I have recently learned that Facebook members are urged to give 25 Random Facts or perhaps that should be 25 Random Facts That Might Not Be.
The following are random in that it's a list of not totally original thoughts jotted down as they've floated across the blank screen of my mind.
1. Son No.1 tells me that in spite of my ranting I do have a Facebook account.
2. I joined Friends Reunited several years ago. I haven't contacted anyone and no-one has contacted me.
3. I'd like to hear the world's first mobile phone orchestra. Perhaps someone can lend me an iPhone.
4. The local Carrefour hypermarket has little economic nous. Why else sell 6 disposable Gillette razors which have handles, swivelling heads, soap strips, double blades - the complete works, at two-thirds of the price of a pack of five heads without the complete works?
5. Those who can - do. ----Those who can't - teach. ----Those who can't teach - manage schools.
6. Television is the opium of the masses.
7. Most folk can't see beyond their noses.
8. Pinocchio was long-sighted.
9.The kids who are growing up surrounded by (cyber) technology will have better hand-eye co-ordination than their parents, but shorter attention spans. They will be better at holding many things in their heads at once, but worse at remembering them afterwards. fr. Review of Cyburbia - The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live And Who We Are by James Harkin. pub. Little, Brown 2009.
10. As a vegetarian I instinctively flinch when offered a meal with 'artificial' - looks like, tastes like - meat.
11. There's nowt wrong with alternative protein sources, such as tempeh, a miracle food.
13. I wish I knew more about how to 'tweak' the template of this blog.
14. Most religions have tolerance at their core and are inherently good for us.
15. Most religions have hard-core followers who are inherently bad for us.
16. Hard-core followers are not radical, in the sense of seeking positive change. The word is an oxymoron and they are morons.
17. Keeping a diary makes you happier, it says here. I'm not sure about that, but putting Jakartass together is somewhat fulfilling.
18. The rain in Spain Jakarta stays mainly on the plain.
19. I'm not so much put off cycling as I'm put off drivers.
20. Few films are as rewarding as the books on which they're based. Atonement is a notable exception. (Watch Vanessa Redgrave's face as she closes the account - an astonishing performance.)
21. Dolores Hart's claim to fame was that she gave Elvis Presley his first screen kiss. And then, on the brink of a dazzling film career, she gave it all up to become a Benedictine nun. She still prays for Elvis who's now living on the dark side of the moon..
23. In the matter of broadband provision, Indonesia ranks 63rd out of 66 countries surveyed and out of 242 cities 'tested', Jakarta is ranked at 230 and Surabaya at 233.
24. Like Our Kid doesn't now, I didn't, and still don't, understand the mathematics I was taught at school. I've used very little of it since.
25. There are times when I can't think of anything to write. Hence no.25.
