It’s amazing, literally to this present day I’ve had only a vague knowledge of these guys, the rock band from Britain’ . While making my own ‘clashmaking’ for a long enough. “C’mon, what a ‘clashmaking’ you’re talking about here?”, you’d ask me. And you don’t even try to hide your derisive smile 
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Stumbled upon another piece of ‘witty observation’ by Stephen King in his book ‘On writing‘:
“..it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one. Read the rest of this entry »
Looking at this picture makes me want to cry: “I am a ’small fish’! I don’t wanna go any deeper! I’d be totally satisfied living in these warm and, how it looks to me - ‘placid habitat’ in the Great Bahama Bank” Read the rest of this entry »
I got this map from FlightAware flight tracker web-site using a ‘print screen’ feature on my Mac. Them guys in Flight Aware might object to such a ‘freely’ use of their ’stuff’, but I’ll beg them pardon me. Read the rest of this entry »
Seems ‘Zellers’ retails put a lot of stuff on sale. What dollar volume are they ‘targeting‘ to achieve during these sales?
As a distinguished ‘bookworm’, I am always getting attracted to shelves full of any kind of printed material. So, I couldn’t pass by this pile either, and indulged myself into a pleasure of casually going through it. Read the rest of this entry »
All Russia’s media outlets give a lot of coverage on current events in Japan. Well, there’s a number of reasons why Russia should be in a ‘gingerly watching mood’. Russia’s Far East is located in the immediate, neighborhood proximity to Japan Islands Archipelago. Read the rest of this entry »
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in the world were hit lately by the earthquake and tsunami waves and their aftershocks. I’m watching the TSX graph, and thinking to myself “what a duck lame investor I am being lately.” Read the rest of this entry »
The sentence was cut off.. It was too long, it didn’t fit well into a line for the post name.
However, I’m going to finish it later.
Just read this article in ‘NATIONAL POST’, plz..
Mr. Skidmore and Hideki Toya from Nagoya City University in Japan have examined data for 151 countries over the period 1960-2003 and found that countries with higher levels of income, education and financial development suffer fewer losses from a natural disaster. Other researchers have reached similar conclusions. Read the rest of this entry »
“Apply some power of ‘positive thinking!’“, I beseech myself. Damn. Doesn’t work. Too foreign a concept. We’ll talk about it later.
Never used that word before (beseech). Doubt if I ever needed to. Just show off, ‘playing words’. Read the rest of this entry »
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