SSA Saturday Blogathon
Today’s blogathon is over the weekend. Hopefully more of you will be about to hang out and raise money for the Secular Student Alliance and for all the good that they do. This year I set a rather small...
View ArticleSSA Blogathon – And So It Begins!
Well! The Hangout is now properly online. People are there discussing things (Smoking Meat and Swamps…) but we have a variety of things to do including playing our version of Cards (well Hangouts)...
View ArticleSSA Blogathon – Update!
We hit our target! We have achieved $500! Everything we do now is beating the target! I am blogging as part of the Secular Student Alliance’s blogathon. I am trying to aim for a blog post every so...
View ArticleIt’s not all Doom and Gloom
I have been really depressed over the past few days due to my parents threatening me with “ostracisation” if I don’t leave Tiga, and two things got me out. The support of Tiga for me and realising that...
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Perspective
With depression you sometimes need perspective.. Not as a person who is depressed but as a person who is on hand to help. The Samaritans may have started off as a religious group against suicide but...
View ArticleThis One is Strictly Off The Radar
Listen Very Carefully Because I will Say This Only Once (To any who get this line, you are either British or very very weird or possibly both). If you are Ed Brayton? Fuck off! This post is not for...
View ArticleUpdate on the DuWayne Brayton and Dave Malarky
So the results of the fundraiser. We raised a lot of money. In fact a LOT more than we needed. Nearly 200 pounds between us. We raised enough to get not one walker but TWO out there to Dave. The logic...
View ArticleMission Congo
I don’t like missionaries. I don’t like the idea of missionaries. The idea is simple. Go enlighten the blighted heathen and wow them with technology so that we can replace their unenlightened dark gods...
View ArticleLight The Night – Ideas for Forfeits and Fundraising Links
If you haven’t heard already, I have agreed to be on the FTB – Light the Night Fundraiser Team along with Greta Christina, PZ Myers and Ed Brayton. I assume I bring youth, vibrancy and a funny sounding...
View ArticleHags of Lag – Despicable Action, Help Correct It
For the gamers among you, most of you realise that my gaming posts don’t do all that well. There are but a handful of us who play around here and many say it doesn’t suit the tone of the blog (Look all...
View ArticleTyphoon
No, I am not going down for this one. I was due to but I have a major bout of sinusitis and tonsilitis. I sound like a frog and look like death warmed over. Had I gone down, I would be in a bed rather...
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Why I Made A Short Post…
No! Bad! Stahp! Sometimes I get some rather bizarre mail and this one is particularly no different. Avicenna thinks his readers (well, the advertisers he “writes” about, are dogs. His whole post,...
View ArticleDon’t Send Shoes/Clothes/Medicine. Send Money…
I have said it with regards to clothes and the like and if you think I am the only one? Check out Jessica Alexander’s take on it.
View ArticleVitriol – The Treatment of Acid Burns and ASTI
I owe the Acid Survivor’s Trust International (ASTI) an apology. You see, I didn’t think my article through. I made the same mistake as the people who tried to bully Melody and utilised ASTI’s name and...
View ArticleWill, Skill or a Bill
I have often pushed the Mantra of Charity as something to be approached in a sensible way. Do what you can and what needs to be done. If you cannot pay or have the skills to help then you can still...
View ArticleFast for Philippines? More like a Diet!
Oh you can’t fool me! I am onto you and your nefarious schemes! Lose weight and help the Philippines! Admit it! On a serious note? If you want to help Andy Pakula’s fundraiser for the Philippines? The...
View ArticleHumble Bundle – Audiobook Edition
I know I am fundraising for my own charity at the moment, but I figured many of you would not have read Salman Rushdie’s “infamous” work that lead to his fatwa. So why not check it out on the Humble...
View ArticleSomeone’s Made A Video for Me!
[TW - Acid Attacks] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oaSefKZxc If you wish to donate, there’s my Just Giving Page! ( http://www.justgiving.com/amilliongods) We are 25% away from our target at the...
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Hags of Lag – Promise
In Korea, e-sports are a “big deal”. They are the equivalent of our football players or basketball players. We may consider video games as a simple way to kill time but many Koreans play the game like...
View ArticleCause I’m Happy!
Are you happy? Watch this and smile a little. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TizA_jTCSS8 Special thanks to Tacloban City and the UNDP. If you wish to help with Cyclone Haiyan reconstruction, check out...
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