by Didact | Sep 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Heeeeeere’s Didact… I’d like to say that I’ve been away due to a very busy work schedule, but frankly that’s not really true; it’s mostly due to chronic laziness on my part that I really haven’t posted anything much of late....
by Didact | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
You can’t really call yourself a big fan of sci-fi until and unless you have read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. During his lifetime, Asimov wrote 7 books in the series, starting with the original Foundation and continuing on through to...
by Didact | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
We were having a bit of fun the other day at work during our end-of-day runs, skimming around politics for a little while as things chugged along, when somehow the conversation got around to what I would do if I were “put in charge of things”. I...
by Didact | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Elusive Wapiti has an interesting article up in which he references a recent study that argues that, basically, Western society has gotten significantly stupider over time to draw some interesting conclusions: Certainly their theory has superficial merit, for it...
by Didact | Aug 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Give them this as a gift! I first came across this idea on an episode of Top Gear (henceforth known as “the greatest TV show of all time”). I strongly recommend handing this over to your vegetarian (and especially Vegan) friends to help cure them of...
by Didact | Aug 22, 2013 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Whenever I go to London, I make a point of visiting the Tate Britain. This, even more than the British Museum, is probably my favourite place in the entire city, not least because of its collection of works by William Blake and J.M.W. Turner. And when I am at the Tate...
by Didact | Aug 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Badger’s finally poked his head out of his hut, and damn but it’s good to have him back. His latest post on the yawning gap in understanding between introverts and extroverts is a fine work in and of itself, but here’s the best bit: My experience...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
To extroverts, the introvert is a very odd creature, who seems fundamentally wrong in some strange and often intangible sense. Extroverts find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to contemplate the idea of spending time completely by themselves, in isolation...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of Vox Day, here’s a downright hilarious video called “Asian Girlz” by some otherwise completely forgettable teenybopper group called DAY ABOVE GROUND (apparently). (BTW this is somewhat NSFW so for heaven’s sake, exercise some...
by Didact | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
… that it makes no sense that a dog can eat your mother’s meat loaf, as well as its own poop, and feel fine, and yet will keel over and die if you feed it a chocolate bar … that the idea that chocolate kills dogs is a malicious rumour started by cats...
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