HAPPY 2013! 2013 promises to be a blast! So how did I do on last year’s resolutions? To remind you they were: Publish my first book Visit at least 12 new countries. Acquire conversational Arabic and Intermediate Spanish. Capture half a dozen flags. I almost completed my 2012 objectives, but not quite. Yes, I published my […]
It’s that time of year again. Check out my previous annual round-ups for 2010 and 2011. I’d like to take this opportunity once more to thank all my readers and wish you guys a happy new year! Due to commitments with college and publishing my first book, 2012 wasn’t quite what last year was in terms […]
Originally coined in consumer purchase behaviour, buyer’s remorse deals with cognitive dissonance – one will either reverse rationalise the decision, or come to truly regret it. When running game, a girl experiences buyer’s remorse when you push too hard, too soon, and don’t build up enough comfort in the meantime. Result: she regrets getting too heavy with you so fast, feels manipulated, […]
Traveling around you meet all sorts of different folks. Most of them live pretty mundane lives, but occasionally you meet someone with a story worth telling. Some of you may recall when I wrote about the Tale of Yoshisaki, for example. Well, on Thursday night, I met another guy with quite the tale. Downing a few brews in […]
“Everybody belongs to everybody else.” In the 1930’s, Huxley envisioned a distant future where mankind peacefully co-exist in a one world-state. Beautiful humans are bred in labs, conditioned from birth, assigned work, and expected to pursue only hedonist endeavours in their leisure time. Young adults are encouraged to explore each other with ‘erotic play’. Technology […]
I remember the first time I typed in the word ‘sex’ into a search engine as a young boy—back in days of Windows 95, Ask Jeeves, and that irksome cacophony of a dial-up modem. I remember my eagerness as I sat there waiting, for hours on end sometimes, just for the chance to watch a […]
[EDIT, Dec 2013: I’m at 64 flags now] On Friday night, I got my Swedish flag. It was a worthy epitaph to my misadventures in flagging. I’m generally a casual flagger, but after finishing my dissertation in early September I was a man on a mission. I wanted to get my 50th flag before my […]
Boom! I’ve returned for the Desert of Academia, guys. I’ve just finished what was quite possibly the most tortuous, soul-destroying summer of my life. After hundreds of hours of laborious research, irksome data mining and all night writing sessions, I somehow managed to crap out 20,000+ words and finish my MA dissertation. The deadline was yesterday at 3pm […]
Dear readers, I’m locking myself in a room for the rest of August to write my thesis on the ‘normative’ and neorealist influences governing EU foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa using empirical evidence from the inchoate Arab Spring. Sigh… My brain is sore and I can’t have any distractions. However, no doubt I’ll […]
