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New Category and Probably a Big Mistake

To start with the good, at the end of my last post I said I was thinking of creating a separate category for posts about overpopulation and going through everything to move the relevant ones into it. And that was easy enough to do, so here it is. I think I found all of them […]

Anger at Speakers and Economics

Excuse me but I need to vent every way I can or I’ll strangle somebody! That’s because last evening dad sent me a recording of a guy’s speech to translate and transcribe, which speech lasted for 29 minutes and was basically nothing but a string of utterly infuriating platitudes about economic growth. Which would have […]

When You Give People Efficient Solutions…

My old rule remains valid even when among supposedly like-minded people. If one of my ideas gathers any noticeable support from others I really need to review it, because no truly effective idea is going to gather any significant support from people. Which, of course, doesn’t mean that if everybody opposes an idea it must […]

Not a Bad Week, All Told…

I was initially planning to write yesterday’s post on Monday and a second one on Thursday or Friday, so I could do this month’s computer “maintenance” work right away afterwards. That didn’t quite work out, but it’s pretty much the only thing that failed to work out this week, while a few others went quite […]

Urban Exploration, Spring of 2010 Edition

The second half of spring and the first half of autumn are the best times to go out and explore the city, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Summer’s too hot and it can even be unsafe to be out because of that, early spring and late autumn are usually too rainy […]