Bad news on the gizmo front. First off, the noise canceling headphones I ordered almost two weeks ago, knowing that I had a 14 hour flight coming up, failed to arrive. I felt quite naked, when all around me were gizmo guys -- we recognize one another -- sporting the self-same noise canceling headpho...

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The Godfather horse head prop pillow (Luigi)

Not sure Apple would regard this bit of imitation as a sincere form of flattery. (JoMo)

P.s. 11 September 2016: So glad both of these links are still alive. I've had to discard a fair number of these early link posts because they're dead.

Well, not that rapturous. And not that deep either, just 34 metres. But pretty good nonetheless. Yesterday I went diving again for the first time in far too many years, and enjoyed myself immensely. I'd been meaning to get underwater again for ages, and then the opportunity came up, and I was glad I took it.

The trip was very well organized, and also very Italian.

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I've realized of late that posting to my own blog is probably one of the most elastic tasks I have. If there's time, I do it. If there isn't, I don't. But I do at least fret about not posting. Sometimes.

One problem is that the primary cause of my current lack of both time and motivation is out of bounds for moaning. I have promised the powers that be that I won't discuss my work on my blog, it being far easier to self-censor than to explain. So I won't even indulge in a little Roman a clef and disguise names to protect the guilty. Let's just say that life is not entirely smooth at present.

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Owls collect dung to trap beetles.