LAWS OF THE DOMAIN
My blog, my rules. I will follow these rules, and I expect you to do the same as a reader. I will address you in the same fashion in which you address me. Civility will be met with civility, insults...
Monday morning wages of sin
Monday is always a pretty terrible day, and it is particularly terrible when things go consistently and persistently wrong. That was certainly the case today, where pretty much everything I did,...
The thinking man’s fighter
A living legend of MMA, the two-time former UFC bantamweight champion, Dominick “The Dominator” Cruz, has finally hung up his gloves. It was, of course, only a matter of time – his time at the top...
Friday T&A: Fitbit Edition
There are some days where it seems like you run out of internet by about 10am, and you have another 10 hours ahead to get through... somehow. And then there are other days when you have literally no...
Monday morning with giant stompy robots
If you have spent all of Friday around people, and then 3 hours on Saturday with friends, it is probably fair to say that one Sunday off is simply not enough to recharge - not if, like me, you...
Sunday Scripture: You Shall Keep My Statutes
19 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made...
The Didact’s Best Books of 2024
It took me quite a while to get around to writing this best-of poast, mostly because I was lazy about it, but I think there are several books I came across last year which are well worth mentioning....
Friday T&A: Peopled Out Edition
I think it is fair to say that the overwhelming majority of my readership consists of introverts - many of us EXTREMELY introverted. Now, contrary to popular opinion, this does not mean we are...
Domain Query: Risk vs Reward
Today's query comes from LRFotS Randale6, who has a rather interesting and very germane set of questions about the reasons why lower-ranked men in the SSH choose high-probability poor-quality...
Monday morning sewer scraping
Ah, Monday - that foul-smelling excrescence that we must all endure, just to collect our pay cheque at the end of the month. Life really is too short to worry about one's alarm clock going off on a...
Sunday Scripture: Oholiab and Bezalel
31 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence,...
They all knew it was fake
Five years ago – five long, awful, TERRIBLE years ago, and somehow it seems like an even greater span than that – most of us who supported the God-Emperor watched, aghast, as what we considered to...

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