After spending a couple of days marooned on a mysterious (they always are) island, masterfully disguised as the heroine of a popular video game series about desecrating burial chambers, I decided that enough was enough. I combined the 1350 salvage scraps that I had accumulated by searching the corpses of dead men (mysteriously lying near the remains of red barrels – what could possibly have happened to those poor bastards?) with a block of stone and crafted a Sturdy ThinkPad™. Then I had to run around and open some boxes to collect 350 additional salvage scraps so that I could afford the GSM upgrade. Now, sitting by the remarkably well-placed campfire (which some kind soul has stocked up for me and left burning; he or she must be terribly shy – I have never seen them at any of the 31 conveniently placed campfires that they have prepared for me so far) with only 4% battery left, I am just about to share my memoirs of slightly lower than average quality with the world…
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On Eating Animals
Having just finished my reading of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, it is time for a review and some personal reflections on the topics brought up in the book. Eating Animals is a book about the meat industry, primarily the so-called factory farms, but also about the more pleasant farms that are responsible for less than 1% of the meat production (in the US, if you believe the author – you want to double check these numbers). It’s an informative, and at first fairly objective, approach that “ends up” advocating vegetarianism (or veganism).
Review: Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight e-book reader
Booken’s Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight
As the title might have suggested, I recently required an e-reader. I made my decision to buy the named e-reader, produced by Bookeen, after some consideration and looking into alternatives. I will here make an attempt to review my experience with the e-reader so far, and to summarize some of my thoughts on e-books in general. Read on…
First post on Flackoverflow – [insert catchy headline here]
Welcome, dear reader, to Flackoverflow.
The first post is always the hardest one, so please have patience with my ramblings for now. Wait. Thinking about it, I’m not sure why the first post would be the hardest one and I’m definitely far from convinced that I won’t ramble, perhaps more and in a much worse manner, in the future. So, please excuse my ramblings whenever they happen. Or, actually, scratch that. This web log (I’ll get to what that actually means, for me and for others, later) will be dedicated to my ramblings. So, yeah, deal with it.
Why would my ramblings, or for that matter, words and (oh horrors) opinions be of any matter to you, you ask? Or perhaps you don’t, but that’s not the point. I still want to raise the question and perhaps answer it.