relocation relocation relocation

Dear all,

I would like to inform you of my new blog, to which I will be posting from now on. The address is http://p-latitudes.blogspot.com, and an explanation of why the change has been made can be found within!

It would be great if you could bookmark / follow the new blog and whatever else, and I hope to see you there!

I'll be moving posts from Sugiharagami to P-latitudes over the next couple of weeks, so if there's an old post you particularly like you'll still be able to read it :)


TA!

library maths

According to the World Bank, the population of Earth at 13:36pm GMT March 9th 2009 is 6,692,030,277.

My library card number is 20109006909273. I presume this means I opened the 20109006909273rd account with the library.

If I subtract 1 from the population of the world to represent me, then divide my library card number, the number I get is truly staggering.

It appears that EVERY person in the world has, on average, 3004.9 accounts with the libraries of the borough in question.

That would explain why I always have to place a hold on the book I want.

pessimism / optimism

Winston Churchill once said "a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty".

Christopher Lee (me) once said "what are you, then, if you see both?"

Because surely there are opportunities in every difficult situation, and once you identify and overcome the difficulties, the opportunities are presented to you. And surely also it is unrealistic to think that there will be no difficulties to overcome just because you can see an opportunity.

Either W.C. was being very cryptic here and implying that everyone is both pessimistic and optimistic, or it was one of his weaker quotes. Either way it is still weaker than his retort to being called drunk: "my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly".