Similar article in the NYTimes last year[^]. My kids are growing up falling down. They're getting bumps and bruises and scrapes and I bashed one of them in the head with my camera the other day. An accident but now she knows not to try and head-butt daddy's "combat" trousers, they have a camera in them. And we found an old-school playground awhile back. Has one of those deadly jungle-gyms in it. Kids love it.
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Amazing isn't it? 6,000 feet just to be in a position to maybe hear the ping! We think we are gods with our tech but we are defeated by a few miles of water.
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Yes, only change your password after the service have patched OpenSSL and reissued their SSL cert.
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Brian May, in trying to protect badgers, has resurrected the badger song...[^]
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Thank you Rama.
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You're some maths wizard, Michael. Thank you :)
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Nice to see it coming from Microsoft when they announced the Surface. The sound of the click of the prop etc. Happy birthday BTW.
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... Mr. Maunder. (I went back 22 hours and didn't see a birthday post. You guys are slacking!)
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Farhan Ghumra wrote:
So why has Microsoft made this bold move? It doesn’t have much of a reputation as a hardware manufacturer!
XBox? Their mice and keyboards are good too.
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Indeed. Wouldn't swap it for all the tea in China.
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You speak of specifics, of buildings and sections within a larger whole which in my experience fails to be beautiful. Cities fail to blend different periods together, they erect monstrous multi level car parks and lay 4 lane high-ways through their middles. Whole neighbourhoods go unmaintained. The route from airport to many a city center is bland concrete. As a whole cities are not beautiful. You have to stick to very defined areas to remain in beauty and even then an ugly alleyway is a few steps away.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Does the missus know?
No, and it's better for everyone that we keep it that way... :~
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Good luck England. * disappointed Irish* (Well, I'm not Irish but I live in Ireland and we are a bit glum today.)
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Cities contain beautiful elements but I've yet to find one that at a whole can be called beautiful. Highways, industrial sections, unkept river fronts, litter, multi level car parks, brutalistic architecture, airports, railways, belching buses, 10 road signs on a lamp post, neon etc. I've often stopped on the side of a city road to get out my tripod and camera to capture a beautiful moment, but invariably it's shattered by a dump truck roaring past or the 1980's council flats just out of shot. You'd have to plan every kerb side to please me :)
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A taxi, a provider, a bather, a clothes cleaner, a bottle washer, a bed maker, a TV remote control.
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Whenever I hear someone describing a city as beautiful I have to wonder have they ever been outside of a city. I fear these are the same people who call gilt edging and purple drapes tasteful. Not that cities don't have their charms, and as a city boy I much prefer living in a city than a town, but beauty is not the word I would use. Some people say it is the concentrated humanity that is the beauty of it and I too like to be amongst the bustle of a energised city, but it's not beautiful. It's not that nature is always beautiful and right, I just think we are fooling ourselves when we call 443 meters of concrete "beautiful". I live in Dublin, a small city, and the majority of it is badly planned and poorly built. I've lived in Cape Town, a big, ugly city with a beautiful mountain in the middle of it. Durban city is just manky. Harare could do with realising it is in Africa and not Europe. London sprawls, Las Vegas boasts tastelessness, Athens destroys its history, Edinburgh looks best from Arthur's seat on a foggy day, Glasgow is downright medieval, Paris makes you too dizzy to notice the dirt, Windhoek has no charm, Johannesburg should be leveled, Bloemfontein makes me suicidal and Jakarta needs a biblical flood. I haven't been to New York but from the looks of it the best part is smack bang in the middle of Central Park on your back looking up at the sky.
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I'm from Durban originally, which hasn't fared much better. Now living in Ireland where any beauty in the towns has been pebble-dashed into oblivion.
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I didn't say I had a life, I said I was a parent!
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Wwweeelllllll... It's been longer than a year. I have a nearly-4 year old daughter (Leah) and a 13 week old son (Eric.) All thanks to a lovely Irish lass I met... jesus... 6 years ago.
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Ah, driven through it enough times. Apologies if it is your home town but it's a bit industrial, a bit of a shock as you drive that lovely coast line.
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