So long and thanks for all the fish

I started playing Rugby this year.  Growing up I’d always opted for what I perceived were less violent sports (Hockey, how wrong I was), so I wanted to at least give it a go before I hit a certain age.  The whole endeavour has taken up quite a large chunk of my life recently.  There’s [...]

Semaphore

I was on the bus today reading an introduction to Barthes and Semiotics, in particular the idea that a sign, as a social construct, is so arbitrary as to be completely meaningless outside of the society’s context.  How the tangible and intangible, all we hold to be true and real are actually hollow wireframes unintelligible to aliens.
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