Extended Apathy

You may have noticed a slowdown in comments recently. This is partially due to the fact that I've been spending less time in front of the computer, and partially because I've been moire tired. I tend to have ideas during the day, and then by the time I get home, (a) I'm too tired to focus properly and (b) my enthusiasm for my idea has gone.

My enthusiasm tends to be like that. I'll have a fantastic idea, pour everything into it, explore it, and then get bored of it. The problem is that if it's an idea for a journal entry, I really need to be near a computer for stages 1 and 2 of the process, or I hit stage 3 and nothing gets said.

What I need is a laptop with a mobile-phone-based connection, so that I can dial-up from the train on the way home and post from there.

People are Animals

"She was asking for it."
"It shouldn't happen. It doesn't matter what you're wearing, you don't deserve that kind of thing to happen to you."
"You may not deserve it, but if you go into that kind of place, wearing clothing like that, nasty shit is going to happen to you. I mean, they're animals in there."
"You can't just say something like that, it's not right. I mean, yeah, it's dangerous to go in there, but there should be safeguards, people should be protected."
"Sure, in a perfect world. But this is the real world. And there's only so much you can do to protect people from themselves and the dangers around them."
"So what, we just say 'Sorry your daughter died, but the world is a dangerous place. She was asking for it.'?"
"Look, they have instincts. No matter how much we socialise and educate and train, you're not going to get them to totally ignore their instincts. You go into the tiger enclosure wearing a hat like that, and you're going to get eaten. Deserve ain't got nothing to do with it."