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 [...]
As you may have guessed from my last utterly pointless waste of bytes, the writing, it does not go well. I think its something like rule 29 or such – ‘if you’re blogging, you’re not writing’. Especially if its idiotic blogging that involves both google earth and wikipedia (forging a time sink whole orders of [...]
I’ve been enjoying a faster-than-dial-up net connection in my hotel during this trip back – and its trying to make my head twist off with the cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, there’s all the peak oil stuff. On the other hand, there’s the Pussycat Dolls.
My expenses here are minimal, I spend less cash in a month than I did as a penniless lab summer student, so I’m salting quite a bit away in savings. Mostly in sterling. As you can imagine, the UK economy getting trashed is not making me a happy bunny.
Bastards, thieving fucking swine with their moat [...]
2008 seems to have generally been regarded as a bad year. It’s interesting to try and consider a universal good or bad quality to a year. I guess the economic crash, which has hit with disturbing speed, has taken a lot of people back. I can’t shake the feeling that people wanted a crisis to [...]