A bit of time, a window of opportunity, so I’m quickly (ha!) uploading the pics from the long weekend as promised. I started pruning my pics from my flight with Sea & Sky and then I thought no, sod that, I want to remember every moment of it, so I’ve just put them all up in a set yet to be uploaded (and therefore available). Expect whales, coastline, and skies forever and ever…
UPDATE: Now up – here
And I haven’t even looked at the rest of the photos from the rest of the weekend. Met eish, ja.
UPDATE: Also now up – here
But I’ll link to them in a separate post (UPDATE: Which I also did – here), because until those pics are available, you need to read this:
Some (obviously) excellent writing from Jacques Rousseau including a hilarious off-the-cuff dig at the French and this vitally important line:
The point is that there’s an arms-race of hyperbole going on…
And yes, he’s absolutely right and it’s making the internet an increasingly unpleasant place to be and additionally (and more importantly), it’s stifling and devaluing meaningful debate.
Thanks – the support is appreciated. And yes, the Internet is often a rather unpleasant place to be, and increasingly so. You probably spotted this, but another place has shut down their comment section today thanks to trollage. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments
Jacques Rousseau > Sad. But sensible – no point in worthless comments and the negative nonsense that goes with them.