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Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 619 of Re-Modified LockDown Level 1 with Alcohol and the Omicron variant. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 240 days Johannesburg is now enjoying the start of the 4th wave of Covid 19 which appears to be caused by the omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.  ThisContinue reading “Ruminations on the Omicron Variant, Fermi Estimation and Questions”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 612 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 233 days In the afternoon of Wednesday 17 November Nerine, my wife had an appointment at the dentist in Johannesburg. I was playing online chess when the phone started ringing incessantly.Continue reading “Ruminations on policies and the terms and conditions”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 605 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 226 days Although I have a rapidly growing band of highly devoted groupies, I confess that I admire certain non-conventional thinkers and I was one of David Graebers groupies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber HeContinue reading “A Tribute to Bullshit Jobs and David Graeber My Favourite Anarchist”

The logo for hopium Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 598 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 219 days This week I am going to go back into my comfort zone and discuss energy. This is extremely topical both in South Africa and globally.Continue reading “Ruminations on Energy – The Master Resource, Oompa Loompas, and Hopium”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 591 of Re-Modified LockDown Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 212 days This week I am going to consider the topic of what matters and who gets to decide what matters. The recent events where the talented cricket batsman, Quinton de Kock,Continue reading “Ruminations on what matters”

Our local transformer in Saxonwold Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 584 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 205 days This week I am going to return to the topic of living in third world Johannesburg. This is a follow-on from an earlier blogContinue reading “Further Ruminations on Living in 3rd World Johannesburg”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 577 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 198 days This week I am going to focus on uncomfortable facts and how we respond to them. I will start with a personal anecdote relating to uncomfortable facts before rubbingContinue reading “Ruminations on Facing Uncomfortable Facts”

Maybe I need a tattoo? Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 570 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 191 days This week I am going to press the pause button on discussing humanity’s response to climate change, but it is no doubt a topicContinue reading “Ruminations on demise”

Ink mixing with water Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 563 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 184 days I know that over the last few months I have been yammering on about climate change quite a lot. For those of you bored withContinue reading “Ruminations on updating the two cultures debate in the context of climate change”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 556 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with copious alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 177 days Last week’s blog generated a lot of comments.  Any topic that is related to climate change generates strong opinions. Thank you for your comments. Not everyone agreed withContinue reading “Ruminations on being an unemployable, opinionated older man and the Peter Boghossian affair.”