Late-night Bohemians

I was thinking of staying up all night, tonight, or waiting until I feel tired which might be 5 a.m. then again, the regularity of taking sleeping tablets also has its allure. None of these choices are particularly satisfactory.

I had to research this as I've suffered some severe memory loss recently! The Group Avatar is "Composition à la main et aux chapeaux, 1927" by Fernand Léger.

I'm about two hours early for posting in this group this evening, but it feels like a somewhat unreal day today. Not only is it a Bank Holiday but I only had one thing scheduled and that seems to have been passively cancelled on me. Still, a good chance to catch up with films stored on PVR which were beginning to grow out of hand.

Anyone else find that, in the wee small hours of the morning whilst hurtling into the advanced stages of sleep deprivation, you suddenly feel like you can do anything?
Just a random note, and also I'm introducing myself to this group

CG xxx

For no reason I can recall, I bought a bottle of Liebfraumilch recently and put it in the fridge, assuming that there would come a moment when it would be just what I wanted.

I drank it this evening, and mused about how, like so many German tipples it has such a 1970s image in the UK, being the avocado bath-room suite of wines.

I have to admit that I quite enjoyed it.

Interesting (for me at least) article on crank science. Its the engineers, apparently.

http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=435:how-i-found-glaring-errors-in-einsteins-calculations&catid=57:pascals-blog&Itemid=34

Almost half of Russia's adults would fail the state geography exam for school leavers, according to a recent nationwide survey: when asked to name the country bordering on Russia out of Sweden, Turkmenistan, Mongolia and Iran, only 47% correctly answered Mongolia. The margin of statistical error was 3.4%.

This should not be a problem for Charles Simonyi, who will get an extra day in orbit for the $35 million he paid for his flight to the International Space Station. The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-13 will however go round again after reconnaissance checks discovered that the official landing site picked for 7 April turned out to be a swamp.

Russian space officials, haven't commented on the exact time and location for landing on the 8th. “The preliminary time of landing is 11:24 Moscow time. The time is not final. The calculations are not over,” said Aleksandr Vorobyev of Roskosmos. I hope that they aren't 3.4% out this time.

To track where the space station is right now click here.

Sorry we have no pictures, but the words, the words...

I know she recognises me, but does she know my name?

Can anybody think of a way I can work out if my cat actually knows my name? I think she knows hers. There must be some way to test this out.

I just won a one-legged ass-kicking competition. Try it some time. It's great.