gyrmination

Arghhhhh! Once again, too many hours wasted debugging a ridiculous oversight! Got excited about using XPath instead of DOM methods to access XML nodes after browsing through Perl & XML this morning. But then the reaper struck, and grimly. While DOM methods still worked fine, no matter how simple I made my XPath expressions, I [...]

There was a party of losers upstairs last night. At nine I entered my room. The irritating voice of one man speaking about 30 decibels too loudly into his cell phone filtered in. Around ten (I had already turned off the lights and was trying to sleep) sounds of raucous merriment boomed down from the [...]

The limp prick is “the ultimate sexist put-down” (Fear of Flying, 90). Impotence, the inability to “keep it up”, Bond continually ridicules gadget man Q, comes with old age, the waning of years and masculine strength. Men are failures in bed if they can’t get it up. In our quotidian thoughts, a failure in bed [...]

There are two kinds of beggars out there. The man crouching with legs flayed, leaning back on ashy crutches and scarred clothing extends his hand for help. When he receives it, he gives thanks, pressing the coins to his head with wrinkled hands in a prayer. The insolent child, marches up overstating the pitiful act [...]

Not used to always being on guard, suspicious of ulterior motives, manipulation, trickery, masked intentions, deceit. Every gesture of goodwill is inextricably bound to a will to manipulate, to treat as an object, to shake gain out of. I cannot trust anyone. Words are full of congenial thorns which twist and wrench upon grabbing hold, [...]