by Didact | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
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),...
by Didact | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Dec 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Dec 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Dec 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
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)...
by Didact | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Nov 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Nov 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
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