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Licence.

I don’t think it will ever matter, or if it does, whether it will matter much. I just want to make sure that there’s some point of reference if it ever does matter.

If you have concerns, could you let me know? I’m definitely up for discussing this. I think Creative Commons licences are a good fit for my blog and photos, but what you prefer might be different.

Dalek puncture repair kit.

Update: Found one. Now all I need is a Dalek anaesthetic kit.

• Box jellyfish flavour
• Stone fish flavour
• Blue ringed octopus flavour
• The Bjelke-Petersen years flavour

Any others?

Comments.

Recent Subject: lines:

• Enlarge your bell-rope size
• Last longer in bed (RAH: does this mean have a lie in?)
• Your penis has the ability to grow
• Her orgasm or not (RAH: Aristotelian excluded middle? Schrodinger’s cat thought experiment?)
• Enjoy the sex life you deserve (RAH: I already do, i.e., none whatsoever)
• You look stupid in this video (RAH: well, duh)
• We caught you naked, Richard! (RAH: so have most of my long-suffering neighbours)
• Set your wife on fire

If only I got spam that said:

• Take your frigging medication
• Your friends love you
• Enjoy breathing while you can still do it

I keep my mobile phone in a pouch on my belt. Each night I take my mobile phone out of its pouch and put it on the charger. In the morning, when I put on my trousers and belt, but before I take the phone off the charger and put it in its pouch, I feel the sad empty pouch and wonder if this is what my scrotum would feel like if I had my testicles removed.

On a pole at Coorparoo Junction:

Can you make up a story to explain this poster?

Tonight I was wandering around my neighbourhood and passed the local dry cleaners. They have an automated 24 hour garment drop-off and pick-up system, using a touch screen on a kiosk as the user interface to a dedicated carousel.

This evening, something had happened …

When I arrived, there was an error dialog saying that an ODBC connection to a SQL Server database had failed. I didn’t take a photo of that, because I thought that pressing the Cancel or Ok buttons would cause a reset. Nope.

 While I could only access functions via a touch screen…

… it was obvious to even my puny, non-ROOT!-appreciating brain that the kiosk was running with Administrator privileges …

 … and that if I wanted to I could inflict some really serious damage.

However, all I did was tidy up so that it would be a little difficult for a genuine wrongdoer to cause harm and left it at that.

It’s a cliché that there are a lot of young women who declare themselves to be lesbians, later to redefine their identity* as heterosexual.

I wonder if Postmodernists go through a similar shift? That is, having being confronted by the world for long enough, they figure out that reality isn’t all that impressed by quotes from their preferred authority figures, and so the Postmodernists embrace humane connection with others and the world on their own contingent, Theory-free terms.

Hmm.

* These days, identity is what people have instead of character or personality or interests or hobbies.

A while ago, I designed a couple of tshirts for an Australian tour of Ben Elton. Here’s one of them:

Reworking this for ROOT! would be trivial.

Other tshirt slogans that suggest themselves:

• ROOT! I Wish I Was A Soft Target Near-alternative Performer
• ROOT! Living In The Suburbs Is Worth Commenting On, At Length
• ROOT! Dissipating Goodwil Since 2007
•  I’d Rather Not Be ROOT!ing
• ROOT! Memento Mori Just Doesn’t Get Through To Some People

Any others?

[My thanks again to the correspondent who opened my eyes to this. And if you're worried that the suggested slogans are weak, I spent no more than 30 seconds thinking of them. Which is probably a little more than the time spent on ROOT! lyrics.]

Update: Here’s the other Ben Elton tshirt…