by Didact | Aug 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Stephanie from Time of Calamity read through my recent post on having to deal with a mildly annoying co-worker and had some worthy things to say: I have found that as I have cross the threshold into my late twenties that most women don’t evolve. They never...
by Didact | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Tom Cruise” and “deep characterisation” are not phrases that sit easily in the same sentence. Truth be told, I’ve always had a tough time shaking that mental image of Tom Cruise as the cocky, brash, extroverted ace fighter pilot that he...
by Didact | Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
At a Krav Maga class a few weeks back, the Master Instructor seemed to be having a rather bad day and got a bit snappish at several of us for making the same mistake over and over again. He stopped us all and proceeded to give us a short lecture, and I’ll never...
by Didact | Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Captain Capitalism’s recent post on not having to game really hot women who happen to be friends jived very well with an interesting experience I had one night this week, out drinking with a few co-workers to see off a fellow co-worker who had left the firm...
by Didact | Jul 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Leadership skills are generally not associated with deep introverts, and rightly so. However, the special subset of introverts known as INTJs, or Sigmas, or whatever you want to call them, have the ability to become very good leaders- the odd thing is, though, that...
by Didact | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox’s review of Dr. Helen’s new, rather short, book was enough to get me interested in reading the same; after all, anyone worthy of Vox’s respect is generally someone worth reading. So I downloaded it and got to reading it, and immediately thought...
by Didact | Jul 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Phillip Richards is one of the more interesting hard military S/F authors that I’ve come across recently. I read his first book, C.R.O.W., with considerable interest, and found it to be really rather good. Richards has a real knack for describing scenes of...
by Didact | Jun 27, 2013 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
A couple of prominent Manosphere bloggers- Danger & Play and Bold & Determined, to be specific- have posted in the past about the benefits of steroid use for becoming big. Now before anyone gets the wrong idea, I want to make this very clear: I am NOT saying...
by Didact | Jun 27, 2013 | fitness, Uncategorized
I had intended to spend some time writing this weekend and putting thoughts to paper (so to speak), but as usual, I got lazy and decided to enjoy the summer sunshine and sleeping on my couch instead. I’m rather hoping to change that trend this week, now that...
by Didact | Jun 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
In which a woman who plainly thinks far too highly of herself completely misses the point: Men of my father’s generation would never have dreamed of telling their wives they could not have another child because they wanted more time to themselves. They just got...
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