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Borders Trek
My broken ankle has improved so much that a walk to the train station now takes me 20 minutes instead of 45 minutes. I decided I was ready to take a train ride. My destination was Borders, a book...
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The 2012 Olympic Logo Conspiracy
I can’t stop giggling. This is much too good to keep to myself. From the Gruniad: Iran has threatened to boycott the London Olympics unless the organisers replace the official logo, which Tehran...
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Qaddafi Art
Who knew? Moammar Qaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi is an artist. The website for his exhibition “The desert is not silent” is long defunct, but Facebook still has some links, and there are still...
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Afternoons and Fauns
Why is it when you see something for the first time, you are suddenly inundated with more of them? This week quite by accident I ran into this video of Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun, which I had never...
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Happy March 8 Paczki Day
“Paczki Day?” Now what. Pronounced “pole-ski”, this is a Polish delicacy famous at Lent, as in “I’m giving up Polski for Lent”. I’m not Polish and my denomination is not known for giving up anything at...
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“I like fresh air.”
The news yesterday was depressing, women who were marching for International Women’s Day and the dignity of women were sexually assaulted in in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here is the antidote, a...
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World Book Day Game
Accablé de paresse et de mélancolie, Je rêve dans un lit où je suis fagoté, Comme un lièvre sans os qui dort dans un pâté, Ou comme un Don Quichotte en sa morne folie. World book day. Game rules – Find...
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Tsunami Mantras
Here are some mantras to help with the tsunami. They come from a Mongolian living in the U.S. We both have family in Japan; our family members are safe, but some of their friends are still...
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Time to leave the blogosphere?
Getting busy. Things are happening too fast. Maybe I’ll blog for 2 or 3 days more. My first blog post was on Sunday, October 29, 2006 here: http://camelsnose.blogspot.com/2006/10/welcome.html
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Gone on walkabout
So long and thanks for all the comments. If I discover the meaning of life, the universe, etc., I will come back and let you know.
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Who’s who in Sri Lanka press
Asian Tribune — basically the personal blog of Sri Lanka Tamil K T Rajasingham who started it in Bangkok 2000, then moved to Sweden “as the founder relocated himself in Sweden”; self-described as...
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