"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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In the early hours of Monday morning my wife had a Non ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. You might be more familiar with the term heart attack. Thankfully she is now recovering in hospital.
We didn’t call an ambulance at the time, it didn’t follow the pattern you see in films (no falling to the floor clutching left arm) and it didn’t cross my mind that this could be serious. We had organised a party the day before and I put it down to heart burn. I feel pretty damn foolish about this now.
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cycle clothing for harlots – well that’s what they say.
Men’s and women’s bike shorts, cycling knickers, wool jerseys..
And my nomination/mention for an inspirational tech-maven for Ada Lovelace day 2010 #ALD10 is … my Mum, Dorothy McNeill. Mum went, on her own, from Anfield, Liverpool to Bahrain in the 1950′s as an IBM ‘stenog’ (not that far from Babbage). Pretty flippin’ amazin’ as far as I am concerned and an inspiration to me since 1958. Especially fortuitous for this posting as that is where she met my Dad. That’s all I want to say about that.
Big pharma claims to hold the chemical key to a vigorous female libido. It’s called Flibanserin and you pop it to get randy. Inkling writer Tania Rabesandratana investigates to find out whether it’s indeed that simple.
Serendipitous drug development makes for a good story. It makes science sound surprising while making the pharmaceutical industry look spontaneous and candid. Remember how Pfizer was originally looking for a compound against hypertension, and ended up marketing Viagra?
Inkling Magazine – Women’s Fliberation.
Over 25 years since Diamond Life was issued! Where have the years gone?
Now a new ‘lounge’ bossanova album Soldier of Love ♣ from Ms Adu. Is it any good? Yes. Is it great? Probably not. Let’s wait and see but whatever and despite the rather tinny drum sound on MP3 it is a marker in time for some.
Most importantly for me, at a bloody big crossroads in my life, it is (perhaps) a successor to and reminder of the soundtrack of Meribel, Sardinia, the Wag, Ronnie Scott’s, Sutherland, oil-rigs, India, Spain, love and nest-building … [
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the new Raindrop Besace bag, inspired by a trash bag, "yours for just $2,000."
Bonus: it's waterproof.
Hobo chic redux.
Available next month at Louis Vuitton stores everywhere.
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This week, for the first time, the number of female GPs outnumber male GPs in Scotland.
Since 1970, an ever-greater proportion of wives are higher paid, and more educated, than their husbands. That’s according to this new report by Pew Research. The New York Times covers it here.
This is a positive trend for some obvious reasons. One reason women made less than their husbands in the past was that professional opportunities for women were limited by sexism. This is a sign that that situation’s getting better. Also, financial independence makes it easier for any marriage partner, male [
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Nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills, tape measure skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
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So I get email from a good former student, applying for a job and asking for a recommendation. “Sure”, I say, “Tell me what you think I should say.” I then get a draft letter back in which the student has described their work and fitness for the job in terms so superlative it would make an Assistant Brand Manager blush.
So I write my letter, looking over the student’s self-assessment and toning it down so that it sounds like it’s coming from a person and not a PR department, and send it off. And then, as I [
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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