“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.”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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