“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 morning making of Mordor

Monday morning making of Mordor

That weekend went by WAY too damn fast. And that probably has to do with the fact that last week was RIDICULOUSLY busy. This week does not look like it will be any sort of improvement, unfortunately. So let’s get straight into things, without any preliminaries,...
Domain Query: The programmed mind

Domain Query: The programmed mind

LRFotS took a moment out of his sojourns through East Asia to write in about the utility and usefulness of programming as a skill, and how one might go about learning it in the most time-efficient way possible: Didact, I have been looking into programming for sometime...
Friday T&A: Treason Day Edition

Friday T&A: Treason Day Edition

As you all know, this past week saw the 248th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence – or, as Amerikhastan’s former colonial masters like to call it, “Treason Day”. I was rather too busy to do anything about it, so here we are,...
Master of puppets, ruler of none

Master of puppets, ruler of none

In ancient Norse mythology – specifically, within the Heimskringla, written down in Old Norse by the legendary skald,Snorri Sturluson, some 800 years ago – there is a very interesting section about the Aesir-Vanir War. This epic conflict between the two “classes” of...
Monday morning DURRbate debacle

Monday morning DURRbate debacle

Well, that was a damn fast weekend… Indeed, in my case, it was a damned fast week OFF, at least nominally, and now I am back at it as though nothing ever happened. Still and all, it was a reasonably useful and at least somewhat restful time, and I did manage to...
Sunday Scripture: Judgement and Redemption

Sunday Scripture: The Folly of Idolatry

9 All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. 10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his...
Friday T&A: Bolognese Edition

Friday T&A: Bolognese Edition

Things have been extremely busy this week, as I have pretended to be on vacation. I was also rather lazy yesterday, not to mention tired, after a couple of hours of hard skiing, so this one is again late. Nonetheless, I am slowly catching up on writing and poasting. I...
A quiet restoration of normality

A quiet restoration of normality

I had meant to write up this poast halfway through the month, but never got around to it, because reasons. Now that we are almost all the way through June, though, I think it is worth highlighting an interesting and odd development in the ongoing culture wars. Perhaps...
ALMOST worth the wait

ALMOST worth the wait

Most of you probably have no idea what Midnight’s War is, unless you have been following the efforts of Our Beloved And Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible to upend the apple-cart of the comic books industry. The first major...