When I first moved to Sydney I could not tell the difference between a English accent and an Australian accent. Since then I have become a bit better at telling them apart and it has mostly to do with the way an “o” is pronounced when it is at the end of a word. They [...]
First question: Is the US in a worse place, in general, than it was 30 years ago? This is really an impossibility to determine. It is such a macro question and there are so many different factors that weigh on the answer that it is difficult to come to an educated answer. In light of that I am [...]
The Australians got something right. This last weekend I experienced my first ANZAC day. This is similar to Veterans Day except people actually observe it and if you walked out on the street you could tell it was a holiday. To paraphrase to how one of my Australian friends described it, ANZAC day is “the [...]
I have been in Sydney now for the past 4 months and it has been glorious… absolutely glorious. I could not have pictured a better transition for myself. My job has been going well, I have been meeting a ton of cool people and I have found Sydney to be a clean, friendly, beautiful city [...]
First things first, Ultraparadoxical.com has turned a year old! I will spare you the “best of” post and instead treat you to the randomness that is my brain (lucky you). Dock Ellis Dock Ellis is an unknown American hero. I didn’t even know that he existed until I was forwarded the video below a few [...]
“Success” in America has less to do with actual talent than any time in recent history. We have forsaken competence, responsibility and intelligence in our country and replaced those attributes with shallow illusions of each. It has been all around me lately in my workplace, in popular entertainment, and watching the government in action. [...]
What is it about music that makes people say they are interested in all types and really “don’t like any specific style”? A guaranteed response from anyone who you ask “What type of music do you like?”, will be, “Nothing specific really, I like everything except maybe X style and Y style of music.” No other [...]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/carter.torture/index.html Finally, a sane person saying sane things. Now to see if anyone will listen to him. American agents are torturing people. Period. End of statement. The fact that Americans are not vocal in opposition to this is disheartening. Hopefully more influential people will speak out to this fact and things can be changed. At [...]
http://www.architecture2030.org/current_situation/coastal_impact.html I showed this to some friends and the first thing that they said was, “I wonder what that would do to the economy”. The first reaction that most people are trained to respond with to this type of ominous environmental information is by relating the situation to money. Apparently that is going to be the only way to [...]