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My alma mater has turned out some real winners in over 200 years of existence, but none irritate me as regularly as Supreme Court Justice Scalia. Newsweek reports on Scalia’s remarks on the impending Guantanamo Bay case:
Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo detainees don’t have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions, [...]

2230 and I’m just in the door from Uni, assignment due in the morning suitably half-assed and fired in. Probably not worth jack, but pulling presentations out of fuck-nowhere is something of a critical life skill at the Corp, specially since our lines of comms have gotten utterly scrambled and we… oh never mind. Internal [...]

Heading out was good in of itself - on that Friday it was pelting snow in the morning and just coming up on Lunch we all get an email from HR saying ‘everyone go home at 2pm’ to which everyone else in GSR went ‘aw, no cakes at 3pm’ because we can’t go home. But [...]

Einstein is credited with explaining relativity this way: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” This is a lovely and romantic way of pointing out that the perception of time [...]

You have to be impressed with the world that man has made for himself. Invention and Ingenuity has brought us an awfully long way, even compared to twenty years ago. We are in the early years of the 21st century, and there are no signs of slowing down.