Archive for April, 2009

SYN-ACK? (or, the fragility of human relationships)

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rambling vague psychobabble
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Human interactions are interesting things. One thing I have learned about them is that an incredibly huge proportion of every set of interactions between two given people (hey, I’m not about to solve some sort of weird psycho-N-body-problem… let’s just stick to two people)… are by rote. That is to say, most interactions [...]

Ninja-itis

Some time ago I was approached by a recruitment agent (‘agent’ sounds fitting – she was a tad stealthy) about two positions. When I went to look at the postings, I was rather gobsmacked by the language used to describe the roles.
Other than the usual assertions about my (presumed) gung-ho, work-hard-play-even-harder type personality, and the [...]

Caveat empty

By Peter Saunders
At a shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon for assorted errands, I noticed a Bell Store—no easy feat, given its recent blink-and-you’ll-pass-it redesign. Leona and I use Bell’s satellite TV service (formerly known as ExpressVu, now neutered to BellTV) and from time to time, I consider whether we should change our channel lineup. [...]

time to break out the ‘ole tin foil

Sooner or later, everyone will have met their tin foil dude (I don’t know why, but it’s never a dudette)… a man convicted of the ‘truth’ that Big Brother is interfering with all our thoughts, and that we’d all better start wearing tin foil inside our hats.