I know posting has been light lately. While I may resume posting five posts a week, I'd already met my original goal of doing that for a full year. I didn't quit after that because I couldn't not write. Additionally, it's been a rough few months on a purely personal and family front. I won't go into details, my friends know what happened, but it left me in a haze for weeks, and at this point, every time I look back and thing, "damn, I'm over it&…
Recently they mentioned Pournelle's The Mercenary over at the Castalia House blog [http://www.castaliahouse.com/the-mercenary/]. In the summer between middle and high schools, shortly after moving to a new school system yet again due to the usual military brat lifestyle, I hit up the new library and found a beat up book in the spinner of those they were trying to sell off to make room with a muscular semi-futuristic soldier holding a rifle against an orange background. I was already familiar w…
A few odds and ends that don't wuite need a full writeup but I think are worthy of attention and a couple quick notes. First of all, Castalia House takes a quick look at Dwarf Fortress [http://www.castaliahouse.com/wargame-wednesday-obsessive-game-design-dwarf-fortress/] . I don't have much more experience with the game than they do, but have managed to arrive at a couple unpleasant fates for our poor delvers. I'll note that there's a total newb pack [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF20…
Tucker Carlson, debating Ben Shapiro, made the libertarian end of the sphere lose their shit [https://youtu.be/z3E1I4lu6u0]. > So would you, Tucker Carlson, be in favor of restrictions on the ability of trucking companies to use this sort of technology specifically to, you know, sort of artificially maintain the number of jobs that are available in the trucking energy? Are you joking? In a second. In a second! In other words, if I were president and ran the DOT, Department of Transportation,…
As the weather cools off we can look back to summer, and hey, guns, because why not?…