Archive for September, 2007

Burma

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

The government is killing people and systematically blacking out all information. I am toying with the idea of taking this as a personal insult. I am trying to figure out if there’s anything to be gained by encouraging myself to consider such problems on a day-to-day basis. I am wondering exactly how big my sphere of give-a-shit is, or should be.

The Small Hypocrisies

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Why do boxes of Q-Tips continue to have a warning on them about not sticking them in your ear? The manufacturers surely know that this is what everyone does anyway. I mean, it feels so good!
These people are worse than the cigarette companies.

Countdown of the Insane and Talented

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Boom fucking boom. That’s the sound of a V1 rocket engine igniting. A huge orange flame shoots out the end of the big rusty tube. I run out of the workshop and put my earplugs in to watch. It’s loud. I think I heard someone say it’s 150 decibels. The ground is shaking. You can [...]

Slowly, slowly the images come

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I have finally put up a few more pictures from this trip, as opposed to last trip. It will take me a while to get through the backlog, as flickr tells me that I currently have 7470 photos online, not all of which you’d actually want to see in one sitting.
But today I have hand [...]