• Archive for March, 2012

    Going walkabout

    by  • March 28, 2012 • Everything Else • 1 Comment

    I am thinking of going walkabout. Virgin have a round the world air ticket which gives 29,000 air miles for a bit over a thousand pounds. Enormous flexibility, you can do damn near anything their network goes, and while some serious craft is required on the booking front (so much choice) the deal is Pretty [...]

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    A message from the Captain

    by  • March 10, 2012 • Everything Else • 0 Comments

    I have now spent ten years as an unpaid employee of an invisible global government: the government-in-exile of the well-intentioned survivors of the Crew of Spaceship Earth. The crew of Spaceship Earth are largely holed up in Engineering and down to the last rations, occasionally losing members to bloody, fruitless combat with passengers who believe [...]

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    The Yardstick of Civilizations

    by  • March 9, 2012 • Everything Else • 2 Comments

    (click the images for more info) This is Soap Guy. He makes soap. He doesn’t just make soap, he makes political soap. Soap so good it makes you question capitalism. Let me explain. Alex Fradera gave me a bar of soap he’d made with his own two hands, after going to Soap School, and it [...]

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