The Secret Blog of Walter Mitty

Discovery Channel

2008-06-27T08:59:04Z

Found this video via MetaFilter a while back. XKCD has now come out with a tribute, of sorts.

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Scratchings #17

2008-06-06T16:50:01Z

She had a sing-song accent, a melody of a voice and smelled strangely attractively of - of all things - fresh laundry. If she were a little taller, blonde, and didn't have that weirdly huge chin I'd probably have collapsed at her feet in worshipfu...

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Scratchings #16

2008-05-19T23:54:36Z

So, after 5 weeks of putting it off, I have written a fairly straightforward note to myself so that, when I wake up in the morning, I'll stop putting it off: "Go swimming/ You stupid fucker." I wonder if my morning-self will cower with fear at t...

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Scratchings #15

2008-05-06T20:01:06Z

Can't concentrate. Tired. Why tired? Had sleep. Had plenty of sleep. Turns out my room faces east. At 8am the sun's rays shine directly onto my face; a delightful natural alarm clock. Love it. Will be great at the weekend. It's three weeks into...

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Note to Self regarding Catnap Music

2008-04-30T07:29:56Z

Note to self: When taking a 20-minute nap, letting the Paprika soundtrack play in the background is a Bad Idea. Especially this song. This song... this song WILL make you have nightmares. It will. It is guaranteed. It's practically designed to ...

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Religion. What is it good for?

2008-04-28T11:35:34Z

An excerpt from Jesus Made Me Puke: Matt Taibbi Undercover with the Christian Right ... Here I have a confession to make. It's not something that's easy to explain, but here goes. After two days of nearly constant religious instruction, songs,...

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At the last improv session...

2008-04-23T08:07:52Z

One joke got quite a laugh from the team. We were playing "It Just Gets Worse", where four players take turns to tell the story of a disaster which has befallen a small town, each taking on a different persona. The disaster was, "The post van has...

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Champions League wish-list

2008-04-22T20:47:21Z

Mmm. I'd love to see Liverpool beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge 1-0, Gerrard get yellow-carded for overly- enthusiastic celebrations, and Manchester United beat Barça home and away. Without Gerrard, Liverpool doesn't stand a chance. Oh, and the ic...

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London.

2008-04-09T18:34:35Z

One of those days – lost my phone, never a good thing, feeling isolated – people used to exist perfectly well without mobile phones, but expectations are raised – people now expect you to have a phone, when previously nobody had phones, so it was...

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Windsor Castle.

2008-04-09T18:33:46Z

Visited Windsor Castle today, as symbolic of the anachronism that is the British monarchy. They are rich; more than the usual rich, of course. And privileged. A rather convincing argument for egalitarianism as an ideology; such privilege! Neverth...

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