“the average nerd’s fantasy woman behaves like a sex-starved player in her dealings with men. She is violent, vulgar, boorish, and ball-breaking. In other words, she is Lara Croft. The most obnoxious grrlpower stereotypes in the media are found in nerd-targeted media for a reason…” – ferdinand at In Mala Fide “Just as most genetic […]
Quotes
What is the sound of one hand hitting our head?
“Kemal, rule one. The Scheming never ends” And Khalid Bey rolled his eyes, poured more milk in his coffee, and stired. “Take a Celeron CPU, after all it’s a lobotomized Pentium. Can you believe it, it actually takes more money to make A Celeron, but it’s the cheaper CPU chip ! How much sense does […]
Funny how the words we use reflect the realities we do not face.
Remember when you were a kid, and you did something really naughty, your teachers used to always threaten you with: “Now that’s going on your permanent record !” Now here, I am dating myself a bit. I have no idea if teachers still say this, but the generation of schoolmarms, god bless their hearts, who […]
Some thoughts on writing, speaking, manipulation and influence
A few thoughts off the top of my head. William S. Burroughs had interesting things to say on the idea of language being a virus from outer space. It would be naive to take him at face value. Actually, it would verge on insanity. It would be equally naive to simply assume he was being […]