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From Sebastian
August 23, 2010 at 8:06 am
365 days later… To be continued. * * * Seb’s Flickr stream / Abi’s Flickr stream [Post link: 52 of 52] Related posts:45 of 52 51 of 52 46 of 52 ... (more)

At last! My new bedding is COMPLETE!

From Sebastian
August 19, 2010 at 4:22 pm
For the last few months I’ve been trying to troubleshoot my sleeping problems. Looking through the archives, it seems I first reported trouble sleeping over a year ago — ... (more)

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From Sebastian
August 16, 2010 at 6:47 am
The young ones & Have I told you lately that I Love You? Seb: I’ve spent most of this past week in the company of kids. I don’t mean that derogatorily — ... (more)

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From Sebastian
August 11, 2010 at 5:00 am
It’s Raining Men. & The Yeti Abi: Apologies for the lateness of this week’s upload, I’ve been in Amsterdam! When my friends and I planned this trip a few ... (more)

I just preened at being told I look younger than I actually am… this is a first…

From Sebastian
August 10, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Today, with 26 glorious and fun-packed years behind me, I was told that I look younger than a friend who is actually a year younger than me. My response really, really surprised ... (more)

Montenegrin exports

From Sebastian
August 8, 2010 at 8:45 am
Zoom in on a little, diesel Volkswagen, buzzing and sputtering across the sparse, orange Croatian scrub. It’s a taxi, though there are no signs or licenses or anything like ... (more)

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From Sebastian
August 3, 2010 at 4:55 am
Montenegro dawn & Cheers Seb: After two weeks I can now speak Montenegrin! Well, if sentences could be made out of modifiers, adjectives and expletives, that is. Here are ... (more)

A few photos of Montenegro

From Sebastian
August 1, 2010 at 9:04 am
I just had my first solid poop in four days! To celebrate, here are a handful of pretty photos from all over Montenegro, the  pint-sized jewel of the Adriatic Sea. For a country ... (more)

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From Sebastian
July 26, 2010 at 7:05 am
Recuperate & Bay of Kotor Abi: Ah! another 52 Weeks in which Abi and Sebastian are thrown off kilter because one of them is travelling. When I think about this project and ... (more)

This morning I sent bug boy a frozen hornet in the post

From Sebastian
July 19, 2010 at 12:32 pm
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by someone I’ve never met before via Flickr. He had found my stream by searching for hornets and obviously liked what he saw, because ... (more)

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From Sebastian
July 19, 2010 at 5:17 am
Girl, You’ll be a Woman soon & Growing up Abi: My Mum died when I was 15. I always think it was a shame because I could really do with asking her a few things about ... (more)

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction

From Sebastian
July 16, 2010 at 12:57 pm
via ted.com Who knew that a woman could be so well spoken?! I kid, I kid… But no, seriously, who knew that life, culture and political geography, could be so accurately ... (more)

52 Weeks, update

From Sebastian
July 12, 2010 at 10:25 am
For the last few weeks of our 52 Weeks project, I will be putting our collaborations both on the project’s dedicated site, and here on the front page of the blog. I figured ... (more)

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From Sebastian
July 12, 2010 at 7:30 am
The Muse & Doublethink (Click either photo to see it on Flickr) [Post link: 46 of 52] Related posts:37 of 52 40 of 52 A fun new photo project: 52 Weeks ... (more)

Paul Romer’s radical idea: Charter cities

From Sebastian
July 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm
via ted.com I’m filing this one under ‘cool things I should try out when I’m emperor‘. I really lack the economic background to comment properly on ... (more)

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From Sebastian
July 5, 2010 at 7:30 am
Old balls, please (Click for larger) Seb: I am incredibly good at racquet (racket) sports. Tennis, badminton, table tennis — you name it, I’m great. My eyesight, on ... (more)

Is left-handed masturbation juicier?

From Sebastian
June 30, 2010 at 10:18 am
I’ve been told before that my brain and its thought processes work in weird yet wonderful ways. The truth is, I only share a tiny fraction of what actually goes on in this ... (more)

Psychiatric diagnosis? Pah! Here comes neurological diagnosis!

From Sebastian
June 29, 2010 at 6:39 pm
via ted.com Watch it, it’s only 7 minutes. I think you’ll find it unsurprising that most people have tagged it as ‘jaw-dropping’. She makes an incredibly ... (more)

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From Sebastian
June 28, 2010 at 5:07 pm
The Chair & The Commute Seb: It might not look like much — and the arm lock is broken on one side, so it limps and wilts to the left — but it’s my chair. I ... (more)

Schools kill creativity

From Sebastian
June 24, 2010 at 12:07 pm
via ted.com Look! Another TED talk that agrees with me exactly! It’s always weird, when you have very strong prevailing ideologies, to find someone that thinks or writes ... (more)

Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile

From Sebastian
June 22, 2010 at 1:14 pm
via ted.com The first 10 minutes (and that high-pitched accent) are a bit iffy, but it does deliver after that. It’s not really anything new — he cites Maslow’s ... (more)

Etymology: -phil- (φίλος)

From Sebastian
June 21, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Suffixes with the common part -phil- (-phile, -philia, -philic) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with ... (more)

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From Sebastian
June 21, 2010 at 7:30 am
Elton & Tina Seb: Unlike Abi, music didn’t enter my life in a big way until Napster and the Era of Downloadable Music. That’s not to say my life was devoid of ... (more)

Hire the geniuses

From Sebastian
June 19, 2010 at 10:09 am
I’ve been watching Boston Legal recently. In it there’s a character called Alan Shore who uses his passionate, mellifluous voice to devastating effect in courtroom ... (more)

Untitled

From Sebastian
June 19, 2010 at 4:30 am
Hire the geniuses — public sector. Posted via web from thoughts on things [Post link: Untitled] Related posts:(Untitled) The middle of a short story (v1.0) Day ... (more)