Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Billiards and TexMex

After going for a ride yesterday I played pool. First we won four games, and then lost three. Came home like a zombie, dead tired.

And this morning we went to the TexMex restaurant, which is in the Klondaika bowling alley at Ditton. The decor is good, the service is good, and watching people bowl while you eat – is fun.

I had burritos – good ones. My friend had tacos – I liked those less. The pepper was sitting separately on the plate, and out of inexperience, we didn't order any sauce.

Desserts: I had a cheesecake. Very small portion, but not bad. My friend had fried pineapples with frozen fruit. Also not bad. I also had an iced coffee (frappuccino?, frappe?) – way too much ice, and the chunks were too big. I would have preferred less ice. Hell knows, maybe that's their recipe.

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War and cri-ticks

Watched the Russian ambassador to the UN killing it at the Security Council meeting today. Then I started thinking about the war, which is awful in general and ruins my mood, which had been so wonderful this weekend.

And then a relevant short little story came to mind, which I'll share with you below the cut.

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Duel between a magician and an atheist on Indian TV

On March 3, 2008, on a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, president of Rationalist International, challenged India's most powerful dark sorcerer — a tantrik (in India, tantra is not at all what it is over here — collective masturbation) — to demonstrate his power on him. This was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment. After all the mantras, spells, and tantric rituals had failed, the tantrik decided to kill Edamaruku with the "ultimate ritual of destruction" on live television. Sanal Edamaruku agreed and sat in the black magic ritual altar. Indian television skyrocketed in ratings.

https://www.scorcher.ru/art/mist/mist/mist2.php

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Live and learn

Holy crap, Robbie Coltrane, who played Cracker in  the TV series “Cracker”, turns out to also be Hagrid from Harry Potter.

A «WANTED» poster with a black-and-white photo of actor Robbie Coltrane, parodying a police wanted poster for a robber whose real photo the police cannot publish due to his age.

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