Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Meat Life
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The Daily Mash today has an excellent article on how women prefer me who like comics. It even has a warhammer reference: They should make Warhammer condoms, shaped like balrogs and space marines So this is where I’ve been going wrong my whole life…
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In a previous post I noted some reasons (that I hope are largely practical rather than ideological) why the Tory reforms of the NHS won’t work, based on my superficial understanding of them. Yesterday I discovered that the Tories have introduced a second – and in my opinion completely mad – reform of the NHS…
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I get my inspiration from a variety of places, and I find the natural world offers a variety of spectacles beyond compare, on every scale from the minute to the gigantic. So I look forward every year to the Veolia World Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize. This year’s have just been announced, and were…
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Recently the Guardian had a news report about a prize budgerigar breeder whose birds were killed or nicked in an act of industrial (sport? Hobby?) sabotage, and now they have a follow-up (with pictures!) of a budgie fanciers show in the UK. See any parallels?
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This semester I’m teaching a course on Global Crime and Public Health as a special lecture series (in fact I should be preparing material now instead of posting here). This course represents a culmination of 15 years’ research experience in the service of a general model of what constitutes a “good” response to the public…
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This is a completely off-topic post, but I thought it covers an interesting topic in one of those areas that it benefits everyone to know something about. Last night I found myself accidentally at diner with the director of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). His particular interest at…
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About a month ago, our little foundling Arashi chan finally recovered from his severe car-related injuries, and I present to the world this picture as proof that his recovery has been spiritual as well as physical. He’s not so little anymore, and definitely not so immobile…
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This is a technical post, to help people who like me have been struggling with MS Word and Japanese text. I’ve decided to switch to doing preparation for my warhammer 3 campaign in Japanese, just so I get used to the language a little more. But I want to put furigana over the words I…
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Introduction This is a bit of a weird diversion from normal programming, but I thought I’d give it a go. On the weekend it was the final of the Australian Rules Football League, the AFL, and – rather remarkably for the game – it ended in a draw. Those of you who know anything about…
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So tomorrow I will depart from the Northern Bay by bus to the Station of Wide Acclaim, from whence I shall take a bullet train to Double Mountain. There I change to the express over the mountains to the town I used to live, Pine Bay. I’ll spend three days there with my New Zealand…
Compromise and Conceit 