“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Notes from an(other) Asian wedding

I got back last weekend from a week in Calcutta. That particular time of year, around about mid-December, is always considered particularly “auspicious” for weddings (don’t ask me why, I don’t understand pagan festival timings very well),...

Never trust Mr. Softy

Vox has a long and quite hilarious rant up about the trials and tribulations of trying to get Skype to work on Windows 7 once Microsoft comes along and updates (read: borks) it: Apple pens in its users, domesticates them, and milks them, but at least it treats them...

Speaking of racial insensitivity…

Now I’m in full agreement with Vox and everyone else that the guy who pranked the entire world at Nelson Mandela’s funeral deserves some kind of Nobel Prize, or an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, or at least a goddamn Most Epic Moon-Sized Testicles...

Home and away

Lord, but it is good to be home at last. I landed this morning after a looooong trip over from the States and am now thoroughly enjoying a quiet day spent at home with my dear mum, before we both fly out again tonight to meet my dad. Suffice to say that after a...

How to ruin your little sister’s childhood

Everyone has his or her own favourite Disney movie. Mine was always Robin Hood, for a number of reasons (mostly the hysterically funny fight scene in the middle, and also because of this song). My sister’s, on the other hand, was The Lion King. She spent an...

Desert Eagle 1, Woman 0

Desert Eagle vs Wife- WHO YA GOT?! Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Telegram (Opens in new window)...

Domain Query: Of models and madness

FrancisBegbie had a request regarding my recent post about the manner in which economies conduct seppuku: Economics is pretty simple in a lot of ways, and cannot be modelled with bullshit models. I’ve taken looks at some of them econometrics models and...

Talking turkey

When your (not at all) humble servant was a wee boy living in the Pacific Rim, he was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. (This was back in the days before the BSA was neutered by the politically correct lunacy that has infected it today; as a result, I actually know...

Time management for cranky misanthropic bastards

The original title of this post WAS supposed to be “Time management for introverts”, but I figure Vox probably wouldn’t mind this version too much: I wouldn’t call myself a master of time management. I’m lazy, I procrastinate, and I am...

Diplomacy that actually works

It has been written somewhere that diplomacy involves telling someone to go to hell in such a way that he actually looks forward to the trip. If that is true, then I say we make this woman Secretary General of the United Nations: An adviser in Serbia’s Ministry of...