For though he preaches I should feel otherwise, the saga surrounding Russell Brand has left me with a great antipathy towards the general British public. There are two great problems with the British public; I had at first thought there was just a single simple problem.
The first, as I mentioned before, was simply the respect [...]
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To Live or Die
Isn’t it funny how arbitrary life is?
One can extinguish the life of an ant or a fly in a fleeting moment and in just another fleeting moment the act is forgotten. One could also with similar precision and deftness kill a fellow man and never forget, and never be allowed to forget.
One could spade a [...]
Chapter 29
Chapter 29 is a strange place to stop reading a book it seems. The number seems perilously close to thirty, which seems a more natural place to stop. But it was at that point last night reading Russell Brand’s autobiography that I stopped. I thought it apt at the time.
Yesterday was my 23rd birthday and [...]
Find A Penny
Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck.
Someone had left a penny on a cash machine, so I picked it up. I was looking for something that I feared I might not find, so I thought I could use the extra luck.
In short, it was crap. I couldn’t find [...]
Ripping Off
There is a lively debate on the BBC Blogs about downloading files illegally. I’m not so sure where I stand now. I don’t personally download content illegally (though I do copy my CDs onto my computer for my own personal use on my iPod). I can see why people would want to download music themselves, [...]
Of Philosophy
I did think about philosophy and ethics quite a lot without making any real headway in looking further into the tenets of any mainstream ideas. Over the past week though, there were two different ways of life that two religions encouraged I looked at and noted familiar and similar ideas.
Christianity — Seven Virtues
The seven virtues, [...]
On Life
I learned a few things over the past few days.
All men are bastards. It is true. Except me of course.
Friends are often the least interested in what you have to say. Perhaps it is because they already know what you are going to say. More likely they just get bored listening to you.
You learn more [...]
Absolute Power
They say that with great power comes great responsibility. Having great power can be great fun if you abuse it. I know this because over the last few days, I was the fun. I hope this supreme force realises how desperately frustrating it has been then and since.
Furthermore it has left me feeling extremely powerless. [...]
All Over
Well the exams have passed. Now it’s a waiting game for the results. It wasn’t a great exam. Everything I had studied on Monday had pretty much vanished from my short term memory… perhaps occupied by recent events. I relied on my long term memory which thankfully wasn’t too shabby as usual, so I should [...]
Don’t Believe a Word
Would you rather a child be taught Mathematics by someone who knows how to teach, or by someone who knows how to do Mathematics? This article describes how less than half of teachers of Mathematics in secondary schools in this country hold a degree in a relevant subject. It doesn’t make me feel any happier. [...]