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No meaning

By Ben Hourigan On 2007-05-19 · 2 Comments

From an interview with Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist: why should there be a meaning? I mean, we want a cause as to why we’re here, but I’m afraid there isn’t one. I don’t find it depressing at all. # It’s exactly what I believe. Unfortunately for me, I do find it depressing, at least when I’m dissatisfied [...]

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Back online

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-11-28 · 2 Comments

I got my Powerbook back on Thursday night, just before work. Having a computer again has its upsides and downsides: while I’m not going crazy for lack of a writing machine and a way to talk to my friends and family in Australia, I’m also back wasting a lot of time surfing the web. Computers [...]

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A month in Japan (part the second)

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-10-2 · 1 Comment

So, I’ve been slack. What started out as a series of posts on two weeks in Japan still hasn’t been finished after a month here. It’s been long enough that I’ve started to forget what days I did things on, so this may be a little bit vague. On the plus-side, the boring bits have [...]

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Further evidence of me turning into a c@!#

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-05-26 · 5 Comments

Today GameGal posted a “Hall of Shame” featuring E3 Booth babes in skimpy outfits, which prompted me to post the following comment on Joystiq: I just wish that people (men and women both) would stop spouting tired feminist rubbish and doing things like making “halls of shame” that make it seem like some terrible crime [...]

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