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Sailing Club

December 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We found a curio earlier. A keyring fob that’s been hiding in a suitcase since 1992. I know how long we’ve had it because it comes from my time in Burma, from the Yangon Sailing Club at 132 Inya Road. It was a great place to socialise just a short distance from the university and uncomfortably close to the nearby site of a student slaughter in 1988.

Friends sailing on Inya Lake October, 1991.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: 8888, aung san suu kyi, burma, genocide, inya lake, rangoon, rohingya, tatmadaw, yangon sailing club

Really!

November 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Hanlon’s razor suggests that we ‘never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’.

I am pleased that some of my correspondents suggest I read articles like this one by John Crace in the Guardian. I am even more pleased to be have been able to live in societies where such truths can be published. Reading words such as ‘lies’ and ‘lying’ in the media reminds me of the privilege I enjoy living in progressive societies that can rely on the protection of punitive defamation laws.

Quantum superposition?
The response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually.
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