“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.”

Friday T&A: Always Be Closing Edition

Friday T&A: Always Be Closing Edition

Once again, this instalment of everyone’s favourite series for the site is late, and once again, there has been a complete lack of new content (which shall be addressed today, by various devious ways and means). And once again, yer very ‘eavy, very...
Monday morning whack-a-Nazi

Monday morning whack-a-Nazi

Man, don’t you just love Mondays? (Said literally NO ONE, EVER – unless you live in PommieBastardLande, and it happens to be what they call a “Bank Holiday”, which means you get a day off for essentially no reason.) This particular Monday just...
Sunday Scripture: Judah Profaned the Covenant

Sunday Scripture: Judah Profaned the Covenant

6 “A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7 By offering...
Thoughts and pictures from Mordor

Thoughts and pictures from Mordor

As I have mentioned a few times, I got back from a two-week trip to Russia and Central Asia recently. It was a fantastic trip, involving stays in Moscow, Dagestan, and Kyrgyzstan, and plenty of walking, driving, and hiking around some of the most amazing natural...
Friday T&A: Rocks on the Road Edition

Friday T&A: Rocks on the Road Edition

It has been another super-busy week, with plenty of travelling – I literally went up and down the length and breadth of (much of) the country in the space of three days, and then across from west to east and back again in the next two. That is rather why posting...
Monday morning apocalypto

Monday morning apocalypto

“Yay, it’s Monday again!!!” – said literally nobody, ever. I certainly am in no mood to say any such thing, because I’ve spent the last several days fighting some sort of weird throat infection that makes swallowing feel like trying to...
Friday T&A: Triple Threat Edition

Friday T&A: Triple Threat Edition

First, I have to apologise here for the total lack of new content after returning from vacation. I had lots of big plans for resuming things in a big way, but something about being “back” was just profoundly depressing. A Western mind can perhaps more...
Monday morning truth-telling

Monday morning truth-telling

The Didactic Mind Big Bad Brutal Browser Buster is back, boys! And holy heck do we have a LOT of catching up to do. I am back from my (very badly needed, as it turned out) time off in Russia and Kyrgyzstan (yes, really), and I have plenty of stories to tell, which...
Sunday Scripture: Judah Profaned the Covenant

Sunday Scripture: Jesus Walks on the Water

22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was...
“Didact is unavailable at the moment…”

“Didact is unavailable at the moment…”

A number of my readers – well, OK, ONE of you – contacted me recently to ask why the hell all of the meme bombs and Didactic goodness had suddenly dried up. The short answer is, I am actually on holiday (!!!) in Russia (!!!!!!), and just got back from a...