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The land of heathen drivers
19 Jan 2010
This Jason Ivler thing is just plain messed up. The whole psychology of road rage is actually complex (I know some pretty calm people turn to monsters behind the wheel) so people murdering just because some unwanted two-lane tango [...]
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- Tags: Arrest, Jason Ivler, NBI, News, Road Rage
Binarurot na tambakol
13 Jan 2010That probably happened to you. You fancied trying out a restaurant for the first time. You plunk down on your seat. You flip through the menu from end to end. Then you flip through it again. There’s not one thing that you’d like to eat. Then you think whether you’d get up and leave or [...]
I’d take Tony Stark over Jose Rizal
30 Dec 2009Rizal Day. To me, it’s just a holiday extender. Something to lengthen the no-work build-up towards the new year.
Of all the historical figures we now dub “heroes,” only Jose Rizal’s life and works are mandated by law to be studied as a college course in the form of PI 100 (known to some students [...]
The real Negastar
29 Dec 2009Quite a number of people have commented about the barrage of pessimistic status messages on my Twitter/Facebook page. A few make jokes about it. A few even expressed concern about it.
Just before the break, I got to talk to a friend of mine from the department and she brought the idea of being “nega.” Pondered [...]
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- Tags: Facebook, Internet, Personality, Pessimism, Twitter
The violence inherent in the system
14 Dec 2009“Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” -Dennis
Hmm… An anarcho-syndicalist commune? In a republic where the elections might as well be a “farcical aquatic ceremony,” even that sounds good.
At least the martial law’s lifted.
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- Tags: Government, Monty Python, Movies, Politics
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