While God is on one side of Nairobi telling septagenarians to go all Mola Ram on tigers, apparently the Devil is on the other side telling cobblers to go down the Begnigni cab driver route: ‘The devil told me to have sex with sheep’ A cobbler suspected of sorcery was attacked and nearly lynched by outraged villagers in central Kenya… Read more →
Day: June 24, 2005
Africa News No. 1: Hard Core Grandad
The emphasis is mine. Grandfather kills leopard with his hands – Yahoo! News A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday. Peasant farmer Daniel M’Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out… Read more →
A Contest I Might Actually Enter
I get a kick out of reading the top entries in the Obfuscated C contest every year–in the same way that it’s kind of amusing to see the guy who built a 3 story house of of crushed pop cans. You kind of goggle that someone would spend that much effort on something so fundamentally useless, but you can’t help… Read more →
Yardarm be damned
It is 11:15AM. There is a very cold and unopened can of Strongbow Cider now sitting on my desk, beading up nicely with condensation, which I have just released from the fridge. Just one more tiny annoyance this morning, and I am going to have to crack this open. Working from home occasionally has some excellent fringe benefits. Read more →
