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the universe is watching you. possibly?

Look! Proof that, um, something.

After I talked about a book that discusses whether it’s a good idea to have kids or not, I’ve just seen an article entitled Is It Acceptable To Have Children?

It is true that once every five years I think “HA, I SHOULD GET A BABY.” It passes by the time dessert comes around.

THINGS THAT PEOPLE THINK ARE CUTE THAT ARE NOT

The article was actually published two days before my blog post, but I’ve only just noticed it, so we will gloss over that little discrepancy. Also, they make some interesting points.

Just because all the kids like hip hop and sexting today does NOT mean they’re going to be intelligent liberal-arts science proponents with a shot at saving the world and colonizing space and all that, right?

And, and, and, someone I know is moving to Stockholm shortly. Naturally, this means that all I see around me these days are references to that very city. I stumbled across a splendid blog all about moving to Stockholm. And someone (oh hai, @NoSomebody!) suggested on Twitterrrr that I add my blog to an excellent site called Bloglovin’; which turns out to be based in Stockholm. And I’ve just finished reading Just My Type, which has a lot to say about Ikea’s font choices – Ikea being Swedish, obvi. (Not quite such a surprising link there, to find something about a certain Swedish furniture company in a book about fonts. When they changed from Futura to Verdana, the world went mental.)

INSERT STRONG OPINION HERE

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a 14 year old speaks: how to drive a car

I’m on the bus. It’s mid-afternoon, the kids are coming out of school. And I just know the next twenty minutes or so are going to yield some teenage wisdom.

on the bus

Two schoolboys, about 14, a few seats behind me. The bus shudders alarmingly as it slows down, approaching the next stop.

Boy 1: Hurry up and stop!

Boy 2 (darkly): There’s more to it than that.

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