The perils of blogging and generally sending information out of the shadowy damp ecosystem of ‘within’ to ‘the general public’ has been reiterated to me by a tale told by one of the contractors. In the incestuous world of the corp consultancy jet set (I’m not part of that, I’m oilfield) there was a girl [...]
Talking to colleague here – its the big ‘participation jamboree’ event thing which has nuked any notion of writing for near four days – I got roped into Chess which has just served to remind me why the chess I liked was coffee house chess. While discussing the inner machinations of the Monolith over some [...]
A few weeks ago I was handed the beginning of an incredible opportunity. I fell in love with it, jumped, and failed. It’s hard not to be sad, but I have been saying to myself the entire time “This is a long shot.” Still, it was a pretty fracking cool target to be shooting for. [...]
I don’t know if it made a big splash where you are, it didn’t get a lot of coverage given that its not so shocking in content: Study Offers Grim World Energy Outlook – but the devil is in the detail. Or specifically, that for many, the speaker is the devil himself.
There is a certain element of fellowship in an office – you don’t rat out your office mates when they’re not working as hard as they could because well, nobodies perfect. But theres a line. And a big factor in this ‘workers solidarity’ to me is caring whether the other guy lives or catches fire [...]