Four day weekends are a rare luxury when you're in the army. Well, four day weekends are a luxury for anyone, except perhaps the unemployed, but they're particularly luxurious for military types because at least everyone else gets to go home at the end of the day. We have to sleep in barracks with people who snore, and your only hope is to fall ( Read more... )

The February 28 holiday provided me with a good opportunity to head to Tainan, since it's easier to justify a trip over a long weekend than over a normal weekend. So on February 26, I clambered out of bed at 7am to take the High Speed Rail down to Tainan ( Read more... )

So I'm getting conscripted tomorrow. Most of you probably already know that, but for the people who don't, there you go. I go in and do one year of military service, after which I'll be buff and muscular and probably taller ( Read more... )

In each of us there reside two separate natures, two distinct personalities. One dark, one light, one good, one evil. Now, it is the curse of mankind that these two extremes should be constantly at war.
As a firm believer in the duality of human personality, I've been a big fan of the musical Jekyll & Hyde for a few years. Its central theme, of ( Read more... )

It's been five years since I went on stage and acted out the character of Harry Bright, the gay banker from the Bank of England and one of the potential fathers of Sophie Sheridan, the precocious twenty year old who's getting married and looking for someone to give her away ( Read more... )

*digs up fossilized journal from layer of chert ( Read more... )

*digs up fossilized journal from sandstone layer ( Read more... )

For as long as humans have chosen their own mates, they've been terrible at it. Absolutely abysmal. Romeo should never have fallen in love with Juliet. Tristan should never have been with Isolde. Paris's love for Helen doomed his entire civilization. Lancelot and Guinevere were never meant to be together. Cyrano and Roxane, another pair of ( Read more... )

Whoops, forgot to update this thing ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I went on a three day trip to Tainan, to visit Juliet. I took the Taiwan High Speed Rail down to Tainan on the 15th of July, the ride was uneventful except for... well, no, it was uneventful. Which is good, because generally speaking an eventful high speed train ride usually involves the word "derailed" somewhere ( Read more... )