by Didact | Feb 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
What happens when you put the following ingredients in a blender? One Airbus A-320, courtesy of SwissAir Six F-5E Tiger jets from the Swiss Air Force’s aerobatics team One skier One slalom course A few good cameramen And a really good digital editor Well, you...
by Didact | Feb 14, 2015 | Kipling, Uncategorized
I just finished reading John Ringo’s outstanding first novel in the Legacy of the Aldenata series, A Hymn Before Battle. Aside from being a terrific writer and a clearly highly literate man, Mr. Ringo is a HUGE Kipling fan. As I’ve stated before, I...
by Didact | Feb 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
What happens when you put a Taylor Swift single into an atom-smasher along with polka music and a metal shredfest? Well… this: (Kindly sent to me by Carey) I think I might have ruptured something laughing so hard. There is a particularly priceless moment right...
by Didact | Feb 11, 2015 | HALO, Uncategorized
Now THAT is how HALO should be played Looks like we’ll have an all-new way to play HALO battles- right on our tabletops: Spartan Games has entered into a License Agreement with Microsoft Corporation to design and produce tabletop miniatures games for...
by Didact | Feb 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Well, actually, just 9. All Batman-style, though, so that helps. Click to enlarge And as for the man eating ice cream- if you had to constantly save a society from itself every day, especially a society that considers mommy porn to be high art, wouldn’t you...
by Didact | Feb 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Question: What happens when you get a ridiculously tall musical genius in the same room as one of his greatest idols, Dave Brock from psychedelic sci-fi rock band HAWKWIND? Answer: A medley of the greatest songs HAWKWIND ever made over something like 40 years, given...
by Didact | Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Buakaw Por Pramuk. Multiple muay thai world champion. EPIC badass. The absolute worst thing about serving out my time living and working on assignment here in the UK is that I had to leave my Krav Maga school and its people behind. I love Krav Maga. I got to...
by Didact | Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ironic, ain’t it? I know we’re supposed to be charitable and compassionate and all that, but there are times when schadenfreude is just too delicious to pass up. Like, say, when a church manages to solve its Gay Mafia problem by using the results of...
by Didact | Jan 25, 2015 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
So No More Jar Jar Binks, Then? Pictured: A former filmmaker and producer Jabba the Lucas is apparently a bit pissed off at the fact that Disney (very wisely) ignored all of his ideas for STAR WARS VII: The Force Awakens. They even had the audacity, the bare-faced...
by Didact | Jan 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
A couple of fellow Androspherians have decided that today would be a good day to go full-on metal, so what the hell, why not get in on this… Here are a few of the best metal tracks that I’ve been listening to over the last few days: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD...
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