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Spotlighting the London Underground

April 21st, 2008
  1. Download the Tube Map pdf from TFL
  2. Save it somewhere you won’t delete it, eg ~/Documents/
  3. Spotlight search for a tube map, eg Command-space, Tufnell Park

Spotlight will open the map with the Tufnell Park highlighted! :) So now you know where it is and what line to get.

OS X is awesome.

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There Was an Old Woman

January 2nd, 2008

The lyric, “It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her”, is wholly inappropriate for its target audience. That being, children.

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Marriage Prompts Love

January 2nd, 2008

In 2002 he and Jane Ebert discovered that people were usually happier with decisions that they could not change because they concentrated on the positive aspects. When thinking about reversible decisions they were more objective. The finding, he said, suggested that marriage could prompt love, so he proposed to his girlfriend: “She said yes, and it turned out that the data were right: I love my wife more than I loved my girlfriend.

We have no control over our feelings. We can guide them, but really we’re just sit in messy biological machines, and we’re along for the ride.

Of course you can positively influence your happiness, but you have to understand what will affect it first.

I also like this quote as it confirms my believe that even though we think that modern lifestyles and contraception allow us to find our “one true love”, really a good marriage with a suitably minded partner would make you happier.

There’s a lot to be said for irreversible commitment. In a way it’s a shame divorce is so easy. Go out there, find a partner who is nice, kind, thoughtful and tolerant. Marry them. If they (you both ideally!) have all those qualities you won’t want a divorce. It seems to me, most divorces seem to be caused by intolerance and lack of compromise.

But thinking about that makes me reason that much divorce is due to lack of relationship experience, lack of social know-how. Which goes against what I just said about modern lifestyles. I guess, get lots of experience, but don’t be too obsessed with finding the “one”, nobody is perfect. Getting on really well is about all that’s required in my humble opinion. As long as you enjoy each other’s company, what on earth else are you looking for? Discuss.

Source.

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“Deathproof” Review

September 30th, 2007

Here be spoilers.

I love the way at first you are horrified that the girls are being chased so relentlessly by Stuntman Mike and his “deathproof” car. But they survive, the feisty New Zealand girl seemingly completely unaffected by her lengthy and helpless near-death struggle, and then they become the predators. Their chase feels different, since you see the torment of Mike more clearly and frequently. When they finally catch him they take it far further than you feel comfortable, eventually killing him in a gang-like and brutal manner. At first you wanted them to chase him and make him pay for the way he tormented the girls and almost killed the Kiwi girl, but before long Tarantino has turned it around, the girls are evil, Mike just a playful moron. You can’t sympathise with any of them. In the end it was the “nice-girl” who delivered the fatal and gratuitous blow, making you wonder if anyone is ever really as nice as they seem on the surface. Nicely played Quentin.

Only Tarantino does this kind of film for me. Reams of interesting and unconventional dialog. Bags of cool, yet intelligent characters. Different motives. Different twists. Great cultural references.

Yet it’s not his best, and I was not especially wowed. I recommend it nonetheless :)

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Silent Hill 2 on Xbox 360 in the UK

July 19th, 2007

Just doesn’t work?

I get sound, but no video. You can even press start 3 times and start the game! Just no video :(

I’m bitterly upset. Anyone any ideas about this?

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