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PoxVop: The Daily Pox
He whom the gods would kill, they first make bored. The madness is a natural consequence.
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PoxVop: Cross-Pollination
I’ve always wanted to make a comic strip of sorts. I used to do one, when I was eleven or twelve. It starred a stick figure with a winning blend of politics and bathroom humour. It was called…
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Invitation to the Sitdown
A ship is safe in harbour; but that’s not what ships are for. It’s March, so now I get to say that I’ve been writing songs for half of my life. Over the years, I’ve averaged…
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Discovery: Walter Mitty
In the first week of this year, I sat down and inhaled a few movies before heading off to exam boot camp. The lost started with Les Misérables, which I was kind of avoiding because everybody…
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On Resolution
Pixels are atoms of colour. It’s always distressing when I have to do image manipulation. When you zoom in on that crisply defined outline, suddenly the skirt begins to melt into grass, and the masking…
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Picture: Witold Pilecki, Legend
Happy New Year to you- if you’re so inclined. If you aren’t, Happy Wednesday. I’m happy I got to do a second one in the Legends series. It’s always inspiring to see physical fortitude and…
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in Essays
On God
God is eternal. I do not say this as a compliment. Often we compliment people with things which are slightly beyond their actual merit, and it is sometimes annoying to discover that they have…
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On Sharing
I’ve been musing too much, it seems. I had plans for this blog. It was supposed to be two months of randomness, with blueprints for impractical architectural projects, and infographics detailing the seven characteristics…
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On Doing Things
Thinker, tinker. Use your hands once in a while. From your cave you have eaten miles And swallowed kingdoms, have you? Have you? Tinker, thinker. Recently it’s been whispered that my country has…