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Oct

More bullshit

Posted by Viren  Published in Religion

to make your head explode! A Muslim Astronaut’s Dilemma: How to Face Mecca From Space By Patrick Di Justo Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor has a problem. Two problems. The first is that Mecca keeps moving. Well, not really. It’s Shukor who’ll be moving. As Malaysia’s first astronaut, he’s scheduled to lift off October 10 in a [...]

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29

Oct

Excellent Short Story

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny, Short Story

Succinctly delectable!

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Tags: Funny, pix, short story

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29

Oct

Halloween…again

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

Over the weekend, I went to a Halloween party at the significant other’s. This year, no untoward incidents happened and everyone’s costume was preserved relatively well. I’m not dressed up because I’m sick, a Viking helmet is all I could muster, but some of the costumes there were pretty hilarious. Pictures here.

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27

Oct

I only wish

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

I could ride like this:

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Tags: cool, penny farthing

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27

Oct

What If

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

She was typing in an address into Google Maps and tracing the result with her mouse. With frizzy blonde hair, a red scarf, a green sweater and blue jeans and a suede handbag, she looked ready to travel. Who dresses up to go to the local library anyway? As I browsed through Kafka-Koontz, she typed [...]

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20

Oct

Montage Creation

Posted by Viren  Published in Linux

How to create a montage like the one I made above for my header pic? It’s almost too simple, but first, credit where it’s due. I would have never had the idea to do that if it hadn’t been for the theme this blog is currently running, which is this one. First, go to Google [...]

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Tags: convert, imagemagick, linux, montage

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17

Oct

The Executioner of Cardston

Posted by Viren  Published in Short Story

The great clan meeting of the mice was held yearly on the anniversary of Yog-Rodoth, the event that marked the breakaway of the genetic tree of mice from rats. Mice everywhere celebrated it with a variety of revelry, usually not just limited to raiding the larders of the humans whose houses they cohabited. So why [...]

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3

Oct

Screw the Children

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

Bush has done it again. Just when you thought vetoing stem cell research was the lowest form of political sycophancy to corporate sponsors, he goes and vetoes childcare healthcare insurance because it proposes making some extra money off tobacco sales by increasing cigarette taxes. Can you see this picture: deep within the bowels of Congress, [...]

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