A couple more pictures worthy of a second look. The Matterhorn > [A post shared by Herbert Schröer (@herbertschroer)](https://www.instagram.com/p/BaJ96DznhNY/) on Oct 12, 2017 at 10:06am PDT And a launch. > [A post shared by NASA Exploration Systems (@explorenasa)](https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMJZT5F_d2/) on Oct 13, 2017 at 6:25am PDT…
It’s been a long while since I’ve tried my hand at this kind of stuff. I sketched like a maniac underway, and even went and bought a copy of Lightwave 3D ca. 2000 to do some modeling work that ended up getting integrated into a couple projects. Nothing big, and I didn’t keep at it. Yet, despite having sketched, and inked for years, and even buying a couple Wacom tablets, somewhere around 10-15 years ago I mostly stopped. Life, family, and lack of time to focus – the latter mostly being my own d…
Yesterday the Didact posted a bit of symphonic metal [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/10/eine-kleine-nachtmetall.html], and after a nice round of Nightwish finished off the set with some Within Temptation . First, as I mentioned there, it’s heresy in some circles, but I prefer post-Tarja Nightwish, despite my abiding love for the Album “Once” and some earlier songs. Her operatic voice is amazing, but that’s the only style she has, and the songs they’ve been able to crank out since would n…
In addition to an amazing series of lectures, especially those on mythology (maps of meaning) and a more recent set on the bible, and of course his ongoing spat with Canada’s gender pronoun laws, Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist who has developed several tools to help people help themselves in alignment with what he discusses. One such tool is the self-authoring program available at selfauthoring.com [https://selfauthoring.com/]. His newest one, that he announced in typical fashion by…
There’s a lot still utterly puzzling about Las Vegas and the shooting there. No matter which causal narrative you wish to explore, given what is publicly known, there are things that not only don’t fit, but don’t fit in a way to make it unlikely, if not seriously so, that any given narrative is true. My current bets are SSRI’s – though there the weakness is the clarity with which he planned this over weeks, or that it turns out he did do this with antifa or for ISIS. While I’m still discountin…