The $700 billion bail-out of the US banks and their ’toxic loans’ is not exactly universally acclaimed: For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford—that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street. ...
Today is the kind of day that makes slogging through the winter (such as it is in Australia) all that much more worthwhile. The sun is out in force, the skies are blue with a hint of cloud, and there’s a warm breeze that makes the shade that much more perfect, and out in the open entirely bearable. It’s days like these…
And so another year passes… These things are going faster and faster every time, I swear.
Haven’t had one of these in a while, so I thought I’d fill you in on the excitement that’s been happening lately. I got a MacBook Pro. Um. Er…. *scratches head* Yes, that is just about it. I really, really got nothing. I can’t even say “settling back in to Sydney” because now it’s been nigh on 6 months and I have no excuses. The scary part is that it’s well over a year since I was over in London (I feel like I’ve mentioned this before…). Work continues apace - it’s been a bit nutso lately, as the pressures mount on time and my abilities, but somewhat like assignments at uni I’ve been managing to scrape in at the last minute. ...
This is an Indian card game that looks a lot like a variant of an Italian game, Scopa, but the influence could easily be the other way around. Note this is also commonly known as ‘seep’, but our family’s theory is that it’s a bastardised version of ‘sweep’. Players The game is usually played by 4 players, in two teams, with partners sitting opposite to each other. It is played using the standard deck of 52 cards. It can also be played with a two player variant I’ll explain below. ...