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Jun. 26th, 2003 12:25 pm"I don't advise a haircut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
If you can't place the quote, the firing squad can probably fit you in this afternoon.
Wiser words never spoken. Well, perhaps a few, but not many. But I am shorn. Also Sean, but that's an entirely different matter.
Whatever. More depressing was the discovery, on inspection of the back, that I shall shortly effectively have a tonsure. It therefore follows that I shall never pull again, and should start drowning my sorrows now. Perhaps I should have become a monk after all, though the agnosticism and the slight problem with chastity, though sadly not with celibacy, would probably have become a problem in the end.
Mugshots for the Chambers website now taken. Depending on how bad they are I may tell you where to find them once they're up.
I thought I had no work today, but I seem to have become involved in co-writing a paper on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 on the law of corporate insolvency and recovery. I doubt any of you will appreciate this, but I honestly find this stuff fascinating. Shortly put, the Act is supposedly an attempt to make our equivalent of Chapter 11 proceedings more popular and effective. I'm not convinced.
Tomorrow and Monday is my mini-holiday, and on at least one of those days I shall be off to WimblyDone. Apropos of which, caught most of Hantuchova (or the future Mrs Liadnan as she is also known) - Asagoe last night, possibly the best match I've managed to catch so far this year. And bye bye Greg. I do think the umpire should have called a lett on that point, but a large part of tennis is the ability to get over things like that, he could still have won after all.
One final thought.. in whom do we place more trust, the BBC and in particular the Today programme, or Mr Alisdair Campbell? Go on, surprise me.
(For the record, no I haven't changed my opinion on The War, but since my somewhat limited support never had anything to do with "WMD" -a vacuous acronym which neatly elides the distinction between Very Nasty Weapons and Fairly Nasty Weapons, and completely fails to raise the issue of effective delivery mechanisms for those weapons- I think I can just about be on the other side on that one and retain intellectual coherence and consistency. Possibly.)
If you can't place the quote, the firing squad can probably fit you in this afternoon.
Wiser words never spoken. Well, perhaps a few, but not many. But I am shorn. Also Sean, but that's an entirely different matter.
Whatever. More depressing was the discovery, on inspection of the back, that I shall shortly effectively have a tonsure. It therefore follows that I shall never pull again, and should start drowning my sorrows now. Perhaps I should have become a monk after all, though the agnosticism and the slight problem with chastity, though sadly not with celibacy, would probably have become a problem in the end.
Mugshots for the Chambers website now taken. Depending on how bad they are I may tell you where to find them once they're up.
I thought I had no work today, but I seem to have become involved in co-writing a paper on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 on the law of corporate insolvency and recovery. I doubt any of you will appreciate this, but I honestly find this stuff fascinating. Shortly put, the Act is supposedly an attempt to make our equivalent of Chapter 11 proceedings more popular and effective. I'm not convinced.
Tomorrow and Monday is my mini-holiday, and on at least one of those days I shall be off to WimblyDone. Apropos of which, caught most of Hantuchova (or the future Mrs Liadnan as she is also known) - Asagoe last night, possibly the best match I've managed to catch so far this year. And bye bye Greg. I do think the umpire should have called a lett on that point, but a large part of tennis is the ability to get over things like that, he could still have won after all.
One final thought.. in whom do we place more trust, the BBC and in particular the Today programme, or Mr Alisdair Campbell? Go on, surprise me.
(For the record, no I haven't changed my opinion on The War, but since my somewhat limited support never had anything to do with "WMD" -a vacuous acronym which neatly elides the distinction between Very Nasty Weapons and Fairly Nasty Weapons, and completely fails to raise the issue of effective delivery mechanisms for those weapons- I think I can just about be on the other side on that one and retain intellectual coherence and consistency. Possibly.)