When confronted with the choice between temporary joy and the elegance of sitting, I prefer the sitting. It’s like freedom over comfort, though this time comfort wins. At parties for example, I prefer to station myself and wait for traffic, the perfect vision of a sedentary anti-socialite in inaction. So it is with some intrigue […]
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Having your head in the clouds is no longer a euphemism for daydreaming or attaining a senior management position at a financial institution. Or for snorting marshmallows after a particularly confusing bender during a businessman’s lunch. If I’m going to have my head in the clouds in 2011, I’m probably a transhumanist with much of
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April in Central Texas is the seasonal shoulder month. Imagine an arm of pleasantly warm weeks connected via the April shoulder to a half-year long volcanic steam insanity of flesh-scorching sun, and you’ll appreciate the Easter period all the more. In the run up to Easter, I have spent around 7 hours flat on my
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