Samwise rides again

Picture by Muhammed Muheisen

http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/02/22/apghhandijpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2s6LZUdYaU

Best career move to date - Big up yo’self Girl !

UPDATE :
“if you can make it there, you can sell people your unwanted hair”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samh101/393635324/

UPDATE :
Prince Jonah Kūhiō
Prince David Kawānanakoa
Queen Kapiʻolani
Bridlington

From Aunty …

Lewis Goodfellow was born at 24 weeks weighing just 1lb 8oz. One of his lungs had failed and not enough oxygen was able to get into his bloodstream.

The drug opened up tiny blood vessels in the baby’s lungs.

Ms Goodfellow said: “Doctors said he couldn’t be given any more oxygen.

“They were just clutching at straws basically. They explained it was experimental and may not have any effect at all.”

Alan Fenton, consultant neonatologist at the hospital, said: “The problem we see in premature babies with breathing difficulties is although we can blow oxygen into their lungs to help them, there isn’t enough blood supply to various areas of the lungs to take the oxygen around the rest of the body.

“What Sildenafil does is open up the blood vessels so they can capture the oxygen and take it around the body.

UPDATE : A little Sildenafil history and how to use it to stop plants from wilting.

You bear both the good and bad consequences of the poem that you write.

During the course of my internet rummaging, yes, thats right I rummage, most people browse, I rummage, anyway as I was saying, during the course of my internet rummaging, I stumbled across GeekCruises.com.

When I want to get away from the paradisical surroundings of Hawai’i and the hustle and bustle of professional geekdom, I always opt for more geekery in less paradisical surroundings.

Wait a second … no .. no I don’t.

Admittedly, if work want to send me on a cruise in order to attend a conference, who am I to argue.

What did entertain me though was that, on their website, they have a Convince Your Spouse section.

Personally I’d rather move my office to the beach, but that is, unfortunatly, not an option.

A while back I posted an entry on a school in Massachusetts that had banned the game Tag.

Well the English are not to be outdone, as reported by Auntie …

Traditional playground games like kiss chase and tag have been banned at a primary school because staff said playtime was becoming too rough.

Head teacher at St John’s Primary, near Lincoln, Susan Tuck, said children had been copying the violent elements of computer games and television shows.

Ms Tuck said: “The children are watching television, they’re watching films and they’re playing computer games, very often it’s the violent element of that they are seeing and hearing.

Apparently the solution is to stop children running around and kissing one another.

Reacting to the changes, one pupil at the school said: “The good thing is that lots of people can’t get hurt but the bad thing is it’s pretty boring at playtime and you can’t have as much fun as you used to be able to.”

Research suggests some traditional playground games can help reduce bullying.

It’s times like these that I, once again, have to start quoting Neill …

The function of the child is to live his own life – not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educator who thinks he knows best. All this interference and guidance on the part of adults only produces a generation of robots.

Most of the schoolwork that adolescents do is simply a waste of time, of energy, of patience. It robs youth of its right to play and play and play; it puts old heads on young shoulders.
When I lecture to students at teacher training colleges and universities, I am often shocked at the ungrownupness of these lads and lasses stuffed with useless knowledge. They know a lot; they shine in dialectics; they can quote the classics – but in their outlook on life many of them are infants.

… and most importantly …

Play belongs to the child.

You see play teaches children essential skills, even when the purpose of such games is not obvious to an observer. Attempts to hijack childrens games always seem quite vulgar, in our attempts to prove we know what is best for the child, we rob them of a vital life experience.

UPDATE : From ThisIsLincolshire.co.uk

If making stacks of blocks seems insignificant - remember that you didn’t always feel that way. When first you found some building toys in early childhood, you probably spent joyful weeks of learning what to do with them. If such toys now seem relatively dull, then you must ask how you have changed. Before you turned to more ambitious things, it once seemed strange and wonderful to be able to build a tower or a house of blocks. Yet, though all grown-up persons know how to do such things, no one understands how we learn to do them !

Now they seem mere common sense - and that’s what makes psychology hard. This forgetfulness, the amnesia of infancy, makes us assume that all our wonderful abilities were always there inside our minds, and we never stop to ask ourselves how they began and grew.