Mentalechoes

In so many ways our lives are governed by the same forces that binds the universe together at its most basic level. Forces of attraction hold together subatomic particles that make up the substance of the physical world; of reality. Electrons spin around protons, held together by invisible bonds, which makes it very difficult for them to break [...]

Well those of us living in the lovely sin capital of The Netherlands have been enjoying a public holiday today called Pinksterdag, or as it’s known in Catholic circles, Ascension day. Maybe 200 years ago it was a day meant to be spent in proper respect to the Lord doing repentant God fearing activities like virgin flogging, and [...]

A lamb and homunculus sat across from each other in a room that contained nothing but themselves and a door. The homunculus looked at his own form and then looked for a long time at the lamb, and said, “Please tell me, what does it feel like to be alive”?
The lamb looked at the well crafted limbs [...]

Isn’t it funny how it’s the little things that always serve to remind us what matters most in our lives. I suppose that’s because the little things are always more subtle than big events in our lives, which have a tendency to overwhelm us and make us more disoriented at the time, rather than impart [...]

For a couple of months now I’ve been a casual player of Texas Hold’em Poker with a group of guys I met through one of our work crowd. I’m not all that good at poker, I’m never in the big money at the end of the night, but I’m not the beer bitch either, which [...]

I’ve been spending a lot more time just recently in virtual worlds, mainly World of Warcraft, and Lord of the Rings Online, with the occassional jaunt in City of Heroes for a bit of light entertainment. I was quite addicted to WoW at one stage of my life, but seeing as I have an obsessive [...]

I went for a job interview last week, with some new tech startup down in Leiden. It was pretty much the usual kind of thing for a tech interview; I got paraded around from one group of geeks to another, all of them trying to work out how much of a geek I was, and [...]