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.
My [...]

Te toka tu moana

I felt something lacking on the bus today.  Something which was there before but gone.  I was reading Bird Without Wings and had a somewhat out of proportion response to the passages on the Anzacs.
“The Franks had another game which consisted of kicking a large ball around on the beach.  They did this stark naked, [...]

Aspirateur à main

I finally got my student loan through today! and how does any self respecting man celebrate? I bought… a brand new 4.2 Volt hand-held vacuum cleaner. I’m staring at it now, trying to retrace the steps which lead to it’s purchase. It all seemed terribly important at the time, but I [...]

Les Thèses

It’s that time of year where the mass of graduating students symbolically part ways in an avalanche of paperwork. Invariably the dealers with the blue chips are the ones who attract the most players, but there are the occasional few, we masochistic few, who go the PhD route – treading the slippery path of [...]