Old Hat Before setting off for Colorado’s ill fated ‘rescue mission’, Ali asked me to bring him back a present. He asked me to buy him, with my own money, some type of extravagant animal pelt, to add to his collection of elemental protection devices flayed from dead rare exotic wild creatures and scattered tastefully around his Docklands penthouse flat. This would not have got through customs, for good reason. Disregarding the ironic ambiguities of that last sentence, knowing

The Ben Power Joy of Knowledge Library (Promoting Accessible Scientific Education Since 1974) Entry# 777 Hello children, did you know? The largest terrestrial gopher ever hooked on a purely tensor-baited teslastropic giga-rod measured 85ft from maw-trunk to prehensile stinger and weighed just over 65,000 tonnes. That’s the equivalent of 4.79 triple-decker combine harvesters filled with Communist marzipan, or approximately 1250 unshaved adult peccaries. Known to the local Kuru

This article was originally published on Rian Bevan's personal Wordpress blog, the original article which can be found here: https://rianbevan.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/procrastination-into-creation/ My normal tendencies of procrastination have made me need to reevaluate some things in my life. I know what I want to be doing, and the relative steps to get where I want to be, but my mind is doing a good job keeping me stuck in a kind of almost existential paralysis. The paralys