5 posts tagged “creativity”
Is there anyone in the world as creative as kids trying to get out of something they don't want to do? The Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine ran a study to measure activity levels in 200 East London children, but when they analysed the results they were baffled.
They asked the children to wear pedometers to measure their activity levels, and couldn't understand why some of the most active children were obese. Until they found out the children had attached their pedometers to their pet dogs.
Overweight? Apparently. Ingenious? Definitely.
I have sometimes wondered if there should be separate sentencing guidelines for crimes where no one is seriously hurt, and the criminal shows a great deal of ingenuity or creative flair. I'm thinking of this sort of thing which seems to qualify on at least two counts:
Officers attending the robbery on Tuesday of an armoured car in Monroe, in Washington state, discovered that the suspect's description was far from unusual among people outside the Bank of America branch that morning. In all, around a dozen men were wearing long-sleeved blue shirts, surgical masks and blue hats.
They had been lured to the scene by a bogus advert on the Craigslist website that had offered road maintenance jobs. It specified that applicants should wear blue shirts and dust masks.
The robber shot pepper spray into the face of a guard outside the bank before fleeing with a money bag across a nearby creek.
Witnesses said he jumped into the water and floated away on a tire inner tube."
That's what I call an unconventional getaway vehicle.
(via confused of calcutta)
Pantalons and sacre bleu, I am still ill as my flu has now transmuted into a chest infection. Still, I am starting to perk up a bit and get round to thinking about things I'd like to do this year. So, in no particular order, in 2008 I am going to:
- Learn to play a new song on my guitar each month
- Use the lovely craft supplies that my equally lovely boyfriend bought me for Christmas and make a new craft item each month (possibly starting with something similar to this)
- Write, write, write!
In practice I suspect I may end up taking a 'ketchup bottle' approach to these projects, with no progress for months and then a great dollop of activity, but we shall see.
I have just started reading the Book World blog and am already captivated. Sandra said she had grown a bit tired of her blog and wanted to change the focus... so:
The first book she has begun with is The Artist's Way, and it's been great reading about her experiences and struggles with it. At certain points I can almost hear a sceptical arch of the eyebrow coming off the page which I strongly identify with - particularly her description of the horrible, squirming embarrassment of doing affirmations. Whilst part of me is prepared to consider the possibility that there's something to affirmations, the rest of me suspects that English people are just not cut out for them; I suppose I'm saying it's difficult to utter an affirmation through a stiff upper lip.I love reading about writing. I am an armchair, backseat, non-writing writer. I have a shelf full of teach yourself writing books. They fascinate me. I've read dozens of them (not that I list them on the public list of books read to your left). But still I don't write; well, other than what you see here, and I consider this to be typing not writing. But because I've got to the point where I'm boring myself and repeating myself with my typing about books, I've decided I'm going to have a change and instead try some writing. Made up writing. I am not, I repeat, NOT, going to inflict it on the world. Not for love, money, or chocolate. But I am going to treat Book World as a sort of online diary of my experience of trying to learn to write based on the many, many writing books on my shelves.
Anyway, it's the end of week one and it's been highly entertaining following Sandra's progress; I look forward to the next eleven weeks.
