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Category: rants

  • a shelter life

    a shelter life

    Life at the SPCA shelter. That people lie are not surprising. What is surprising, is that they are so bad at it. Someone mailed the shelter, asking them to take a kitty back or have it put down, as it was catching mice.

  • interfaces, their buttons and the village idiot

    interfaces, their buttons and the village idiot

    I stared at my friend’s washing machine. It has a million buttons, a big wheel, a digital display and a pile of little red and orange lights, with the odd green thrown in. I consider myself not a complete idiot, but have little patience with domestic appliances. They are here to make our lives simpler.…

  • Snippets from the US of A

    Snippets from the US of A

    “America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.” – A. Toynbee –

  • Lawnmowerensis

    Summer at last. Weekend at last. Two more exams. Beautiful weather, gorgeous peace. Sitting in the garden reading, taking notes, it begins. The neighbour fires up the lawnmower. This is, in fact more contagious than ebola in a chicken coop. So the neighbour on the other side thinks «oh, mow the lawn, maybe!» and he…

  • The worst books ever written

    Few books deserves a place on the bookshelf of shame, and I’m a little ambivalent about this – should I dignify the biggest drivel I have ever read, or is the best plan to let them die in silence? For artists and authors the worst thing is indiffrence. Hate is at least an emotion too.…