[This is something I wrote a long time ago and never posted, because I didn’t feel it was polished enough or quite finished. I’m not in the reno business anymore, but… what the hell, I’m posting it as is anyway.…
Category: Personal
About me.
Why post-apocalypse books and films matter
I love post-apocalypse movies, but to tell you the truth they scare the crap out of me. My interest in stories of this type used to be just out of fascination with an imaginary world, but as time has progressed…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 – 1986
I had never heard of this man before, but after stumbling upon these quotes I became fascinated and wanted to know all about him. There is an excellent biography located on Wikipedia. It is no measure of health to be…
Vatican promotes “hate thy neighbour” — Seems wrong somehow…
Did we need any more evidence that the Vatican is an organization devoted to keeping power in the hands of men? Make that “power in the hands of hetero men”. No, wait…. “power in the hands of ostensibly hetero men.”…
Rape
Over the past week not a newscast has been spoken here in Canada without mentioning the desperately unfortunate case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17 year-old girl who was gang-raped by four boys and then subsequently bullied by them and others…
The singularity cometh
I was dismayed to learn six years back or so that Google had acquired YouTube. While the media focussed almost entirely on the benefits or dangers this would confer to both companies, as well as the dollars involved, there didn’t…
I’m back
Wow, time flies. It’s been just over two years since my last post. I took the site down for quite a while, because I dropped the web hosting provider I had been using. It’s taken me this long find the…
Key to a low maintenance life (#6)
Forgive. Forget. Move on.
Aussie DUI advertisement
Simply incredible. This ad should run everywhere. Warning: It’s not pretty, but it’s exactly what we need to help people extricate their craniums from their rectums. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8