This page makes no sense without looking at my original postings.
Girls inviting boys to dances. It is common practice in the UK, and has been for as long as I can remember. Indeed, I've probably had more requests to accompany a female to a formal occasion than I've extended such an invitation myself.
Trent says it's a good job that people can't read each others thoughts. Cut to a solo shot of Daria, with the caption "Thank God".
Alexi Laa-Laa's plays for one of the MLS teams over in the USA. The rest of the characters are totally made up, but appear on "Teletubbies", Britain's favourite tv show.
Accidents in Singapore was an oblique reference to a piece of spam I'd received from a lurker in that territory, trying to get me to buy into a pyramid selling scam. Instead of that, I wrote to his ISP, requesting an investigation.
Further details on Join the Crew and other virus myths from Rob Rosenberg
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 98 14:45:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Dreams (was:The Past Two Nights)
Descartes, from the initial statement of existence, went through an ontological argument to prove that God exists, hence allow the existance of the outside world. Of course he created the eternal Cartean dilemma too, which still puzzels us to this day.
The Ontological argument? (I really hope I have the name right...probably not though).
- Comprehend the most perfect being imaginable, with no flaws. Got it.
- Right...among the qualities that this being must have to be perfect is
that it exists outside of your mind, as otherwise it would be a limit of
its perfection. A God that exists externally is more perfect than a God
which does not.
- This means to say that due to the concept of God existing a real God must exist.
Well...that's mostly it anyway. It's a more slippery argument than it first appears, and took until Kant for someone to really spot the problems in it (Descartes didn`t think up the argument...it was first devised by a monk in the first millennium sometime. Before Aquinas, certainly). Basically it's an error in Grammar rather than logic.
OK, twist my arm hard enough, here's where all this month's titles come from:
always reaching (Feb 2) - In another existance, I do some work, and that day my company reached #300 on its payroll computer. Of course, some people have left since it started, but it's another target we reached.
internal (Feb 4) - An oblique reference to the ongoing Clintern scandal.
prepare to swap (Feb 6) - It just sounds good
really really could (Feb 9) - From Blur's The Universal, when something really really could happen.
Oscars (Feb 10) - Oddly, a title with some bearing on its contents. Sorry.
colours of the world (Feb 11) - from Spice Up Your Life!, the Spice Girls' single.
parachuting planets (Feb 17) - again, it sounds great.
look out already (Feb 19) - a slight adaptation of look out below...
For everyone who knows nothing about this, it's a reference to Long Distance Clara, a character from 1980 BBC children's show Pigeon Street. Clara drove a juggernaut from the street somewhere in suburbia to a port. A clip for the whole song also showed Clara driving up and down sand dunes in the Sahara. I'd like to put a link here to a decent Pigeon Street site, if anyone knows of one...