Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • We Trust You

    As a strictly loose leaf tea vendor, we are offering our customers something that teab*g vendors never can: trust. Taking aside all of the other reasons to not buy teab*gs – poor work practices on mega-plantations, lack of quality, a desire to not have staples, glue, paper or plastic in your tea – the very…

  • I’ll Fire You All For Christmas

    The following is a Sony Pictures corporate email our friends at the North Korean Embassy have forwarded to us, along with a note that they did not hack it and merely found it on a bench at a bus stop in Pyongyang.   To: Senior Executive Team From: Michael Lynton, CEO, Sony Pictures USA November…

  • Nerd? Geek? Or Maybe Just Better Than You?

    When was it that ‘nerd’ became a pejorative term for someone who does things properly? If you take the time to use punctuation correctly, all of a sudden you’re a “grammar nerd”. Yet it isn’t applied universally. Cristiano Ronaldo isn’t called a “soccer nerd”. Win a chess tournament, you’re a chess nerd, but bowl a…

  • I’m stupid? No, YOU’RE Stupid!

    All thoughts of that lovely, historical, whimsical post that I had planned for this week (after delaying it from last week) were swept away as a red mist descended across my eyes. Who are YOU calling Stupid? It started with a news item about the latest weapon in the War. War with a capital ‘W’,…

  • The Tea Break That Never Came

    My original blog of this week will become my blog of next week, and this week has been rather trying. Not for me, apart from minor issues of earache, toothache and headache, it’s been a good week otherwise. It’s been far worse for many others. In Ferguson, Missouri, USA, a Grand Jury listened to a…

  • Oops. You Did It Again.

    I remember watching an episode of Man About The House as a kid in the 1970s. If you’ve never heard of this show, it possibly means you are either young or American, neither of which are probably your fault. (There was an American version of the show called “Three’s Company” that starred the late actor John…

  • Margin For Error

    My tea consumption has changed a bit lately. As I am now working in an office for some of the week, I find I am a bit restricted: I have about 500mls of tea when I get up, of course. I have about 500mls of tea when I arrive in the office. I have about…

  • Some You Win…

    Each of us has a set of personal rules and standards that govern what we do with regards to the teas we will drink: the when and why. For example; I do not drink tea made from teab*gs. A quick summation of why: On average, tea in teab*gs is of vastly inferior quality Operations growing…

  • Fusion

    Our personal circumstances changed rapidly over the last few months. We didn’t like what we were doing in the UK for all sorts of reasons, and we wrestled with whether to stay on in the UK and do something else, or leave and come back to Australia. The decision was made in the middle of…

  • Of Calgary

    Two weeks and two days in Calgary. It’s not like us to visit a country and not hop from place to place. Three days here, five days there: Two weeks and two days would normally be three to five locations. Not this time. Lady Devotea and I had but two aims: to spend some time…

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