February 2009
5 posts
Logical Techno Manners From First Potty Principles
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A man yaks on the cell phone. Another ignores his dinner companion in favour of his blackberry. Yet another pulls out a digital camera and starts barking orders, only to shatter a friendship because of a tag on an ugly photograph. This is the modern world.
And, if you think it’s bad now, just wait until the Internet completely normalizes both pornography and exhibitionism....
Love and Violence
Growing up in the 80s, there were only two types of love song. The creepy I’m-so-in-love-with-you-you’re-everything-I’ll-ever-need-lemme-lock-you-in-a-cage-and-smother-you. And the alternate It-didn’t-work-out-oh-how-I’ll-miss-you-goodbye-but-you’re-my-ONE-forever. And of the two types, almost all of them were tacky. But that’s another discussion,...
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Hot Weather Rant #1
Over the last several weeks, Melbournites have watched in sweaty horror as public transport facilities, utilities and traffic infrastructure collapsed under temperatures in excess of forty degrees celcius.
By day three, I was convinced that the apocolypse was upon us. The air was filled with the whining cocophony of a hundred car alarms, traffic lights in the area had ceased to function and water...
