I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line

True to form, this lyrical masterpiece commences with a touching elegy to the significance of communication.  This symbolic ‘call’ merits a near superhuman importance, and contextualises the later discussion on semiotics.  The idea of the line makes its first appearance too here, evoking ( Read more... )

In view of it being International Women's Day today I have decided to take a break from my perpetual state of amusement and contempt for you people to grace you with a taste of my abounding intellect.  I wish to pontificate on the subject of the weaker sex.  Note then, that I do not say 'fairer sex' - indeed I am far more fair than any woman - but ( Read more... )

Why is it that I always make friends with the stupider girls?

France was a revelation to me, I realised girls can actually be intelligent, I've just been hanging out with the wrong crowd all through high school.

Within the first week I had managed to have a long discussion on The Fermi Paradox, Natural Selection at the level of the gene and ( Read more... )

Okay, I adore Massive Attack.  Mezzanine is so fantastic that sometimes I cry because I can never listen to every second of every track at the same time.  It burns a little inside.  (Or that could be the sound of my dignity leaking out of my pores.)  I like to touch myself while listening to Teardrop and Inertia Creeps.

Shakespeare is full of shit ( Read more... )

First on the agenda - I'm tentatively looking into partitioning my laptop drive (all 40GB of it) and putting a Unix distro (probably Ubuntu) on my machine.  Two questions to anyone who knows anything about suchlike.  Firstly, how much space do I need on my Ubuntu partition?  Would five to ten gigs suffice ( Read more... )

Words and phrases my Politics essay on Globalization contained:

"Rank thievery"
"bastardized"
"Sure, Nike is an honourable company"
A reference to Aldous Huxley's 'Island'
"postmodern"
"All is the bottom line, and nothing is the love"
"gentlemen of the jury"
"dear reader"
"amen"
"quail"
"phospho-lipid bilayer"
"savages"
"priapic corporations"
"by God"
"demigod"

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 I'm in Sean's house, postin his LJ entries. 

Meme: Reply to this post, and I will write one thing I love about you. Maybe more than one.  Or maybe I'll write one thing I hate about you.  Or both.  Then again, depending on my mood, I might write a nonsensical remark about pudding and/or mango juice.  It's a risk you'll have to take if you want me to praise or insult you ( Read more... )

Lately I've just been going through the motions. Everything in my life is out of balance and I feel strangely... lost?   I must take arms against this sea of troubles.  I have decided I need to stop doing stupid shit like that email I sent out and actually show my repentance by doing actions.  I think I'll take part in the 40 hour famine next year ( Read more... )

The Preamble

Consider this proposition:  Everything with the capacity for happiness leads equally happy lives.  This argument is self evident when the following truths are taken into account.

The Argument

Firstly, happiness is unconnected to the state in which one is living.  A pauper may be - and often is - happier than a millionaire.  ( Read more... )