Yearly Archives: 2009

The Christmas Post Implementation Review

Minutes of a Meeting of the Christmas Gift Delivery Steering Committee Date: 26th December 2009 Location: Santa's Workshop, North Pole Attendance: Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Lesley the...

Still More Empire Strikes Back: Parallel Universe

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away... there started a saga. It was called Star Wars: Parallel Universe for...

The Future’s Behind

After all the trouble he caused in Davos, I am keeping my most adventurous clone, MaV-Eric, locked in the attic. Heavens forbid he...

Rules Britannia

If you ever watch children playing football, the preparation for the game begins with locating a ball and picking the two teams. The...

Searching for Halfthoughts

Miserypuss Rupert Murdoch may have decided that deindexing his news content from Google may be good for business, but it would be terrible for...

The New Paradigm of Print: Many and Few, Novel and New

Gutenberg and his Bible... The Little Red Book from Mao Zedong... The Guinness Book of Records setting the bestseller record for a copyrighted series...

Prejudice With No Name

After a leisurely lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, looking out across the pool and beach, I found myself in the peculiar position of...

Improbable Bond

In a swish apartment overlooking London's Docklands, two scriptwriters, Whale and Purview, sit down to discuss ideas for a new James Bond script. Whale: Okay,...

Spellcheck Serendipity

Time was that if you typed: "I'd like to throttle Bill Gates for his monopolistic business practices" into Microsoft Word and then checked the phrase against...

The Tao of Sporting Punditry

When an accident occurred during an F1 Grand Prix, Murray Walker, the motor racing commentator would sometimes tell the audience "we can't see what's...

News is No News

If I told you what I did today, you probably would be left unimpressed. Rather obviously, I spent a part of today writing...

Humble Bill Says No Nobble Of Nobel

Yesterday I received another letter from Prince Karl Zeis, member of the royal house of Delfthia, and long-time fan of Halfthoughts. Prince Karl...

About Halfthoughts

This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.