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• Somedays you have to get ready for lunch by finding out whether there is truth to the rumours about Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell. #
• The course I helped develop, PHIL105 – Critical Thinking, has a twitter feed @phil105auckland Huzzah! #
• Yay, no \foonote issues in this document. Off to Media 7 I go. #
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What ho, my lovelies. I seem to be starting off my blog posts these days as if I am the Mr. Stephen Fry.

And why not? For, now that I am a star of the small screen, why shouldn’t I aim to be like the ubiquitous Mr. Fry (my lack of certain talents notwithstanding)?

Last Sunday José Barbosa,, myself and camera operator Michael, spent over three hours shooting three minutes of a critical thinking toolkit for the “Media 7” science special. José, who I think wants to be a milliner, bade me wear my Victorian suit and doff a fez for the proceedings.

This is the result (let’s hope TVNZ don’t decide to pull it).

• After two nights of drinking I decided to get on with my work. #
• Often, I find, everything I write after a semi-colon is just repetition; I just end up repeating myself when I use semi-colons, it seems. #
• We just reached 1000 signatures on the Toonstruck Two petition! Sign it at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/toonstrucktwo #
• "Starhyke" episode 1 is so awful that I must watch more to see if it can plumb further depths. #
• The Lost epilogue, "The New Man in Charge," is actually quite good. Proper Lost, unlike the finale, which was proper pants. #
• Tweeting from class. How naughty. #

• This week I am lucky in one thing and unlucky in another. Gah and yay. #
• It's time like this I wish I had listened to my grandmother and bought some biscuits. #
• Will DPF at Kiwiblog make anything of National saying they might work with Winston Peters? Probably not. #
• RT @RoperDope: Very good! Kanye West's Tweets Matched With New Yorker Cartoons http://huff.to/9kEqTe (via @poundito) #
• "mccloud daughters" continues to be the third most searched term that brings people to my blog. Sigh. #
• Ever since installing ClickToFlash I find myself automatically closing webpages with lots of flash content due to "Bugger that" syndrome. #
• Vegetarian and wondering what to make for dinner? Wonder no more: http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/veg.php #
• "Sherlock Holmes" is good, but not as good as "Without a Clue." #
• I just signed the Toonstruck Two petition (signature #677 at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/toonstrucktwo #

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Right on! Among other logical fallacies in this “traditionalist” -ism is the ‘appeal to common practice’, embedded therein. After all, there’s nothing healthy about being well adjusted to a sick society.

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Good times.

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And so ends the movie adaptation of “All Embracing But Underwhelming,” which was filmed in the style of an 80s bromance. Night all.