There's a puff piece pushing Valarie Jarrett's new book about how she was great friends with the Obamas, among other things, full of the kind of details that make, much like Michelle Obama's new book, both pushing wimmen power as the Democrats line up for another "it's her turn" election , vaguely liberal soccer moms and hard core democrat women (if they can be called such) swoon. The following bit in the puff piece [https://archive.fo/VfWU4] jumped out at me: > Obama's favorite movies had com…
In our sadly simplified age we tend to either have overtly, almost desperately, happy or overtly grimdark (and these are sold as "intelligent", and "real"), and I know far too many who see a dark tale of virtue and hope and cannot see the light at the end, as if it's been trained out. I ended up watching the movie version of Solomon Kane [https://infogalactic.com/info/Solomon_Kane_(film)] due to the recommendation of Razorfist (and if you dig up the youtube video, the recommended book of collec…
I don't spend as much time on computer games as I used to, not counting time playing head to head boardgames over Vassal/etc., but every once in a while manage to get distracted or spend some time on a 1st person shooter, third person shoot and slash, strategy or wargame, pr straight up arcade game. Then there's the genre of sandbox/physics/etc. games like Rimworld, Factorio, etc., that end up requiring you to think in systems and logistics. I've got a love-hate relationship with games - more…
Enjoy the weekend.…
It's been a slow week for posts, not because there hasn't been plenty of inspiration, and I certainly ahve a backlog of topics, but mostly because I have been doing a major back-end update that involves bringing not only the main blogging engine up to the current standard but also, finally, adding commenting. Comments will not appear inline, but a commenting box will. Registered users can publish the topic out if I have neglected to - mostly relevant on older posts - and anyone can follow the l…