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Researchers claim they have 'officially' discovered the most boring day of the 20th century… April 11 1954.
A team of Cambridge scientists say the day was devoid of any major news events or even the birth or death of any famous people.

They made the discovery after developing a new search engine which collates 300 million facts and can reveal what happened on certain days in history.

Running a script to compare all days from the beginning of the 20th century April 11 1954 was revealed as the most uneventful.

The 'highlight' events included a general election in Belgium and the birth of a Turkish academic… and we thought today was boring.

A spokesperson for True Knowledge said: "Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one person that might make that claim: Abdullah Atalar - a Turkish academic.

"The irony is though, that having done the calculation, the day is now interesting for being exceptionally boring! Perhaps we need to calculate the second most boring day."

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OH THE HUMANITY, ETC.

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it reminds me of MARIA MINERVA, who i like a lot.


MARIA MINERVA - RUFF TRADE from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.


a friend described MM like this:

REMINDS ME OF YOUR BRAIN IT  MAKES ME FEEL LIKE IM IN SPACE INSIDE A TV IN 1992


yes.

this also seems nice:


Pedro Magina - Minor Romance from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.


I love not not fun.

I've been in Ireland the past month. Tightened up a manuscript, finished a couple of small continuations of the ole Slack Dog Snake Driver that was featured at abjective (now, sadly, stillgelegt), and worked on the novel a little. I did a lot of hiking and finally swam at Forty Foot. The fjord this year was warmer than ever. I learned a lot about the fjord and that many interesting people have lived there (Wittgenstein, I knew of already, but that King George III, Oscar Wilde and some other WWI-era British poets all had hunting homes there was news to me).  I climbed the hill there again (800+ m) and ran down as fast as possible.

While I was in Ireland, I tried to visit Dalkey Archive's office in Dublin but it seems to be a private residence. Or at least an 'office' without a phone number or anyone there during business hours. So, instead, I went to Dalkey, which seems to have been untouched by time.

I finally read the Dalkey Archive and found it to be lacking. The Poor Mouth was much more in the spirit of his other novels and was exciting and an interesting read even the second time around. The way that book moves is really elegant. The Dalkey Archive in contrast is the wanderings of a drunken bitter man. Some great ideas but the execution and reliance on the detective story plot left me cold. Just as cold as reading his newspaper columns 'At War.' Maybe this would have been better to read daily and not in huge chunks in a couple of days?

One thing that was interesting was to see how life seems to have carried on as usual during WWII in Ireland. Sure, there were fewer bananas (not that the Irish are huge fans of fresh fruit, anyway) but other than that, life seems to have carried on as usual. Ireland is this weird part of Europe that isn't really part of anything. It was like that before the Vikings as well it seems. And every time they get pulled into something larger, it fails. Strange land of eternal winter.

I have tons of pictures of ghost estates i don't know what to do with.

maybe i should just post everything here.

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