August 2009
4 posts
Recursively perpetual recursivity
About 523 times a day I wonder about the importance of the things I “have” to do…you know, those things that if you don’t do them you’ll get fired or divorced or arrested or something like that. Or the bank will charge you $40, because they are doing it really tough and it’s all your fault, because you didn’t do that thing and they had to get somebody from...
Coffee is a drug
No surprises, I guess, that coffee is a drug. But I don’t just mean in the purely chemical sense.
Most days I only have one coffee — but if I don’t have it, I really feel it. Typically it’s just that “hanging out for the taste” thing you get, but some days the need is so bad I get a headache.
Somebody once said that “life is too short to drink bad...
Cultural Sensitivity FAIL
This sign was on the inside of a toilet cubicle door at the Scientia building at UNSW. I’ve never seen a warning anything like this anywhere — in all the toilets I’ve visited around the globe. That suggests to me that some incident had occurred at this venue prompting the need to warn future users of this fine latrine. But I was struck by the pictures, presumably intended...
Extraordinary ordinariness
What was I doing at 12:34:56 at 07-08-09?
“Just” getting ready to go out to lunch.
For most people, this once-a-century marker no doubt went unnoticed. For me, it was a unique point in time at which I focused on the quotidian.