As thinking machines we are often presented with choices, and we make those choices as best we can. Are they, however, the best choices? Well, the answer is that we don't know, we won't know, and that we'd better just plug on and not mind the horses. It's actually nice to write about these things and repeat homilies and sayings that I've heard and read about the place.
Ah, homilies. What is a homily? Is it the correct word to use?
'homily:
1> a speech, usually given in church, on a moral or religious subject
2> a short speech advising someone how to behave. This word usually shows that you think the advice is boring'
It's nice that there's a special word for pieces of advice or life guidance that you consider to be boring. That's brilliant. It makes you wonder if there's a special word for when you think it's disgusting, or uplifting, or culinary, or too much like a helium balloon. On unrelated topics, I rather like red cabbage.
Ah, it's a pain to be job hunting. Even now I'm focusing on the fact that I've four applications to throw in before Sunday! Why oh why does it have to be so hard! Well, in between doing those applications, writing a paper, doing calculations for other work, and being generally alive there will be more of this ridiculous blog. So what's coming up? There'll be a piece on the movie 'The Hunt For Red October', an apple tart recipe, and a comparison on the movie and novel versions of 'Hopscotch' by Brian Garfield. Oh, I wish Walter Matthau could have made more movies.
It's a sad world where we can no longer have Jimmy Stewarts and Walter Matthaus but we can have iPhones. Sigh.
Onward! Darn the torpedoes!
Oliver.
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