Category Archives: External World

Addicted to victimhood

By Jacques | Posted: March 3, 2010
I must confess to having read, and enjoyed, Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, but judging by snippets from a couple of interviews, corn syrup must also either rot your brain or turn you into a marketing uber-guru.
Also posted in Politics | Tagged Food Rules, Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan, responsibility, victimhood | 5 Comments

Help is at hand

By Jacques | Posted: January 22, 2010
Sarcasm, Inc. - the inventors of the SarcMark - tell us that their new punctuation symbol denoting sarcasm "makes punctuation cool again", and also claim that by using the new SarcMark, "you’ll never be misunderstood again". How cool is that?
Posted in External World | Tagged incompetence, punctuation, SarcMark, stupid humans | Leave a comment

Eastwood does Oprah

By Jacques | Posted: December 29, 2009
Invictus: in what appears to be a concerted effort to win a couple of Oscars, Eastwood lays on the cheese to such an extent that at one point the Doctor remarked "this is more than cheesy - it's an entire fondue!".
Also posted in General, Politics | Tagged Damon, Freeman, Invictus, Mandela, race, rugby, south africa | 1 Comment

Travels in the hyperreal

By Jacques | Posted: December 2, 2009
It's good to be home - nothing reminds you more of what a great place this is to live than being away from it.
Also posted in General | Tagged Birmingham, Cape Town, Las Vegas, travels | 3 Comments

Passing the buck

By Jacques | Posted: November 3, 2009
Part of my routine, accompanying the second cup of coffee, is my morning browse through the 100 or so items that have accumulated in Google Reader overnight. As any of you who use it would know, it’s a very useful way to stay on top of peripheral interest areas, so long as you keep a [...]
Also posted in General | Tagged attention, internet, reading | 3 Comments
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