Paul Bruce Dickinson...

When people say that he's cocky, what they don't realise is that he's got the right to be cocky. Lead singer in the greatest metal band ever, commercial airline pilot, author, proffessional fencer (who has represented his country on several occasions), Radio One show host, and that's just skimming the surface.

Here is why this man is so absolutely brilliant. An operatic metal vocalist doing a folky rendition of an old English hymn, with Ian Anderson. It doesn't get much better than that.

Blogger...

So I just installed the Blogger app on my phone. A whole new realm of possibility.

Happy International Mother Language Day everyone...

Hope is kindled...

This close to the board exams, I though a  little inspiration wouldn't do any harm:

Here's a version form the LOTR Symphony, with Howard Shore himself conducting. Equally inspiring, in its own way:

Watch your feet, there's bugs everywhere...

Well, not exactly, but I couldn't resist the F.R.I.E.N.D.S quote.

I just discovered the precision zoom and ultra-macro focus mode on my camera (not my mobile phone camera, unfortunately), so here's a photo of a teeny-tiny carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) that was crawling around my study desk a while ago.

He was ~1mm long. Don't worry after the photo-shoot, I set him free, much dazed, but alive and well.

 Identification courtesy r/whatsthisbug.

Just a clarification...

In case you have a slow connection and the fancy fonts that i use on my my blog aren't showing up properly, I just have to clarify that no, I am not using comic sans for my post titles.
Sheesh. I nearly killed someone when they asked me why I was using comic sans. Check your internet connection, you scheisse-kopf!

Tricky Linguistics... (contd.)

Maybe I can eventually try for The Smiley Award. That would be cool to win!

PS- If you guys are interested in learning more about constructed languages, you can check out the Language Creation Society. There's really a lot of pretty good stuff out there that I would never have imagined existed, at least not at such a scale. Then again, I do live under a rock.