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June 5, 2011

‘Survivor’s Quest’, T. Zahn

Ah, the wonders of science-fiction. I yesterday (by now, the day before yesterday) finished a wonderful (rephrase: another wonderful) book by Timothy Zahn, this…

June 4, 2011

Walking

Walking is, I think, one of the finest past-times that mankind has ever come up with. Both the soul and the mind are re-invigorated…

May 31, 2011

Lily and Bread

“If you’ve got only two pennies left, buy a loaf of bread for one and a lily for the other.” — Chinese proverb

March 13, 2011

Languages: Japanese, Part IV

A few calculated days later so that I could make my post on a overdue time that’s not too long when I get back to the…

March 6, 2011

Royal Roads and Insanity

‘There is no royal road to pomegrenades.’ I find that this paraphrasing of Euclidius is a fitting way to begin this entry. Simply because…

February 13, 2011

The Songs of Distant Earth, A.C. Clarke

February 12, 2011

On Cassini and Persistence

“Between 1671 and 1684, however, Cassini discovered no fewer than four additional Saturnian satellites…” — I. Asimov, “Asimov’s New Guide to Science”

February 8, 2011

Stargate SG-1

It’s a pity how quickly people are apt to disregard sci-fi just because it is sci-fi. That is both disrespectful towards the shows (or…

February 8, 2011

Languages: Japanese, Part III

Continuing from where I left off last month. So, this is what I set out to do: improving usage of katakana //very limited success// familiarizing…

January 15, 2011

‘Swimming’

I came across this poem when I was writing my essay about the Chinese Three Gorges Project.

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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
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Meditations

Author: krikson