Tired today, someone was cooking last night. The smell, woke me up

I kept drinking cola, which I don't like doing. I like the taste just fine but I have been trying to avoid it, on behalf of my teeth, and gullet.

I am looking forward to tomorrow, I start a long weekend, and I get paid

Well done Lexie

Well done, and good luck

Perks of the job

Playboy 1953 edition.

The microfilm starts with a picture of lovely Ms Monroe. The pictures are very tame. The early editions don’t even have a girl on every cover. The college edition is of a drawing of a typical bobby soxer, off to the soda fountain. Beyond that the magazine works hard to promote its brand.

Yes the request was anoymous

To do list April 29th 2010

Fix my work glasses

Re read the last chapter of `` If the Irish ruled the world’’ Than scour it for notes

Book holiday to the USA, in September

Book appointment at Opticians

Buy new scrapbooks

Finish chapter of ``Sleeping under’’

Is this Anti Cylon propaganda, or is a campaign to get people to eat breakfast?

Perhaps the start of a campaign to get people to watch a Talkie Toaster sitcom?

Éirí Amach na Cásca

Who fears to speak of Easter week?

Sa lá atá inniu i Stair

ath Chluain Tarbh

Alice Mills Barbados

``In 1693 the council of Barbados, paid one Alice Mills, ten Guineas for castrating 42 rebellious African slaves . The ghoulish rationality of this exercise in pre-decimal currency, was 2 shillings, sixpence per testicle''

Shilling about 5 pennies was a days wages.

From ``if the Irish ran the world''

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Ran-World-Montserrat-1630-1730/dp/0853239622

A Stucklegruber famous Dook fan

The desk didn’t come out well in the picture

The Tank is driven by Valya’s Grandad

There are no Swastika’s so Meike can see this

 

 

Truly Disgusting

I work in a library, and I am supposed to be impartial. We have a copy of Mien Kampf, and I don’t question the people, who order it. I have to hand out pornography. We have copies of Playboy. I have to keep a straight face, if a reader orders ``the history of shit’’ or ``C*nt’’ Its not my place to judge

Than someone orders this. There were children in the building. I was disgusted.

Hideous

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Lucia

Many Happy returns

I am hungover

I watched Glee

Whip it

(NB. this was written before Page transitioned)

I went out with a girl, because of Ellen Page, I think I moped over her for a year. 

Ellen is the Girl I wish I’d have met when I was 16
Oh God, she is pretty!
Its a curious mesh of a story. Ellen, plays a girl pressured by her mother to enter beauty contests, chooses to play Roller Derby in Austin.( Austin, is a college town, btw, its probably the most liberal metropolis in all of the fair state of Texas
The strictness of alcohol laws in Texas, is shown. The secondary lead is busted for an open container. The Fire marshal one of the figures of distant menace from my College days shuts down the roller derby
One of the girls, looks like a much older version of my very pretty friend Kata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Wiig
Hello Eve! I remember you from Glee. Her and Drew Barrymore, and Julliette Lewis, all have fun in their roles. Lewis playing Iron Maiven. Barrymore as Smashly Simpson. The film loves its puns
There is a great scene when the announcer tries to hit on two Lesbians, and is quickly dismissed
I wondered if the Coach was supposed to be Kevin Smith. He had some great lines, when
Ellen Page is curiously is believable as a roller derby star, she is so small she could be thrown around. If she played soccer she would
Its was lovely to hear Jolene played, and see Ellen dance to it. I love Dolly Parton.
Ellen’s accent became Texan, now and than. She said Y’all as if it was written into the script, rather than naturally. Ellen like a great many beauties is Canadian: Avril Lavigne, Pam Anderson.
Ellen removes her shirt to trade it with her love interest. This is a great scene. I wish the morning had been a little colder.
The film is not as clever as it thinks it is. The original novel was probably much cleverer, but I would watch Ellen Page in anything. Thus you may deduce I liked this film,

A very misleading cover design!

I saw this and I thought of Ab fab, and then I thought of my friend Granniog

I learned a new word

Prolix

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prolix

A postcard from Kata

A postcard from my very clever friend Kata. Who despite being in Levoca, took the time to write to me

Thank you, to you and Larry!

Eyjafjallajökull

The girls will break your heart too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull

(Just teasing if your reading this in Akranes)

In other news Irish Ferries had there best ever day, so every cloud!

A gift from my mother

She still buys me action figures!!!!

My Mother was in New York, with two of my Sisters. They had a lovely time, and returned safely and bought me this gift.

Happy Birthday Regina

A very happy birthday to you!

Song for the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0

I haven’t heard this in ages. It was a favourite of my younger brother. He claimed if he made it in wrestling it would be his entry song

Listening to it, again. I am amused that the boy in question is called Dexter…

``Da na na na  da na…’’

For Chris, check out the 1.40-155 seconds into the video

Discarded wisdom

I found this, written on a piece of scrap paper. It was on an empty shelf, next to a set of books published in the early 1990s. It was written in Green felt tip! ( A professional no no. They should not have been let into the reading areas with that )

``Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free’’

Freud

It made me stop and think

Hearts of Iron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vW3NTvC3gk

I am not really one for playing computer games. I guess I missed out. I was the last kid in my class to get a computer, or video game system.  I play them sporadically. I am a burst gamer perhaps. I have a DS. Which has been a lot of places, I mean to play it on the plane and never do Aside from Microsoft chess, which I am hooked on. I don’t play computer games.

I had heard good reviews of this game, on my history list

Its a strategy game. You pick a country, and you fight world war two. Your in charge of production, intelligence and diplomacy, and research. Its a strategy game. It takes a looooongggg time, for things to get moving.

The game is historical but allows some freedom. For example you can research nuclear weapons. You research computers up till 2007 levels.

The game also uses politico’s randomly. Kevin O’Higgins survives the civil war, and the Liberals are the biggest party in Leinster house!

No there Artistic !

As the day closed at work. I was putting away the items we had for used for despatch. As its no secret that I am single, you can imagine why my eye was drawn to the magazine! Actually its a periodical. A Spanish periodical and its full of well written and learned articles about Modern Art, and such. I wonder though if it would find a wider niche. People who want to look ribald, whilst really enjoying a discourse about the influence of post colonialism on the Argentine Advant Garde.

If you were stuck on a very dull stag party perhaps.

A more obvious example springs to mind involving a metaphor for household furniture

Typing this here, I remember that in my early teens, I once ventured to the library. It was closed on Monday, and I spent the day at a large newsagents, and wondering around the shop. I discovered that they were selling French and German magazines. These must have been the European versions of the Sun, or the Sport. I read them from cover to cover, well I looked at the pictures. Probably a bit to openly and obviously  as the next week they disappeared from the shelves.

Pictish

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pictish-symbols-represent-ancient-written-scottish-language-1938321.html

Pictish symbols represent ancient written Scottish language

By Owen Jarus

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

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Engraved Pictish stone on display at the National Museum of Scotland

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New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology.

What historians know of the Picts has so far been gleaned from the artefacts they left behind and via the writings of the people whom they had contact with, such as the Romans. But if the meaning of inscribed patterns and symbols on Pictish stones and slabs can be deciphered, the potential to learn more about ancient Scotland could be immense.

There are only a few hundred surviving Pictish stones and slabs. Some of them have symbols carved onto them like a relief. Christian motifs, such as a cross, can also be seen on a number of them. There are also several painted pebbles, whose patterns seem particularly perfunctory. Researchers have long grappled with the question of what they represent. Are they mere symbols? Or are they full-fledged texts (albeit un-deciphered) which communicate a written language?

This particular debate is common among scholars trying to unravel ancient symbols. The Indus Valley Script, used in South Asia 4,000 years ago, is another example of an un-deciphered script that could be either symbols or language, and it was recently proposed that eggshells discovered in Africa could also demonstrate an unknown early language.

A team of language experts, led by Professor Rob Lee of Exeter University, analysed how random the Pictish symbols are. If the symbols didn’t show evidence of any kind of order, then it would be unlikely that they represented a written language, but if the same symbols are being written in the same way over and over again, then there is a good chance that it does communicate written language.

Measuring the amount of randomness in an un-deciphered script is difficult because there are usually a limited number of examples (only a few hundred for the Pictish language) and quite often these haven’t been compiled together and published. This means that researchers have to work with small datasets, making this analysis tricky.

Working with the symbols available to them, the team was able to determine that there is some predictability in the Pictish symbols, enough so that it seems likely to be a written script. “It is extremely unlikely that the observed values for the Pictish stones would occur by chance,” the researchers said in a paper published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.

The next step is to expand their dataset and get a record of every Pictish symbol ever recorded. Researchers can then hone in on the language and, hopefully, decipher it.

“Demonstrating that the Pictish symbols are writing, with the symbols probably corresponding to words, opens a unique line of further research for historians and linguists investigating the Picts and how they viewed themselves,” said the team.

No doubt scholars will be hoping to discover a Scottish version of the Rosetta Stone or the Behistun Inscriptions to help decipher the language. If the Pictish code can be cracked, we could be about to learn a lot more

H/T the independent

Oh how annoying! For as long as I can remember I have played a parrot to my Alma mater's line that the Pict's were a Celtic speaking people. Notably a P Celtic speaking people.

On the other hand, I am still somewhat sceptical. Swords and horses are obvious symbolism. Many tongues can be written with the Latin Alphabet. Hundreds of years and thousands of miles away from its origins in Rome. Road signs are a language too

Alas Irina

On Friday my computer Irina, blew her motherboard

She served me, well from the Rhine to the Atlantic

Now in Silicon heaven

Song for the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzp9ffPwPM

Someone told me, this made them think of me…