by Didact | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Oh this just gets better by the day: The sign language “interpreter,” Thamsanqa Jantjie stunned millions of deaf people with his gibberish hand gestures at the Nelson Mandela memorial on Tuesday. But new developments about Jantjie’s violent past raise even more...
by Didact | Oct 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of Ron Swanson: There is much, much more where that came from: Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp...
by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s an open secret that I am a huge fan of AMON AMARTH. These guys define Viking death metal. This latest eardrum-shattering epic is their ninth studio album, and it’s hard to believe that they’ve been around for over 25 years now....
by Didact | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s rare that I get to watch tennis anymore, now that I’ve given up my subscriptions to traditional media via cable and television. But, there is a big-screen television at work that is normally tuned to the sort of mindless rubbish that passes for...
by Didact | Jun 11, 2013 | HALO, Uncategorized
The next HALO game is due out in 2014. On the Xbox One. And here is some footage from the new game. To which I can only say- WHY THE F*** IS IT GOING TO TAKE SO LONG?!?!?!? Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook...
by Didact | Jun 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned previously in this post, one of the books that I’ve been reading through is highly relevant to the state of near-terminal decline and decay that Western civilisation finds itself in today. That book is Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His...
by Didact | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
(It so happens that the inside cover of this pair of short stories has one of the usual “Praise for A Throne of Bones” things in it, and that section references my review of that book. That was my first internet-published book review, of any kind, so I...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2013 | HALO, Uncategorized
When it was revealed that Greg Bear would be writing a trilogy of HALO books detailing the history and culture of the Forerunner empire, which holds such an enduring place within the canon of the HALO series, I was deeply sceptical. I had tried reading his...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
AWWWWWW YEAH!!! Guitarist Stefan Weinerhall of Swedish metallers FALCONER has issued the following update:”After the darkest year yet, I am once again in writing mood, and what a mood! I guess somethig good really can come out of something...
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