Material Desires

It’s high time I ditched my self-imposed blog exile and started blogging again. Writing about material desires is, of course, a very naughty thing to do. But I’m boring when it comes to material desires, all I want is all what others want, within moderation (or maybe not).
1. First on the list is a [...]

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Curriculum Vitae

Writing one’s own testimonial is an immensely distasteful affair. It has recently come to my attention that Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, and I have not.
We live in terrifying times.
Still, I have discovered that there are people with worse CVs than mine, and this has kept the lid [...]

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Lucid Dream

Last night I had a lucid dream. Or at least I dreamt I did.
It was about NS enlistment.
We were inducted together (me and a few companions) into a vast military complex where thousands of enlistees were gathered sitting at desks, waiting for Godot something. I was given a bunch of keys and told [...]

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A Change of Pace

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
-Mephistopheles, Doctor Faustus

Terribly melodramatic, and horribly out of context, but the feeling fits. Unfortunately, book burning only occurs much later.

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The Jennifer Morgue

I obtained this book by chance in Kinokuniya (gotta love the place) and finished it in two sittings. This latest (published) Stross novel is excellent, even better than Atrocity Archives – both hilarious and terrifying – and full to here with ubergeek references (I was particularly happy to see Deus Ex, my favourite RPG-shooter cross-genre [...]

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