Sounds like a technical header, huh?
Nope.
These two ideas have been swimming around my head for long enough, it’s about time to jot them down.
First of all, I have this thing (I think it’s my only thing that qualifies as a ‘thing’). Whatever. I hate letting any piece that could constitute a ‘memory’ at some point […]

More memorable quotes…
This one professor, while I was sitting for THE exam (THE: the one I’ve failed a couple of times, and threatens to ruin my career…)…
“Because ve haf had problems viz zis, zere vill be no sheeting. You are not allowed to sheet during zis exam. Anyone I see sheeting will be disqualified from […]

Back in Hamburg.
I got here last night. Walking to the main station, I could hear the same old music on the PA. Usually, that music would be, well, music to my ears, it would kinda lift my spirits, but Berlin is such a cool city that my spirits didn’t need much uplifting. The music actually […]

You scored as agnosticism. You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don’t believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof).
Agnosticism is a philosophy that […]

Bourbon
Congratulations! You’re 118 proof, with specific scores in beer (40) , wine (83), and liquor (86).

Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you’re going straight for the
bottle and a shot glass! It’ll take more than a few shots of Wild
Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know
how to handle […]

Or do they?
I read three books the past week. First on was ‘A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. I’d heard of it ages ago, but was never really drawn to read it until a recent conversation with my roommate, and hearing that it was being made into a movie. I must say, the book’s very […]

Hizballah’s protest came and went… we’re still here. At any point of the day, any point of the night, freedom loving Lebanese are there, quiet, loud, cheering, lost in thought, they’re there. We’re there.
To Hizballah, we’re traitors, we want the US/France/(insert any non-Arab nation here and you’re golden) to rule us. Yet, tomorrow, we are […]

It’s funny how those selfsame groups that are armed to the teeth are warning of civil war.
It’s funny how those selfsame groups that are sectarian to the core are warning of sectarian strife.
It’s funny how those that swear loyalty to foreign powers, and are completely dependant on them are calling the rest of the population […]

Context will be the last thing on your mind when you see this photo. We are sick, but also, we are imaginative… who said golf was boring to watch…

Or at least, not to blogger.com! Apparently, the word ‘blog’ and all it’s derivations are not recognized by blogger’s spellcheck tool! I was surprised, having never spellchecked my posts before, to discover this. I guess ‘blog’ is not officialy a word, but one would expect ‘blogger’ to make an exception!

This caught me by surprise. Bill Clinton, former US president and Cigar connoisseur extraordinaire has his own personal blog. Apart from it being truly personal, and not very politically correct, it’s very, very sincere. I made a post on another blog concerning Lebanon. A reader left a comment, mentioning Clinton’s perspective on the Lebanese situation. […]

According to dave Pollard I am an up-and-coming blogger. Apparently, he did some research, some digging around, and came with a summation. Bloggers are divided into A-List, B-List, C-List, up-and-coming, and remaining bloggers.These categories are broken down thus:

A-List Bloggers

numbering: 100
average: 150,000 hits/day per blog
minimum: 15,000 hits/day per blog
total: 1700 hours by all reader/day per blog

B-List […]

I don’t know how I found this link in one of my firefox tabs, anyway I there were four boxes, each with a rolling list of words. Four clicks later, I found out What I Am. I am a muscular penis who loves to sniff balls.
I really don’t know what to do with that.
Let me […]

I found out yesterday that a close friend of Mark’s family, Ahmed, passed away. I have to be honest in saying that I felt a tiny pinch of sadness at first, but nothing more. Today, while meditating over a hot, heavy shot of Espresso, I suddenly felt sad.
I had met Ahmed twice, both brief encounters. […]

Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here is another very interesting Wired.com article. It discusses Wikipedia, officially the world’s largest encyclopedia (online). Wikipedia depends largely on user contribution and censorship. However, the article itself deals beautifully with an analysis of how people gathered, published and assimilated data over the ages. A must read for any scholar […]

Hamburg has been freezing for a while. Temperatures hit around -8 today, and I was out on the town… One noticeable thing is that even though it has been snowing almost continuously this past month, the snow hasn’t accumulated… It hasn’t been a ‘winter wonderland’ over here, it’s been more muck than white purity, more […]

I recently finished reading “Chainfire”. It’s the ninth book of the “Sword of Truth” series by Terry Goodkind. Luckily, I’d read the last nine in quick succesion, and haven’t had to wait anxiously for each new one over the past decade, as many other fans of this saga have. I guess I can call it […]

Interesting fact. Alan Turing was a very famous computer scientist. He was an early researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He’s known for the Turing test.
The Turing test is basically a test of machine intelligence. The test employs a machine that tries to pass itself as human. I won’t go into the intricacies of […]

it’s 6:18 am. I woke up at 4 am, suprisingly. Very strange feeling, but a good sign that I am finally able of getting out of bed when I wake up!
One small thing. Several people have asked whether the story below was over, or ‘to be continued’. Seriously. Haven’t you ever seen a movie where […]