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Friday, 4 July 2003
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Delight in ugly creatures
This articles has deep sea creatures and the dark side of the moon. So apparently it is a popular misconception that the dark side of the moon is the side we can't see. To clarify: that's the far side. The dark side we can see: we just wait until the phase changes and it becomes the light side (unless of course it's also the far side).
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Money
Here is a list of things I "can't afford right now".
- "New" albums by Radiohead, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Massive Attack, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I'm stuck in played it already land.
- New boots
- Visit Thomas & Erin in Wellington
- Computer upgrade and a decent printer
- New second-hand SLR camera
- Second-hand flash for existing SLR camera
- Digital camera
- Holidays
- Decent sleeping bag, MSR cooker and other tramping paraphernalia
- Children
I kinda resent the fact that I still don't seem to be able to make ends meet, and I don't really think my ends are all that extravagant. I feel that if I can't now then maybe I never will. My legacy will be a pit drilled down to the earth's financial core. Maybe it's the expansion of the Universe.
- "New" albums by Radiohead, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Massive Attack, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I'm stuck in played it already land.
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DEUT 101
Thomas has been doing some translation for me. On the finer points of confectionery proprietorship negotiations:
So, if somebody asks you:
"das ist ihre schokolade, oder nicht?"you don't know whether that person means:
"that's your chocolate, isn't it?" or "that's her chocolate, isn't it?" -
Dark Side of the Moon
I thought today as I was staring at the sliver of moon with its attendant dark side quite clearly visible, uh that Pink Floyd's song "Dark Side of the Moon" is perhaps a little astronomically challenged. I mean there is a dark side, but it keeps moving, hence phases. Sometimes the far side is the dark side (full moon); sometimes the near side is the dark side (new moon). Surely they didn't mean to meet in this constantly shifting shadowland? Surely they meant the far side of the moon — a foreign, alien place for us earthlings.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
You'd have to be moving constantly at 15km/h to stay on the dark side, and that strikes me as inconvenient, especially with that rugged terrain. I'm sure many other people have worked this out before me, but today was my turn.I've always hated Pink Floyd, but that's probably just me.
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