Ugh, today’s kids are forgetting the old-fashioned art of absentmindedly reading the same half-page of a book over and over and then letting your attention wander and picking up another book.
–Randall Munroe
Month: August 2014
Egyptian cleric says men are allowed to spy on women in the shower
According to Osama al-Qusi, a Salafist or ultraorthodox preacher, peeping toms can watch a woman wash as long as they are interested in marrying her. “If you were really honest and wanted to marry that woman, and you were able to hide and watch her in secret, and see the things that she wouldn’t usually let you see before marrying her, then it is acceptable as long as your intentions are pure,” Qusi said in an online video translated by the al-Arabiya news network.
Qusi’s words sparked heavy criticism from those who said he was using religion to win attention. Egypt’s minister for religious affairs, Mohamed Mokhtar, condemned the cleric “and his ilk”, saying: “Where is the glory and masculinity in watching a woman shower? Would you allow this to happen to your daughter?” Mokhtar stressed that fatwas, or Islamic edicts, should only be issued by qualified clerics, and denounced Qusi’s claims as anathema to Islam. “Islam preaches that modesty should be in our nature and all religions concur,” Mukhtar said.
I have a good woman
I know some people will understand this particular anguish
Feeling slightly wrong
There’s something mildly obscene about running an Gnome application through an X-window server in a Windows VM running on a Mac…
Updated 1-page CV for 2014 – Take 2
Following some constructive criticism, I’ve come up with V2 of my one page CV. It’s lost some colour, but I think it’s gained some more meaning.
Updated 1-page CV for 2014
As part of a Scientific Advisory Board review at work, we needed to produce a one-page CV. It was a good opportunity to spruce up the old CV while I was updating the content. I had to shave a lot of detail out, to bring it down from 4 pages down to 1, but I think it works. Comments?
How to get people’s attentoin
Update:Saw this, couldn’t resist :)
A friend at the bus stop
The sparrows in Switzerland are like pigeons anywhere else. Completely unfazed by humans, as long as there is the possibility of food. This guy was almost on my foot at one point.
Physics conundrum
Why is it that anything put in a tumble dryer along with a duvet cover will end up inside the duvet cover, but that doesn’t happen in the washing machine?