Is e=mc2 a sexed equation?…Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘life and humour’
December 22, 2009
The “What If” Meme
1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Seriously? No one.
2.You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Erm. Again, there’s no one who annoys me simply by existing.
3.Who would you really like to [...]
December 14, 2009
Home
As with most kids, my parents and grandmother had to resort to quite a few tricks to get me to eat my veggies when I was growing up. Though none went so far as to tell me that I would get mutant powers from the radioactive food(Calvin strip), there were quite a few outrageous attempts. [...]
December 1, 2009
Self-defeating Arguments
Isn’t the fact that this poor girl still hasn’t found a husband in 2 years proof that they are pretty bad at what they are supposed to do?
November 7, 2009
Counterpoint
(To this.)Maybe it’s because the setting is so familiar, which is a luxury I don’t usually have if I want to stick to well-written material, (with apologies to all my writer friends ) but this is one of the most touching stories that I’ve ever read. I had read it quite a long [...]
November 1, 2009
Quote of the Week: Totally Expected Consequences
Why do boys love sweets so much? When 6-year old Joey uses his allowance to buy a Clark Bar, this raises demand for sugar. Brazil is a major exporter of sugar so this raises wages for sugarcane farmworkers in Brazil, diverting Brazilian youth away from their next-best employment as footballers. Because Brazil is dominant in [...]
October 21, 2009
In Defence of Mini skirts
A friend of mine had commented on this post as yet another example of the “miniskirt theory of modernity”(“Afghan women not only attended Kabul University, they did so in miniskirts”). (For those not familiar with the term, it’s not considered to be a particularly valid theory.) And I thought, hey. Why not? Knowing fully well [...]
October 17, 2009
In the Interest of Science
From bash.org, again. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word “wand” with “wang” in the first Harry Potter Book
Let’s see the results…
“Why aren’t you supposed to do magic?” asked Harry.
“Oh, well — I was at Hogwarts meself but I — er — got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. [...]
October 12, 2009
The Collision Desktop
This is on Ubuntu, and is quite minimalistic. I haven’t done anything really funky with it; I didn’t even get the chance to play around with Conky yet.
