So, when I returned from China, I bought a bunch of cigarettes for someone who had specifically requested them. While I was at it, I also bought a bunch of mini cigars, because I could ( Read more... )

So on Easter Friday, Jesus/God made a (rather jolly painful) sacrifice of His mortal self to His divine self to loophole out of the corner He managed to paint Himself into back when He kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden and condemned them and their descendants to suffering and mortality. That's some really clever rules lawyering, not mention ( Read more... )

http://www.xkcd.com/722/

I nearly died when I saw this. It's funny...because it's true...

The LHC has switched on, generated data with the highest energy collisions ever produced, and we're not all either sucked into an artifical black hole or disconstituted because the very laws of physics have been altered. The scientists at Los Alamos predicted that a nuclear test might cause the world's atmophere to catch fire, but that didn't stop ( Read more... )

I had an intriguing dream, recently. The first I can recall having of its kind ( Read more... )

It's wierd these days how young girls dress in as adult a fashion as they possibly can.

The following thought process went through my head over the weekend in the Galleries (a shopping centre in Bristol):

"Dear Lord...those girls have plastered their faces with makeup! Are they trying to look like prostitutes or like clowns? Haha ( Read more... )

I remember that I first read the novel by Alexandre Dumas while skiing in Vail, Colorado, at the age of 15, but all I can remember from back then is that it was brilliant and enormous fun, not any details of the plot. Recently, I found a copy in Shanghai, and since it cost the princely sum of 20 renminbi (about 2 quid), I thought I'd read to it ( Read more... )

I stayed in Beijing with a young lady of my acquaintance and her beloved (I despise the term 'boyfriend', but that is a matter for another time). They live in an apartment in a charmingly soviet-bloc block and seem to be quite happy there ( Read more... )

Well, I am back in the Western World, and can thus access Livejournal! You can access most of the Internet there most of the time. Most 'blogs and YouTube are blocked. I'm not sure I could handle that. At least Wikipedia was accessible (though at the speed at which the pages load I think they have some underpaid minion reading the pages before I do ( Read more... )

TOMORROW, I'M ON A FUCKING PLANE FLY TO FUCKING CHINA!!!

Having intended this for some two years has made the prospect seem tremendously mundane compared to what it should have been in the weeks leading up to it. Only in the last day or so have I suddenly become tremendously excited about it, and boy had it built up under pressure. I have been ( Read more... )