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The branches that bore no fruit
Like presumably many people, I have amassed a trove of bookmarks, downloaded data, and documents on numerous subjects of interest across the various devices I use to be processed “for later reading”. Continue reading
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Tagged activities, boredom, busy busy busy, desktop philosophy, ikigai, life force, reading material, tasks, time
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Mixed emotions: Papa was a rolling stone
Anyone looking through old photographs knows to expect to see pictures of those who are no longer with us. This is normal. Not so in my case: A few weeks ago I was sorting through old photos of my father while, simultaneously and elsewhere, he lay dying a bitter and lonely man. Life is cruel. Continue reading
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Tagged family, memories, mortality, murder-death-kill, obituary, personal, vatertag
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Rediscovering philately
A few days ago I made a mistake: I opened a cabinet door. Behind that cabinet door lay my stamp collection. Philately is the perfect hobby for a pandemic. Continue reading
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Tagged collecting, geography, history, philately, postage stamps, retro, stamp collecting
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Christmas Wars
Why the fuck am I driving anywhere near such a congregation of fools with more money than time management skills — on the last Sunday before Christmas, of all days? Never before have we witnessed such masses descend upon these holy temples of consumerist worship. You may know them as malls or shopping centres; I call it the place where the cinema happens to be. Continue reading
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Tagged babes, cinema, consumerism, humanity, money-money-money, Star Wars, Yuletide
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Summer 2018
It’s not the best season to do this because you’d rather spend time outside enjoying the great weather instead of wiping off sweat dripping onto vinyl records. It’s been a hot, dry summer. Continue reading
Career Crossroads
I am currently finding myself at career crossroads. I quit my job. Even after the dot-com bubble burst I jumped back on the hamster wheel and laboured on; at no point did I doubt that the telecommunications/IT industry was anything but the most exciting sector to be in. Continue reading
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Tagged future, inspiration, job, opportunity, personal, work
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Cassette cover art
A few years ago I wrote that I had successfully digitised my precious collection of music tapes. The same announcement also mentioned a collection of ready-to-use pictures to use for cover art. Well, my stash of envelopes full of small pictures turned up again a few days ago. So I emptied out their contents over the scanner. Continue reading
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Tagged album art, magazine, mortality, murder-death-kill, music, paper, people, teenage years
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Everything is broken
It’s that time of the year again. Everything is broken. Nothing gets completed but everything got complicated. Continue reading