Category: Four pillars

I love the Web. I love Twitter. I love the way elections are becoming sources of entertainment. Take a look at this:

Little known fact Palin

Now that is viral.

I live in Windsor. At least I used to. Until it got just a teensy bit hotter than I would want. Which is what would have happened if the BBC forecast, shown below, was accurate…..

I had some unusual habits when I was young. [Didn’t we all?] No, really.

I ate cockroaches. Apparently. This was when I was crawling around on all fours in Calcutta. Every now and then, my parents would hear a tell-tale crunching sound, come running to wherever I was, only to see the last vestiges of cockroach disappear down my gullet. A one-man roach exterminator. Or so I’m told.

Old habits die hard.

Which may be one of the reasons I found Catherine Chalmers’ work extraordinarily compelling. I was blown away by Safari as shown in the latest issue of Wholphin, and have ordered both her books. Amazing stuff.

Incidentally, when I was a few years older, my father taught me these lines:

Algy met a bear; the bear met Algy; the bear was bulgy; the bulge was Algy.

A whole ecosystem encapsulated in four sentences? Strange how memory works. Because that’s what came to mind when I saw this photo on Catherine’s site, and the two that followed.

Go take a look at the site, it has some wonderful stuff.

Can’t afford to go to Burning Man? Don’t have a ticket? Not your cup of tea? Worry not, help is at hand.

[Thanks to Mary Harrington, the Chief Community Officer at School of Everything, who brought this to my attention via Twitter].

It’s not every day you come across a Chaucerian blog; I’d seen it some years ago, but my bookmark stopped working and I’d assumed it was defunct.

But it’s back with a bang. Blazinge Fellow. Read all about it.

And I couldn’t help but think: Maybe we have another opportunity to “shift time”, but this time via the Web. Maybe we could translate texts from time X to time Y, backwards or forwards in time, but in the same language. I can see a few places where such a facility would be useful. Any views?

Having watched him and tracked him for quite a while now, and with the form he’s shown in the last two majors, I cannot help but believe that Camilo Villegas will win a major soon. You heard it here first.

He has this crazy insouciance when he plays, as if it is perfectly reasonable and normal to try and birdie every hole, and to eagle a few as well. Reminds me of a young Calcavecchia, a young Gamez. A cavalier attitude that brings to mind Viv Richards and Seve Ballesteros. An attitude that yells “I’m really enjoying this”.

An attitude that says that it is perfectly normal to line up putts the way he does, shown above.

Watching the re-runs of Usain Bolt celebrating his 100m win mid-race reminded me of this one really important thing: that a sportsman must enjoy doing what he does. That every person must enjoy doing what she does. Otherwise it’s not worth doing.