Jakartass Home thoughts from abroad. Alien thoughts from home.

… into a new age of boredom, one which has parallels with life under the Soviet regime, where cultural richness is replaced by cold, technocratic logic.
Adam Curtis  – quoted (misquoted?) at the Boring Conference 2011

It started with a dig around into reports of 15 trillion dollars (reportedly backed by 750,000 tonnes of gold), originating with a Mr Riyadi, transferred to various banks. Whether, as Aangirfan intimates, the “Mr. Riyadi” mentioned in the speeches of Lord James of Blackheath , is actually James Riady, the Chinese-Indonesian who is the evangelical felon noted as a corrupt contributor to the Clintons and a member of the Chinese Intelligence community, is a matter of conjecture.

Such is the strange world of financial skullduggery that my researches are going to take a bit longer. I therefore found my way to a favourite blog, Diamond Geezer who gave a link to James Ward’s blog. James likes boring things, “a series of obscurities inspected in fascinatingly unnecessary detail.”

A tweet James received piqued my interest: @DNAtkinson: Imagine a national map of broken cash machines.
@Jakartass: Yeh, I can *LOL*

Naturally, it being a boring kind of day, I delved deeper into James’ musings and discovered that he organises the Boring Conference. My opening quote is taking from last November’s proceedings.

->Pause here to play Spider Solitaire while searching my archives to find out if this is a rediscovery.
No, it isn’t and I won.

James is also noted for the introduction of the sport of Bonving to the UK, about which the less said the better, and is a co-founder of the Stationery Club “for fans of such as paperclips, Post-it notes and marker pens.” I looked in vain for the solution to the age old mystery of how paperclips get in such a tangle when left alone in a desk drawer. 

Of course, the whole point of this article is to point out that ‘smart’ phones are not just for dummies like this one.

Even.technocratic types can be creative because life is full of opportunities to engage with reality,

Then here are a few bloggable suggestions for Jakartans.

Whatever you decide, do note that the Library Of Congress is storing your Twitter chatter for all eternity.

Is that how you want to be remembered?