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If you live in Britain at what point do you stop thinking that we just have changeable weather and start thinking that it's personal ?

It was lovely sunshine all morning, so when I made my dinner I thought I'd take it outside into the garden. I'd barely started (I'd only got through half a bagel, or two pages of Prisoner's Dilemma depending on your preferred metric) when it began to rain.

I scuttled into the kitchen, finished my dinner and observed that it was brilliant sunshine again. And it still is. Bah.

Date: 2007-07-09 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bopeepsheep.livejournal.com
That's surreal. No rain here whatsoever, and we're what, a mile from you at the very most?

Date: 2007-07-09 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] augeas.livejournal.com
Whose Prisoner's Dilema book is it?

Date: 2007-07-09 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Depending on how you meant the questions, it was written by William Poundstone (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X/ref=sr_1_2/026-4285683-5963607?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183990104&sr=8-2) and belongs to [livejournal.com profile] wimble.

Date: 2007-07-09 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
That settles it, then. It was personal.

Date: 2007-07-09 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] floralaetifica.livejournal.com
Damn you! I can't get that damn song out of my head now.

Date: 2007-07-09 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
My apologies. I don't even like Bourbon.

Date: 2007-07-09 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Me I'd like to risk it, if life is like a biscuit, then I'm hoping that it tastes like Bourbons....

Date: 2007-07-09 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waistcoatmark.livejournal.com
If it's any consolation, the weather decided to have thunder, torrential rain and scary looking hail just _after_ I'd lugged a very heavy suitcase all the way back for the station.

And it's just suddenly stopped as I write this, maybe I've angered it...

Date: 2007-07-09 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lathany.livejournal.com
Maybe it depends on your lunch.

Date: 2007-07-09 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
You think rain gods disapprove of bagels, avocado, tomatoes and cream cheese ? Or worse, maybe they like avocados and were jealous ?

Date: 2007-07-09 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pope-ant.livejournal.com
I really like his books - 'Labrynths of Reason' is good too.
I like the way that the dry humour - not sure which book it is where he talks about colours and as part of the argument describes a world where everything has been coloured differently (blue grass, green sky, etc.). He then just throws in the fantastic aside 'presumably with the extensive use of non-toxic dyes' - I love the idea and the understatement of the task.

Date: 2007-07-09 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lathany.livejournal.com
All the best gods like avocados. Or, at least, they should.

Date: 2007-07-09 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marjory.livejournal.com
If I'm carrying an umbrella, should it look like rain, it doesn't rain. If I have no umbrella, it tips down. I control the weather. QED.

Date: 2007-07-09 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Ah, it's a novel, nothing to do with Mr Axelrod.

Date: 2007-07-10 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrlloyd.livejournal.com
Looks out of window, 'hmm, think I'll go home in about 20 mins, looks like it's cleared up'

<< Thunder >>

It's personal.

Date: 2007-07-10 09:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com
Looks out of window. Prods weather forecast.
What is this 'changeable weather' of which you speak? :-)

Date: 2007-07-10 10:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com
If you will insist on living in the outskirts of the Sahara.

Date: 2007-07-10 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com
As far as I know the Sahara hasn't quite made it across the Mediterranean yet :-p

Unless the wind is blowing in this direction and even then not in large enough quantities to form any sand dunes :-)

Date: 2007-07-10 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Assuming the anonymous comment was you - no, it's not a novel. It's subtitled "John von Neumann, game theory, and the puzzle of the bomb". So it's about the precursors to Mr Axelrod.

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