:)

Today was singularly wonderful, not even the usual feed of jaded intellectual naysayers will bring me down. Difference of opinion? Well, not really, more talking past one another in different rooms.

The next week or two of work should be fun. Loose ends to tie up, new project to begin, pomadoro to play with, yes I even have a real one.

Serendipity is a lovely mistress: I seem to keep covering something in one job, with assitance, then going into the other and doing a simpler version of the same thing for similar yet simpler problems. Shiny.

Though I think what really happened is Hazal’s book shopping had sympathy yays.

aksamala: lovehaight: Zooey Deschanel.  How beautiful is she here? (via) That is a pretty awesome umbrella, but how does it perform in windy conditions?

aksamala:

lovehaight:

Zooey Deschanel.  How beautiful is she here? (via)

That is a pretty awesome umbrella, but how does it perform in windy conditions?

(this post was reblogged from aksamala)

AFP: Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: company

Norwegian energy group Statoil said Wednesday it was selling some of its US offshore oil assets to China’s state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.

The sale, announced along with Statoil’s quarterly results, involves a limited stake for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in four exploitation licences for deepwater blocks bought in 2007 and 2008.

“On 29 October Statoil signed a farm down agreement with the Chinese company CNOOC involving a number of Statoil’s leases in the Gulf of Mexico,” Statoil said in its third-quarter earnings statement.

Statoil, which is 67 percent state-owned, declined to disclose the value of the transaction but spokesman Kai Nielsen told AFP that the size of the deal was “very small.”

In 2005, CNOOC had to cancel an 18.5-billion-dollar (12.4-billion-euro) deal with US firm Unocal because the politics of a communist country buying key US assets proved too controversial for Capitol Hill.

Also buried somewhere and invisible to searching for Stat Oil America China Norway Oil (search fail) is the rather brief : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8342327.stm

Drunks pissing on symbolic flowers are far more front-page-newsworthy.

myDesk 2.0, now with significantly less hard disk clutter and greater keyboard flexibility. Click for high-res photo

myDesk 2.0, now with significantly less hard disk clutter and greater keyboard flexibility.

peetypassion: I’m English! We’re European too. Go nuts. :) Click for high-res photo

peetypassion:

I’m English!

We’re European too. Go nuts. :)

(this post was reblogged from peetypassion)

Johann Hari: Violence Against Gay People Can - And Must - Be Stopped

Almost all the new homophobic attacks have been carried out by teenagers who are in – or just out of – the education system. It is not a coincidence that our schools are the one place where homophobic violence is still absolutely mainstream. Britain’s school inspectorate, Ofsted, says that homophobia is “endemic” in our playgrounds and our classrooms. A study by Stonewall found 41 per cent of gay children are beaten up, and 17 per cent have been told they’re going to be killed (it’s 10 per cent higher still in faith schools). The young people who attacked PC James Parks were simply taking that culture out of the playground and onto the streets.

Jail threat for urinating student This just in: BBC News becomes tabloid aggregating service. Public never saw it coming. To the victim pictured: bad luck, and good luck with the job hunt. I hear Google is becoming a pretty standard recruitment tool. To the shocked and appalled: you live in a society that encourages the young (largely through peer pressure, social pressure, ‘normality’ pressure) to go out and enjoy themselves, i.e. drink. It’s not really fair to hand people over to an industry reliant on making them legal insane, then come back and say well it isn’t legal insanity because it was self inflicted. It wasn’t, really, was it. Offer some alternatives, and make them normal and cool. Sure, they are already there, but they aren’t exactly normal and cool, are they. Drinking until you puke thrice a week is. The bit that really tickles me is the ones who will find this offensive yet do the same thing themselves, and/or encourage others. Consequences, fuckmooks. It’s not just your body you’re putting at risk. Of course, if you trust your inner child that much then let loose, see where you end up. This may be symbolic and all that but it’s hardly the worst thing a drunk has done. Drunk drivers and rioters kill and maim. Now fuck off in future when I say as a habit I prefer to drink 1 or 2 of something expensive slowly.

Jail threat for urinating student

This just in: BBC News becomes tabloid aggregating service. Public never saw it coming.

To the victim pictured: bad luck, and good luck with the job hunt. I hear Google is becoming a pretty standard recruitment tool.

To the shocked and appalled: you live in a society that encourages the young (largely through peer pressure, social pressure, ‘normality’ pressure) to go out and enjoy themselves, i.e. drink.

It’s not really fair to hand people over to an industry reliant on making them legal insane, then come back and say well it isn’t legal insanity because it was self inflicted. It wasn’t, really, was it.

Offer some alternatives, and make them normal and cool. Sure, they are already there, but they aren’t exactly normal and cool, are they. Drinking until you puke thrice a week is.

The bit that really tickles me is the ones who will find this offensive yet do the same thing themselves, and/or encourage others.

Consequences, fuckmooks. It’s not just your body you’re putting at risk. Of course, if you trust your inner child that much then let loose, see where you end up.

This may be symbolic and all that but it’s hardly the worst thing a drunk has done. Drunk drivers and rioters kill and maim.

Now fuck off in future when I say as a habit I prefer to drink 1 or 2 of something expensive slowly.

grayskymorning: enguerre: open-up-some-happiness: (via sigaaondevaomeuspes)

grayskymorning:

enguerre:

open-up-some-happiness:

(via sigaaondevaomeuspes)

(this post was reblogged from grayskymorning)
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It’s now possible for columnists and companies to hear what people are saying about them. That’s unnerving for columnists, not least because their opinions are now frequently challenged by people who know more than they do. Instead of responding like adults – correcting when they’ve made a mistake, engaging when someone raises a sensible point and defending themselves from false accusations – they are whining like children and dismissing technologies that they don’t understand.
It’s not the complaints culture on Twitter that annoys me, it’s the complaints culture among columnists that is getting tiresome.
Shane Richmond [via jhnbrssndn] (via earthmancomehome)
(this post was reblogged from earthmancomehome)
The last 30 hours of work, play, and in-betweens sucked. Time to reject reality and live somewhere nicer for a little while. I knew there was a reason I didn’t read this in September when it was gifted. Click for high-res photo

The last 30 hours of work, play, and in-betweens sucked. Time to reject reality and live somewhere nicer for a little while.

I knew there was a reason I didn’t read this in September when it was gifted.