Receding Hairline

Carlos has a broken nose

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-10-17T13:40:43+01:00

It's a good job that MacFormat's photoshoot with our car took place yesterday…

IMAGE COURTESY OF FUTURE PUBLISHING LTD/JOBY SESSIONS

...as today an MPV reversed into us and now Carlos has a squished nose:

Dogs of the Week: Marley & Digger

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-10-04T16:51:01+01:00

Though Marley and Digger are apparently best friends, Marley – the Staffie cross – has a rather worrying habit of just walking on Digger, the Daschund cross. Sweet pair, though actually very nervous of other dogs. They're new additions to the home, having just arrived yesterday. Shot some video too; will edit and upload later.

Dog of the Week: Lucas

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-09-26T18:05:55+01:00

Oh, look; we walked a ~~lovely big Akita Inu~~ teddy bear from Hamleys. More photos here, though you should also watch this video of an Akita Inu puppy. (What is Dog of the Week?)

Content is king (but medium is prince regent)

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-09-20T21:38:53+01:00

My wishlist is filled with books I want to buy, but I don’t want to buy them until I own a Kindle. (I can’t really articulate why; it just feels that way. Partly it’s a love of the tech, partly it’s that I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with the book as a medium; too bulky, too limited, and too wasteful of resources all along the manufacture and distribution process.)

But it’s an odd experience, to deny myself stories and knowledge until a new format arrives. Wonder if anyone ever thought “No, I don’t want to hear the troubadour recount the latest must-hear tale; I want to wait till I can read it in one of these book things. They have so many advantages over the old oral tradition.”

Evil capitalist pigs

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-09-20T20:41:23+01:00

I’ve got nothing in the way of evidence to support the claim – though this post by Jason Kottke prompted me actually to post this – but I’ve long thought that if I read a book or watched a programme that told me that today’s smart, connected, profit-orientated business models meant that, like many indigenous peoples, all parts of a pig, say, were used after its slaughter*, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised.

* In this case by many different companies in many different industries, for many different purposes; less direct than the make-a-water-gourd-from-a-bladder approach, but certainly more effective than the in-the-West-we-kill-a-pig-just-for-a-couple-of-chops-and-throw-the-rest-away-and-isn't-it-a-crying-shame mindset that seems to prevail among a few of the more determined crusties.

Dog of the Week «édition française»: Daisy

chris@recedinghairline.co.uk — 2009-09-20T10:09:09+01:00

Meet Daisy, the dog who lived in the house to which our little holiday gîte was attached. She's pulling that rather alarming face because she's in the middle of masticating one of the many figs that fell from the tree at the front door. You haven’t lived until you've seen a Staffie cross chow down on a series of sticky, slightly fermented figs. Now, you might think that eating dozens of figs wouldn't be good for a small dog, and if you did, the spate of mournful farts she let out in our company would seem to lend credence to your theory.

And, as always, there are a bunch more photos from France on Flickr. Not terrific shots, I must say; the weather was against me, and, worse, the muse just didn't seem to be with me.