Exercise is needed badly here: after a few years of troubles, including quite a few hospital stays,  pretty much lying in bed for most of se...

  Should Expat @ Large change his name to Exile @ Home? Which would you prefer? E@L or  E@H

How many of these (scroll down, but later) magical masterpieces of Swords and of Sorcery have you read?  E@L has x-ed (and reddened) those h...

The received wisdom of travel is "wherever you go, there you are.”  The consciousness in a calcium box that you might think(ha!) of as ...

D’oh indeed.  E@L’s  first work trip was proposed for Monday to Friday next week. The Victorian rep who would be supporting the Sydney apps ...

[I drafted this ages ago, in May, but forgot to post. It’s looks Sam Harris is becoming my NYT as a source for blog post topics!] Sam Harris...

On my walk this morning I listened to very stimulating discussion about what (philosophically not chemically) it would take for complex life...

All too often, when E@L was telling a story to TBITP* about the outrageous things he, um, had heard about on his last trip to Pattaya, Bruce...

From the Hmm, I Did Not Know That , and The No-one Who Reads My FB Feed Cares So This Goes To The Blog files comes this fascinating connect...