“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.”
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, ended up being late, or off kilter, or just plain messed up. Still and...
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 of the division was long over by the time he came back for his last...
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 time to take a bathroom break, despite having drunk two cups of...
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 happen to be a cranky introvert who thinks most people are only...
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 of two kinds of material. 20 “If a man lies sexually with a woman...
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. If you click on either the subheading or the title image for each...
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 incapable of interacting with people. In fact, as I have pointed out...
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 outcomes, over lower-probability (thus riskier) but higher-quality...
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 Monday and dragging one’s under-caffeinated,...
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, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4 to devise artistic designs, to...
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