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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Bouncing Through an Evolutionary Dead End, One Bad Choice at a Time

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I am, as one might call it, an evolutionary dead end. This means that anyone who, for whatever strange reason, decides to use me as an insp...
Friday, August 22, 2025

A Poor Telling of Why Irony is Dead

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Irony is dead---no one should be saying anything that they don't personally believe in or mean on the 'net any more. This, unfortu...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

And Sometimes, Things Just are Shit

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Urgh. The week that just passed was bad . I was basically out of action for the whole week due to an acute URTI (yes... that's U R TI)...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Sometimes, Wonderful Things Happen

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Many days, life sucks. But sometimes, things align, and wonderful things happen. Today is one of those days. I scored Empires of the An...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

August Whatever...

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Monday, July 28, 2025

First Win in Hades

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I feel rotten. A damn headache has been throbbing on and off over the weekend, and I feel rotten about it. Damnation! Recently, I finish...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Supply Run and then Some...

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What a week! But before I recap what happened, I'd like to share two principles of mine. Principle 1: I refuse to go out alone with a...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

As Spoken in Flute Forum...

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In response to an observation on the Flute Forum that some grading boards are requiring videoed performances for examinations, especially at...
Saturday, July 05, 2025

Ramblings of a Tired Old Man

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Thank God the week is done. I am so fucking done with the week. So much stupidity, so much drama, so little reprieve. Sadly, not even...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

colonisation vs infection

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I was pretty angry a couple of days ago. The long and short of it without naming names is that the nurse from the community hospital infor...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Knackered at Eight?

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I know that I'm knackered when I feel sleepy as the clock claims 2000hrs. Such is this week. Between lots of work versus lots of stu...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Recovering from Missing Beyond Compare 5 UI

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Just a quick note on how to resolve an oddity. I used Beyond Compare 5 to compare two 2.8 GB files, and when I was done, I closed the app...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Walking Reset My Mind

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``Wow MT, another entry in near-quick succession?'' Yeah... I declared a ``mental well-being day'' for today and went outs...
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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Week Made Me Weak

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Man, that was rough . Be prepared---this is going to be the theme for the foreseeable future. I mentioned that I was on observation duty ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

A Short Update

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(sigh) Yet another downer of a post, I'm afraid. This week has been rough on the psyche. World's in a mess, and each time I try...
Monday, June 09, 2025

I am on Observation Duty

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(sigh) It's official---I am on observation duty. It was supposed to be a day where I would laze about, figuring out what to do on t...

...the Sequel to the Gorram List

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It's stupid o'clock once more---let's go! The first thing to note is that I am clearing that off-in-lieu for Saturday's pu...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

It Became a Gorram List...

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It's stupid o'clock. Time to be stupid. There is something that I have been mulling for a long time, and it more or less came to ...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Big Badda Bang of Words

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Ah... end of the week. Final-fucking-ly. The week has been long, for a variety of reasons that I will not go into, because it is (1) borin...
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