Thought for tomorrow
Truth demands the hard confession: that thought and spirit come badly off, in the long run, against nature. – Thomas Mann
Articles for category: Humanities
Imagine this
Imagine that you became aware of some danger that was about to materialise and cost thousands of lives in the next two hours. You then approach a few people and explain to them what you had discovered. They look at you with a blank stare. You try again. They utter some words back that you ...
Assumptions
I’m briefly addressing something that’s happening in the minds of others – that hasn’t been communicated to me. How do I know it’s happening? Ahhh.. human nature and the failure of logic predicts what they’ll be thinking. You see people use their own experiences as yardsticks to estimate the world. They make inferences based on ...
SyncPlaylist by OpenView Design
Cutting straight to the chase, SyncPlaylist is a tiny piece of software that works in Windows systems that enable you to create playlists for a USB drive that you use in your car. SyncPlaylist will also enable creation of playlists that work straight off the USB drive. So if you’re carrying music to a house ...
Online Backup for WordPress
Backing up of data on a computer is one thing but backing up of a website such as this one and it’s database is another. Websites do crash and even with the best security are vulnerable to attacks from hackers or to host server failures. Whilst these events are extremely rare, the consequences can be ...
Trinidadian Lawyer Secures Historic Conviction of a former Head of State
A ‘Trinidadian’ lawyer – Ula Nathai-Lutchman – played a prominent role in the Prosecution team that secured the historic Judgement against former President Charles Taylor. Mr. Taylor, who was indicted while he was still President of Liberia, is the first former Head of State to be convicted by an international criminal tribunal since the Nuremburg ...
Dummies to suffer even more
As the 3rd May 2012 approaches, there is a greater chance that a whole load of dummies are gonna be ripped off here in Britain. What’s so special about 3rd May, you may be wondering and scratching your head. Well, Samsung having rocketed to pole position as world leader in mobile phone sales (beating back ...
Situation at a parking meter machine
Everyday situations bring some fascination about the human condition. I’ve done my shopping and return to a multi-storey car park. There is small bay where you go – on foot – to pay for the time that your car spent parked. There are two machines. One large, the other small and thin. I see keypads ...
Two great addons for Gmail users.
Say you want to set up for an email to be sent at a certain time, in the future, but you don’t want the hassle of having to remember or do this manually. Say you’re a control freak or a pretend one and you really need to know when your ‘victim’ opens your email that ...
When they come for you…
I am disheartened and deeply disappointed to learn of the deplorable circumstances surrounding the removal of Cheryl Miller from her workplace, to St. Ann’s Hospital for psychiatric treatment. My reasoning and inferences herein are based purely on information reported in the media. I have no direct access to the facts of Miller’s case, nor would ...
Get Gladinet Cloud
The word ‘cloud’ tends to cause attacks of anxiety these days. If that’s you, stay clear. I don’t wish to be accused of forcing anyone to read anything that causes stress. Gladinet is a service that is ahead of the race. “What race?” you groan. It’s the race to sync your home computer files with ...
Riot–redefined
As many will know The Cap has so far escaped arrest and extradition, for his ‘tamasic’ writings in relation to Rock-crawlers causing riots. Diehard rock-crawlers intolerant of all things critical of Rock-modus-operandi, had asserted that people have a right to protest if they are frustrated. Enter ‘Chaos’ – the ‘new’ redefinition of Riot! Undeterred, the ...
Tamasic
Word of the day: ‘tamasic’. I’ve been judged by an intelligent individual (who will remain nameless – and no it is not a mental patient) as being involved wholly or in part in “tamasic” qualities. This is taken as intended to mean any one or all of the following: I’m a lazy irresponsible cheat, who ...
Thought for tomorrow
“Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.” – Anon (probably Arabian in origin).
Data protection bullshit!!!
For this post, I’ll be judged as arrogant, stubborn, grandiose, grudging non-eligibility for knighthood etc… spare me the adjectives – I know them all and I use a thesaurus regularly. Get this – I’m called by an automotive insurance company representative, at a pre-arranged time, a few moments ago. They ask me name, first line ...
Opportunistic citizenship–part 1
The two words come together on Google but the concept has not been defined as I do here. And – there is as yet no single set of words that will define completely ‘opportunistic citisenship’ [OC]. I’ll give a thumbnail sketch of what OC may involve – but it is not a full concept at ...
When you need a favour
There is an unwritten agreement between whatever you call ‘friends’, that if you need a favour: that your friends will pay attention to your need assist in whatever way they can for no fee. will do the above willingly, and without need of you begging about it. – subject of course, to the favour being ...
Psychoanalyse
I’m not sure if people truly understand what ‘psychoanalyse’ means. In fact I doubt most people truly grasp what the concept is about. Why? In about 90% of instances, when people ask me what I do and I say ‘shrink’ – they respond with some comment that includes the word ‘psychoanalyse’. Most of these comments ...
The effort of thought
It’s no secret that I’ve been working on an analysis of how minds decide things and take their respective paths. Well, I can tell you right now that reading this will be painful for some. I mean let’s get real, who the hell has any time or effort to think about thinking. That’s painful isn’t ...
Hotel Situations
When I say I’m living in a different world and wish to be beamed up, some people think I’m being arrogant. What about if I’m just right!? Look, at these two situations which assaulted me in quick succession this morning. Breakfast – waitress looks at me vacantly and utters something barely understandable. So I respond ...
When you’re right
I must thank my colleagues on Facebook and other electronic forums for stimulating me to put together the list below. I was also driven to think and write by responses to ‘Of riots in banana republics’ on Facebook. Over the last year or so, I’ve been observing how people come to know when they are ...
Situation on a bus. My bad.
Yesterday I got on to bus in my local town to get to the train station. Nothing spectacular about that you may think – and rightly so. After all people are doing this a zillion times a day – innit? I do this short journey of about ten minutes, on average once every month ...
Thought for tomorrow
“How do you lose friends and infuriate people? Simple – undress the truth down to its bare bones!” Captain Walker – March 2011
When is the whole truth not to be told?
“…compassion is more important than the truth.. if I told him it would be devastating to him.” – Jackie Mason in Desert Island Disks on Radio 4 in interview with Kirsty Young (at the 17:25 min mark in the podcast but the context of the statement was most important). It resonates with me, because I’ve ...
I may soon be arrested!!
As if to predict what would happen on Fraggle Rock, the Cap had pondered the issue of Riots as recently on 10th March 2012 in: Of Riots in banana republics. Then, lo and behold, riots break out on the Rock on 13th March 2012 as reported in the T&T Guardian and, Newsday. According to Rock-logic, ...
Thought for tomorrow
“The history of madness is the history of power. Because it imagines power, madness is both impotence and omnipotence. It requires power to control it. Threatening the normal structures of authority, insanity is engaged in an endless dialogue—a monomaniacal monologue sometimes—about power’.“ – Roy Porter in A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane, ...
Thought for tomorrow
“Collective ignorance is a superior inertial obstacle against the potential of knowledge to cause movement. Those who think otherwise are deluded!” – Captain Walker 2012
Of riots in banana republics
This article in a Trinidad & Tobago newspaper 2012-03-10: Rio Claro protests shuts down courts, caused some concern. It is often said by people of the Rock (abbreviation for Trinidad & Tobago) – either on it or of undying allegiance to it – that such actions are justified because “people have a right to protest”. ...
Google email trick
I’m a shameless walking talking advert for anything Google. I mean Google is about the most secure high quality and free email service you can find. So, I’m about to show you a cool trick – how to send and receive emails on a non-google email account using google email (aka gmail). This is a ...
Rob Costlow–a rising star!
I’ve never met Rob, but I know of his music and have read some of his bio. I first came across his music on Magnatune a couple years ago. Woods of Chaos – his amazing piano piece came with a computer I had purchased. So I hunted him down on the internet and came across ...
