A few thoughts from the weekend

[jack]

* We found a dour beach with a certain beauty. It's exactly the visual for the veil ruginious, when you've trecked to the edge of the desert, mount a rise, and find the ocean stretching away in front of you. Walking sideways along the shore eventually brings you to marshy shores, and then green shores, and eventually bustling harbours where souls have banded together to build ships to cross the Styx Ocean.

* Penguins are really graceful in the water. If you think of them as acquatic birds that can also walk, they make so much more sense, when if you only see them waddling they just look so stupid.

* I think my sense of direction works great wandering around strange villages laid out in a grid, but just fails completely on any other angles. Notice, Cambridge has lots of 90⁰ angles, but they don't count, because they all meet in triangles.

* Mum and I do have a lot in common. I'm not sure which is more interesting, the ways in which we're the same, or the ways in which we're different.

Comments

Pro-penguin

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Aw, appropriate icon. I feel a nearly overpowering need to agree with that upper-case sentence. But they do. That's not necessarily bad, not looking stupid isn't my strong point here. Just that, if you like penguins, randomly lambasting people who are praising them isn't necessarily the best strategy :)

Re: Pro-penguin

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

SURE it is! When people say they look STUPID! ;-)

Re: Pro-penguin

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You must meet Richard.

Re: Pro-penguin

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

As long as he doesn't think penguins look stupid!

Re: Pro-penguin

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I don't know what he thinks, but he has a gigantic inflatable penguin in his bedroom, used as his default user icon. He (the penguin, not rjk) was also pressed into service as Ulmo in some friends' reduced Silmarillion production.

Re: Pro-penguin

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

LOL I somehow feel that he should meet a friend of mine.

Re: Pro-penguin

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:-/ A friend of yours?

Re: Pro-penguin

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

A Penguintic friend of mine.