Not only is the build-up immense, the punchline is as anticlimactic as the Obama presidency. Having grown too old to ring the bell in the cathedral tower, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, ran an ad in the local newspaper for a replacement. An armless man appeared at Quasimodo’s door, and the old ring-master asked [...]

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Just when you thought you knew some people who’re overly pedantic with their devotion to logorrheic minutiae, this guy comes along and sets the bar at a whole new level. Or should I say, “came along”, since he’s been dead for at least four centuries now. Check out this excerpt from The Story of French [...]

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A few years ago, I lived in a loft close to the Metrotown area. This house was an older house and I lived in the attic. My friends co-rented the house with me and shared the other bedrooms below and in the attic. Often, as I lay in the dark, drifting off to sleep, I [...]

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This makes me think there’s a bug in Thunar’s time-remaining code. Only 292 billion years left to delete this file? No hay problema!

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Today I’ll talk about subscriptions. Not to magazines or anything so banal, but subscribing to the bigger things in life. So, what is a subscription? A subscription is the amount of emotional investment in a system, belief or otherwise. I suppose the word “belief” is redundant, since there can be no emotional investment unless you [...]

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There are certain times of the year when it would be more opportune to be “afflicted” by the most common type of colour-blindness.

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You know it’s a prison state when…. Created by Online Education

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As promised, the next in the series, albeit a little delayed.

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