Maxed out
The Boeing 737 MAX is back in the news, for all the wrong reasons, after Alaska Airlines AS1282 suffered a very serious hull breach, with part of the fuselage literally blowing out in mid-flight:...
Friday T&A: Tail Risk Edition
For those of you familiar with probabilities and distributions, there is a concept known as "tail risk", which has to do with extreme events on either side of the density function. In simple...
Guest Post: Top Great Cheap Steam Steals by Randale6
I am very pleased to present another guest post from LRFotS Randale6, who is our resident game nerd. Whereas yours truly basically restricts himself to HALO these days - that's all I have time for,...
Monday morning New Year’s asskickings
Happy New Year, all you magnificent glorious beacons of masculinity! Peace and blessings to you and your families, and let us all look forward to a year of achievements and victories in 2024. This...
The Party Post 2023
Happy 2024, everyone! Let us look forward to another year of great poasts, beautiful women, and (hopefully) a slightly less insane set of circumstances - though, to be honest, that is probably too...
The Best of Friday T&A 2023
Has it been a year already? That sure whizzed by damned fast. It seems like only a few months ago that I put up the 2022 edition of this compilation, which every year looks back at the lovely ladies...
The Didact’s Best Albums of 2023
Surprisingly, this year I did not listen to much by way of really new heavy metal - nor did I listen to all that many metal albums. But the ones I DID listen to, were in many cases really damn good....
The Didact’s Best Books of 2023
This year was another quite slow one for me in terms of reading. I think I managed to finish off 11 books in all - which is not a particularly impressive achievement, given what I used to manage. It...
Sunday Scripture: The Sabbath Year
25 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six...
Friday T&A: Calling Time Edition
It is perhaps not a good sign for the turning of the year that the very last instalment of this most beloved series on the site is late by a day, but honestly it was unavoidable. I spent all of...
Monday morning turkey curries
Before anyway jumps on his high horse and points out the blindingly obvious, yes, of course today is Tuesday, and I am well aware of that fact. This one is deliberately late, and with good reason....

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