Moving again

After three months of living in a house we’d planned to buy, we’re moving again.  I don’t really want to go into the reasons, suffice to say we’re just not happy here.
This means another upheaval: packing, arranging the transfer of utilities… but it will be worth it in the end.  Even if I have to [...]

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Sheep? Um, sort of.

Via Picture is unrelated

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Zombies Crossing

From Makezine comes this excellent Halloween effort:

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If you’re going to criticise, find out what you’re talking about first.

It’s strange that in a country where religion was king until a very short while ago, I feel there is greater religious freedom than I perceive Americans experience.  True, the schools are still heavily influenced by the Catholic church.  Mother Mary stares me in the face when I walk in the front door.  Religious pictures [...]

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Racism, and other -isms

I come from a country where racism is a problem.  I suppose I don’t need to say more than: “South Africa has eleven official languages” to give an idea of the cultural diversity and related mess they’re sitting with there.  Because of the Apartheid disaster, a lot of people are super-duper sensitive about racism.  It [...]

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Thanks a lot, Mister Fick

I’m sure I was one of the more annoying kids in school.  I wasn’t a rebel, and I wasn’t a nerd.  I was something in between, probably more self-absorbed than most, and with more kinks in my soul than I realised at the time.  I tended to ask questions, to point stuff out when I [...]

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You just have to laugh

You might hate me for this later, but here is a link to the 2008 results of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest.  In which people get rewarded for writing terrible prose.  My favourite out of all of them is among the honourable mentions:
Behind his pearly white smile lay a Bible black heart, not like the Psalms [...]

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Delightful demonstration that the carrot works

When you want someone to do something, offering a carrot – an incentive – always works better than hanging a threat over their heads.  Never have I seen this better illustrated than in this video.
It also is a striking reminder that we need to bring fun into our lives in whatever way we can.  What [...]

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Now that’s competence for you!

Apparently, a document from the Ministry of Defence in Britain advising staff on how to stop documents leaking onto the internet has been leaked onto the internet.  Hahahahahahahahahaha!

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I am sick

And I hate it.  But let’s make the best we can of it, shall we, and let lolcats help us through the ordeal:

That’s about how I look at the moment, and how I feel, too.  Micky had this last week, and though he’s still not quite over it, he’s volunteered to let me stay in [...]

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