Category Archives: Paranoia

So, eh, umm…

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
I succumbed to the dragon, and if any of you did too, we have an easier way of keeping in touch, yeah? In case you do later, I added the link to my blogroll.
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How Things Change — 2009-07-07

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
“My music taste is pretty limited, mainly ’cause I don’t prioritize it, so my favorite bands/artists are as follows; Led Zeppelin, Wolfmother, The White Stripes, ACDC, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Queen. Do you know of any other bands that may fit the genre (I spent a lot of money on a mp3 player and [...]
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Neuropath by Scott Bakker

By terje | Published: September 27, 2008
Neuropath by Scott Bakker 2008. 306 pages (with afterword). Orion TPB. “Only a small fraction of your brain is involved in conscious experience, which is why so much of what we do is unconscious. The bulk of your brain’s processing falls outside what you can experience; it simply doesn’t exist for your consciousness, not even as an absence. That’s why [...]
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Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

By terje | Published: July 17, 2008
2008. 536 pages (Gollancz Fantasy trade paperback). “Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.” — Paul Gaugin. This being the opening quote of Last Argument of Kings, the concluding volume in Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law series, one can perhaps perceive that this is a bleak affair. As I remarked in my reviews of the first [...]
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A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!

By terje | Published: May 24, 2008
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about! One of the things you might not know [...]
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Some things I suspect I believe to be true

By terje | Published: April 22, 2008
About eighteen months ago now, I realised I’m a materialist; I believe that everything in this world is matter, that there is no such thing as spirit, that what others might perceive as “spirit” can be explained materially. And for some thirteen, fourteen months, my Christian flatmate Håvard has challenged me on this. To him there [...]
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Superhero Movie

By terje | Published: April 20, 2008
Rather out of the blue, I ended up seeing Superhero Movie with a friend last night. And man, am I sorry. But I’ll get back to that. First, a plot synopsis. Rick Riker is Peter Parker, only more (exaggeratedly) so and with more unmotivated and unfun slapstick accidents happening to him. He is in love with [...]
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Curses! Or constructing next term’s schedule

By terje | Published: December 21, 2007
I checked my course registration page at NTNU (ooh!) about an hour ago, and much to my delight I discovered that I’ve been registered for not two but three courses this spring, and that these three combined fill my required term quota of 30 study points. English Linguistics gives me 7,5 points if I pass it; [...]
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I’m concerned for my university

By terje | Published: December 14, 2007
I had my fifth and final exam for the term today, and unfortunately, I thought it was just like the four previous ones. You see, based on the curriculi and the lectures in the courses I’ve been taking this fall, I’ve been expecting to be satisfied with a straight Cs. Global English had a lot of [...]
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“Global English” is rubbish

By terje | Published: December 13, 2007
“Given the stress that is laid on spelling by prescriptivists, and the existence of so many dictionaries which provide standard spellings for English words, it is perhaps surprising that there should be any variation in spelling within standard varieties. But there is. Some of this variation is variation between varieties. More often, though, there us [...]
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