"What greater love can one have for another than to wrap him in a massive bear hug, ruffle his hair (because you know that it really irritates him) and tell him that you love him."
That's the Squip's -- purloined -- peace of mind for the day. She also gives us an iPod song, but given the choice, I pass on her (or londonmark's) notes on embracing "Friends" at 'Dusting My Brain'. The sex of cyclones comes next from that curiously cleaned cranium!
Should I confess that I like having my hair ruffled? That's why I keep it short, adding the instruction "but not military, thank you," which usually proves to be a pointless plea. It's not that I can't see what they're doing before they give me my specs back, but having my hair cut tends to send me to sleep...
I also, as you know, like ruffling feathers. That's why I write some things long. And I'm still gunning for Apple.
In true friendship, Squip didn't hug me but mailed me what seems to be the definitive discussion of music box battery bugger-ups at the iPod Lounge.
Mine currently works fine while charging, but like the X-Files, this excellent site's thread claims that "the TRUTH" is out there.
Somewhere...
Thanks, Cindy.
With appropriate timing, since today I had a Thought for a friend in dire straits, some lovely software which does star charts that work -- though still I believe these workings have very little indeed to do with the stars -- has been updated again. This version of L'Astrologue is unfriendly to Mac OS 9.
So's Apple, which has just ditched the "old" operating system on desktops forever, according to Australian IT's 'Farewell to a Familiar Face' (via the marvellous MacDevCenter).
It's the usual flurry of insults that accompanies a new incarnation of L'Astrologue at VersionTracker I find amusing.
"What can you say about a software developer who releases an update ON the day of a solar eclipse?
For the uninitiated, an eclipse is representative of great 'instability.' Not an auspicious sign for an astrological software program."
So someone opines. Yes. Well. The 'I Ching' is all about instability and change, which doesn't stop that working either once you've taken the time to study it.
I'm glad to see that Augustine's God Interviews are still going famously -- even giving her time for the man in the moon and a ghost writer (Blaugustine).
I think it's a woman in the moon, myself...
Still being in an execrable mood, I went on last night from 'The Silence of the Lambs', which I had seen before, to 'The Shining', which I haven't and found a nice bedtime story.
Contentedly chilled to the core, my only complaint about this film is that I don't think ghosts work the way it suggests.
When it comes to dead things, for lack of music in the Métro 'Les Inrocks' engrossed me in an interview with a Franco-Russian novelist I'd never heard of, Antoine Volodine, who gets a slightly out of date page at Un Monde à lire.
His latest novel, 'Bardo or Not Bardo' (in French) sounds like a must for me.
Volodine apparently tells a great fable about a nonagerian lama, an ex-KGB agent and a clandestine utopian on his deathbed, set in the Bardo (Reluctant Messenger).
"Desperately funny," says the review, and good on the death and decay of the Soviet Union.
Who wants a hug?
Scully might. When Mulder's not looking.
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