Another Relic

I thought I'd already posted this, but I couldn't see it so I thought I'd share this old time container for media goods from a certain outlet that is sadly no longer with us, leaving one dog based giant controlling the media market. Their stores seem for the moment, untouched, as if no one wants to remove the relic or disturb the memory of happier times. I'm going to hold on to this bag in case the day comes when the signs are torn down and we can no longer reminisce about price comparisons or, if you are old enough, about how Virgin stores used to occupy that space - lamentable times, lamentable times indeed.

I'll commemorate this with a weekly quote

"It's no use; men are the strongest, and if they are cruel and have no feeling, there is nothing that we can do, but just bear it in and on to the end. I wish the end would come." - Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

And for good measure:

Word of the post: Cognizant –adjective
1.
having cognizance; aware (usually fol. by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.

Another Weekly Quote Double

There may be some free time on the horizon, keep a weather eye...

"It wasn't a person but a principle that I killed! I killed the principle, but I didn't step over it, I remained on this side of it...all I was able to do was to kill. And the way it's turning out, it seems I didn't even manage to do that...the principle?!"

"The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in" - Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

200

Well I've made it - a landmark in my blogging - 200 posts! For some of my compadres it may be a distant landmark, noting a time so far back on the horizon it's barely worth noting - but it is a landmark nonetheless and one of which I'm proud. I'm impressed that the blog has stayed on this long and has actually grown and developed a bit since I started the project. Weekly Quotes have managed to pad out the content and I hope provided some interesting posts and I have managed to vary the content a bit and not just have sparsely populated long ranty things as I did in the early days.

Well I wasn't sure what to do to commemorate this occasion, I've done a recap of favourite things before and I felt something new was needed, so I decided to let Google do the talking and see what happened when I typed in '200' - here are some of the results I found.

Wikipedia - the year 200 A.D.

Wikipedia - the number 200

WiseGeek - What does 200 calories look like?

The Register - Minnesota want to ban access to 200 gambling sites

Brunel200 - Celebrating 200 years since the birth of Isenbard Kingdom Brunel

Actually some pretty interesting stuff eh?

I'll finish with an apology for lack of content, life is particularly busy at the moment and blogging is unfortunately one thing I don't have much time for I'm afraid to say so you won't hear much from me for the next few weeks. I'm glad we managed to reach this milestone, but I'm not sure how much further we'll progress until life returns to normal - I'll try and keep up with weekly quotes, though I may have to do some double posts like this one...

"We don't become Geisha so our lives will be satisfying. We become Geisha because we have no other choice." - Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden.

"Maybe if things would be different for them, better... Maggie forced herself to believe that things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all?" - Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman.

And I'll finish with a traditional...

Word of the post: Infinity –noun, plural -ties.

1.	the quality or state of being infinite.

2.	something that is infinite.

3.	infinite space, time, or quantity.

4.	an infinite extent, amount, or number.

5.	an indefinitely great amount or number.

6.	Mathematics. a. the assumed limit of a sequence, series, etc., that increases without bound. b. infinite distance or an infinitely distant part of space.

7.	Photography. a. a distance between a subject and the camera so great that rays of light reflected from the subject may be regarded as parallel. b. a distance setting of the camera lens beyond which everything is in focus.