I must admit, I like exercising. Lifting weights, exercising, pumping iron, whichever form of argot appeals to you, I’m in favour of it. Now, I hate sports as much as any other self-respecting intellectual conceived in the age of the electron, but there’s something about lifting the ol’ barbells that just appeals to me. Maybe [...]

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Without further ado, take this test here, you icky proles. Which Operating System are you? I turned out to be Debian Linux, as shown here: Too bad I use Gentoo, but at least I didn’t turn out to be Windows ME.

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All grammatical inconsistencies aside, having employed his poetic license to the fullest, Chuck Schuldiner’s famous line above is very apt. The problem lies not in being friendly with other humans, for one can be friendly and carefree with all and sundry, it lies in trusting and expecting more of someone than is theirs to give. [...]

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Scientists have found a family that can only walk on all fours. Could it be a hoax? They don’t think so and are of the opinion that a bizarre combination of genes and inbreeding might have resulted in this. The following is taken from Family that bear crawls around An extraordinary family who walk on [...]

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This post is just what one needs to redeem one’s faith in humanity. Read the rant below, by a social worker, posted on Craigslist: A social worker finally snaps Reply to: anon-65806895@craigslist.org Date: Mon Mar 28 09:45:08 2005 After years of idealism, I have finally decided that I am sick and fucking tired of helping [...]

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In other news, Borduria has stopped supplying financial aid to Syldavia, although Syldavians are permitted access to the geysers and tin mines. San Theodoros has stopped the weekly exports of bananas and baboons into Borduria, an event which, one hopes, will greatly hasten the onset of peace in Bordurians’ minds. Meanwhile, Syldavia stll has the [...]

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Usenet has always been the seedy underbelly of the Internet, the dark alleys where trolls eat the naive and feed on the bloated carcasses of the deformed, pulled down because they tarried too long on an unsavoury topic. Apart from that, though, before the emergence of the WWW and forums and messageboards and all that [...]

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Having been a science fiction afficionado since as long as I can remember, I feel it’s only right to make a list cataloguing some of my favourite science fiction authors. Some of these are well known, the others not so well known. The Big Four would have to be Isaac Asimov Arthur C. Clarke Robert [...]

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