“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.”
Another week, another war, eh, boys? That is certainly how it seems nowadays. Conflicts are springing up all over the world, in very odd places. The most recent of them is a mutual exchange of missiles that threatens to blow up into a full-scale regional war in South...
Lads, anyone hoping for a nice quiet 2024, after the sheer craziness of the past… well, three and a bit years now, has been sorely disappointed. This year has started off with multiple new crises, and the latest one kicked off just last night. Right as I was...
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 English, this means, basically: “shit happens, but not...
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 poasted over at this very ‘eavy, very ‘umble site. This...
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 Friday – and I mean ALL of it, from 5am onward – travelling,...
Gentlemen, I am back on the road today, heading toward Mordor to practice my Orcish dialects. I spent Christmas last year alone, which actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be – there is a lot to be said for going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve,...
Yes, I know, this edition is late. What can I say – it was a STUPIDLY busy week. I was literally travelling across, down, and back up the country, and by the time I got to about 4pm on Friday, I just said, “sod it”, and passed out on the couch for a...
As I may have said a few times before, there are days which seem to take years to pass, and then there are years which seem to pass in days. This year, 2023, certainly seems like the latter. We are already just three weeks away from the end of the year, and we are...
It is officially the first day of winter, and frankly, I’m already DONE with the season. The ONLY good thing about winter, is Christmas – and, when I lived in Australia (where, as we always say around here, EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYES...
Doubtless my American friends are currently groaning their way out of the severe indigestion and food comas that inevitably follow a Thanksgiving feast. Having attended my share of such events during my time in the FUSA, I sympathise – though I never indulged to...
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