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Cake day: June 10th, 2025
  • I used to be a drummer in a band in the eighties (no, not Fleetwood Mac). Even back then, beanies were the in-thing to wear. Michael “Mike” Borinski out of Paradise Prime started it, when his aunt from Luton gave him one for his birthday, “Mickey” (as we used to call him) even wore his during the night (I spent a couple of hot nights with him strictly NSFW) but I didn’t fall for the craze myself, and stuck to a Stetson. Or a helmet when I rode my chopper.

  • In the 80s, I used to be a DJ at a radio station, and had the midnight to 6 a.m. shift. In the beginning, everything was OK, we had a catalogue of about a thousands songs that I could choose and pick from. Commercially the station wasn’t successful so very soon the catalogue was reduced to 500 songs, then 250, then to 100 songs, and then to a dozen songs. It was horrible, I had to come up with ideas how am I getting a story up about this stupid handful of songs. I started reading f****g poetry out loud, my own poetry because we couldn’t buy any of the real poetry stuff. I’m not a poet ! So my salary also dropped. In the end, I had TWO songs that I could choose from: BTO’s You ain’t seen nothing yet and a shitty B side by Shakin’ Stevens. SIX HOURS to play just two songs, if it had been at least three songs, I could’ve mixed them, but you cannot mix two songs! Bloody hell.

  • There is indeed a very small scientific community that has some (very preliminary) research done on a “nervous system” in plants. The wood-wide-web is part of those hypothesis. It is very intriguing, but reading the interviews with these scientists and their publications didn’t leave me with the impression that plants feel emotions, or that they think, are cognitive or learn from pain. Do you have scientific data to proof otherwise?