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my fonts are in a mess and i want to kill myself4 comments

RFM wrote 2 months ago: For one such as myself, mildly obsessive about type, the fact that since the Snow Leopard upgrade my … more →

Tags: Time Wasters, Apple, technology, fonts, type, OSX, typography, font conflicts, Snow Leopard

Settling1 comment

RFM wrote 6 months ago: So the question we come to now, is well, how do you go about knowing the field of forces in which yo … more →

Tags: Climate, climate change

Hiatus

RFM wrote 7 months ago: No posting for a week or so. … more →

Panic in the streets, panic in the skies, panic on the underground, panic pukka pies

RFM wrote 11 months ago: Via BoingBoing, comes this great assessment of the state of the world by Bruce Sterling in Seed maga … more →

Tags: Culture, anxiety, paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, Baby Boomers, being chippy, Climate, climate change, apocalypse

Best Ever Chorus?

RFM wrote 1 year ago: FiveLive Breakfast have been having a phone vote for the best chorus ever over the past few weeks. I … more →

Tags: Music, Culture, happiness, Bob Dylan, beatles, BBC

Yoiks!

RFM wrote 1 year ago: From the Museum of Communism Today’s Clarkson column in The Times is a pessimistic assessment … more →

Tags: anxiety, Conspiracy Theories, credit crunch, Economy, Empires

The Fish That Saved Pittsburg(h)?

Fletch wrote 1 year ago: Photos from Pam and Bill Driver, Wichita, KS residents who found this catfish swimming around with a … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Catfish, Basketball, Jeff Bridges

Peace of My Mind

RFM wrote 1 year ago: Cant \Cant\, v. i. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, … more →

Tags: Culture, being chippy, 11 11, War, Peace, Remembrance, Hypocrisy, can't, contrarianism

Are we there yet?

RFM wrote 1 year ago: I’ve noticed a tendency, last couple of days, for journalists to be making claims about how lo … more →

Tags: Culture, anxiety, media, us election, obama, God-botherers

Meltdown4 comments

RFM wrote 1 year ago: Eek! After 12 years of internet use, I have reached meltdown point. This is, I think, due to the som … more →

Tags: Middle Age, anxiety, Internet, Passwords, Security, dementia, meltdown

Give us back our cod2 comments

RFM wrote 1 year ago: Image removed to discourage search traffic Gordon Brown, says the Indie, is threatening the Icelandi … more →

Tags: anxiety, being chippy, Conspiracy Theories, Weasels, Cod Wars, Economy, Finance, Iceland

I do like a nice collapse in the banking system3 comments

RFM wrote 1 year ago: There’s a correlation in the shrinkage of my blog readership and the collapse of the world eco … more →

Tags: anxiety, Banks, Debt, World Economy, credit crunch

Pedant's Revolt5 comments

RFM wrote 1 year ago: No, it's got nothing to do with anything I find I become more pedantic as I get older. I always want … more →

Tags: Television, anxiety, being chippy, Entertainment, Fiction, Terror, pedantry

Captain's Log

RFM wrote 1 year ago: Pardon our appearance I’m still aching almost all over from a weekend spent splitting logs. Th … more →

Tags: happiness, anxiety, Exercise, Logs, fuel, Wood, firewood, winter, apocalypse

Cold War Old War

RFM wrote 1 year ago: So the new car is okay. Still getting used to the auto, occasionally jamming my left foot (along wit … more →

Tags: anxiety, Politics, Cold War, Crisis, Russia, Georgia

Closing down for the summer2 comments

RFM wrote 1 year ago: My niece was complaining yesterday that she’s working hard at her summer job (at the same plac … more →

Tags: narcissism, autobiography, MySpace, Time Wasters, flickr, Media Studies, Blogging, blogs, Hiatus

Weekend Blogger1 comment

RFM wrote 1 year ago: Today was sports day, a bummer because it meant I lost my best day of the week, Friday, the day for … more →

Tags: Motoring, Time Wasters, Education, anxiety, being chippy

Things Fall Apart

RFM wrote 1 year ago: They particularly begin to fall apart on my car. One of the comforts, I think, of having a car witho … more →

Tags: anxiety, paranoia, Energy, fuel crisis, Logs

I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken

RFM wrote 1 year ago: rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt. Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to sp … more →

Tags: Arts, being chippy, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Downloads, Education, Entertainment, film, flickr


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