Digital Immigrant

  • veniqe

A blog by veniqe

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A bit of 'technology' and a bit of whatever else

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Boerejode do not exist cause I say so

So there I was on Friday, listening to someone asking whether there are Boerejode. He didn’t use that word but that’s what he was asking about, ie, Afrikaans speaking Jews. He didn’t direct the question to me but I decided to be a know-it-all and answered his question in the affirmative.

Some of the best conversations I have are with myself

I’m one of the supposedly smallish percentage of people who talk to themselves. This won’t be news to you if you know me or if you’ve seen me walking down the road. And yes, I do sometimes talk to myself in public, though I’m quick to STFU when I realise

Morality questions du jour

Why makes someone evil? Do they have to kill a set sum of people to become evil? Who gets to define what that sum is? Do they have to torture these people to become evil? Do they have to torture and kill a set sum of people? Does that make

A dedication

I want to dedicate this song to a spessal person who likes to listen to liedjies en sulke goed.

Julius Malema is a cultural icon

What’s $3.5 billion divided by 138?

Eskom wants a $3.5 billion loan from the World Bank and it looks as though their application will be denied. The US won’t vote for or against awarding Eskom the loan but the other 23 members of the World Bank’s board of executive directors will. So I have a suggestion

Today’s unknown known observation about unknown knowns

An email exchange about Bushisms and Rumsfeldisms got me thinking a bit. Yeah, really just a bit because yesterday was unbearably hot. Our friend Donald Rumsfeld once made the following observation: Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are

I’m starting to realise some stuff

So I had drinks with a friend last week and we had the conversation that I have so very often with some people: why is it that everyone else has so many friends and we don’t? Or rather, why is it that there are so many people around us

I’m starting to realise some stuff about friendships

So I had drinks with a friend last week and we had the conversation that I have so very often with some people: why is it that everyone else has so many friends and we don’t? Or rather, why is it that there are so many people around us

Rationalskeptimism is the new RDF

So the Richard Dawkins Forum kinda tanked last week and ‘our people’ are now like the Jews — scattered among several fora. Please, everyone, come join us at Rationalskeptimism where new topics won’t get moderated. joymari

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