Notes
Short posts, quick brain dumps, interesting bits and bobs that don’t warrant a longer post.
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H O L L Y W O O D
What Hollywood star stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds, and boasts a celebrated career still going strong after 79 years? One of those little things popped into my head today: Why is the ‘Hollywood Sign’ there? I hit Google and instantly came up with the sign’s very own site (fiendishly…
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The truth behind the movies
The hero dives through a window, lands neatly before filling the bad guys car with lead for a couple of minutes, sparks flying as the bullets contact metal, before watching it plummit over the edge of the cliff, bursting into flames as it smashes into the ground. Or not, as in reality, the hero is…
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Calling all cyclists
If you live/work in Glasgow and use the cycle route by the river (the bit where it passes the Waverley). PLEASE FIT A BELL ONTO YOUR BIKE! This will allow you to signal your approach. Note: Pedestrians are NOT psychic, nor possess the hearing of Superman. For the record, to the cyclist who – after…
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Monday Mission 2.33
Haven’t done this for an age… 1. Many children have blankets, or a favorite nubby stuffed animal that they like to keep near them for security. Do you recall what you had for your “security blanket” as a child? When did you finally give it up? What brought that about? Ehhh it was a security…
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AA Gill
Another day, another wonderful quote at hydragenic. This is the power of ‘blogs’. On the strength of Stuarts references I have ordered AA Gill’s book “AA Gill is Away”, and I have registered at The Times website (where AA Gill writes a column). The main point here is not a simple recommendation of a book,…
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Historically
It’s official. I’m getting old. I was thinking back to Hogamanay, it was about 4:30 a.m. when the guitars came out, and I realised that I knew more words to the songs than I really should…Dumbarton’s Drums, Wild Rover (but alas not the Battle of GlenFruin…). Next up my Dad (active in the local Burns…