I will be honest: I’m typing this in lieu of doing actual work. The reasons are many, and varied, but one common thread of boredom permeates every intention I have of getting things done. In other words, and if you don’t geddit, I’m bored. Bored out of my skull. Bored so shitless I’ve practically flushed my colon of ...Continue
I need a change of environment. By that I mean, I’ve gotten tired of the bullshit. I’m talking about work, of course, and I’m tired of it. If you, like me, are in need of cheering up, you should go here. ...Continue
The effect of waking up out of a long period of leave is like going cold turkey on cigarettes. I stumbled out of the bed like I stumbled into work this morning, dishevelled and barely human. It was like walking back out into a low-intensity storm in progress: everything’s a blur of activity, and everyone has glacial expressions. It gave me ...Continue
I try to be wary of demogogues. They tend to be the worst sort; a small instance of a problem can be inflated far beyond rational bounds and then fed to the people, i.e. the potential mob. A little twist here and there, and throw in the dynamics of people bunched together and you have the makings of a pliant tool for your agenda. A mob of 1 mill ...Continue
I’ve not been updating for some time, for good reason. At first I was dismayed because things would never change, but then I realized it was because I was merely disgusted. This was after I read in the papers about an MCA MP speaking out against the revisionist history thought in textbooks in schools. There’s something truly insidiou ...Continue