Pulp Fiction

Jules: "Mr. Wolf, I just wanna say it was a real pleasure watching you work."

Vincent: "Yeah Really and thank you Mr.Wolf."

Wolf: "Call me Winston. You see that young lady? Respect. Respect for one's elders shows character."

142nd time in 10 matches.

GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal (Drogba 7) The corner is sent in - it's an outswinger. Peeling off his marker, John Terry flicks it diagonally across the face of goal and Drogba pokes it home at the far post from about two feet out.

8 min: I'm not sure of the exact statistic, but that's about the 142nd time Didier Drogba has scored against Arsenal in 10 matches. He won't get many easier ones than that - the marking was dismal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/07/chelsea-arsenal-live

TATARSTAN

I had no idea that the REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN existed...

http://president.tatar.ru/eng/photo/show/1921

Living

Living is
a thing you do
now or never --
which do you?

Piet Hein

Men are disturbed not by things but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

The Enchiridion, Epictetus.

*8^p

Merry New Year and Turkey for all!

2010

Only ... Maureen

We seemed to still be behind the curve and reactive, patting down grannies and 5-year-olds, confiscating snow globes and lip glosses.

[...]

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?

Maureen Dowd -- December 29, 2009

Thoughts of an Egyptian Mummy

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The Flying Duomo

DT

Dear Tiger --- Being away from family: Tiger answers fans' e-mails

11/20/2009

Do you enjoy playing so far away from home? I can imagine that, now that you have children, it's got to be hard to be so far away from them. — Rupert from Houston

You're exactly right, Rupert. Now, it's very difficult to leave Elin and the children, and I'm sure it's only going to get tougher. Once Sam and Charlie start school, it won't be easy to take them out of class for a week-long trip. A veteran pro once told them it's tough to leave them as babies, but once they ask you not to go, it breaks your heart. That's something I'll always remember.

www.tigerwoods.com

http://web.tigerwoods.com/news/article/200911207694988/deartiger/

Tupac & The Vatican :)

Tupac Shakur and Muse feature on Vatican's MySpace playlist

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=502108561&plid=1256850

the Oasis of the Seas

The Oasis will typically carry 5,400 passengers, served by 2,291 staff

Where the Oasis of the Seas goes, however, is very much determined by its dimensions. The ship could not dock in any European port, for example; it requires custom-made facilities that can manage not only the particular mooring requirements of its 225,000-tonne bulk but which can also cope with the need to disembark up to 6,000 people effortlessly.


Tim Adams --- guardian.co.uk ---

Women say...

Don't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares, he's a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Coffee found on Moon, researchers say.

“Indeed yes, we found coffee,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA, said in a news conference. “And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount. Espresso, light roast, dark roast, decaffeinated, organic, Arabica, Tarrazu, you name it”

The confirmation of scientists’ suspicions is welcome news to explorers who might set up home on the lunar surface and, when they wake up in morning, smell the coffee.

70p

Mark Thompson's salary package of £834,000 has become an uncomfortable political issue for the BBC director general, held up by the Tories as a potent symbol of the corporation's profligacy with public money. But it seems that for Thompson himself, even this generous sum may not be enough to cover the irritating little costs that go with the job.

According to documents released by the BBC today, Thompson recently claimed back £90 of parking meter charges on expenses, including one for just 70p.

James Robinson, media correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 November 2009

P.O.S.T. 1.1.1.1

Bird with baguette 1; Big Bang 0

Call it the matchup between the Higgs boson and a bread crumb. And the bread crumb seems to have prevailed in this round.

The $6.5-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland — which is supposed to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” which gives matter in the universe its mass and simulate the Big Bang — apparently was no match for a small bird with a bread crumb.

http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/business-brains/bird-with-baguette-1-big-bang-0/3088/?tag=content;col1

By Joe McKendrick | Nov 7, 2009 |

Seppelliteci qui.

Vogliamo morire qui. Seppelliteci qui allo stadio olimpico di torino con questo napoli.
Auriemma, Juve Napoli 2-3, Nov 2009.

My favourite things

My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

ERMA BOMBECK

Veleggio come un'ombra

Veleggio come un'ombra
nel sonno del giorno
e senza sapere
mi riconosco come tanti
schierata su un altare
per essere mangiata da chissà chi.
Io penso che l'inferno
sia illuminato di queste stesse
strane lampadine.
Vogliono cibarsi della mia pena
perché la loro forse
non s'addormenta mai.

http://www.aldamerini.com/

APPARENTLY

A Florida billionaire who was a top beneficiary of Bernard Madoff's $65bn (£40bn) Ponzi scheme has died, APPARENTLY by drowning in the swimming pool of his mansion in the exclusive seaside enclave of Palm Beach.

Jeffry Picower, 67, was found by his wife and housekeeper shortly after midday on Sunday.

Vic Mizzy, who wrote 'Addams Family' theme, dies.

Xenia I

'But we can love a shade, you know,
being shades ourselves.'

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)