Silly Old Fart

I was just thinking this as I listened to Rupert Murdoch pontificating –

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For those who love penguins

There is a new exhibit at the Melbourne Zoo. Here is a link to the video of the penguins in their new home –

Penguins happy in icy new home

A pity there is too much of the TV presenter but I must say they have a lovely viewing tank.

Here is a link to a picture gallery –

Penguins on parade 

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Go The Turtle

I don’t blame the turtle one little bit –

Chef bitten by turtle escapee

Hopefully the publicity will save his bacon.

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2315

This piece in the paper this morning amused me –

Budgie Snuggler

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2314

I went for a fall yesterday. I was running for the bus and my sandal caught an uneven piece in the footpath and I went sprawling and you guessed it, the knee I busted in April got most of the force of the fall. I got up and could walk, even if it was sore, but later on it swelled up and is slowly going black but it is getting sorer and the heat hasn’t disappeared. I didn’t go to the hospital this morning, hoping that if I rested some more the swelling and pain would have abated. It’s got worse, it feels like there are needles underneath the skin just below the knee cap. If it isn’t any better tomorrow morning I’ll go to the emergency department at the local hospital and get an x-ray to check that I haven’t re-opened the break in my knee joint, but at the moment it feels like I might have done some more damage there.

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Your result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test…

The Modern

25% Ancient, 13% Medieval, 56% Modern and 6% Post-Modern!

Congratulations! You are: a Modern!

(Keep in mind, by Modern, I mean the era which began around the 17th century and ended in the 20th century.)

Throughout the Modern era, philosophers and scientists were forced constantly to do battle with the forces of censorship, philosophical conservatism, and pure inertia.This was the age in which “innovation” was a bad word, and the Moderns were all about innovation. Despite all the opposition they faced, Modern philosophy is the most optimistic of any era. The Moderns seem really to have believed that, for instance, giving men freedom from kings and priests and tyrants will make men happier and better. Their goal was a political community based on reason. But while some Moderns concentrated on becoming more and more scientific, rational and civilized, others, such as Wordsworth and Rousseau, reacted against this trend by turning back to what they saw as the pure, uncorrupted truths of nature. However, the Romantic and the Scientific trends in Modernism are two sides of the same coin. The two are united in their disdain for the status quo and for social norms, and their search for more real, trustworthy truths upon which to build the new society they all dreamed of.

Some modern philosophers: Newton, Voltaire, Bacon, Hume, Rousseau, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Darwin, J.S. Mill

Some modern artists: Da Vinci, Molière, Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Mozart, Cervantes, Swift

Typical modern art forms: opera, comic plays, portraiture, the concerto, the confessional memoir, descriptions of nature

Take The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test at HelloQuizzy

Not particularly surprising I suppose.

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Your result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test…

The Modern

25% Ancient, 13% Medieval, 56% Modern and 6% Post-Modern!

Congratulations! You are: a Modern!

(Keep in mind, by Modern, I mean the era which began around the 17th century and ended in the 20th century.)

Throughout the Modern era, philosophers and scientists were forced constantly to do battle with the forces of censorship, philosophical conservatism, and pure inertia.This was the age in which “innovation” was a bad word, and the Moderns were all about innovation. Despite all the opposition they faced, Modern philosophy is the most optimistic of any era. The Moderns seem really to have believed that, for instance, giving men freedom from kings and priests and tyrants will make men happier and better. Their goal was a political community based on reason. But while some Moderns concentrated on becoming more and more scientific, rational and civilized, others, such as Wordsworth and Rousseau, reacted against this trend by turning back to what they saw as the pure, uncorrupted truths of nature. However, the Romantic and the Scientific trends in Modernism are two sides of the same coin. The two are united in their disdain for the status quo and for social norms, and their search for more real, trustworthy truths upon which to build the new society they all dreamed of.

Some modern philosophers: Newton, Voltaire, Bacon, Hume, Rousseau, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Darwin, J.S. Mill

Some modern artists: Da Vinci, Molière, Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Mozart, Cervantes, Swift

Typical modern art forms: opera, comic plays, portraiture, the concerto, the confessional memoir, descriptions of nature

Take The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test at HelloQuizzy

Not particularly surprising I suppose.

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Spectacular Storm Shots from Queensland

This last week the drought has definitely broken in south-east Queensland. There seems to be continual thunder storms and major downpours this week in Brisbane and the surrounding area causing millions of dollars damage. It is only the beginning of Summer, I guess the denizens of BrisVegas are keen for it all to dry up. Here is a link to the picture gallery –

Storm Ravaged Queensland

There are more storms sweeping through Queensland as I type according to the news.

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I was watching Adam Hills live performance at The Melbourne Athenaeum –

Adam Hills Live: Joymonger and Characterful

I really enjoyed the show. It was refreshing and to my horror I found myself thinking, "Oh that Adam Hills is a nice boy." Something my grandmother and mother would have said. Oh dear, I’m growing old, but the show was good. There should be more joymongers in this world.

There is a clip of the show here –

Adam Hills Live

I’m not too sure whether it is too early to feature any festive icons but have acquired this lovely yule time wombat in a hat from  .

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