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The bad news is that the UK is about to become a net importer of hydrocarbons; the good news, that we are now selling services to fascist regimes in Central Asia as well as colonising the lexicons of Middle Eastern analysts who, it seems, have stopped measuring oil supplies in barrels:
Job 1:
While [the messenger to Job] was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
All last year industry and sections of the PP were saying that there was no way that Spain could meet its Kyoto targets, currently being overshot by more than 100% as a result of the PP’s fine economic record (see below). Economics minister Rato was mugged by a bunch of industrialists in early December in […]
Lots of people in Barcelona don’t have piped gas, but it doesn’t matter at all. When their canister of butane is about to run out, a man comes along the street yelling BUTAAAANNNNOOO!!!! and, after a brief conversation, he climbs up six flights of stairs with a new one on his back. Easy!
It used to […]
Everyone says that the following picture, taken near Barcelona’s Forum site, is of a large solar panel cluster:
Een … twee meer fotos van mijn favoriete krachtcentrale, Sant Adrià de Besòs, gekiekt tijdens de wandeling van Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) naar Montgat (Maresme).
Nom: Aleksandr Sergueevich Dzasokhov
Ocupació: President de la República de Osetia del Nord i Alania
Passatemps: Caminant a peu amb els seus amics.
És excepcional: hi ha pocs polítics russos que no surten de i/o representen l’indústria energètica.
Toen ik in Londen werkte, nam ik af en toe een paar uurtjes vrij onder het smoesje van een vergadering met partners in Covent Garden. En dan kon ik mooi naar het National Gallery (nog steeds gratis) en Turner. En die kon nou echt een treintje schilderen.
These two energetic logos are on one of my favourite day-off wanders: from the Plaça d’Espanya through the old backstreets of working class Sants up to Collblanc, then a slalom down through the drab poverty of l’Hospitalet, finishing up with wander down the ceramic-ridden old road back to the Plaça d’Espanya.
The first logo adorns […]
Un nou article de Richard A Muller en la Technology Review del MIT és pessimista sobre la producció de l’hidrogen. Hi ha dues opcions funcionals:
Why a power station on the edge of Badalona is the most important religious building in Barcelona
The press has chattered for years about the replacement of traditional places of worship with secular cathedrals. So, asks this liberal atheist, is it time to treasure the power station at Sant Adrià de Besòs (which is much better […]
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Didn’t expect this one: “Not inviting Catalan authors writing in Spanish was, in my opinion, a big error. They should have positioned the Catalan culture as an open culture with excellent contributions in our mother tongue and also in other languages like Spanish. They could have even tried to find Catalans who write in other languages like English, French, German or Swedish (actually, there is afew of us) and give us a booth too. What about me?, I write in English, am I not considered Catalan culture?, apparently not, at list, for Carod-Rovira.” All I need now is for Joan Laporta to resign, and life could be a dream.
All praise to Lenox over at Spanish Shilling, who got the shot without getting his head punched. “During the second half, perhaps inspired by a herd of goats being led past by a dusty looking old shepherd and a couple of dogs, the Cabras rose to even greater efforts and by the final whistle (and a few sums performed by the referee), it emerged that the local boys had won the day with 30 - 26.”
Today in 1565 the True Cross was taken and dipped in the sea in order to assuage the great drought. Doesn’t look like that’s going to be needed this year after all. (Kalebeul’s History of Barcelona now does moveable feasts, although not quite in the way it would like. It is also unsure to do with generalised descriptions of moveable feastdays that are however very clearly rooted in a particular time. If this description of Pentecost published in 1848 is assigned to Pentecost, 2008 it makes no historical sense, but if it is plonked on Pentecost, 1848 it makes no ritual sense, since Pentecost is moveable. What to do?)
Samir over at View from Fez says that around 100 kids die annually from scorpion bites in Morocco. They’re quite common in Spain too. Here’s one in the gardens of Can Ferrero in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district that scared the hell out of me:
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