nektros - Cynicism in a Hot Dish

A fangirl and her requisite Mac app list

Posted 12 May 2008 in by Yvonne

Above all, she promises to keep the requisite yet bypassed without fail introductory paragraph to a minimum, while arranging the list in descending order of renown so as not to suggest she’s a twat who believes that no-one in the general vicinity of this article has ever heard of these apps, though the liberal comma and third person perspective usage may have already nixed the mission statement by this point.

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Adolstalgia

Posted 8 April 2008 in by Yvonne

Watching the new edition of Gladiators on TV a couple of days ago, I came to realise it might be possible to develop an idiot box-induced nostalgia complex.

There are three stages of nostalgia: kiddiestalgia, adultstalgia, and the strange, in-between cousin of the wistfully inclined, adolstalgia.

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Happiness Marketing … ooh, possibilities

Posted 26 March 2008 in by Yvonne

A while ago, Time questioned whether our general happiness comes down to genes, and is therefore unchangeable.

Inferring, of course, that creating misery through the idealisation of happiness is a different ball game than chasing after plain old happiness (which, ha, I get to say is) …

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