Office Space Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/category/office-space Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:12:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 182200397 The light of the Allspark is gone https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-light-of-the-allspark-is-gone.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-light-of-the-allspark-is-gone.html#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:12:40 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23823 Since I do not bother with the mainstream whore-media beyond a certain point, I am always and invariably late to learn about things that happen in the entertainment industry. Most of the time, this is a VERY Good Thing, given what the various adult pretenders of the world get up to in their spare time. […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-light-of-the-allspark-is-gone.html/feed 2 23823 Dispatches from Mordor: It’s the economy, stupid https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/dispatches-from-mordor-its-the-economy-stupid.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/dispatches-from-mordor-its-the-economy-stupid.html#respond Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:39:36 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23764 A couple of weeks ago, I came across a video on EWCHOOB that purported to show Prof. Jiang Xueqin talking about how Russia has managed to endure the SANKSHUNS FROM HELLE!!! over the past 4.5 years, and continues to fight a war against the entire collective West. I cannot find that video now in my […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/dispatches-from-mordor-its-the-economy-stupid.html/feed 0 23764 The misery of missile MAFF https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:56:11 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23763 The Epstein Coalition’s war against Iran has revealed, in no uncertain terms, the total bankruptcy and inadequacy of the Coalition’s economic capabilities. We have seen the New Evil Empire throw just about everything it has available at Iran, and it has failed utterly to do much more than cosmetic damage. Meanwhile, American air defence systems […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html/feed 3 23763 Return of the shredlord https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/return-of-the-shredlord.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/return-of-the-shredlord.html#respond Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:23:54 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23765 A couple of days ago, no less an eminence than Ritchie Blackmore, a founding member of the legendary rock band DEEP PURPLE, joined his surviving former bandmates on-stage in Wantagh, NY, for a rendition of their most famous song. This is the three-chord riff that everyone, and I mean everyone, knows – it is the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/return-of-the-shredlord.html/feed 0 23765 Cheap and reliable beats expensive and elaborate every time https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:17:52 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23718 Back in 1951, that deceased old monster and pederast, Arthur C. Clarke, published a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction called “Superiority”. You can read it for free using that link I provided. And it is well worth the time and effort, given the subject matter – though I must say, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html/feed 2 23718 The toughest gig in drumming https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-toughest-gig-in-drumming.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-toughest-gig-in-drumming.html#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:24:53 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23713 When the surviving members of RUSH announced late last year that they were thinking about touring again, and had hired a new drummer to fill the shoes of the late, LEGENDARY, dearly missed Neil Peart, most of us fans – “Rushians”, as Peart himself once affectionately called us in one of his books – would […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-toughest-gig-in-drumming.html/feed 0 23713 HALO: Campaign DEvolved https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:56:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23696 So I sat down yesterday and started playing HALO: Campaign Evolved, and, having played through “The Pillar of Autumn” and about a third of the way into “HALO”, plus the first bonus mission, I have to say… what a bloody disappointment. (Yes, MrUNIVAC, I did buy the thing as a digital download – but no, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html/feed 6 23696 White elephant vs carrier crusher https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:48:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23686 The following is adapted from a poast on my Telegram channel, in which I analysed a recent article looking at the particular choices facing the Russian Navy. The article made the argument for mothballing Russia’s sole remaining Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser, and investing the funds in modernising its sole aircraft carrier. There was recently a rather […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html/feed 0 23686 Dispatches from Mordor: A game of drones https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:04:26 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23665 The picture that you see up top, is one that I took myself, while walking along the beachfront area of Sochi, not far away from the city centre and the marina building. You are looking at a radar station mounted above the heads of the beachgoers, on the hillside overlooking the beach itself. This is […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html/feed 0 23665 “To boldly rock where no man has rocked before” https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/to-boldly-rock-where-no-man-has-rocked-before.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/to-boldly-rock-where-no-man-has-rocked-before.html#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:11:57 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23655 Of all the unexpected things to happen (thus far) in 2026 – and we are only a little over halfway through the year – the idea of the legendary William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk, fronting a heavy metal band, surely is right up near the top of the “too crazy to believe” list: The announcement […]

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