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November 2012

Remember what to Remember

Sun, 2012/11/11 - 11:53am

As I start writing this it is 11:11 on Remembrance Day, the moment of silence on the anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1918, the "War to End All Wars", the war too horrible to repeat, the day to remember that. The day to remember the sacrifices and the horror and to not do it again.

"Lest we forget" is from Rudyard Kipling's poem Recessional. Written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee as a reminder of the impermanence of empires in the grand scheme of things. It's the same sentiment as Carl Sagan's "Pale blue dot" quotation:


120701 Lust in Space, 2012
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120630 Sin City, 2012
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photograph, digital photograph.


Grumpy Man Takes the Piss Out of Tuxedo Mask's 99 Life Hacks

Sat, 2012/11/03 - 10:57am
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Some back-story:

  1. I hate link-bait crap posts.
  2. Several of my friends reposted the same "99 Life Hacks" crap post in rapid succession.
  3. I am on vacation and, in fact, have time on my hands and nothing more pressing to do.

It starts like this:

Jesus Christ. I think I had minor stroke reading those and realizing how little practical "common" sense most people must have. Now I want to run through the street with a cricket bat because the zombie apocalypse is clearly already upon us. Seriously. I want to hurt people after reading that.