Book 2
Well it’s been 18 months since, but I’ve finally got round to it. Cut down a fair bit on the written side because I left it so long, but I’m quite pleased with it, and it’s for me anyway so why should that matter 
Homeopathy
- http://www.xkcd.com
Saw it, couldn’t resist.
My only attempt to see if homeopathy worked was one summer when I was walking to and from a summer job with a walk of about half a mile or so each way. Nice summer, nice walk, just long enough to get the eyes streaming and the sneezing to start. The regular tablets didn’t seem to be working, I couldn’t get on with the eye drops and I was probably being too impatient with the nasal spray. Basically I was ready to give anything a try, so I turned to the homeopathy stand, being a young and eager (sort of) student I decided I should be able to figure out which one was the right one from the many on offer.
After much deliberation and consultation of the little Nelson’s info guide I made my choice, and dutifully followed the precise and detailed instructions on the little tube.
Did they do the trick?
No.
maybe I chose the wrong ones, maybe I didn’t clap my hands and belieeeeeeve hard enough.
Sometimes it would be nice to not know stuff about medicines (not that i’m calling homeopathy a medicine) and their alternatives. Then I might stand a chance with the placebo effect..
wallpaper/paste
Look up the page.
Higher.
No, not there, right near the top.
Thats right.
With any luck you’ve now noticed a small addition to the header tabs – Desktop Goodies. Have a look, go on. Satisfy your curiosity.
The Bee and Thistle
Originally uploaded by mark 217
Sounds like a decent pub. I’m sure it exists somewhere.
Now for a bit of housekeeping. I’ve lined up a couple of new things for the blog that will unfold soon, a new section called ‘up close’ that will appear about once a month. I’m really quite pleased with some of the photos I have lined up in there so do keep an eye out for them. (i’m sure now would be an excellent time to hit the subscribe by email button). I’ve also taken a bit of time to organise the posts into a variety of catagories that you can now see available at the top of the page, so feel free to have a click and see what comes up.
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And keep checking back, there’s more to come.
Peanuts 3D
Found this while reading (if you can call it that) the 1971 strips from The Complete Peanuts 1971-72
It’s only taken about 40 years but we seem to be getting there. Shame Snoopy will need new 3D glasses though.
must be spring…
…or something approximating it. The plants are appearing and it’s raining. That distinguishes it from a) autumn – the plants are disappearing and it’s raining; b) summer – the plants have appeared and it’s raining and c) winter – no plants but it’s raining anyway (or snowing).
However, I notice now that the met office has picked up its ball and run off crying because everyone was calling it names over its long range forcasting skills, that one of the myriad long range weather predicting organisations has stepped into the breach and gone for guessing at a barbecue summer this year instead. I’m sceptical but you never know.
newslinks
A few more newslinks taken from the past couple of weeks of figuring out whats going on in the world.
Starting locally and taken from the Donaster Free Press, Mayor in vote of no confidence apart from the occasional more interesting than usual headline (Fury as mayor claims UK could learn from Taliban) it is sometime hard to see any difference in the council from the squabbling and infighting that’s been going on for years.
A slightly interesting piece from the BBC In Paris, the customer is not always right, too right they aren’t, though there’s probably some happy medium to be found. One of the major points of pharmacy is that a pharmacist and their staff are obliged to ensure the patient is only sold medication that is appropriate and suitable for them (hence the usual barrage of questions that accompany the most innocent seeming of purchaces). It is unfortunate that the press and consumer magazines seem to always be able to find the pharmacies that aren’t carrying out their professional duties that diligently. Then again, what sort of news story would ‘Pharmacies sell medicine correctly’ make? But this does mean that every now and again the pharmacist has to refuse to sell a medicine to someone because its not actually appropriate. It’s disappointing, to put it mildly, that a large number of the general public have fallen for the brainwashing that they must have everything that they want NOW, AND OF COURSE THEY’RE RIGHT etc etc. whether it’s their McDonalds Happy Meal or their 20 item prescription.
Let’s disappear from the surface of the planet for a moment and head out to space and what the Hubble Space Telescope is looking at for a nice picture to ease the tension and get all nice and relaxed and happy again.
And to finish off, a trio of slightly more unusual news stories taken from the daily telegraph. Hidden fire chokes last life from US ghost town, I’m sure theres a computer game series and film with part of that as the background, underground fires which are really the fires of hell/another dimension/something like that.
Scientists discover the burglar’s trainer of choice, I would have thought the burglar discovered it first, not the scientists.. and Swiss prostitutes trained to use defibrillators in brothels to prevent clients dying. Not only is clients having heart attacks ‘bad for business’ (possibly good for reputation?) but it also tends to reduce returning customers.
Snippets from the news
I was going to wade into the ‘should pharmacies sell homeopathic products’ debate but decided instead that I would post some of the news stories from the week I thought it fit to link to. Comments and thoughts welcome.
can the power of thought stop you ageing? – from the BBC news site. Interesting thought, also an excuse to watch cartoons and get the lego out.
plan to slash council tax by 3% is ‘nonsensical’ – from the Doncaster Free Press website. Yes it may well be slightly unwise to cut council tax while there’s not much money flowing about in the system. Putting less money in to the system and seemingly not planning to raise it by proper funding elsewhere will surely just make problems worse and end up with people losing their jobs at a time when there are not many jobs about to be had. I do like the quote from Councillor Brown though:
I’m not sure where he’s getting his £24.44 ice-cream from but he’s either being ripped off or maybe he likes his ice-cream with gold bits in.
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article – from the daily telegraph. I’m not entirely sure i’m convinced about man made climate change. Even so, whether it’s down to us or not we should be doing our best, without various panels and politicians and scare stories playing the guilt card, to look after our planet. There are too few places on earth where we’ve not gone in and caused chaos as a species. It’s just a shame that the people who have taken it upon themselves to fix the world can’t seem to present honest data and leave it alone rather than trying to embellish it with suspect or just wrong work. This taken from the BBC news website makes you wonder whether it’s down to the cold winter we’ve had (which admittedly has been nice to have for a change) or whether its because over the past few months stories have been breaking that seem to show that the stuff we’re being told about climate change is flawed science, wrong or lies. They seem to be doing themselves no favours.
Again from the Daily Telegraph
- from the Daily Telegraph
spectacular. There are more pictures if you click on the link.
and to round the cull of random stuff from the week, and because it’s a year ago since I headed off down to the bottom of the world:
Shackleton’s whisky recovered from South Pole ice – from BBC news
I can still wade in to the homeopathic debate if needs be, I have enough views and opinions on it to form a decent rant.
