Planted runner beans outdoors
Greenhouse is full, so I'm kicking a few beans out. See how they go.Marks has got a new greenhouse coming in two weeks. 8 by 12ft. Big.
burn burn burn
They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Pumpkin bed prepared
Weed??barrier and some wood chip. I want a??giant??this year using "hundredweight" variety pumpkin seeds.??
What's in my (messy and ancient) greenhouse
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Second attempt at uploading a video to posterous.
Installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Took me awhile to get it working due to a newer version of GRUB -which I took for granted as always working.
My reason for going through boot loader hell was to look at Ubuntu's new 'me menu' and look at Gnome improvements.The me menu is just a front end to empathy and gwibber. Ubuntu's Gnome is slower than I remember, way more sluggish and unresponsive than Debian Lenny Gnome environment. All that said, the colour scheme is nice -no more brown. I think this is the first big distribution I've installed where gimp isn't installed by default. Which is odd and not helpful. Nvidia Video drivers installed with ease. Wanting a faster environment I set up lxde and compiz. Geekness.
Installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Took me awhile to get it working due to a newer version of GRUB -which I took for granted as always working.
My reason for going through boot loader hell was to look at Ubuntu's new 'me menu' and look at Gnome improvements.The me menu is just a front end to empathy and gwibber. Ubuntu's Gnome is slower than I remember, way more sluggish and unresponsive than Debian Lenny Gnome environment. All that said, the colour scheme is nice -no more brown. I think this is the first big distribution I've installed where gimp isn't installed by default. Which is odd and not helpful. Nvidia Video drivers installed with ease. Wanting a faster environment I set up lxde and compiz. Geekness.
Start of may on the allotment
Spent the day on the allotment working in between showers with family. Helped clear an area of weeds and showed my little cousin how to do a proper bonfire -probably, next time, a little further away from the shed. The apple trees have blossom now. The pumpkins are starting. The corn is about 12 cm's high and so too are the tomatoes and the weeds.If anyone has an eye for fungi or magic mushrooms, what is the fungi growing in my corn toilet roll pots?
Sirens of Titan
Where has this book been all my life? Satire existentialism in space -where would Douglas Adams be without this book! Can't stress how awesome it is.
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules ??? and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.??
This seems relevant today:
The state of mind on Earth with regard to space exploration was much like the state of mind in Europe with regard to exploration of the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus set out. There were these important differences, however: the monsters between space explorers and their goals were not imaginary, but numerous, hideous, various, and uniformly cataclysmic; the cost of even a small expedition was enough to ruin most nations; and it was a virtual certainty that no expedition could increase the wealth of its sponsors. In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space.
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