Picture by author Taken late 2013. We were just free floating and enjoying some Carlsberg which is the most ubiquitous and affordable beer in Malawi. The fishermen came up to us and we had a chat about

Now go read about it on BBC on CNN, I'm not going to rewrite all that crap for free.

Here's a lazy post, but it sure has more substance than half of the $200 earning crap out there. It brings me joy and if anyone else with memories of the 80s find some value in this on a Saturday morning

Word-cloudy generic crypto image Seeing as actual blogging is not working for me on Steemit right now, maybe if I start repeating what all these well-upvoted posts are rehashing (cough) ten times per day,

A LAYMAN'S MUSINGS ON THE NON-DETERMINISTIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FRUSTRATION OF NOT BEING ABLE TO EXPLORE IT The tyranny of interstellar distances. A quote from one of the books in Dan Simmons's

Double post, can't delete... apologies

Something that struck me from the first day was the lack of spicy language, flame wars and controversy. In real life, I swear like a sailor. Most people do. Sometimes I write like that, but am keeping

I was fortunate enough to recently have passed through the town of Graaff Reinet for the first time in decades. I have history here as my uncle had a farm outside of the town and also a house in town.

I'm unable to pinpoint the year, but Yahoo! was my portal from the first day that I dialed into the web using a GUI browser. They were the cool kids at the time. One day "Powered by Google" appeared

(This is not a plug. I have no vested financial or personal interest, but I know who the people behind this are and can vouch for their integrity.) As someone who worked in corporate advertising and marketing

Photo Illustration and Article Source: The Daily Beast It's been 20 years since I cared. It's been almost as long since I last saw this publication on the stands. Apparently they only stopped publishing

1. There are thousands of users with nothing to contribute, just waiting to miraculously hit the mother lode through asinine comments and feeble upvotes This is to be expected as the apparent premise offered

About my mind I will never forget my first existential crisis. I was six years old. In our little town in 1979, the view of the the night sky was spectacular. I'd often lie on my back, looking for satellites

If this is your kind of music, follow the link below for some choice DJ sets:

I have shaved my beard and hair for practical reasons and my previous profile pic didn't represent what I look like now. Also, never did the "proof" pic to show that I'm legit, so here goes...

No. 2 in my series of musical memberberries from my childhood. I just realised that the subject of my previous post had died some time ago and so it is for this post. My third post will once again feature

Disco left a vacuum which was quickly filled by more minimal and distinctly electronic-sounding styles of dance music. Synthesizers were now affordable enough for many people to experiment with and this

(In half a century, we never even came close again. I’m betting on you, Elon!) Even before being able to grasp much more than my immediate environment, I was obsessed with space. This probably had a lot

No words of mine could improve on this. Just felt it needed to live on the blockchain for posterity. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Just over 30 years ago, an album was released which changed my life. Love or hate DM, this is one of the most influential bodies of pop music realeased. Ever. It was the perfect soundtrack to a bleak youth,