Archive for the 'Terror' Category
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
return to normal.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
meet ALICE
she’s not quite the JB, but let’s give cern some credit.
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Depressed, repressed, objectified: are men the new women?
So – although women hold only 17 per cent of parliamentary positions across the globe, despite there being only 10 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and ignoring the fact that it is still illegal for a woman to drive a car in Saudi Arabia – it seems that, sometimes, it is harder to be a man.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
well i never!
Monday, May 26th, 2008
The Gift.
As the day of my departure for a dreaded family reunion/wedding approaches, I’m at a loss concerning what to give the couple as a gift. The groom is a first cousin of mine, but I haven’t seen, or even spoken, to him for a few years. And I’ve never met the bride. So, I can’t really know what they’d like or want. Suggestions? Should I give them money? That’s the SOP in Pakistan, isn’t it? If so, how much?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Hazrat Darymple on Pakistan
Darymple writes about the possibilies of Pakistan in the NY review of books:
As you travel around Pakistan today you can see the effects of the boom everywhere: in vast new shopping malls and smart roadside filling stations, in the cranes of the building sites and the smokestacks of factories, in the expensive new cars jamming the roads and in the ubiquitous cell-phone stores. In 2003 the country had fewer than three million cell phones; today apparently there are 50 million, while car ownership has been increasing at roughly 40 percent a year since 2001. At the same time foreign direct investment has risen from $322 million in 2002 to $3.5 billion in 2006.
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
a.p.p.e.a.s.e.
can you say “PWNED!”?
Monday, April 7th, 2008
three imaginary boys.
so i just noticed a deposit in my savings account for $1551.42. apparently, it’s a bonus for referring a friend for a position here. i didn’t think i would get one because the policy is to give bonuses for referring new hires, and my friend was already a temp here.
and so, i think, this is as good a time as any to quit this place - naturally, i’m writing this at the office. it’s been a stifling 6 months (so far) to say the least. a job that people settle for. and the longer they stay here, the more difficult it becomes to get a job anywhere else. i’m targeting the end of may as my return to enlightened joblessness.
maybe i’ll take a summer course or two in design or journalism, maybe i’ll get certified as a teacher of english as a foreign language, maybe i’ll land a part-time position at a bookshop. who knows? maybe we should go into business together? i’ve got $1551.42 to put in as capital.
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
damn you, atomsmasher.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
And your pants too..
Apologies if this breaks the cycle of philosophically grand hogwash i usually reserve for JB; (yes Al, you can stop gazing at my navel now, thanks ever so much) but since i am, for once, not making powerpoint slides that break new ground in the art of meaningless verbosity until 4 this morning, i thought i would blind you with the brilliance of some of my orginal thoughts instead.
The point I am trying to make is, that I am as open to sleeping my way to the top as the next person, but frankly the Macca settlement has me appauled - surely this cant be just (Rod Liddle, Sunday Times):
Tucked away in the small print of the entertaining McCartney-Mills divorce settlement was a £50,000 annual sum payable to the lovely Heather for “charitable donations”. Nobody seemed to think this odd apart from Heather, who, being an extraordinarily generous woman, had asked for £627,000 per annum to “donate to charity”. This sum included £192,000 for private flights, not including helicopters (that was another £120,000), so she could give of herself to the poor, the needy, the dispossessed millions – always travelling first class, natch. Read the rest of this entry »