Thu 2008-07-17 
Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium). Full classification:
Photo taken in Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2008-07-13.
Tue 2008-07-15 
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus conrniculatus). Full classification:
Photo taken in Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2008-07-13.
Sun 2008-07-13 
Great Willow Herb (Epilobium hirsutum). Full clssification:
Photo taken beside the large lake, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2008-07-13.
Mon 2008-07-07 Instructions to a child, from Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier:
Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your own bath water, nor of bath water of any kind; nor rub your feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand.
Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? And hum not that humming in your nose as I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will drive me to madness. Nor forget what I said about the tape.
(Via Scott Rosenberg' Wordyard.)
Sat 2008-07-05 I just came across this quotation attributed to Pablo Picasso:
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
This is so extraordinarily silly that I can only assume that Pablo never actually used a computer. Otherwise he would have discovered that the questions they pose far outnumber any answers they give.
