A blogger worth looking at Ashley R Pollard

This Blog certainly deserves more followers:

 http://ashleyrpollard.blogspot.co.uk/

Note to self: A Really Interesting TED Talk "The Nordon Bomb Sight"

Thought provoking (especially after "The Target For Tonight" game at CoW 2018):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiZTvlWx2g

TED TALK: What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFs6ZiynSU

Quite frightening!

Great 3 minute TED Talk: Complexity, Simplicity, Data Visualisation and Afganistan

Three minutes, stay with it to the end, it is worth it (click link below):
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_how_complexity_leads_to_simplicity#t-200431

Also see Conections UK 2017:
http://professionalwargaming.co.uk/ModelingHumanTerrain.pdf

Thirty Day Challenge No.III (The Big "T") Thucydides

Following on from the read of the Big H (Herodotus) earlier in the year chronologically next comes the big T (Thucydides), when the Greek world was brought to its knees in civil war, 'modern' in its brutality

Target at least "16 pages" a day (on average) so that the big T (Thucydides) "History of the Peloponnesian War" is read before Xmas Day 2013 (see below):

Three reading sources:

• Penguin Classic Big T (a nice handy pick and read size of book)
• Electronic (Free) Book iPhone Bookshelf (incredibly handy anywhere you need it volume)
• Landmark Big T (useful when the place names are confusing or previously unknown)

So far so good, and it is almost as exciting as eating the Xmas Calendar chocolates ;) 

Thirty Day Challenge No.II (Movember)

Following on from the TED talk "you can do pretty much anything for 30 days" I embarked on my second Thirty Day Challenge: Movember

No previous experience of wearing a moustache:
I once had a beard (for about a month) in my early thirties (just to shock the family when I returned home after a long trip, all I can say it was great shaving it off) but since then bar the occasional "forty eight hour weekend man-stubble" I have been a regular wet-shaving man.

Twenty eight days in and I'm itching, wondering where this wire brush came from under my nose, living like a monk, still surprised nobody has passed a remark on my striking resemblance to Tom Selleck (aka Magnum), but disturbingly several people have made passing references to John Cleese (Faulty Towers), Captain Mainwaring (Dad's Army) and Roger de Corcey (of Nookie the Bear fame).

The result after thirty days (see below): 

Oh well it's all for a good cause, promoting publicity about :

• Prostate Cancer
• Testicular Cancer
• Mental Health Issues

The aim is to fund research and drive away the stigma associate with the above, the latter I believe as important as the research. 

Note: Rest assured my third "Thirty Day Challenge" (which has already started) is more wargaming orientated ;)