From a comment on Gates of Vienna.
A person, especially one not trained to consider what one sees with at least a bit of dispassionate skepticism, can simply absorb ideas passively by watching films or television.
More true than you even realise. When I was doing my undergrad, part of the course on media analysis included information [...]
Remember how I said I was away? I am, but i have internet access, and I’m bored, so I think I’ll just yammer away for a while.
Every time I visit Sweden it always strikes me how contradictory the place is, and I have a suspicion that it’s all seated in some sort of bizarre national [...]
I haven’t mentioned it much but we, as a family, are working into property development at the moment. After months of insanity trying to sort out the ownership of a piece of land and release the funds, we’ve finally broken ground on our first property development. The foundations are going in as we speak… incidentally [...]
Recently I had a run-in, or a dispute, with a commenter named El on Gates of Vienna over certain issues. Now if you’ve known me any length of time you’ll know that I get a little florid in my oratory. El doesn’t provide an e-mail address in his profile or I would have done this [...]
Just a little amusing note. My wife, the beautiful Christina, has won the Numby Award for “Neologism of the Year” after coming up with this little number for Mr Brignell:
Acairasthenephobia, Ah-kai-ras-then-eh-phobia, n, a fear of falling ill out of hours (Gr negative prefix A; cairo (or kairós) – right time; asthenes – ill; and [...]
What better way to start the new year than with a drink? Well, I got myself good and toasted over the break and my liver isn’t thanking me, but I’ve decided to take advantae of an opportune sale in the local big-name supermarket to get my hands on something that I think is a little [...]
Julmust! Julmust! IKEA actually had some in! Christmas is now going to be complete…
If you don’t know, Julmust is a drink that they consume in Sweden, in large quantities, over christmas. Not even Coca Cola can compete with t; they don’t even try now. I’m not entirely sure what’s in it, though the ingredients list [...]
I’ve decided to put this under spiritual stuff as well as general, because… hey, it’s a spirit. Besides…
No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach – 1 Timothy 5:23
Alcohol played a large part in the life of the early church and, protestations of certain denominations and other [...]
Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing.
– Herodotus
Perhaps this is why so many are so eager to jump on any movement that gives them the illusion of control over their lives…
I’ve found strange things in the past, but none stranger – to my uneducated brain, at least – than the idea of Welsh single malt whisky. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a keen whisky drinker, and these days I’m even able to tell some of the subtler malts apart to boot. Which is [...]
