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Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Year: 2014

Bits & Bobs Mood

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n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — xeno.

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People

Bill Murray.

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Bill Murray strikes me as someone who is very comfortable with himself. In as much as anyone can, he seems to do things his way. The world is richer for it. Theodore Melfi, the writer and director of St. Vincent, says while the movie was shooting in New York, Murray gave the production back the […]

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Department of Slightly Pointless Government Regulation

Slow Clap of the Day: Delivery firms refuse to use new postcode system

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Oh, fantastic – ‘Delivery firms refuse to use new postcode system’. The introduction of Ireland’s new postcode service will be as problematic as Irish Water, some of the country’s biggest transport delivery firms confirmed. The Freight Transport Association of Ireland said the planned new Eircode service would be “useless” to its members. […] The randomly-generated […]

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Environment

I’ll just leave this here.

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Global greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall to zero by the end of this century if the world is to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change, according to the UN’s leading scientists. In its latest report, released today in Copenhagen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also calls for the unrestricted […]

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