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Aug 4, 2016
15 min

Gas, Ass, or Grass – Revisited.

Well, now that the Brexit thing has happened and things are finally starting to visibly fall apart it is time to revisit the old hitch-hi...

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ironwood6

Jul 11, 2016
3 min

Did You Feel That?

If you are not keeping yourself busy dulling down your senses with drugs (prescription psychotropics or recreational), or food, or shoppi...

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ironwood6

Jun 30, 2016
12 min

Terminal Capitalism – “He’s Dead Jim.”

(Note: I started writing this entry two weeks ago before the Brexit vote.) Two recent stories, one that was promoted by the Main Stream M...

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ironwood6

Jun 21, 2016
6 min

True Confessions of a Bibliophile.

I have a confession to make. I confess I am mystified. No, wait, that’s a Pukka Orchestra song. I confess that when I wrote in another bl...

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ironwood6

Jun 2, 2016
11 min

The ‘Me & My Bunker’ Myth.

There is a really common idea out there among people who accept the idea that we are going to face some form of social upheaval in the ne...

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ironwood6

May 19, 2016
9 min

Which Past is the Future?

I was getting ready to write this posting and just came across a great quote I want to share from a guy whose name is Vinay Gupta. He thi...

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Pravda is Russian for Struth. Or, The Age of Missing Information.

ironwood6

May 14, 2016
13 min

Pravda is Russian for Struth. Or, The Age of Missing Information.

Yesterday, the Loblaws grocery store chain had to shut some of its stores across Canada for almost half a day due to what even the Huffin...

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Warriors of the Wasteland: A Humungus Problem.

ironwood6

May 11, 2016
6 min

Warriors of the Wasteland: A Humungus Problem.

Image by krheesy used under creative commons licence: https://www.flickr.com/photos/129440207@N08/16296648887 I have been thinking about ...

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ironwood6

May 6, 2016
11 min

Ground Rules, AKA Spot the Spook

Unfortunately, we do not actually live in a democracy. If this is news to you then you are probably one of the sheeple and you need to ei...

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ironwood6

Apr 27, 2016
5 min

Hoping for Change.

I am fairly disgusted by my fellow Canadians who have obviously fallen for the tired trope of “Change.” For were it not working as The Pow...

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ironwood6

Apr 25, 2016
9 min

Graceful Degradation.

Things have failure modes. A failure mode is when a thing has a typical way that it breaks down. Certain parts of things are often not as...

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ironwood6

Apr 13, 2016
4 min

Where to Begin?

Where to Begin? That is the question I have been mulling over in my mind since last week when I started this blog. I have a pretty compre...

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Robert MacLeod

Apr 6, 2016
3 min

Hello World.

Hello World. I have finally decided to share my thoughts about certain matters more widely and this blog is the forum in which I have cho...

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