Willful Ignorance
I will never understand the willful and loud ignorance of athletic sports, usually by people immersed in ‘modern geek culture’. If sports aren’t your thing, that’s ok. But to revel in and be proud of it by telling anyone …
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Notes from the Chiefs vs Texans Game
Both teams set a NFL Playoff record with 52 points in the 1st half. The Chiefs scored 41 unanswered points, first team to do so in the playoffs since the 2002 Jets, and outscored the Texans 28-3 in the second quarter. …
Monster Energy Drinks are Evil?
I pulled this from a post I made on Facebook a year or so ago because I think I’m going to pull all my noteworthy posts from there as part of my efforts to eventually drop the site entirely. I’ve been around ultra …
Christopher Columbus and Presentism
Presentism: uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts. Probably something people should remember when looking back at past …
Some Clocks Were Cleaned NFL Week 1
Here are my thoughts as of the end of Sunday, September 9, in regards to the NFL. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens put on an absolute beat down of the Miami Dolphins, to the point some Dolphins players reportedly contacting …
Personal Update August 2019
I had my wisdom teeth pulled last Thursday. After surviving a week beforehand hearing every nightmare scenario everyone else had about the procedure, mine went exceptionally well. The only pain I had was when the pain …
A Rant. Mostly About Game of Thrones
Having now caught up on Game of Thrones in preparation for it ending tonight, let me just state that if I were in charge of the forces at Winterfell fighting off the undead hordes, I could have done so for as long as the …
Europa Universalis IV
I’m back in Europa Universalis IV. I can’t stay away from grand strategy forever, it always manages to suck me back in and cause sleepless nights. I am, however about $104 worth of DLC behind, because Paradox is crazy …
Wonderdraft is Wonderful
I converted my Solethania World Map into this beautiful thing using Wonderdraft and I couldn’t be happier. I mean, just look at this thing. The current campaign, Tales of the Past is taking place in Marcinia. Click on …
A Religion of Science
From an old facebook post I figured that it would be good to preserve here. Science tells us what the world is doing and why (to the best of our knowledge, and it may be proven totally wrong later). It does not tell us …