Happy Charliemas
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We here in the Scalzi household don’t typically give too many gifts to each
other at Christmas — we have enough stuff — although we’re happy to give
them t...
Today*
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Whatever you do,
however you celebrate,
today
I wish you
all the joy and happiness
this season
can bring!
*and for the rest of us, Happy Wedn...
About Stoppard
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I wrote a while back about someone who gave a disobliging review to a play
because it was stuffed with obscure references; not that he, the reviewer,
fou...
All masked up
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Well, Hong Kong has finally abandoned the requirement to wear masks. You
may remember that people in Hong Kong started wearing masks back in January
2020, ...
City Guide: Things to Do and avoid in Lhasa, Tibet
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Why visit Lhasa? Lhasa ལྷ་ས་, literally the “Place of the Gods,” is the
capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, is located in the southeast of
Tibet, and...
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Caught in the middle
Carol we're middle class
We're middle aged
We were wild in the old days
Birth of rock 'n' roll days
Now your kids are coming up straigh...
Need a Flashlight in Thailand?
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It’s a good idea to have a flashlight or headlamp with you on vacation as
you can use it walking around at night from your car to your room or on the
beach...
Nuance
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Someone on my FB feed shared this post today: I had two reactions to this.
Interestingly, they are contradictory to each other. My first reaction was
a hea...
Later Gator
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Well, it's been a long time coming.
I start and stop. I read more than I write. The truth is, what began as a
creative outlet has become a place to whi...
Spoons speak of political Islam
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The photo above is of a cutlery tray at an ordinary food court. Those of us
familiar with Singapore’s food courts will be able to read significance
into th...
Haters Gonna Hate
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Old Knudsen isn't saying that British people have been genetically altered
for centuries to be whiny begrudgers that hate those who don't know their
pla...
An extremely long hiatus!
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I cannot believe I have neglected this blog for so long! Well, life really
caught up with me. Wedding (yes, mine!), moving and basically heaps of
adulting ...
The 80th Birthday Party - A Story
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Someone clicked play, and the DVD started. The large house they had booked
for the weekend had an enormous TV, and the family had gathered on the
three...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish
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It’s renewal time for this site and I don’t think I’m going to do it. In
case you didn’t notice, I almost never post anything here any more (my last
upda...
Th-th-th-that’s All Folks!
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My new blog, Spike In Manila, is now up and running. There’s still a bit of
work to do to get things working correctly, not to mention the overall look
of ...
Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef
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In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the
Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian
politics by Pr...
Announcing INSIGHT at Skeptic.com
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The Skeptics Society has retired Skepticblog (while preserving all posts
online at their original urls for future reference), but we’re proud to
announce o...
Indian witch hunts in 2014
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*It's unreal that this crap is going on in this day and age. We haven't
advanced very *
*much. 86% of Americans are still hold superstitious beliefs of one...
Harga Charger Laptop Terkecil di Dunia
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[image: harga charger laptop]
Bagi Anda yang kerap membawa laptop pada saat bepergian, pastinya sering
direpotkan sama charger yang besar juga berat. Akan ...
Party alert – Songkran at The Pimp Bangkok
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I saw this banner advertising a sexy Songkran party at a club they call The
Pimp Bangkok. Uh, yeah, I think it is going to be pretty sexy. It starts
tonigh...
Quick Follow-Up
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I realized that I forgot to say in the last post that my new personal blog, Critical
Linking, has email and RSS subscriptions set up.
So if you'd like to p...
Greetings and farewells
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A year. Goes very quickly if you're not careful. Yes I'm still alive, no I
haven't been "away" but I have changed jobs, drinking habits and lost some
frien...
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"If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and
finally it will break your heart." --- Alfian Sa'at
It is awfully uncharitabl...
The mythical bee-lion
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A conversation about the space program, and the photo above, gone seriously
awry. B: it’s a bit hard to justify beelions and beelions on a space
program A:...
We've Moved....
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New Site
For some time now I've been fed up with Blogger and the ability to work on
images. Coupled with the fact that I wanted to learn about domain hosti...
Old Wave
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Revisiting nostalgia can either be a good or a bad thing depending on who
you talk to (and how old they happen to be), so as soon as I heard that
Magazine ...
1 comment:
fark... 45 minutes of giggle fits... My cheeks hurt. FAIL!
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