Kevin Brennan MP supplies the proof:
Far too good not to copy and paste into here. Yum. And scaffolding.
Category: Social media
The things you learn from lurking on Twitter …
Here:
The most interesting thing about Apsley House, former home of the Duke of Wellington, is that there’s a massive naked statue of Napoleon at the bottom of the stairs.
It’s huge apparently, over eleven feet tall. Official Apsley House website here.
And no, he does not look like Danny de Vito at all. All that hooey about Napoleon being small, “Napoleon complex”, etc. is indeed hooey. (Can’t remember where or when I read this, but I did.)
New word
Cranebow:
Found this here.
LATER: From where I’m sitting, there is small and unwelcome gap just before where it says, below, “Monday 27 January 2020”. Can any passing WordPress experts explain this, and thereby help me get rid of it? (My guess is: Me asking this will cause this gap to vanish spontaneously.)
And I was right! It did vanish. And me writing the above paragraph enabled me to spot it, because the entire paragraph turned blue. A missing “/” was the problem, following the blue “here”, which, when inserted, abolished the gap. So, WordPress experts, forget about it.
Mandarin lesson
If and when I get myself that new laptop that I mentioned here I was thinking of getting, I’m going to call it my Hand Lift Electricity Brain.
How big creatures assemble themselves
Speaking of animals, as I like to do of a Friday, how does Life get from little tiny single cell thingies to, you know, animals? Well, somewhat like this:
This school of fish swimming together looks like a single creature, shuffling along the ocean floor. Kinda analogous to the nature of multicellularity: Multicellular organisms are, in effect, large, highly coordinated colonies of single-celled organisms (their cells). pic.twitter.com/PZZlkie0Or
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) January 19, 2020
The little tiny cells don’t themselves get that much bigger. No. Instead they combine into cooperating flocks, like the fishes above.
To be clear, the above is not an actual creature evolving. What you see there is merely analogous to how bigger creatures assemble themselves from tiny little cells.
I continue to read this SS-W book. My problem is: I’m already persuaded of the truth of everything he says. But I am learning plenty, so will continue.
Emmanuel Todd with cat
I am a fan of Emmanuel Todd, and I like cats, so, this:
Found it here, via someone or other on Twitter (to whom deepest thanks).
The new class struggle of which Todd apparently speaks is between French intellectuals and cats.
“You’re the one who wants to make it illegal for lions to eat lettuce”
Here.
Remember to photo the ordinary things
This is great advice:
Wallsend in 1963 by Colin Jones. If you are a young photographer who is just starting out remember to photograph the ordinary things in life, eventually time will make them extraordinary.
Got this from my Twitter feed. Twitter is not only bile and stupidity. It depends who you are following. I follow some photoers. That they typically have different political opinions to me is, for me, a feature rather than a bug, because I see into other political minds.
Different animals getting along with each other
My computer is misbehaving, added to which I have been busy doing other things. So just a couple of tweets for today, both concerning one of the things the internet really likes, namely: different brands of animals being nice to each other.
A monkey caresses some puppies. Although, a cynical commenter thinks maybe he’s just checking out how much meat they have on them. Fair to say, though, that the monkey looks like he’s doing just what humans, who mostly don’t have in mind to eat puppies, do with puppies.
A human and a dog play a game. The one where you have to remove a wooden piece from a tower, without knocking over the tower. The dog is very good at it. There seems no limit to what dogs will do to keep our attention and gain our approval.
Happy New Year
Or to put it in another way:
Or another way:
Have a nice Wednesday.