Sheepishly, last night, I admitted to the GF the existence of this blog. Though I did not admit just how long it has existed, but allowed him to discover it for himself. So, hello, my first and only confirmed reader (other than myself). I shall pretend you do not exist. He also pointed out that […]
Life change plan
I’ve decided, once again, to become a little more organised, a little less scattered, less prone to feeling at the end of a day that it has been a wasted day and I’m that much closer to death with little to show for it. In particular, I tend to put work above anything else, and […]
Supply chains
I listened to a podcast this morning about supply chain management was disappointed to find I learned almost nothing new, despite knowing littie or nothing about supply chain management. However, I did notice this jar of salt, which came with our flat, and wasn’t purchased by us. I am quite sniffy about Himalayan pink salt […]
Stinktown
Tainan is, well, not a pleasant smelling city, at least on its larger roads. The stink is varied too: drains, rotting vegetables, mould, vermin, stale food and oil, other forms of filth. I felt a bit ill last night as we went for a post-dinner stroll, our first real exploration of the town. We went […]
Dumpling day
Today was the dragon boat festival so we had rice dumplings in memory of the old poet who was thrown into the river for speaking up against corruption and the people of the town scattered rice dumplings into the water so the fish would not eat his body. Annoyingly, when the Boddhisattva brought the dumplings, […]
Slow move
I have begun taking my slow, faltering steps towards transferring this website, and my personal site, to a different host, having become fed up of the last one. The new is considerably more expensive, but reputedly reliable. I am rather nervous about this whole transferring business; I’m not as savvy as I pretend to be, […]
Twist in the tale
If humanity comes to an end because two nuclear-armed adversaries started hitting each other on the head with rocks on the roof of the world, well, it only seems fitting. I was being educated, somewhat unwillingly on my side, the other day, about meta-modernism, but these absurd times seem rather hyper-postmodernist to me.
Flash of irritation
Today is a day when my nerves are always a bit raw, though less so this year than in previous years. Felt a flash of irritation when I saw someone has posted on Facebook the most irritating circumlocution for “died” that I’ve seen in a while: “Today is the day when xxx moved to a […]
Ultras
The article for today is this short piece about Moroccan ultras. Football fans are hardly the most inspiring of people, but I do wonder why there is not more effort in modern societies to create such spaces for solidarity, carefully overseen, except by armies and fascists. And Scouts, I suppose, though it is hard to […]
Black rocks
This article made me a little teary. Last night was the first meeting of the board of a publication I am involved in. It’s a semi-academic publication and all the others involved are academics of one sort or another. A pleasant bunch, but it definitely ran on university time and the meeting extended for 90 […]