Thursday Things I Don’t Understand

I just don’t get it …

26 August, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
I just don’t get it …

There are a few things I’ve read today that I really don’t get – in different ways. One is sciencey-cool, one is magic, and the last is cruel and stupid and upsetting. I might start with the latter, so at least there’s something light-hearted to finish the post. But first, here’s something about perplexity...
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Where The Fork??

12 August, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
Where The Fork??

Oh hai. Lolshrink can not has fork. Lolshrink was hungry and did want to has lunch (leftoverz from beautiful roast sheep cooked by teh queen yesterzday). I is not dogz though, so needed cutleryz. But where teh fork are teh forkz? Not long back we could haz new cutleryz – yah: including forkz. Hole droor wuz...
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Magic, ghosts, and woo

29 July, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

Magic. Ghosts. Spirits. These are things that pop up in fairy tales and in children’s stories and tv shows & films. Sometimes even they’re debunked – for example in Scooby Doo (though I personally have never liked it) it’s always some guy with a mask and a clever contraption and some flashy chemistry –...
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Destruction as debate? (G20 Toronto)

27 June, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
Destruction as debate? (G20 Toronto)

There are some idiots in the world. I see that Toronto is burning The G20 summit is on there, and of course there are protesters. I have nothing against protesters per se. I’m not saying I necessarily agree with a lot of things about our present societies, or capitalism/monetarism – or necessarily...
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Thursday Things: train tickets, fundraisers, and pirates

6 May, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

‘Tis a Thursday. There are things to write about (… about which to write? …) Anyway – a couple of things this morning spurred me to write, and I’ll add another one from Twitter this afternoon. Train ticketing I buy a train ticket every week. I wouldn’t think of not doing so. I ride on...
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