July 12th again… Oddly enough, I didn’t spend it curled in a ball and in darkness, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel like it. I may do that after writing this, actually, though they keep saying there may be storms this evening, so I’m waiting for that. Right now it doesn’t seem likely though, […]
One of the things that caught my eye last week was a news piece about the latest attempt made by health officials from the Indian state of Rajasthan to curb population growth: They are now offering prizes for people who volunteer for sterilization. We’re talking about food blenders, televisions, motorcycles and even cars, though admittedly […]
After years of rumors and negotiations, the future of Formula One seems to have finally been decided. Something big will happen, but it’ll start in 2014 instead of the proposed 2013, the engines will be V6 instead of the proposed I4 and they’ll be limited to 15000 rpm instead of the proposed 12000. They’ll also […]
I’m running out of potential titles for these posts, but there you have it. Yes, it’s yet another personal update posted despite having two non-personal posts that I’d really want to write these days and two more that I probably should write if I could just hold on to a suitable mindset for some hours. […]
A few days ago I switched to Eurosport to see whether they were broadcasting any matches from Wimbledon. They weren’t, but instead I happened upon a football match from the Women’s World Cup and have watched pretty much all of them since, or at times at least listened to them, looking when something particularly interesting […]