“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.”

He who smelt it…

I was on my way to the gym today when I saw the headlines concerning #FartGate, and promptly dissolved into helpless paroxysms of laughter: Democrats’ efforts to impeach President Donald Trump are going over with the public like a juicy, wet fart. Seriously. Such wind...

Domain Query: Search for the truth

Longtime reader Dire Badger tried out an interesting experiment with respect to search engines in response to my recent post about the follies of outsourcing work to India: You were right about Yandex. My Russian is not great (5 years of Russian in School taught me...

Monday morning Snowden chronicles

It’s Monday again. Were I a sad and bitter man, I’d leave it at that and let you stew in your misery on this day. But I’m not one, so I shan’t do that. Instead, I have gone to the ends of the Earth – or at least, YouTube – to...

Slore Studies 101

Our friend The Male Brain passed along a story that I’d actually intended to write about a while back, but never got around to doing because there weren’t a whole lot of details to work with at the time. But now, several weeks after the initial news, it...

Friday T&A: Matchstick Edition

It’s Friday again, and as always, Didact has the goods to make it a memorable one. This week I figured that it might be nice to make a bit of a change from the usual bevy of blondes, brunettes, and raven-haired beauties – a rather large proportion of...

Indians understand what Americans don’t

I am on LinkedIn for professional purposes under my real name and as a result I get LinkedIn news alerts from time to time. One of these alerts caught my eye because it presents perhaps the best news for the American tech sector – or rather, for American tech...

Shrillennial sociopaths

As has been noted here at the Reach a number of times, we don’t live in a normal world anymore. We live in Clown World – or, for those of you who like to measure things in Serlings, The Twilight Zone – where that which is “normal” happens...

The Incel Equation

The Male Brain sent over a link the other day that consists of an article that is about 20 years old by this point, and is apparently somewhat famous in innarwebz circles. This article here was written by a guy who wanted to rationalise away his inability to get...

In Memoriam

If this were any normal Monday, I’d just post up the usual collection of amazeballs awesomeness – sorry for the Shrillennialspeak, but you know how kids are these days – and leave it at that. But this isn’t any ordinary Monday. This is November...

Monday morning spirit of Spartans

Monday. Ugh. Fortunately you can look forward to the Great Mondaydact Browser Crash to liven up your morning. So let’s start by giving you some motivation to get your butt out of bed and train like a beast – with the beastliest of all men. The Spartans...