Content tagged: life

Celebrating Awesomeness

Flicking through my feeds this morning, I discovered (via skipp.net) that today is International Day of Awesomeness. Looking through Scott's list of things that are awesome, I realised I too have a bunch of things and people in my life that I think are awesome and/or regularly perform feats of awesomeness. While this realisation seems pretty obvious in retrospect, it's one of those things that just needs pointing out before you take the time to think about it. Reading a little further, I discover that the day is at least partly inspired by The Show with Ze Frank, probably the ... more

Powerfully Confirming What I Already Knew

About a week ago I started reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. I'm around about one third of the way through, and already it is, without question, the best non-fiction book I've ever read. There is quotable passage after quotable passage. They're all extremely educational. Yesterday on my way home, I read my favourite passage yet, and it's not even a Dawkins original. He's quoting an answer given by Jim Watson to a proposition posed in an interview that science is all about how things work and religion is about what it's all for. Well I don't think we're for ... more

The seasons like I've never seen them

As far as I'm concerned we've got a good two weeks of summer left, but the past week or so1 has seen a decided - and somewhat unwelcome - swing to autumn. The English summer, all four weeks of it, was a glorious experience - but the leaves are now falling. The long summer days of latitudes above 51° 30' really are something to treasure. It's a new and delightful pleasure - if only it wasn't so fleeting - to get off work at five (or so) and have a full 4 hours of daylight left to play with. Picnics in... more