In honor of Dr. Pournelle, Castalia House is giving away kindle copies [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/09/jerry-pournelle-week-ii.html] of books in theThere Will Be War series. I missed mentioning volume 1, but right now, volume 2 is available for free.. As to what kind of stuff is in it, you can find an excerpt [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/09/there-will-be-war-vol-ii.html]. While I did like the original subtitles, I’m not going to complain about getting new books in the series, like vol…
Jerry Pournelle is no longer with us. I’ve recounted before the role he played in my life. Of rekindling a love for history my teachers damn near bored out of my skull. Of the reasons why I utterly grew to loathe Ms Kowal for her “twelve rabid weasels” comment. The man was a giant, and not only “knew his shit” but was both a historianand an aerospace engineer. He’d done the real science, he’d come to learn the sweep of history, and as part of other work, and even done a fair bit of applied psyc…
On top of deciding that a major project of moving my blog over was a good idea – which decision I stand by, it was necessary to be done at some point, and getting everything cleaned up made it crystal clear how much more difficult this would have been if google nixed my account – the weather is not cooperating and now I’m making preparations to evacuate with no idea, as of the latest tracks, of the storm will go to the west of me, right over me, to the east/north of me, or stay out at sea. In m…
Regarding mundane matters, still getting this blog organized the way I want regarding links, etc. Vox, in his darkstream tonight, mentioned something that stuck with me. He actually looked forward to losing a debate because then he knew he’d learn something. In a similar fashion, one thing that marked my decision to step out of the Navy was the fact that I’d really stopped learning much within the context of my job (and wasn’t yet wise enough to learn about leading people…). Anyway – more soo…
A little over a year after I started this, I’m moving off of the Goolag servers, and onto a different site, based on WordPress. While I cannot promise that this cannot be cut off, as it is all too obvious Goolag wishes to do with users who it deems… troublesome… I at least can keep better, and far easier to restore backups of all this.…