Mentalechoes

so last night, while it was very late, i tried an experiment that proved in some part a social hypothesis that a high school teacher of mine told a class i was in back when i was something like 15. this guy said, beautiful people have more friends because socialising is more important than study, [...]

It occurred to me today as I was making my return train journey back to Amsterdam from my office space in Leiden (a distance of about 60 kilometers), that I might actually be a Crackberry addict. For those of you still living in the 19th century, or who haven’t heard the term before, Urban Dictionary [...]

So I had sat down to my morning coffee at work, and was just perusing the headlines of my personal email before rolling my sleeves up and getting stuck in for the day, when one particular message from a mate grabbed my eye - ”Australian Government Declares it’s truly a Nanny State”.
What the fuck have they [...]

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
   Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 26. King James Bible.
 
I’ve been interested in robotics ever since I was a kid, fascinated by science and science fiction. The idea of humaniform robots has never really scared me in any way, unlike some of the groups [...]

Funny what gets people talking. It seems that the shiney new Large Hadron Collider has become the new most popular science topic of discussion, for both the tech elite, and the mindless Christian scare mongering morons, alike. If you haven’t been keeping up with the news – or the only news you follow is the [...]

Tonight I went to dinner with the work crowd as a celebration cum reward for releasing a major peice of software to the commercial world at the time some big managers project plan said we would (I work in the IT department of a web commerce company). Now while I share the same peice of [...]