Comments for The Eagle & Child

Comment on Miscellaneous 2 (LPs; John Irving; O.K. Vandersluys) by brad

brad — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:53:08 +0000

I think your daughters tougher than you are !

A prayer for owen meany warms my heart. I’ve given many copies away to people and buy as many as I can find in used book stores. Any of Irvins other works I’ve been dissapointed in … but you’ve got to finish it.

I had a standup record player (circa early 1900′s) in my bedroom growing up. My parents wouldn’t let me buy real music (U2 or Nirvana) so I listened to bluegrass gospel … it turned out pretty good.

Comment on Miscellaneous 1 (Delay; Classes; Pets) by Toni

Toni — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:03:15 +0000

From experience, the further away, temporally speaking, one gets from holiday photos, particularly if there’s a lot of them, the harder it is ever to get around to sorting them out. Especially with a monster workload about to fall on your shoulders. To get the monkey off your back you may be best off just skimming through, pulling out 20 or so choicest ones, posting them and then leaving the rest of another year or 2.

Works for me.

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Pets: I’d suggest gerbils. They don’t smell, can be handled (though they’re MUCH faster than hamsters) and don’t get sick (like hamsters). They also only live 2 or 3 years, which is a distinct advantage.

Cats may keep the mice down, but the puke, defaecate, moult and shred soft things all over the house. They also need looking after if you go on holiday (give a young ‘friend’ the tank of gerbils for a week) and injections etc. Dogs make the house smell bad to non-dog owners (and your house is a little ‘cosy’ already).

YMMV.

Comment on Miscellaneous 2 (LPs; John Irving; O.K. Vandersluys) by Toni

Toni — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:54:16 +0000

I’ve very glad she’s OK.

As for vinyl, I love the warmth and tonality that older lofi gear produces, where the music is all about the mid range, and both high and low frequencies are attenuated slightly. Midrange is where people articulate and analogue reproduction removes the audio jaggies, just like film removes the visual ones.

Good move.

Comment on Miscellaneous 1 (Delay; Classes; Pets) by mam V.

mam V. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:52:35 +0000

In your case I would choose a cat because the mice will be marching in as soon as it gets colder and the cat may prevent that “hopefully!”

Comment on Ground Zero Mosque by Rob Horsley

Rob Horsley — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:45:02 +0000

Hey Marc,

Just in case you’re wondering who I am, we’re mutually friends with Gavin (as well as being mutually linked via Gavin’s blog).

My friend Brandon from the states posted this video a little while ago. I haven’t seen much on the whole “Ground Zero Mosque” thing, but this made some interesting assertions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpT2Muxoo0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Comment on London 2 by Collette

Collette — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:32:07 +0000

loving the England posts! I agree with Randall completely — lots of good memories being stirred up here. I loved the UK so much.

Comment on Ground Zero Mosque by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:57:32 +0000

Good points. I think this mosque thing is entirely media generated hype.

Comment on Ground Zero Mosque by Toni

Toni — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:21:10 +0000

“I’m an evangelical Christian. Am I implicated in the shooting of abortion doctors? Am I implicated in the policies of the Harper government here or the Bush administration recently gone? Am I implicated in whatever James Dobson or Pat Robertson or Franklin Graham or Benny Hinn says?”

I think that, for many evangelical Christians in America the answer would be a resounding YES.

I don’t know why, unless it’s because they struggle to cope with the sheer size and diversity of their population, but I know of no other nation that pigeon-holes are tightly as America. If you’re conservative then you believe thus and so, ditto liberal socialist (failing to recognise the difference). And often the rest of us are somewhat guilty of seeing them that way because that’s how they tell us it is.

If I were a conspiracy theorist I’d suggest there was some skullduggery going on too. But as it is I’m just not sure as to either whether there is some, and if so, whether it’s source is human or spiritual.

Comment on London 2 by mam V.

mam V. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:01:19 +0000

There! Happy little leaves, add: Like so!
I had a good laugh. I enjoy your blog.

Comment on London 2 by Randall

Randall — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:14:43 +0000

You stirred up lots of fond memories of London. Harrods where Lauralea needed a coin to use the toilet, and walking through Green Park on an overcast November afternoon.

Thanks Marc.