Archive for the 'paranoia' Category
Via BoingBoing, comes this great assessment of the state of the world by Bruce Sterling in Seed magazine. As you know, I love a good apocalypse, and I’ve been watching this one coming for a while.
Sterling focuses on seven reasons we should all be panicking: the climate; intellectual property; currency speculation; the insurance market; the [...]
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Tags: apocalypse, panic
Things Fall Apart
They particularly begin to fall apart on my car. One of the comforts, I think, of having a car without too many gadgets is that there is, as they say, less to go wrong. It so happens that my current car is the most gadget-laden I’ve ever had. I don’t have the GPS (don’t need [...]
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Tags: energy, fuel crisis, logs
rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
This is the view from my kitchen window, now I have built a log store. I looked around the web, and various places were charging ridiculous money for a wood frame with a top on it, none of them really big enough, so we decided to build our own.
Tesco were charging £150 for this, which [...]
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Tags: blogging, diy, photography, photos
Torch Would?
I did enjoy the anti-Olympic protests yesterday. Did the country proud. How many of us, if given the opportunity in 1936, would have protested against the Nazi Olympics in the same way? Who thought it would be a good idea to surround the torch bearer with sinister shell-suited Chinese security officials? They looked like Russian [...]
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Tags: politics, sport, sports
Who owns the paper on this?
Yesterday, on impulse, I bought an electric chainsaw. Ideally, I’d have got a petrol model, but they were more expensive, and I’m not mechanically minded. Following the instructions to assemble the electric one was hard enough, and I didn’t want to add setting myself on fire to the list of risks associated with chainsaw use.
It [...]
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Tags: debt collection, energy, extortion
Fought for Fuel
We’re getting a Contura 510. It’s a Scandinavian design, and it’s 80% efficient, which means more of the wood gets converted to useful heat. We’re going to fit it into the corner of the living room, and have a flue installed, up through the corner of the bedroom above, and out through the roof. That’s [...]
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Tags: energy, inflation, the future
Cat Shit
Fittingly, in a week which saw a horse called Catch It win at Cheltenham (which, Anita Anand on 5Live couldn’t help noticing, one couldn’t help but pronounce Cat Shit), our cat had diarrhoea today. I still can’t spell diarrhoea, and my first three attempts were so wrong that even the spell checker couldn’t help me.
My [...]
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Tags: baking, bread, dough
Oil Bet Yew Wood
A few years ago, I was engaged (at least partly) in the business of selling electronic goods, many of which were sourced from China. I’ve still got some of the fruits of that business out in the garage: the guitar, the bass, the little mixer, all dead cheap, all from somewhere in the Far East. [...]
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Tags: energy, food prices, inflation, the future
While we’re on the subject…
…of the Genocide Olympics, we should probably talk about the world-wide partners of the Genocide Olympics, who include Pokey Pola, GE, Johnson & Johnson, McRonalds, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung, and Visa. Of that list, I can safely say that I can easily refrain from buying or using any of their products. But wait, I’m not off [...]
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Tags: greed, olympics, politics, sponsorhip, sports
