Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

Grown Men Singing Lady Gaga

By 6000 | 6000 | October 4, 2011

Seriously – from Facebook via Mrs 6000: Yes, I am aware that this isn’t new (like 7.5 million YouTube hits old), but thanks to my Google Chrome Lady Gaga filter, it’s new to me. Sadly, Mrs 6000′s laptop still runs IE8 and so this made it through to her with no issue. She then shared it with [...]

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More Logic From Lewis

By 6000 | 6000 | October 3, 2011

We’re not huge fans of the self-titled “Human Polar Bear”, Lewis Pugh, here at 6000 miles… as you may remember from such posts as Do Some Fracking Reading from earlier this year. Pugh’s tactics to get people onto his side rely on emotion and irrationality rather than any sort of logic – which is an unnecessarily juvenile and [...]

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Germs, disease, infection…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 2, 2011

A recent strip from Dilbert that made me smile: Having contracted viruses from both human and electronic sources lately, I know exactly where he’s coming from. It’s worth noting that my electronic immune system worked a whole lot better than my natural one.

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Satan’s Arithmetic

By 6000 | 6000 | September 30, 2011

From Frederick Schoeman of Cape Town on Friday’s Cape Times letters page: Satan’s Arithmetic I believe that a couple of centuries ago, two mathematicians were demonstrating their numerical skills to the French monarchy when one of them stunned his opponent and the audience by reciting an algebraic formula and claiming it to be proof that “God lives”. Could I [...]

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Game Over?

By 6000 | 6000 | September 26, 2011

Did you know that the world was due to end yesterday? Being that the country of New Zealand is some few hours ahead of us here in SA, they’re already working their way into the early hours of tomorrow morning, and tomorrow being the 27th September, I think that we can call BS on the [...]

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