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Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 402 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 30 days This week the topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ relates to some ruminations about living in Johannesburg. Twenty years ago, I used to describe South Africa to foreign visitors as 20% first world and 80% thirdContinue reading “Ruminations on living in 3rd world Johannesburg”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 395 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 23 days This week the topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ is the trappings of power. The trappings of power, wealth, or a particular job are the extra things, such as decorations and luxury items, that go with it. One ofContinue reading “Ruminations on the Trappings of Power and our Pale Blue Dot”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 381 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 9 days This is my first  Ruminant Pink Friday™ submission as an unemployed person. I missed last Friday because the Easter bunny was in residence. Navel gazing is always a good topic for Ruminant PinkContinue reading “Navel Gazing on Humanity – Anthropomorphic Narcissism”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 363 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 6 days This will be my last Ruminant Pink Friday™ submission as a corporate drone. I am then going to classify myself as semi-retired and will try to get part time temporary gigs if anyone wantsContinue reading “Ruminations on how your corporate career ends”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 356 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 12 days This week I am going to rework a couple of my earlier submissions into a more generic form because it is a topic so close to my heart. This week the topic for RuminantContinue reading “Ruminations on scientific elegance, and a scientific fashion faux pas”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 349 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 19 days My name is Bruce and I am a petrolhead.  A petrolhead is a car fanatic and specifically petrol internal combustion engines. I am not a dieselhead or even worse an electrichead. Those of youContinue reading “Ruminations on the guilty pleasures of being a petrol head”

First circulated on 2 August 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week there has been an extremely worthy submission from an anonymous source for  Ruminant Pink ™ Friday and I will park the rules theme again to explore the  Gervais effect as explained by Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/.  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18581690-the-gervais-principle Let me state at the outset that thisContinue reading “The Gervais Effect”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 342 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 26 days In a few weeks this e-mail will cease and the Friday ruminations will move to my blog. Today’s topic is one that is considered very vulgar in genteel society namely what you get paid.Continue reading “Ruminations on Remuneration”

First circulated on 23 August 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week I have not received any worthy submissions. This Ruminant Pink ™ Friday  I am going to explore the topic of critical thinking versus intelligence. The source article is from Scientific American and is appended below. This references a book by Ken Stanovich which argues thatContinue reading “Why do Smart People Do Foolish Things? Critical Thinking versus Intelligence”