the rest home!


- Denis Leary, No Cure For Cancer (Source Link - alt.q thread)



This, my friends, is supper. I love brocolli! So shoot me. 5 October 2004, 8:05 p.m.

A stop at Michael's for a takeaway coffee and to ogle at the chocolates! I couldn't resist ... I had to get some.

What am I reading (or looking at)? That\'s page 28 of National Geographic for October which just arrived today, and they\'re fishermen from Tyre in Lebanon. My eyes are drawn to top row, number 2 from the left. He and the others on this page have agreed to donate blood samples for a study that will determine whether they\'re descended from the ancient Phoenicians (one specimen shown on the right: yellow, pointy head, bulgy eyes ...).


Moblog, 5 October 2004, 0828 NZDST.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. - Oliver Herford (Link)



Wore vintage today. Must have to do with the weather. 4 October 2004, 5:38 p.m.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst



Or rain in Wakatu Drive. That\'s somewhere near where I live if you wish to know. [Btw, is it that bad over Philly?]


Moblog, 4 October 2004, 1826 NZDST.

Sometimes it\'s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. - David Byrne


Moblog, 4 October 2004, 1759 NZDST. See the \'cut\' in the coffee? My [chocolate] heart just sank.

Depend on the rabbit\'s foot if you will, but remember it didn\'t work for the rabbit. - R. E. Shay


The remains of a hare seen on the hill today, 3 October 2004, 4:31 p.m.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
Baa--aa--aa!


Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Gentlemen Rankers


This lamb is only 2 days old but is already pretty aggressive, stamping its feet at me (which is a sheep's way of saying "back off!"). I guess I wouldn't be too happy too if someone took a photo of me without my permission...


3 October 2004, 3:13 p.m. Oops, daylight saving started here today, that time should be 4:13 p.m. [Where does that extra hour go?]

Hehe, the peace prize this year went to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, \"thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other\". ...





Ok, from the BBC: Researchers who patented a comb-over hairstyle in 1975 were top prize winners in the engineering section of this year\'s Ig Nobel awards.


Father and son team Frank and Donald Smith developed a method to cover partial baldness using only the individual\'s own hair.


Award organisers, the Annals of Improbable Research publishers, say the Igs are meant to celebrate the unusual.


They also aim to encourage interest in science, medicine, and technology.


This year\'s prizes were awarded at a sell-out gala ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts and the prizes were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel Laureates.



Photo Credit: totallyabsurd.com
The Ig® Nobel Home Page
The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The tulips are in full bloom today. Such a shame to cut them for indoor display.


2 October 2004, 3:06 p.m.

During a walk this afternoon K pointed out a little grey bunny in the paddock. It sat there for a few minutes (K says it won\'t run until it knows it\'s been spotted).



2 October 2004, 6:05 p.m.

Now there\'s a BIG book if you want one for your coffee table. It\'s Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (by Taschen publishers). It\'s a superb paperweight (or doorstop) and the price tag is just as heavy ($NZ450, cheaper through Amazon but you pay the same amount again for freight ;)!). That\'s the Unknown Woman staring back at me (the old Da Vinci seemed to have a long list of unknown women!), the original is at Le Musée du Louvre (Portrait of an Unknown Woman (La Belle Ferronière), c. 1490-1495, oil on walnut, 63 x 45 cm.



Moblog, 1 October 2004.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. - Joyce Cary



PDA pic, 1 October 2004. I love this necklace by Australian jeweller Peter Lang.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off. - Arthur Schopenhauer (Link)





Mosaic man sighted in town, 1 Oct 2004.

Life begins with the process of star formation. We are made of stardust. Every atom of every element in your body except for hydrogen has been manufactured inside stars, scattered across the Universe in great stellar explosions, and recycled to become part of you. The hydrogen is primordial material, produced in the Big Bang, along with helium (there is no helium in your body). Hydrogen and helium together formed the raw material for the first generation of stars, some 12 billion years ago, but everything else has been built up by nuclear fusion in stellar furnaces.


This from the Introduction, Stardust: The Cosmic Recycling of Stars, Planets and People by John Gribbin


Nelson, Enzed, 1 October 2004

She offered her honor, he honored her offer, and all night he was on her and off her.


The spice of life. Shichimi Togarashi, moblog 1 October 2004.

I heard that in relativity theory space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.



Brunch with V, 1 October 2004. Blawdy hell it\'s the first of October!

Lunch is raw fish (bluenose) served on a bed of rice, garnished with spring onions and shredded seaweed ...


... chuck in a bit of wasabi just to clear the sinuses! Wickidomoto.


Moblog, 30 September 2004.

Their business is to install signs.


Sighting today, 30 September 2004, 1018 NZST.

Guess which freebie arrived in the post today?

(a) Stardust, by John Gribbin
(b) Miss Piggy doll
(c) a bottle of blackberry nip



28 September 2004, 8:41 p.m.