I'm delighted, catching up, that the admirable chipstah, with whom I'm relieved still to find myself disagreeing about almost everything, has been invited to help "write the constitution of the 100% Capitalist 6th Republic". For France.
The notion is generous to a fault since it's clearly painful for him to contemplate the French at all, but I wouldn't dream of suggesting he spare himself and his friends the agony. It could make for a fun read.
From his new-look blog, I found the dissident frogman and learned that Marianne and I have both broken the law with the picture of Che G. Well, we'll be blowed!
No wonder I'm interested in the whole Creative Commons concept. Brian Flemming and Bryan Bell are among several in the blogroll who are into this already.
I've seen numerous pleas to sign this petition intended for the US Congress, on reclaiming the public domain. I'm happy to add my voice to those from outside the United States, since US legislation on copyright issues does not stop at the border.
Holly finds that wine can help you pass out and save you from mishap. My drinking days are done, but yesterday I passed out with no problem. What was intended as a short after-lunch siesta lasted until well into this morning, with no interruptions but for nausea groans when I had to wake up occasionally to go the loo.
How Marianne put up with it -- and what she did with her weekend -- I scarcely know. I hate fetching a doctor out on a Sunday, but occasionally there's no choice. Marianne tracked down an open pharmacy afterwards for the necessary, since I couldn't go anywhere.
Just when I thought the worst was over. But the past week was far worse than mine for too many people I know, while I'm lucky -- I like it when the temperature outside hits 30°C and over.
Thus, still getting up to date (without having served as any "role model" this weekend), I thought I might be glad to learn that "the marketing boys and girls have spotted a new type of man". I wasn't, but when Hash went on to mention "gastro porn", that was it. I had to read more...
I'm more glad that Mike, had a "quiet day", since he's been (sparingly) blogging an ailment too. With him, it's the ear and he has all my sympathy, though I wouldn't have spent the night in a shop waiting for the latest Harry Potter (his books page).
Then again, there's the
"soon to be released 'Harry Potter Challenges the Pentagon' in which Harry Potter takes on Lord Voldemort, and (...) Lord Voldemort has an insatiable appetite for violence. I pointed out that the increase in the Pentagon budget takes money away from education. (...) Harry Potter knows that education or Hogwarts is the place where magic is made and we are going to create new magic in the country by rebuilding our education system."
That comes from the blog of US "progressive" presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (thanks to Norm for the tip).
While maybe I'm too cynical to conceive of Kucinich in the White House, there seems to be a sense of humour there fighting to get out. Something I liked about Clinton was his ability to make fun of himself. You don't see much of that in Washington these days.
In California, Ian Newman feels uncharitable today even about US telephone operators because:
"the way they pronounce their W's makes me want to send violent electrical currents down the phone line to enter their head and search out their brain and fry it into a hard, dry, blackened nugget."
However, he doesn't tell them so directly (instead he reveals this on words with wings. No "permalink" yet.)
Me, it's those damned buttons! Towards the end of last week, trouble at Apple robbed me of both my iDisk and my .mac page. And then my ISP went down for the second time in three days. The first time, Noos decently left a message on their machine right at the outset to say that "our technicians are working on it". By Friday, they were wiser.
I pressed button 3, had to punch in my own 'phone number, then button 2, then 2 again and a few more to be told exactly the same. What you lose in service, they make up for in special high-rate 'phone calls, raking it in.
The only thing worse when Noos goes down is being told to go to their website to find out why.
Rainer is having no online difficulties. It's good to see his blog turned into a highly readable travelog for the duration.
Even the erratic vagary is with us. Only one post so far this month, but with a "silly quiz":
ADJUSTMENT
"the mediator, adjuster, arbitrator"
You have a deep love for simplicity, clarity,
fairness, and balance. You have a great
ability to edit, synthesize, and research
ideas. Your sites are turned inwards, as shown
on the card by the masked eyes. Alpha and
Omega are symbolic of your need to complete
that which you begin. You have little
tolerance of complexity, as shown by the
webbing in the background.
'Which major arcana of the thoth tarot deck are you?'
'brought to you by Quizilla' who have other "tests" too.
That's supposed to be me.
Now we know.
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