“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

The Great Izzlamick Schism

The Great Izzlamick Schism

For those who are not well-versed in Izzlam, the whole Sunni vs Shi’a divide does not really make a whole lot of sense. It is like listening to two particularly stubborn – and, frankly, not very intelligent – siblings arguing over N’Sync or the Backstreet Boys, except...
Extra-crispy Turducken++

Extra-crispy Turducken++

The God-Emperor revealed yesterday that Boeing – yes, THAT Boeing, the one that cannot help but make a colossal mess out of literally everything it does nowadays – is going to be the producer of America’s future “sixth-generation” combat jet: As His Most Illustrious,...
Friday T&A: Stream of Consciousness Edition

Friday T&A: Stream of Consciousness Edition

Boys, have you ever had one of those weeks where literally everything seems to fall onto your shoulders all at once, and the world sort of stops making sense? The older we get, the more often this seems to happen. Speaking from LONG and PAINFUL years of experience...
Monday morning shenanigans & shillelaghs

Monday morning shenanigans & shillelaghs

Mondays are depressing even at the best of times, and they are especially so when you are up against tight (one might even say unreasonable) deadlines, where everything has to be done yesterday. That, of course, is inevitable at one point or another. Such times do not...
Of nonsense and nuances

Of nonsense and nuances

Much ink has been spilled over the last few days in the wake of the meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between the Ukrainian and American delegations. After that long meeting on Monday – which apparently lasted something like eight hours – the two parties issued a joint...
The Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up

The Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up

Two days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defence officially announced the full liberation (or recapture, if you prefer) of the town of Sudzha, in the Kursk region of Russia. The collapse of the Ukrainian defence forces in the region brought to a near-end what has to be...
Friday T&A: Hot Pi Edition

Friday T&A: Hot Pi Edition

It is serendipitous indeed when we get a Friday Pi Day. Indeed, by my reckoning, the last time that happened, was 11 years ago. Given this most beloved series did not start up until 2016, it is fair to say that was a MAJOR missed opportunity. Since we are all about...
An irrational poem in iambic diameter

An irrational poem in iambic diameter

Today is Pi Day, and that will mean precisely NOTHING to the 99.14159265897% of you who are not, for some strange reason, tickled by numerological nitwittery, the way maths majors (like me) are. Of course, I can hardly blame you for this. Irrational constants like π...
Monday morning Tropic Blunder

Monday morning Tropic Blunder

“Welcome to Monday” – said literally nobody, ever. And anybody who DOES say it, deserves a mouthful of knuckles, because Monday is like that horrible stain on the carpet that you cannot get out, no matter HOW hard you scrub. It ALWAYS shows up, and...