There’s a lot of ways to travel these days. I just can’t keep up with all the different types of tourism and all the neologisms people have invented to describe things that are amply covered by existing words. (Take the arrival of “gocation”, the opposite of “staycation”. That one hurt). However, I keep my ear [...]
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
Canadians: A Brief Yet Reliable Guide
The really great thing about embarking on a career (travel-writing) that you are supremely underqualified for (untravelled, misanthropic, irreverent view on the world, fear of flying, fear of knowledge etc.) is that every Foreign Person is truly an adventure to know. Not only are they a new person to learn all about, which is always [...]
BASIC Instinct: Going Loopy In Doorways
Yesterday, I wandered into a visual FOR-NEXT loop. It’s not a kind of roundabout. It’s also not a trap made by nimble-fingered Boy Scouts (although it is a kind of snare, shaped exactly like your brain). It’s much more dangerous than that.
BNPwned
This is delicious.
Why I’d Make A Great English Teacher
(Fevered Mutterings v2.0: September 2006) ….. Sir, I’ve finished the story you set for me. That’s the single most stupid thing I’ve heard this week, and this week has been a veritable Ardennes of stupidity. You haven’t “finished” it. You’ve merely stopped working on it. It will never be finished, and that is the sickening [...]
Twitter Kills The World In One Hour
On Wednesday, 13th May 2009, at 12 noon PST, Twitter went offline for an hour – and triggered the end of the world. Here’s the timeline of how it happened.
