Mon 9 Mar, 2009 07:43 pm - I read this book last year, just as the credit crisis was beginning to rear it's head. It was a sobering coincidence. A fine book indeed. If you need something a bit more light-hearted to... (view)
Thu 26 Feb, 2009 02:09 pm - I play electric & acoustic guitar (14 years).
I've just recently started mucking around on a keyboard and want to buy a piano when I get a house with enough room for one. (view)
Thu 26 Feb, 2009 02:01 pm - Warning - nothing but an anecdote:
I was playing golf last night. I got to this fun little par 3 where you've got hit over a pond with not much room between the pond & the green. My ball... (view)
Mon 18 Aug, 2008 05:49 pm - [quote=thethirdman]Because I'm too working class to understand it.
Nah not really I just think those bands tend to be very pretencious and it's not my thing.[/quote]
But does it... (view)
Sun 17 Aug, 2008 07:32 pm - I've always seen punk as an attitude associated with some music movements, rather than a music movement in itself.
When Bob Dylan played an electric set at the Newport Folk Festival, that was... (view)
Thu 14 Aug, 2008 04:33 pm - Put pennies on my eyes and light the pyre. Scatter my ashes on the harbour by which I was born and from whose waters I feasted on fish. No engraved messages required. (view)
Sun 10 Aug, 2008 07:45 pm - Without going into too many details for privacy reasons, I have a relative who completed his PhD in nuclear physics but left the university afterwards because the ethical issues raised by the... (view)
Sun 10 Aug, 2008 03:59 pm - [quote=deathontwolegs]"If someone does not enjoy school, they can leave and find the rose garden of the workforce."
Except, you can't. It's mandatory until 16. The school does... (view)
Sun 10 Aug, 2008 04:36 am - The current education system wants to babysit and prepare for the workforce, they want people to be ready to work and join the economy. Some education systems will cater to the middle band, setting... (view)
