Back from hols! Things I have learned this week:
- There is virtually no interest in ghosts and whatnot in the Lake District. We looked in tourist information offices, a library, and bookshops. Nothing.
- So we spent a bit of time looking in pubs instead, ahaha.
- We were staying in the Coniston Hall camp site which was run by a woman remarkably like Tubbs from The League Of Gentlemen. We kept a sharp ear out for the cries of “We didn’t burn him!” but fortunately managed to avoid a gruesome death at the hands of locals.
- Possibly by hiding in the pub the whole time, ahaha.
- The beer’s pretty darn good in the area, too.
- Sellafield Visitors Centre is not only a very interesting and interactive day but is very objective about the costs as well as the benefits of nuclear power. Good on them, I say; at times it almost seemed like a place set up by the CND rather than BNFL.
- Andy refuses to pee in a bush in daylight, even if no-one is watching. I feel no such restriction.
- You can drink almost any amount of beer if you really put your mind to it.
- John Ruskin (the local Coniston luminary) is a pretty cool guy; his pencil drawings of Venetian stuff are particularly good. I had no idea he was so influential!
- Castlerigg is an interesting stone circle. St Julian had quite a bit to say about it in The Modern Antiquarian as well, although he’s not as inspired as Andy’s theory about the stones reflecting in shape the mountains around them. I personally have my doubts, as well as my doubts about Cope’s mysticism in general, but it’s a good theory of Andy’s and a good writeup of JC’s.
- The Lake District is very pretty.
- One day I shall return.
I thought they were calendrical markers? You should check out “Uriel’s Machine” and the Book of Enoch.
Posted by Tony B on August 15th, 2005.
Ruskin was The Man for many years – his essays and criticism played a big part in the Gothic Revival.
http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/places/santa_maria_novella
Posted by Rob on August 16th, 2005.
I was working my way thru your book, (Chapter6-validation)and for some strange reasons the code in the form provided “exampleValidation.html” does not seem to flag the empty fields as error on my browsers (firefox 1.0.5 and IE6.) When I reviewed the regular expressions they seemed to me to be correct. I would be grateful if you could have a look at it again and verify the expected behaviour. Is this a problem with the way browsers have implemented regex? I did not think so.
Posted by fong on August 17th, 2005.
I re-looked at the code and I understand the behaviours a lot better. The code works as advertised.
Posted by fong on August 18th, 2005.