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Monthly Archives: October 2011
misery dividends
The proposed poker machine laws seem fair enough to me. Mandatory pre-commitment is just a way of fixing a price tag to the gambling experience. At almost every point of sale retailers have to declare their price and purchasers get … Continue reading
Posted in things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Clubs Australia, ClubsNSW, Poker Machine Laws
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still thinking ’bout the fall of Rome
Over the past several months I’ve written at length about Rome and its many reifications on television. Over the same period I have also read Thomas Harris’ novels on the life of Cicero, Imperium and Lustrum, and while these aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in books and shit, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Blood and Sand, Cicero, Robert Harris, Rome, Textual Analysis
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masperization: misplaced forces of occupation
Occupations are a kind of denial. They occupy the space where the past used to be and prevent it from being again, at least momentarily. Occupations deprive the powers that be, or the perceived powers that be, of their zone … Continue reading
Posted in books and shit, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged anarchism, Capitalism, Guy Debord, Hope, Paris 1968, revolution, situationist, Wall St
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Innovation, eh? It’s never where you expect it.
I’ve been reading Music for Deckchairs’ post Waiting for disruption. The resulting chitchat regarding the connective tissue between having a product to test, evaluate, and reverse engineer and an idea spruiked in press releases regarding the game-changer joint-venture collaboration, OpenClass, … Continue reading
Posted in The F-Bunker, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged LMS, Music for Deckchairs, Orbital Engine, Pearson, Sarich
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they’ll be toast: all blacks and wallabies
In the late eighties I was a football player, as a young man of a solid build in a small town I was in demand as someone who could catch, pass, run, and tackle. There was no genius to this, … Continue reading
favourite things III
Just so we’re clear, I can’t really cope with dancing bears, more than all the horrible things people do to animals, bears dancing for entertainment distress me like almost nothing else. If you’re interested in stopping this bloody appalling practice you can … Continue reading
Posted in things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Dancing Bears, Humane Society International, PETA, The Rut
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the struggle carries on: Blake’s 7 in Brewarrina
When I was about nine the local video store was raided by police for hiring and selling dodgy copies of things. I think, looking back, it probably only had counterfeit copies, we were a long way from the trade routes and … Continue reading
half-arsed over-gardening
There’s a scene way back in the early seasons of The Simpsons where Homer decides to be a good Dad. As you might expect it doesn’t really work out and at one point Bart says: “Dad, I preferred your half-assed … Continue reading
Posted in domesticity, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Family, Fatherhood, gardening, Parenting, The Simpsons
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beyond the total perspective vortex
Buried somewhere in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is a joke about scale, it is in Life, the Universe and Everything I think, in which Adams describes a torture device called the Total Perspective Vortex: The Total … Continue reading