Category: Random

Me no joko, Angel Gabriel, Scorchio!!

I guess I must have been about twelve when my school organised a weekend field trip to France. I remember my teacher saying that this should bring about the realisation that French was not some dead or academic language invented to test us, that there w… more »

There's gold in them there stars

Sticking with stars for another thought, prompted in part by the widespread realisation that the positions of the stars have changed since the zodiac  was invented a couple of thousand years ago.  This has actually been known for a long time but it hasn'… more »

Sunny Afternoon

So I woke up yesterday and laid in bed for a bit browsing the internet as I do and I read about the impending, rare and very awesome solar eclipse.  "That's in about half an hour here" I noticed, "I could improvise a pinhole viewer and go take a look"...… more »

Blowouts

Some of the Exiles have discussed the danger of riding close to trucks in the past, besides the normal windblast hazard most of the trucks here are running on tyres that are bald, re-molded or both.  Seeing the amount of shredded tyre strewn across the h… more »