I generally dislike generalities

The nature of my prejudice is so advanced that I often dismiss them straight off the bat without giving them a chance to prove to me that they are the exception that proves the rule. Generalities do have their uses sometimes and I suppose that discounting them off hand undermines my sensibility at times.
However, having [...]

I once knew this guy called Charles Gnollworthy

Unfortunate name, but that was the least of his troubles. Guy had a real appetite for destruction. Loved nothing more than taking something off you and rendering it incapable of its intended function. Snapping pencils was his favourite. Needless to say, despite his talent for draught work, it wasn’t long before he was kicked out [...]

Wherein is the love

There’s a lot to get mixed up in when it comes to religious dogma. When you start to talk about holy texts to me it’s a minefield of perspective that’s open to alienation and manipulation for the sake of control. Get into the fine print of the texts and you can come out with saints [...]

Youth, while perhaps a state of mind

Is still a most divisive element in daily interaction, in the sense that you can sometimes mark your movement towards the upper limit of a certain age band by the way those in the lower bands respond to you. There are those ever so sweet moments, when you realise there’s no interest between you and [...]

Work Story

Not a great one, but sometimes it’s nice to have something to relate, as an accountant, that is a little less esoterically amusing than: “And I didn’t notice I’d transposed the debtors figure, because I forgot to check whether the difference is divisible by 9!”
But anyway, I’m trying to get the accounts of this guy [...]

Learning Spanish again

One word at a time.
Current word: Encantada.
The word itself makes me want to break into song for some reason. As a way to greet a woman when you take her hand and kiss it, I have to say that enchanté wins in the smooth sounding category. That’s if you get past the French language sounding [...]

Hey Mac

I remember reading a Peanuts strip once where Snoopy voiced his distaste for the salutation “Hey Mac.” It made me think how much I used to like to use the words “Hey you” to denote someone very close to my heart when corresponding in a written medium. At one time I imagine the use of [...]

Simple math of childhood

Remember when life was a simple matter of arithmetic instead of tough social statistics and calculus?
 Like:
3am + hungry = wail at the top of my lungs 
snot + play dough = a square meal
Opposite sex + touching = cooties
Therefore:
boy + girl + amicable talking = love
because you can’t come that close to the dreaded cooties and stay [...]

The water cooler really is a great place for conversation

Even when it’s just me there feeding my eight glass a day habit, I’m normally talking to myself.
In my inside my head voice.
Of course.

“[insert name here] is in your extended network.”

Once, just once, I’d like it to say: “[insert name here] has nothing at all to do with you, why the hell are you here?!”
This is just a remix on my old desire for dos machines to say: “excellent command or file name” when you entered an especially well worded one.