Cav's Place

I really should start with the good and state that this was the best edition I have ever seen. It started pretty poorly, with a rather weak first semifinal, but the second one was very good and the final was even better. Quite frankly, there was a single song I didn’t like that made it […]

The Martian winter solstice was over two weeks ago, yet NASA hasn’t provided any updates about the rovers since, even though those updates should be weekly. Sure, there wouldn’t be much to say about Opportunity, who likely performed nothing other than a couple more short drives, and nothing at all about Spirit, who has been […]

I’m writing this today because this is when the “diversity march” is taking place in Romania. That’d be how they decided to call the gay march around here, and I’m calling it a march because, save for a few admittedly annoying drag queens, the appearance and behavior of the other participants has always been quite […]

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 […]

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 […]